好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 41 : collecting as art work; ie the Vogels

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 41 : collecting as art work; ie the Vogels

http://mentalfloss.com/article/48844/how-working-class-couple-amassed-priceless-art-collection

Everyone could begin a "Kunstkammer", this couple - Herb and Dorothy Vogel - used their small apartment as their private Kunstkammer.
What would you put in yours?  What would the container be?  And the content?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vma2T5luy08


www.herbanddorothy.com

windsor bar, sugihara carving guide bar

 windsor bar

What Chainsaw Bar Is Right For You? | Wranglerstar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PArtNrHbOFw#t=647

Charles Bukowski : Masks

http://www.alternativereel.com/cult_fiction/display_article.php?id=0000000009

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 40 : Cabins, tiny house, wooden tubes

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 40 : Cabins, tiny house, wooden tubes 

Wood cabin
http://10.premiumdemos.launcheffectapp.com/the-cabins/#




https://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/young-couple-quit-jobs-build-glass-house-500-204553074.html

500$ house


Alaska Cabin Tube
http://imgace.com/pic/tag/wooden-cabin-tube-shaped/

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 39 : Fancy Urban Farming/Gardening : special plants: gem corn, twin, quadruple rooted avocado; invention: avoseedo

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 39 : Fancy Urban Farming :: quadruple root avocado, gem corn

Urban farming has been a back to earth, ecology movement around the world.  I attended a conference in Toronto a few years back.  There were super star speakers, and NY specialists.  These are food oriented projects, I like them!

Then, there is a nostalgic type of gardening with esthetics involved.  These would be scenarioed as retro, vintage wood farm house with white washed walls and comfortable hand knitted rugs, and rocking chairs. etc.  These are esthetic gardeners, I like them!

Then, there are roof top HK gardeners, for food and maybe other plants.  
I like them v v much!  One time I saw a huge tree growing from a roof, in MongKok area I think.  Wonder if its still there?

Now, for my mini experiments, becasue my studio is already packed with many ongoing files.  But, I made room for one more!  The urban farming/gardening/bonsai project.

My reasoning on what to plant - after doing research on the other peoples gardening experiences:

  I see that, so much care goes into planting things, why plant vegetables?  Why not try to grow something special?  Professional farmers are much more able to produce things edible, bio and otherwise.  If you had a small garden its easy enough to grow bio food.  If you only have a balcony, what should you grow?

I prefer special plants, plants with something special.
So the choice this year - first trial is:
1// gem corn
2// tiny avocado - in hope to make them into bonsai if possible.

I ate some avocados of different sizes.  And decided to germinate them all to see which one will grow.

Very surprisingly, the small tiny ones, 2" large with seeds 1" approx all germinated, whereas the larger ones are not quick to germinate.

One small seed was really kind of broken and black, I thought it would die but since I wanted to germinate 100 percent of all I ate, I included it.

This one, surprise, grew 4 roots!  Maybe quadruple head avocado tree coming!

There were a few which were twin rooted, and they did grow double branch.

As for the gem corn so far, 8 germinated out of 100 seeds. 
Wait and see how many makes it to the surface in the end.

full seed upside down (roots up to see clearly): 

Gem corn seedling in pods, 100 pods; twin branch avocado; gem corn seedling w roots (shoot have not appeared above ground), and 4 root avocado planted. (seed size 1" )

seedling growing in beathable sacs; to be planted 4 in one square shape pod

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/train-avocado-tree-60392.html
How to train an avocado tree




a simple idea for the traveling avocado grower - the AvoSeedo !
http://www.geekextreme.com/gadgets/avoseedo-grow-avocados-15490

Avacodo trees do prefer warmer weather but they are pretty good at adapting to European and North American climate. The avocados you see at the stores likely come from trees which are up to 80 feet tall!

The AvoSeedo is a small plastic bowl which features an indentation with a hole in it. One avocado seed can be inserted with the ‘flat’ end facing down.

Once that’s done, AvoSeedo is to be placed in a sufficiently large, water-filled pot. Because of its low weight and high displacement, the AvoSeedo will remain at the surface at all times. And as the water level reduces, AvoSeedo will sink accordingly.

Kickstarter project in the works which will be able to help amateur gardeners like myself.

The AvoSeedo is an inexpensive $6 tool which will help you germinate and grow avocados anywhere. You carefully pop the pit out, clean it up, and place it in the AvoSeedo container. Place the entire contraption into a suitable container of water and watch your plant germinate.


Looks like its 3d printed!

you live in Alaska

by Julie Strietelmeier on February 18, 2015

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 38 : DIY Digital Art :: how old are you?

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 38 : DIY Digital Art:: how old are you?  

 #HowOldRobot   How-Old.net

A lot of digital art has spand many areas of life.  Some very serious, taking serious big data to transpose into graphic visual works.  For example, treating conceptual reflexion of world data, ie. how much people eat oranges in developed countries compared to developing countries; how much porn sites visited, what kind of favorite kinks; the amount of internet use globally as data displayed in network trajectory frequencies... stock market data linked to the rise of a penis, etc etc.

The kind of digital art that I personally really appreciate is something a little silly, something for everybody.
Fun, entertaining that everyone young and old could relate to.

For example: the How Old are you?  instant online game.  Just upload a photo and the software analyse how old you might be. Its fun, non aggressive, everybody has a face, everybody gets old, and everybody likes to be in disguise everynow and then.  Such a generous fun thing for people to take account of their own appearance, their inner self, their wannabe self.

So, a very nice application.  Try it, its free.

http://www.how-old.net/#results

How does the software work?  Based on the curve/size of the eyes?  shape of the chin?

The avatar pictures are the same, same eyes, maybe lighting is different.  Lets see more pictures of the avatar in different hair styles, and different makeup, skins to see if the software gives different answers?

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 37 : A history of ideas through animation illustration

好奇藝術 Kunstkammer 37 :  A history of ideas through animation illustration

A history of ideas  - graphic illustration
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02p1v9x
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3vVjcY47k2p5Wsnj3ZFHV5W/a-history-of-ideas