This last year i’ve getting really into the matter of parametric design, mechanisms and stuff, and I (almost) convinced that engineering/ process will define all the productive areas in the next years, but not only in administration and economic fields, but entertaining, architecture, music and arts in general too… we are walking (not walking, flying!) to the inflexion point between reality as we know and a completely dependent cyber reality (yeah, I’m being too exaggerated…maybe).

The art examples I’ve chose are an example of how engineering and mathematical investigation can become art with the help of human sensitiveness, and a bit of geniality.

The Hoberman sphere is, in my opinion, a beautiful game of mechanisms, marketing and art, giving  shape to a fascinating effect of life in a bunch of scissors.

 

I get to know this through an investigation about the scissor-henge system for a teacher this year (I have to expose Friday), the same system Chuck Hoberman use to create that animated sculptures, the fascinating, from my perspective, is that isn’t really complex when you get to know it a little deeper, and the perceptual game is absolutely amazing.

 

 

The second one I chose is in the same way, a simple use of materials and physics to give life (yeah I like animated objects) to a couple of bars. These things are called tensegrity structures, and I know them for the same investigation subject. I can’t find the video to show you the expo of an specific artist who use this method to create living sculptures, so I left just an example of tensegrity and how it looks, I hope you’ll feel the same as I, with simple materials, physics and imagination you can create non-conventional art, but not less impressive than traditional.

Torrente

"Torrente: el brazo tonto de la ley", is an spanish comedy from 1999, directed, written and starred by the filmmaker Santiago Segura.

I get to this movie in my adolescence (2005/2006), when I started to get bored of typical Hollywood’s blockbuster, so put my attention in foreign movies (outside USA and Chile). Casually, my uncle recommended me a Spanish movie from director Alex de la Iglesia, titled “El dia de la Bestia”, a comedy/horror film about the final battle of a priest and a heavy metal fan against Satan. Well, I really enjoyed that movie, and one of the main reasons was the heavy metal fan played by Santiago Segura. Since that, I became an assiduous watcher of Spanish movies, and a fan of Alex de la Iglesia and Santiago Segura.

Ok, returning to our subject, Torrente is a private detective (ex policeman), who claims to be the Spanish James Bond, but is actually the antithesis. His life is a mess, addicted to alcohol and cocaine, fat, racist, xenophobic and totally incompetent in any task, so only he and a couple of teenagers believe he is a national hero. One day, and just for coincidence, find out a drug trafficking network and decide to put end to it and keep the money of a big “drug deal”, with the help of his teenager sidekick.

The movie was lots of laugh, with a really unique sense of humor, putting in evidence cultural aspects of Spanish society of that time and featuring an antihero who steals the affection of watchers with an irreverent way of law enforcement.

This scene show a little bit what i'm talking about, enjoy (formed criteria)