A story about skateboard, a story about a brand, a short skit on the industry inside element of the world where the founder Johnny Schillereff founded skateboard company ELEMENT. We all did grew up with this element, the skateboard itself broaden our horizon and keep me away from guns and knifes. If I didn’t have a skateboard I would definitely be joining a gang. I LOVE my skateboard, and I love my Element. Tony Awards for this documentary, indeed a must for skater or not. One Love.

“MAKE IT COUNT” - official trailer from ELEMENT SKATEBOARDS on Vimeo.

2.THOTBLD: what level of achievement could anyone have from coding, when code as an art form? And how do you convert a theoretical concept from codes?

KarstenS: Yeah, I mean that there is a distinctive difference between human language code and programming language code. You can encapsulate a bit of meaning and pieces of functionality in programming code. And if you express them in a way, then you can translate those concept and applied those concept on different type of mata, you know…. So yes on their own they are meaningless, but so is human words, like when you say “I”.

THOTBLD: What about when science does it have any room for creative codings?

KarstenS: Yes, I think so. Think about when the time of renaissance. It was a very knowledgible time. Two hundred years ago, you did not have that straight separation between what art and what is science. You have something far more interwoven, even if when you have crafts, and then once we have industrial revolution things beginning to diverge, certainly when you have the machine doing pure manufacturing, doing the interweaving, like carpet and rugs.

THOTBLD: Can you define the spirit of the moment or the essence in time, which ever we have thought of?

KarstenS: I wouldn’t say is a moment, I would say is a movement. Now people have works, in both work that have scientific background but who are interested in art, like the classical, an artistic interpretation. But like what is artistic? Anything that is not straight science like definition in text book, is automatic, as art. It is all those narrow minded definition we have come up with, that in the few last hundred years. Like this is design, no, this is art. No, this is science, is only all those definitions, like. If you want to be a good artist, why can’t you speak good things about science….Or if you are a graphic designer, why can’t you speak of science…, I don’t know, I am not that good at giving statements.

To be continued….

Joshua Davis spill Casey [AT] OFFF from Nonlinearinteractive on Vimeo.

KarstenS: BBC News….

THOTBLD: Where are you from?

KarstenS: Germany

THOTBLD: Can you pronounce your name for the audience?

KarstenS: My name…, Karsten Schmidt, I am here at OFFF, talking the news…Hehe.

I don’t know what is the plan is….

THOTBLD: No plans…. Confront the world in the crisis of today…in this destopia world…?

KarstenS: Whoa… How do I bring utopia to the world…? hehe whoa, is really hard to….

THOTBLD: How do you make a living?

KarstenS: From various things, the main thing is design interaction research. Is probably what a lot of people say of themselves…. But everything I do, I try to learn, I try to learn something new from every project. I make a big effect in every project trying not to repeat myself. I try to learn something new, whether is a new process, or with new technology, but also don’t try to use the new technology for the sake of it! 

Chinese philosopher Ti-Yong, have you ever read The Diamond Age-Neal Stephenson, he is talking about the, essence of something, and also the practical essence of something…. I spoke about this in my talk yesterday as well. Because I really like the concept. 

Like in the western world we use technology for the sake of technology, without really thinking about the bigger implication. 

Confucius is big on the teaching, I am big on western philosophy….Could he be a student of Confucius…?

He…come at really early time, like the 2nd century. And then it becomes really important when westerner come to China…. And introduced all the new technology and stuff….

And all the old scholar, thought they would like to be part of the whole new development. You know, using technology to bring society forward…. But there is a whole new problem how technology is de-solving the Chinese society…actually, where everything is focus on new technology and no one think about anything anymore.

To be continue…. 

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thotbld: Being in Amsterdam, a place not so known for motions, how is it like working at home and on your own?

JoostK: I am not limiting to being in Amsterdam,  because I started working under my own name in Klemme, the smallest town in Holland. And you really build on the reputation you get on the internet. And the internet is so global that it does matter where you are. Of course it sounds nice to have Amsterdam on your business card, but from that I get to work in many different places.

thotbld: Can you work from the road?

JoostK: I preferred to work from Home, and I don’t travel and work from location that much.

thotbld: The Name Renasent…

JoostK: ah, is about rebirth, being reborn, the state of progression. kind of like what i would like in my work, constantly renew yourself. Yeah, continuous progress.

thotbld: What you think of working with technology is like these days?

JoostK: In today’s technological world, if you look ten years ago, you need silicon graphic to do 3D graphics, and now you can get a home shop computer for about a thousand dollar, whatever. I mean is not a state of the art but you can do a lot on it. I think from that point of view if you want to do movies, graphics, if you are really motivated. The technology is there right now. 

Renascent

At the site check in Oeiras, Lisbon for the OFFF09. Just spoke to Joost Korngold from Holland before his workshop tomorrow. Please check out on the next couple of days of blog here on THOTBLD. As well as CPLUV OFFF BLOG. We will be blogging live via Satellite, not really, just internet.

Vertical Inc is a New York based publisher, specializing on Japanese Cult Novels.

Chip Kidd is a world renowned Book jacket designer, follow him on twitter.

D-Fuse performed the first time in Hong Kong back in March. For those who have followed visual scene must heard of D-Fuse. But for the new audience, DFuse is a group of visualists from Europe and they are based in London. They have been featured on the apple pro profile back in the days.
D-FUSE Latitude from Nonlinearinteractive on Vimeo.

Bicycle Built for two thousand

An online interpretation of human voice in record composition for the internet. See Aaron Koblin at OFFF09

Tokyo LightRhythmVisuals Visualux 2009 from Nonlinearinteractive on Vimeo.

THIS IS A TRAILER FOR THE SETUP FOR INTERACTIVE DESIGN AND SYSTEMS AT THE VVVV CONFERENCE.

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A title sequence made by Renascent-joost Korngold a dutch living in Amsterdam.

He made the sequence for the documentary by Alex Grazioli “Odyssey In Rome”, abstract as fellows from his youtube page:

Alex Grazioli follows bad-boy filmmaker Abel Ferrara as he spends three grueling years battling obstacles in Italy to direct “Mary,” a modern-re imagining of the life of Mary Magdalene. Featuring Forest Whitaker, Juliette Binoche, Matthew Modine, and Heather Graham, “Odyssey,” brings to bear an impressive tableau of Ferrara’s colleagues as they discuss his unique approach to creating dynamic films. But it is Ferrara himself who shines as the star of this oddly cautionary tale about the serious personal costs of making distinctive cinema. Narrated by Eric Stoltz. With music by UNKLE.

MPY aka Michael Paul Young started off doing web stuff for Vir2L and later ventured out to start WeWorkForThem, created another sensation in the design industry. He continues to work as an artist, designer, photographer, director and as a programmer. He started this project called Designgraphik