Q: Where have I been?
A: Somewhere almost all the graduates end up in I suppose. In a post- graduation black-hole, as we call it. =)

So, what’s been going on is, “I graduated”… =) Mad Props! right?  Hurray!!! YeAH!  OR? well…… to be honest the reality kicked in WAY too soon.  No holiday, no proper celebaration.. No getting drunk and losing it.  Not that I was expecting a total shift in my reality, but maybe a temporary one would have been cool ;) I kinda needed it after an overwhelmingly “serious” year. With no obvious difference to tell one from another, I couldn’t complete the transition properly, I guess. Not yet at least.

Anywhooo, all the boring, troublesome, distasteful “adulthood” details, such as trying to find a job etc  aside(living in a foreign country does make a huge difference unfortunately =P), I could say that all I have been doing, in full focus, was working on the Go for IT! Project  that I have started during my studies.  An Urban Game Project in Rotterdam South (NL) initiated by the organization called The Patchingzone. It’s a cool, interesting, challenging yet very very “human-cpu hungry” project. =P  Especially in the last couple of months, production process sped up quite a lot and it is great to see things actually happening. But since there are a lot of deadlines ahead of us now, the current schedule/work load/timeline leaves very little headroom for other stuff. All the while, I’ve been collecting my ideas , tagging them “to be realized” for upcoming “one day”, some day… they are piling up =) call it good news or bad news. Depends on one’s perspective I guess. To me it is good news cos I feel like as soon as we make it to our deadline, and lunch the Game we have been developing, things will slow down, the tension will be gone, a bit of a relief a bit of a cool-down…. a bit I hope..  And I will be able to focus on my personal projects as well. I hope. There is always a risk in postponing things though, I know… tricky.

Anyways, I should write about the Go for IT! Project in details at some point as well. For some reason I haven’t published anything about it although most of my life in Rotterdam has been evolving around it for about 10 months now =D. But  I guess I’m gonna leave it for another time. No, not to procrastinate, but to go to sleep =D It is quite late.. So forgive me for my long break and accept this little post as an intro of a new era (wow that’s a big word eheh) : “life outside of the school” (well yea that’s literally it; after 25 years of continuous education, crazy stuff…)

Check the website: Go for IT! =) it might help.. for now.

So here we are, at the verge of a nervous break down =) After so many cuts from the original concept and several simplifications that’s been issued due to overly-possible technical let-downs, we are performing FINALLY!

Qualia, me (Pınar) and my friend Arjan’s graduation project is giving birth to its first “baby”. Your are all wellcome to witness the birth if you happen to be in the Netherlands in the coming 7-10 days =P

Official call:

“Dear friends,

We would like to invite you to our new performance “Qualia!”.

The Qualia project, being our graduation project, is an interdisciplinary collaboration work in which we’ve been investigating the interaction possibilities between sound and movement.

Here are the performance dates, please pick the one that suits you and join us =)

Date: June 18th – Thursday & June 19th – Friday
Time: 20:00
Location: De Theaterschool- Amsterdam / Studio 202
Entry: Free!

(via HKU- FruitFest)
Date: June 26th – Friday
Time: from 19:00 – to 04:00
Location: Huis a/d Werf – Utrecht
Entry: 3 Euros
(for more infor please check: www.fruitfest.nl)

Cheers,
Pınar, Arjan, Ingrid”

From her words:

“I specialise myself in wearable electronics, the intersection of design, fashion, science, and technology. I’m busy with concepting for the future, future fashion design props, building electronical circuits, interaction design, instalations, science, coding and programming. I’m always trying to create great ambiance by doing research in order to build strong concepts that represent my ideas.”

I think her current speciality, wearable electronics, will be incredibly inspiring for those of you who are interested in the crossovers between art & technology! Take a look & do not forget to visit her website and blog.

Anouk Wipprecht - Futuristic Fashion