we/customize: Archive

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Handshakes

Tonight Justin, who has been documenting we/customize since before the project was we/customize, will be collecting people’s handshakes. Exploring customization in the realm of social interactions, Justin will be learning handshakes from visitors and recording themon video with the ultimate goal of translating the moments into drawings. -Sean Olson

May 24th

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May 23rd

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learning

Throughout the we/customize project we’ve gotten caught up in the exchanging ideas and skills within and between social networks. There isn’t a focus on how we learn informally from the people who are close to us when we’re young. This has made it easy to overlook that many of our skills were planted by those willing to take time to teach us even when we didn’t realize...

May 22nd

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Watch

Varied programs this last weekend in the gallery. Here is a time lapse of the gallery. - Sean Olson

May 20th

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May 16th

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May 14th

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In Make-Do Objects, Collectors Find Beauty Beyond Repair Great article in The New York Times about collectors focusing on reuse. Plus a nod to the ebbs and flows of our culture implicitly showing some of the history of the need to make do and maker culture. -Sean Olson

May 13th

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May 10th

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May 9th

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May 9th

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The we/customize project team set out to create an exhibition through public programs and in conversation with our audience. As a first step, we began interviewing people about what they customize. This early outreach effort required some quick thinking on the part of our Graphic Designer, Amanda Boesen, who created a logo for the project before the project could be fully defined. Here she...

May 8th

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Logo transformation

Before we jump into the way people re-purpose logos, altering them to create social commentary, I think it is interesting to see how companies change their identity. They then attempt to represent themselves outwardly through branding. Taken as a broad perspective across companies the changes in design correlate to one another and represent what seem to be unrelated trends within our culture....

May 6th

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May 5th

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Glitch Designing Imperfection by Iman Moradi, Ant...

A “glitch” usually fixes itself in the amount of time it takes for it to be noticed in the first place, whether as a scrambled cable television delay, a page-loading error on an internet browser or a jumble of pixels on an ATM interface. Glitch: Designing Imperfection consists of over 200 glitch images grabbed, composed and provoked by artists who present these complex fragments of color and...

May 3rd

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May 2nd

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May 1st

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Apr 26th

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Apr 25th

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I like checking in periodically to see Building Oakland in 10 Days. It’s also one of those times when you find the people that are passionate about something are willing to share their work. -Sean Olson

Apr 24th

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Apr 23rd

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Apr 22nd

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Apr 19th

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Apr 17th

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Apr 16th

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Apr 15th

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Apr 14th

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Friday Nights are made gor fun! Our Mutant Toys interactive had the we/customize Low Bay gallery jumping with activity. This time-lapse video captured the creative energy in action. —Jorge

Apr 13th

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Apr 13th

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Annabel and Elsa

It’s impressive how toy hacking is able to capture peoples’ imagination across almost any line of personal definition. I don’t know if it’s that we all had toys, we all modified toys, or just wished our toys were different, but it’s great to be in the gallery and see people getting together with hot glue. And perhaps the most difficult question–why do adults burn...

Apr 12th

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Apr 11th

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p-far

Penny farthing where I wouldn’t have to fall quite so far–it’s amazing what you can find searching for “Freak Bikes.” -Sean Olson

Apr 10th

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Apr 9th

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This might be a bit more difficult to ride than one of Slimm Buick’s art bikes, but perhaps it would allow me to find that simple joy experienced by dog’s chasing their tail. -Sean Olson

Apr 8th

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Apr 7th

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Apr 7th

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Apr 7th

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Slimm Buick

I believe Slimm was riding this is the bike, “Rawhide” when i met him. I was riding home and we were both stopped at a light. You can see why I had to talk to him. Museum visitors can meet him this weekend while he’s demonstrating is process in we/customize. Fri 5-8pm then Sat & Sun 1-4pm -Sean Olson

Apr 5th

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