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The Saptarṣis

“Master of Pahari painting at the court of Mankot (attr.), c. 1675–1700. Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh.” Image and text from: Ardor (2010)- Roberto Calasso

“The hymns of the Ṛgveda were said to have been seen by the ṛṣis. The ṛṣis may therefore be described as “seers.” They saw the hymns in the same way as we see a tree or a river. They were the most disconcerting, least easily explainable beings in the Vedic cosmos. Chief among them were the Saptarṣis, the Seven who lived in the stars of the Great Bear, who have some affinity with the Seven Greek Sages, with the Islamic abdāls, and with the Seven Akkadian Apkallus of the Apsu. But something in the very nature of the ṛṣis was an epistemological scandal: they alone were allowed to belong to the unmanifest and at the same time take part in the events of everyday life, which they secretly ruled.”

AnXTS 

15/10/2017

These past three weeks have been very intense with client projects.

Altogether I had three client projects; The Twitter Jacket & the interactive table pieces that were at AUT’s Excellence in Business Support Awards on Oct 4th, and the LED Bra Chandelier for Sweet Louise that was installed at Orakei Bay Village on Oct 11th.

Above: Interactive LED table pieces that change when people clap

These projects have benefitted my name as a Creative Technologist greatly as there have been fantastic connections come from it and publicity in the Herald and my local newspaper.

It has taught me a lot about working with clients, figuring out the scope of a project, and has broadened my skills of physical making by working with new materials such as aluminium.

Of course, this has also built my portfolio which I hope will help with recruiters when I graduate.

This did take longer than I expected though. Altogether it has taken 4 weeks to complete and has kept me away from uni work. In previous blogs, I keep saying that I knew this would happen and made sure I could leave it, but there will always be the question of what it could become/what I could’ve done more of if I did not do these client projects. One could then argue what’s more important, getting a better mark for uni, or building my name in the industry.

I think if I complete it to the standard I imagined at the start of the semester (pretty high to be honest), I will be happy with my project.

I don’t feel stressed though.

I know exactly what I need to do and the steps to take. Luckily for my project, I’m just making and don’t need to complete research/contextual statement which can be the most draining thing to do and the end of the semester.

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So Peter and I have decided to team up to produce a studio project surrounding music. We’d like to explore how to give off the feeling of insomnia through our music. The main idea of the project is to incorporate real life sounds into our music. We'll mainly use FL studio and possibly Pro tools to compose and put it together and I’d like to have a visual aspect to accommodate the music for the showcase. Personally I think that this project is going to be one of the most beneficial for the both of us since we’ve both been talking about learning FL since the start of the year and being able to Incorporate it into a studio project will sort of force us into learning it quicker. I’ll try to somehow post our music production process through tumblr or something. (The bottom player is our demo work for what we’re trying to do, at the moment its only got like 30 seconds of 1 song but we’ll try keep it up to date) 

I didn’t manage to go to critique day because of my car accident. However, I did manage to ask my close friends and family about what changes I could do to improve my poster. Overall, the final exhibition poster has been completed and I am ready to place it on the exhibition wall now.