The 2Big2SmallHoles Dress

PixelBoy's Dream

The Magnus Spherical Airship prototype, circa 1982

PixelBoy had a fantastic dream a few day ago and I'm waiting for his dream-drawings... and keep imagining our spaceship and the futuristic metal-glass house, and his 'urban sushi' style bed and bedroom.


http://www.alleswirdgut.cc/awg.php?go=TURNON

COMPLEXITY

Complexity is a bi-monthly, cross-disciplinary journal focusing on the rapidly expanding science of complex adaptive systems. The purpose of the journal is to advance the science of complexity. Articles may deal with such methodological themes as chaos, genetic algorithms, cellular automata, neural networks, and evolutionary game theory. Papers treating applications in any area of natural science or human endeavor are welcome, and especially encouraged are papers integrating conceptual themes and applications that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Complexity is not meant to serve as a forum for speculation and vague analogies between words like "chaos," "self-organization," and "emergence" that are often used in completely different ways in science and in daily life.

Emergence: Complexity & Organization

Emergence: Complexity & Organization (E:CO) is an international and interdisciplinary conversation about human organizations as complex systems and the implications of complexity science for those organizations. With a unique format blending the integrity of academic inquiry and the impact of business practice, E:CO integrates multiple perspectives in management theory, research, practice and education. E:CO is a quarterly journal published in print and online by The Complexity Society, the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, and Cognitive Edge in accordance with academic publishing standards and processes.

Full online access to the re-launch special double issue of E:CO (Issue 6, numbers 1 & 2) is available free here

E:CO is published in collaboration with the following organizations:
ISCE Group
Cognitive Edge
Complexity Society

lookville

About this lookThis look is just part of my experimental fashion ideas. Plastic Reality Collection ( 2010). The intention is to explore chaos and chance in fashion design. The HoleFull Dress has no right aperture to hands or neck/head. You choose, creating infinity wearing possibilities – a never-ending looks architecture.

http://lookville.com/look/2097/wanna-choose

TransparencIy In Textiles

TransparencIy In Textiles

Combine stitch and cloth with acetates, acrylics, perspex, resins and gels. This book provides techniques, projects and inspirational textile art. It uses all the materials that are readily available and safe to use.

One of the major new trends in textile art: achieving transparency and translucency through design and with the use of new, harder materials - acrylic, perspex, acetates, fibre optics, gels and resins - in combination with stitch and fabric.

The author takes you through the design process for achieving transparency in textiles and then introduces you to the materials, from paper and fabric to acetates, acrylics, perspex, resins and metals. She also explains how to create the illusion of translucency through layers, reflections, shadows, lighting and stitch techniques.

The techniques for combining stitch and cloth with these harder materials are covered in detail, along with stunning images of the latest transparent textile art. To get you started, there are projects to make a piece of jewellery, a three-dimensional object and a textile piece combined with lighting.

smart textiles

plasticelectronics
smart textiles create a fertile area of development for organic electronics and fashion design.

Interesting liks:
*talk2myshirt
http://www.talk2myshirt.com/blog/archives/4214

*Intelligent plastics change shape with light
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/smart-plastics.html

*Shape Memory Polymer
http://www.azom.com/details.asp?articleid=1542