After 3 years of hard work I have finally finished my degree, and here’s some of the highlights from the Curious degree showat the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane to prove it!

Firstly here’s Charlotte Harrison’s project - Talking Proper

“Experience the excitement of your voice being carried to a visible pen movement on a piece of paper. Tracking your voice’s rhythms, peaks and troughs as you mimic some of the most famous and strongest British accents. Each sheet displays a ready-made blueprint for your imitation to plot over. The graphic output allows you to directly compare your imitation with that of the blueprint.”

Livia Rossi - Temporal Symmetry
“Setting up playful situations for people to interact within, I aim to make the mechanism of temporally tuning into each other more visible.” I love Livia’s three-way balloons.

This cute model was made by Desmond Wong as part of his “I’m Bored of This Waiting Game” project.
“I have designed place physical ‘triggers’, which encourage those who are waiting to discover new relationships with those around them.”

My lovely friend, Avril O’Neil - Machines to Induce the Automated
“The project intends to encourage a more explicit understanding of our ‘hidden’ self. By challenging perceptions of the bodies’ functionality, our curiosity exposes the potential for entertainment.” This is her perpetual yawning machine. You put your head in the holder and watch the videos of people yawning until it makes you yawn. The machine captures your yawn and adds it to the loop.

And finally me and my Toothery project!

I got it from Wellbeloved butchers shop in Deptford (which is probably the best butchers shop in the world)

He looks happy. Little does he know…

The butcher removed the ears and cheeks for me.

I took off the snout and as much of the soft bits as I could and into the oven he went with a load of water and covered in tin foil. Pigs have very fat heads.

Once he’d been in there for about 4 hours the rest of the meaty stuff pretty much fell off, apart from the eyes and snouty bits which were pulled out with a fork.

The front teeth came out really easily but the rest needed boiling before they could be wiggled out with a pair of pliers.

After a bit of scraping and pulling and scrubbing… Voila!

Pig skull and teeth…

A Moment to Oneself from clair neal on Vimeo.
Music - Le Carnaval des Animaux by Camille Saint-Saëns

Thanks to Avril O’Neil for starring in it and Ben Barker for lending me the camera.

Knitted using 7mm needles and about 50g of Sirdar aran wool and an adapted version of this pattern.
Snuggly.

I’d recommend using gloves.

100% Cotton Rowan Yarn, Felt, Unbleached Calico, Found Buttons.

Titles: top left: “Le Chat”, top right: “Cat”, bottom left: “Digital”, bottom right: “Untitled”.

I love it when my friends leave me drawings ♥

From a film I found when I moved house.

Spotted in London Bridge May 10th 2009

“Alba was the name of a genetically modifed “glowing” rabbit created as an artistic work by contemporary artist Eduardo Kac based on one of the experiments with rabbits led by French geneticist Louis-Marie Houdebine.

Houdebine used the GFP gene found in the jellyfish, Aequorea victoria, that fluoresces green when exposed to blue light. When Alba was exposed to such light she would literally glow green — though photos by Kac showing the entire organism, including its hair, glowing a uniform green have had their veracity challenged.

Eduardo Kac has described Alba as an animal that does not exist in nature. In an article published in the Boston Globe, Houdebine admitted creating Alba for Kac and stated that Alba has a ‘particularly mellow and sweet disposition.’ This article generated a global media scandal, which caused Houdebine to distance himself from Kac’s work. All subsequent media articles present variations on Houdebine’s disengagement effort.”

From Wikipedia

Brush pens and paper.

This was a fictional live brief set by Kin who asked us to communicate Nokia’s new So-Lo (Social Location) concept within an exhibition space. So-Lo is basically a smooshing together of GPS and Social Networking and will be a feature of the N97, due to launch on June 2009. Our team of four designed this circular interactive seating.

You can see the model in action above… Just imagine it’s a slightly squashy giant white circular seat, and the hands are people. The white bits in the middle are words that make little sentences like “Fancy a cup of tea?” between the people sitting down.

Extra special thanks to the guys at Kin who gave us fantastic feedback throughout the project.

The Policeman at the gates told me that the only way to find out if I needed a permit would be to arrest me and let the courts decide. I didn’t want to push my luck and end up with an ASBO so I left it at this.
Fortunately I wasn’t arrested but I did have my photo taken by lots of tourists.
I still don’t know what a demonstration is and the Police don’t seem to know either, but I think it helps if you’re a girl.

Images from the final presentation here.

Ivory silk, hand embroidered.

Primark hair in “yellow” and pink paper letters.

From The Social and The Anti-Social final presentation document.

Lack of sleep disrupts every physiological function in the body. It is linked to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and causes chronic stress. Stress can trigger brain cell loss, which impairs memory and increases your chances of having a heart attack or stroke.

In a nutshell, people who sleep less and experience high levels of stress have a shorter life expectancy.

If you are unfortunate enough to suffer from somniphobia (a fear of sleep) you’ll be needing this book to help you save what time you have left.

These were found whilst clearing out my Grandpa’s house.

Somebody has drawn a helicopter on the box (probably my Dad).

Pencil Drawing from The Fear sketchkook.

Ink & Paper