If it was up to us, all the best design in the world would be posted within the Parfois Portfolio… But… its not up to us. Stumbling the web we often bump into things worth sharing. The world wide web is so full off great things that will never end up in our portfolio, but which we want the world to see. For this we created our blog. At this moment there 4 of us blogging on a regular basis.Work, studies and social life makes that there are weeks with a lot of posts, and weeks without. But we’ll do our best in bringing you the nicest shit on a acceptable basis.
‘Parfois, changing the blogosphere one post at a time’
jonas
Hi there, this is my short biography. I hope one day there will be a larger one at your local bookstore. Enjoy.As a child I always wanted to be a psychiatrist, but after I realized the study that goes with this is like 9 years. Psychology was my new goal. I grew up with parents working in the social sector, heard story's, saw clients... Maybe that had to do something with my studies, but after 2 years of psychology I was bored. The classes weren't interesting and the night life was much more interesting. So I quit psychology to do something extremely different. I Started graphical and digital media at Artevelde high school in Ghent. I was building websites from when I was 15 years old, and at the time during psychology building websites was one of the things I was spending more time on then my studies, so I thought I had found the direction I wanted to take in life... But after a year I realized that building websites and other graphical stuff as an assignment for others was not the thing I wanted too do for the rest of my life. So finding work in the social sector was my next goal. With some luck I got the job of my dreams, at least for the next 5 years. It has nothing to do with multimedia design, but the human mind is unfathomable. Right now, next to my day time job, I spend a huge time on this website. Finding things I like to blog, motivate (sometimes a bit to accosting) the people I develop Parfois with, and dreaming about the future of this website. Since i'm not to good with a pencil, Photoshop or Illustrator, my tasks lay behind the scenes. Thinking, defending my ideas, trying to change some blog code to make it better... But most of the time I get stuck in the php, HTML or css and I give it up.
My goals for the next couple of years? Make Parfois a better place, get more involved with Huis van Verbinding (we will start our own phenomenological, systemic work and family constelations cours in 2011), dust off my HTML and CSS knoleage and start my own, more personal, blog. Offcourse I need some money to live from, so finding a new job, close to home (right now I travel 2'45" a day) is one of my prioritys. In the mean time I keep blogging at Parfois as much as possible, I keep pushing the team to do the same, and I keep rethinking the Parfois concept.
I hope you read my blogposts with as much pleasure as I wrote them, if not, feel free to leave a comment and I'll see what I can do.
We wrote about TS 2 AS some moths ago, while the project was in a premature fase. Right now there up and running, and Parfois wants to support them. At this moment the TS 2 AS boys are gathering money to get to New York and have there first meetings. But for this to happen, they will need your support. Go over to the Times Square 2 Art Square website and donate everything you got! Its for the better purpose.
Nice movie and interview with the Dutch Calligraffiti artist Shoe. Love the way he combines graffiti and calligraphy. More work can be found on his website.
Its a long time ago since my last post, but i’ve been very busy with some other things. It feels good to be back. At least for now. My first post after the break is about the “The ruins of Detroit” series of photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. I came across there work at MICK! and I was stunned. I don’t think a need a lot of words to describe the feelings I had, seeing these pictures for the first time. Read on for some Author explanation, more pictures and the link to Yves & Romain’s website.
Dear visitors, Parfois has been offline for a couple of days now. We moved to a new server, and things took longer than we planned. Right now the Blog is back online, but there are still some things to configure. We expect to be up and running again on monday. Thank you all for your patience.
Very nice idea from Istanbul based designer Beste Miray. Strange that it hasn’t been done before, but I’ve never seen it. Only thing is, you have to fold you envelopes your self from now. Read on to see the rest of the images.
Next artist to undress: Nick Gentry. Nick Lives in Camden and works in Dalston, East London. I first came across Nick Gentry’s work a couple of months ago. From the moment I saw it, I liked it. The way he not only reuses old media, but also gives it an important place in is work (metal center of a floppy disk as eyes) is something I think is beautiful. Two days ago I decided to make Nick my next victim to undress. As I searched the web there was not to much information I could find. A small about on his website and a lot of images on different blogs. To undress him I needed more, so I wrote him an email with some questions about his work and he was so kind to write me back. Click the read more button for the interview and some more work.
Caroline Benech,¬∞1980,¬†is a young French artist with, in my opinion, a very nice style. I love the way she uses pictures of city skylines and ads a lot of creativity to them. Sometimes its just a detail, in other work she painted the whole city with bight colors. Caroline gave this series the well chosen name: “A living artwork”. While for most of us there just adjusted pictures, Caroline has a lot more to tell about her work. Read on for the complete living city serie, and her inner meaning.
They look like huge installations, but in fact there just large scale photographs of installations in fantasy exhibition spaces. Pseudo Documentation are a serie of photographs made by David DiMichele, he creates this work by first building scale models of exhibition spaces, and producing original artworks in drawing, painting and sculpture mediums. He puts his artworks into the scaled exhibition spaces and then photographs them to create the final artwork. From my opinion it would be extremely nice to walk true his installations, thats why I think its a pity their just photographs. Read on to see David DiMichele’s other “installations”.
Cameron Moll has his own way of changing letters into art. He uses thousands different letters, in all kind of typefaces. First the example is made on the computer, but the final result is done by hand. His last project was the Salt Lake Temple, in roughly a 100 hours he made it. And now he is working on a new project. The Rome based colosseum. Read one to see a sneek preview movie about his new project. And more pictures of the Salt Lake Temple.
Today, Steve Jobs made rumors come true. The last weeks Apple fan websites were busy with all the rumors about the Apple Tablet. And today Steve Jobs finally unveiled the thing everyone was waiting on for years. As there was no way to watch the keynote live, I followed it at Engadgets live blog. At first I was a bit sceptic, no multitask, no revolutionary design, just a blown up iPhone. But after watching the promotional movie at the Apple website, I was sold. And my question to you readers is, how do they do it? 5 minutes before watching the movie I was like “now way i’m going to buy this thing”. And 13 minutes later, if it would all ready be for sale, I would pull out my credit card and buy myself the full option iPad.
This post is not about how great the iPad is (alright it is great and revolutionary and…), its about the presentation techniques Apple uses in their commercial video’s. We are all Apple fan-boys here at Parfois, but our iMacs, Macbook’s, Macbook pro’s and iPhones are to work on. their not just toys, we need them to do our daily work. I’m not the kind of person that buys everything Apple comes with, and during the keynote (not the movie but at Engadget in text and pictures) I was sure this was not a thing I needed. But Apple’s way of promoting it at this movie planted something in my brain that whispers “Buy the iPad Jonas, Buy the iPad…”. Want to experience it for yourself? Click the picture above to watch the movie, but watch out… It is dangerous for you financials. Let me know in the comments if Apple has imprinted the same special thing in your brain, as they did with mine. Read on to see some more iPad pictures.
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jonas
Hi there, this is my short biography. I hope one day there will be a larger one at your local bookstore. Enjoy.As a child I always wanted to be a psychiatrist, but after I realized the study that goes with this is like 9 years. Psychology was my new goal. I grew up with parents working in the social sector, heard story's, saw clients... Maybe that had to do something with my studies, but after 2 years of psychology I was bored. The classes weren't interesting and the night life was much more interesting. So I quit psychology to do something extremely different. I Started graphical and digital media at Artevelde high school in Ghent. I was building websites from when I was 15 years old, and at the time during psychology building websites was one of the things I was spending more time on then my studies, so I thought I had found the direction I wanted to take in life... But after a year I realized that building websites and other graphical stuff as an assignment for others was not the thing I wanted too do for the rest of my life. So finding work in the social sector was my next goal. With some luck I got the job of my dreams, at least for the next 5 years. It has nothing to do with multimedia design, but the human mind is unfathomable. Right now, next to my day time job, I spend a huge time on this website. Finding things I like to blog, motivate (sometimes a bit to accosting) the people I develop Parfois with, and dreaming about the future of this website. Since i'm not to good with a pencil, Photoshop or Illustrator, my tasks lay behind the scenes. Thinking, defending my ideas, trying to change some blog code to make it better... But most of the time I get stuck in the php, HTML or css and I give it up. My goals for the next couple of years? Make Parfois a better place, get more involved with Huis van Verbinding (we will start our own phenomenological, systemic work and family constelations cours in 2011), dust off my HTML and CSS knoleage and start my own, more personal, blog. Offcourse I need some money to live from, so finding a new job, close to home (right now I travel 2'45" a day) is one of my prioritys. In the mean time I keep blogging at Parfois as much as possible, I keep pushing the team to do the same, and I keep rethinking the Parfois concept. I hope you read my blogposts with as much pleasure as I wrote them, if not, feel free to leave a comment and I'll see what I can do.
