Saturday 15 January 2011

Colombo freezing in to extinction...!

In the wake of freezing temperatures hitting the cities, it is reminded that air-conditioned vehicles are no longer fashionable nor a healthy mode of transport. Human powered vehicles such as 'Bicycles' on the other hand should be considered as a fitting alternative...

May the streets of Colombo, turn into, safe cycle lanes and the citys' (mostly sick) population wake up to realize the value of cycling.

Cycling is Zero Carbon, 100 percent environmental friendly, quiet and cheap. It goes beyond social barriers and prejudices as evident in some developed countries that have embraced cycling as the best mode of city travel.

Cycling is also a good way to exercise the human animal. Aliens' may not agree.

Thursday 6 January 2011

VISION '21 - The Exhibition of Paintings by JACK KULASINGHE


VISION '21
The Exhibition of Paintings by
Dr. JACK KULASINGHE
Exhibition 6th - 9th January
at Lionel Wendt

Jack Kulasinghe makes a comeback after sixteen years' silence...

Wednesday 5 January 2011

Design - the jargon

Design

TIME SPACE MOVEMENT TECHNOLOGY SITE PROGRAMME PRECEDENT BRIEF COLLAGE PRACTICE OCCUPATION GENERATIVE ALGORITHM RANDOM SCRIPTING GENDER VISION MATERIAL COMPOSITION POLITICAL SEXUAL PLAN STRUCTURAL BUILDING RHIZOME OBJECT TEXTURE LIGHT UNCANNY PLACE DESIRE PERSPECTIVE EXPERIENTIAL VIRTUAL NANO CONVERSATION CONSUMPTION ECONOMIC POWER KNOWLEDGE MONTAGE AUTHENTICITY SECTION AESTHETIC PHENOMENOLOGICAL ACTUAL HEURISTIC SOUND GEOMETRY ZOOM TRANSLATION SEX DETAIL SURFACE POINT SOLID MODEL METHOD DISTANCE CITY BOUNDARY SHAPE ELEMENT CHANGE EDUCATION DREAM AVATAR PORN MORPH TRANSGRESSION SIMULACRA HOPE SEMANTICS TECHNIQUE BIFURCATION ALIENATION MAPPING SYNTAX METHODOLOGY IMMERSION RHYTHM ANALYSIS IMMANENCE EPISTEMOLOGY VOYEURISM TRANSPARENCY TECTONICS REFLECTIVE ACCOMMODATION SURVEY SCHEDULE PROJECTION TERRITORY FICTION TRANSLATION QUANTUM PROJECTION AURAL DURATION DECONSTRUCTION LIMIT URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL ECOLOGICAL SEMANTIC DIACHRONIC EXISTENTIAL LIQUID UNITARY IDEOLOGY FOLD SOLID FINITE ARCHITECTURAL INQUIRY ORIENTATION MODES DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION THEMES STRATEGIES FORMAL NARRATIVE RADOM REFINE TEST COMBINE IDEA PROCESS CONTEXT ISSUES PROBLEMS PLANNING SKILLS TIME EQUIPMENT BUDGET RELATIONSHIPS PRACTICE CONTENTS SITE CLIMATE PLACE LANDSCAPE HISTORY INFLUENCE MODERN MEMORY CONSTRUCTION INVENTION SUSTAINABILITY STRUCTURE SCALE IMAGE LAYERS PRINCIPLES ZEITGEIST FUNCTION TIMELINE PROJECT CONTRIBUTORS ANCIENT CLASSICAL MEDIEVAL RENAISSANCE BAROQUE ENLIGHTENMENT PREFABRICATION POST-PRODUCTION EDIT AUDIT CONTEMPORARY REALISATION REINVENTION PRIORI MEANING ENGINEERING ART ORNAMENT FACADE SIGN SYMBOL CULTURAL LOGIC TRADITION CONTROL SURVEILLANCE FOLLY UTOPIA EXPOSURE INDEX DESIGN MAKING LEARNING BEAUTY TRUTH FEAR