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karafuto

My partner once mentioned he liked F-14 "Tomcat" fighter jets.

A half a year later he got this shirt for his birthday. I designed an Escheresque pattern, with F-14 and a tomcat wearing a bow tie (because of course).

In the process I learned about tailpipe fire, and obviously the cat had to have a tail... :blobcatpeek2:

#design #mastocats

a man (can't see his face) wearing a black shirt with a yellow repeated pattern of a cartoon-looking cat and an f14 fighter jet
karafuto

A couple of weeks ago I finished a beast of a project.

The interactive installation (titled InStability) is an artistic endeavor to demonstrate how seismic stations in Iceland detect earthquakes.

Visitors are invited to touch the map, triggering "earthquakes", and observe how LEDs, representing seismic and GPS stations, light up as the seismic waves propagate across Reykjanes peninsula.

#iceland #seismology #maps #art #mastoart #electronics #installation #dataviz #earthquake #gps #design

A black fabric displays a map of the Reykjanes peninsula. The legend at the bottom of the map reads, "white dot: seismic stations; red dot: GPS stations; triangle: volcanoes". A multitude of red and white LEDs are lit on the background.
The same map is displayed. More white topographic outlines are visible, along with some red lines and shapes representing roads and other infrastructure. Some LEDs are also lit.
Same map, different perspective (from the top). A man's hand gently touches the map, causing the LEDs to light up. There are about a dozen of them on the map, some of which are under the man's hand. Bright light shines through his fingers.
Close up of the map and LEDs. You can see the texture of the fabric and the details of the design. Each LED (attached to the map) has a printed text under or above it. The texts we can see on the photo: BLAL, HS02, THNA, THOB, MELH. These are names of GPS stations that are used to measure earthquakes in Iceland.
karafuto

The map itself and a close up of the area around Grindavik

A black map of Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland, with white colored topographic outlines and red colored infrastructure. There are 56 red and white dots spread around the map, most of them in the South, close to Grindavik. 
Legend on the bottom -- 
White dot: Seismic stations. Red dot: GPS stations. Triangle: Volcanoes. Red line: Roads. Red dotted line: Lava field boundary. Couple of white lines: Contours: interval 20m. 
Text on the right side of the map -- 
Elevation data: National Land Survey of Iceland. Locations for seismic and GPS stations are kindly provided by Bryndis Brandsóttir (HI), Halldór Geirsson (HI), and Bethany Vanderhoof (Veðurstofa). Other geographic data curtesy of OpenStreetMap. Designed and produced by ukiyo-kór in 2024
Close up of the same map. Can see Grindavik, mountains and volcanoes around it, as well as names of stations
karafuto

#introduction
I'm Nat, a designer and multimedia storyteller living in Iceland. Co-run ukiyo-kor.is, do #dataviz and #scicomm, #illustration, #photography and a bit of this and a bit of that.

Current skill I'm practising: embroidering a scene from an early computer game while simultaneously playing tetris melody on ukulele.

Like and subscribe for talks and rants about design, works in progress (to get a glimpse of how design process looks like), pictures of Iceland and occasional pixel art.

#introduction
I'm Nat, a designer and multimedia storyteller living in Iceland. Co-run ukiyo-kor.is, do #dataviz and #scicomm, #illustration, #photography and a bit of this and a bit of that.

Current skill I'm practising: embroidering a scene from an early computer game while simultaneously playing tetris melody on ukulele.

black and white photo (shot on film camera). a man stands on a large mass of lava rocks with his back to the viewer, looking at a cruise ship. the water and sky are basically the same color (very light grey), and it almost looks like the ship is floating in the air
a photo of an immersive installation with a woman silhouette standing inside of it. the installation consists of a video projected onto a semi-spherical fabric, and the photo captures one scene from the video that has abstract blobby mesh shapes
graphical image of 8 or so cubes, positioned in exactly the same location but each of them is slightly rotated so that some corners and faces are pointing in different directions.
A screenshot from nataliavish.com, a portfolio website that is basically a pixel-art platformer game with a character walking inside a house with four floors and checking out works from portfolio
karafuto

#inktober
A Russian lady was detained after she wrote “Net v***e” (Net voyne/No to war) with chalk on asphalt. She was accused of discrediting the army and faced a large fine. A box of chalk was taken as evidence of an offense.
She stated that her inscription meant “Net voble” (No to Caspian roach), since she “feels hostility to this type of fish.” The court noted that the police did not refute this statement, and dismissed the case. The judge also ordered to return the lady her box of chalk.

karafuto

#inktober
nothing special, just chonky seal stuffs

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