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MVRDV has designed a fully transparent kitchen for Kitchen Home Project, a satellite event at this year’s Venice Biennale, focusing on living and the home environment. Kitchen Home Project was initiated by Weng Ling of the Beijing Centre for the Arts (BCA), and also features works by Kengo Kuma and the Hong Kong-based media artist Au Yeung Ying Chai. MVRDV’s proposal, “Infinity Kitchen,” imagines the next stage of kitchen design, creating counters, shelving, cabinets, and faucets entirely out of glass – the metaphor being that a see-through environment will add greater transparency to the food being made in the kitchen, and make inhabitants more aware food choices, cleanliness, and the culinary experience.
“If we imagine everything is transparent clear and clean, doesn’t it mean that the only thing that is colourful and visible is our food,” posits MVRDV co-founder Winy Maas. “Doesn’t it then imply that we are encouraged to love the food, in that way, and that maybe it even becomes more healthy, if not sexy?”
As outlined by MVRDV, the Infinity Kitchen proposal “takes the typical modern day modular kitchen and looks at progressing the typology to improving the culinary experience and challenging the immense, yet generic, kitchen industry.” The project seeks to add scrutiny to what is one of our most essential spaces, adding awareness to stored quantities of food, the amount of waste we are creating, and the level of cleanliness of the space, all the while celebrating the joy of food and cooking. By eliminating a division between beauty and ugliness, the Infinity Kitchen gives control to the user.
“I see this as part of a wider dream, this kitchen. It is part of an environment, if not a city, that is transparent and therefore accessible,” says Maas, “Imagine if not only our kitchens were transparent, but the walls through to the neighbour and the next neighbour even. This would create infinite perspectives in our cities. It would make within our claustrophobic environments possibly a view, into the direction of the mountains or the sea.”
This new strategy of clarity is already visible in MVRDV’s project Crystal Houses, a Chanel boutique in Amsterdam, where traditional bricks in the facade have been selectively replaced with glass substitutes. The practice has also designed an office in Hong Kong with glass interiors, furniture, and equipment, that will open June 1.
Participating in the Kitchen Home Project, MVRDV extends the office’s commitment to both Asian and European architecture. Working closely with Weng Ling from the Beijing Centre for the Arts, MVRDV is extending a collaboration with the BCA dating back to 2002 on projects focused on the urban environment and culture. Opening today, the Kitchen Home Project will be on view at Università IUAV di Venezia Ca’ Tron until September 30.
There is something powerful and negative about rejection that, no matter how trained you are, it will affect you emotionally. However, these emotions are there to teach you something, to help you to improve, to guide you to grow as a person.
Therefore, when we talk about dealing with rejection, the purpose is not to stop you feeling the rejection entirely, but to feel it only as much or as little as necessary to learn what you need to learn from it and then to move on.
That is a bold statement and, if you have a dog, probably you’ve noticed that your dog does care about being rejected… for about 10 seconds.
My dog, Jack, taught me a lot about how to move on from being rejected and this is the experience I will share with you today: how to move on from rejection- the dog’s style (please, take this with a smile and hear me out before considering to reject this idea.)
Now, what is a dog doing when being rejected?
Almost breaks your heart and you almost give in. It is not the helplessness that makes you feel guilty, but the dog’s secret weapon. A secret weapon that all living thinking creatures have, including us, humans.
Take a big breath in and breath out with a sigh at the end. Then, use the weapon: innocence. Make an innocent face.
This weapon is not only useful to make the other person a bit sorry for rejecting you, but also to free yourself from negative thoughts.
Why innocence? Because people can’t stay mad on an innocent living creature. Can you?
Plus, my dog is doing it every single time, and it is working. I don’t give in, but I can’t be annoyed with him either.
This step is meant to calm you down, to regroup; to receive a positive reinforcement that you are still loved, still appreciated, still valuable and to recognize the fact that, even though somebody hasn’t been too good to you, many others are.
When you are rejected could feel like is the end of the world or that there is no point in trying again.
However, failure is not an option when you have other options as well. Failure is only the response to your action or behavior. It doesn’t define who you are or what you are capable of accomplishing.
Take the learning from the first try and make a new plan.
If you observe a dog how he is making the second attempt to get what he wants, you will notice how carefully he is choosing where to sit in the room.
I’m not suggesting to do exactly how the dog does; that could be a bit creepy, isn’t it? However, you can use the same principles when you ask for what you want.
If you haven’t been successful yet, try again in a new way, and then another way and another way until you get what you want, or there are no other options left.
When you have tried everything and nothing worked, it is time to give up and move on… at least until you find another way.
My dog is a happy dog. He knows how to ask and when he doesn’t get it, he quickly regroups and moves on. Tomorrow is another day!
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There is something powerful and negative about rejection that, no matter how trained you are, it will affect you emotionally. However, these emotions are there to teach you something, to help you to improve, to guide you to grow as a person.
Therefore, when we talk about dealing with rejection, the purpose is not to stop you feeling the rejection entirely, but to feel it only as much or as little as necessary to learn what you need to learn from it and then to move on.
That is a bold statement and, if you have a dog, probably you’ve noticed that your dog does care about being rejected… for about 10 seconds.
My dog, Jack, taught me a lot about how to move on from being rejected and this is the experience I will share with you today: how to move on from rejection- the dog’s style (please, take this with a smile and hear me out before considering to reject this idea.)
Now, what is a dog doing when being rejected?
Almost breaks your heart and you almost give in. It is not the helplessness that makes you feel guilty, but the dog’s secret weapon. A secret weapon that all living thinking creatures have, including us, humans.
Take a big breath in and breath out with a sigh at the end. Then, use the weapon: innocence. Make an innocent face.
This weapon is not only useful to make the other person a bit sorry for rejecting you, but also to free yourself from negative thoughts.
Why innocence? Because people can’t stay mad on an innocent living creature. Can you?
Plus, my dog is doing it every single time, and it is working. I don’t give in, but I can’t be annoyed with him either.
This step is meant to calm you down, to regroup; to receive a positive reinforcement that you are still loved, still appreciated, still valuable and to recognize the fact that, even though somebody hasn’t been too good to you, many others are.
When you are rejected could feel like is the end of the world or that there is no point in trying again.
However, failure is not an option when you have other options as well. Failure is only the response to your action or behavior. It doesn’t define who you are or what you are capable of accomplishing.
Take the learning from the first try and make a new plan.
If you observe a dog how he is making the second attempt to get what he wants, you will notice how carefully he is choosing where to sit in the room.
I’m not suggesting to do exactly how the dog does; that could be a bit creepy, isn’t it? However, you can use the same principles when you ask for what you want.
If you haven’t been successful yet, try again in a new way, and then another way and another way until you get what you want, or there are no other options left.
When you have tried everything and nothing worked, it is time to give up and move on… at least until you find another way.
My dog is a happy dog. He knows how to ask and when he doesn’t get it, he quickly regroups and moves on. Tomorrow is another day!
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Over the last few occasions, I’ve been primarily focused on shooting more variety than just the usual “burn” light. While the burning sky is quite spectacular, it usually means the FG, MG is quite dull (unless you have reflective surfaces). The 30mins before the sun dips past the horizon, I feel have the most dynamic light on the FG and MG. Looking through my portfolio though, it was sorely lacking in shots from this time peroid. I made a much more conscious effort to photograph during this time period more.
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