We went along to my favorite This Happened so far last night. Great venue in the bfi and some wonderful projects on show. Thought i’d share my highlights:

Glassworks (who offered me work experience back in the day, which i turned down, like a chump) showed their experimental project,
HeartWorks. Designed as a learning tool for students, Heartworks is a very accurate simulation of preforming and reading ultrasounds on the heart.
The team talked about the process they went through to model such a complex internal organ, and how the project may be changing the business that usually produces CG graphic for Film and TV. I think it’s pretty amazing that this team have been allowed to go off and do some thing totally experimental and so utterly different from the company’s main offering.

My highlight, however, was definatly michael cross and his scarily lowfi machine that allows you to walk on water. He igorned the fact that walking on water is impossible, and went and made it anyway. The result is beautiful, scary and rather brilliant.

We had our first munchies breakfast this morning, with a little group of folk from harvest. The brief was simple, just chat about our creative ideas and eat some grub.

We did both.

This week conversation focused mostly on oyster cards and oyster card holders. Why are they so ugly? How come you only ever see ikea ads on them? Why do they fall apart? Why wont TFL let us hack them?

I also showed off my knitted oyster card holder i just finished. Plus, I’ve got a breakfast challenge planned for next week…

I’m now the proud owner of a pair of huge knitting needles, from wool ‘n’ boats
I’m completely in love with them. They come up to my shoulders and lead to several interesting conversations with strangers at the bar and bus stop last night.

My first giant knitting attempt at fabrications produced this

Its a kind of collar / wrap thingy. Ok, not sure when or where exactly I (or anyone else for that matter) would wear such a thing, but knitting with strips of fabric (in this case lace) is an absolute revelation to me.

As is casting on this way

Rather than this way

This is the sort of thing that is very exciting for my inner knitting geek.

For some big knitting inspiration, check out:
Sebastian Schönheit’s massive knitted rope fabric

Just a quick note about the exciting things people spoke about at This Happened on Friday night.

This time around we were tucked away in the corner of the Tim Walker exhibition – (photos of multicoloured kittens and this really cool giant glove) at the Design Museum, which was good because we could see and hear everything.

Yuri Suzuki spoke about scalextric style record player, from his latest project “physical value of sound”. A little car with a needle on the underside followed a track made from recycled vinyl cut at 45 degree angles.

He combined the elements of two toys to create something that had a great tactile and playful quality. Would be great to see this taken further, with one car on vocals, one on drums etc. I think it would be great in-store in a trendy record shop or something. I liked the fact that he showed the last minute breakthroughs and the fact that they finally got it working about 4 days before the show!

Dominic Harris from Cinimod Studio spoke about making a UFO that flew over the Polish city of Gdansk.

Essentially a giant plate shaped thing dangling from a terrifyingly vintage helicopter covered in LED’s, the Gdansk UFO is a surreal and wondrous thing. To me it looks pretty magical. Apparently YouTubers agree, as many seem to think its a hoax!

Here are some of the photos we took on our Lomo adventure along the south bank last week, when the experience team at Harvest went out for a wonder. The idea was to take some arty shots, but actually….

…I like these ’shoot from the hip’ ones from the pub best.
Hmmm. Have i been bitten by the Lomo bug? Probably!

On monday 30th of june, Harvest Digital will be holding its first ever bake sale.
As we’ve just moved in round the corner, we thought it would be nice to raise money for the Phoenix Garden.
Its a good place with birds, bees and people in perfect harmony – and that hardly ever happens.

UPDATE:
It all went very well, and it turns out new media types are very good at baking!
All flickred to death here.

A foodie, bloggy, yummy event coming up.

nom, nom, nomis “Cook-a-thon for bloggers or like an interactive version of MasterChef”.

happening this sunday at the Cookery School on Little Portland Street.

The E17 designers have a date set for their next market.
I like the poster.

Details:
FRIDAY 16th MAY
7-10PM
ASIAN CENTRE
18a Orford Road
Walthamstow Village
London
E17 9LN
FREE ENTRY