2012 Rikta. blogs at rikta.tumblr.com
So while we were out for a research trip, Nick (a TU Delft intern in the studio) sent Rikta an email describing an epic battle that he was fighting against India to get some basic things done, like registration at … Continue reading
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Had this link open in my browser for a very long time. Had collected all the materials for a while as well. Anywho, it’s heat, dust & pollen season and I’ve come down yet again with a cough, cold, the … Continue reading
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The studio went for a little holiday in the middle of hectic work madness (couldn’t have asked for better though) to the Andaman Islands, more specifically Havelock Island. Amidst a lot of snorkeling, swimming and general chilling, here are a … Continue reading
By Steve Browne & John Verkleir (Flickr: Taxidermy: Much Exotic wildlife) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
So we were in Bhubhaneswar recently for research regarding Project Sammaan (a project around sanitation & hygiene) and on our last afternoon we decided to get a bit of culture and visited the ‘Orissa State Musuem’. Nothing great, and having … Continue reading
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Between UnBox and the new project the mixtape got a bit lost, sitting finished on my hard drive, waiting for the album art. Strange thing is I had already sketched it out and had a fairly clear idea of what … Continue reading
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In another era, sometime last year, I saw an interesting photojojo project that put the idea of double exposures in my head. So I bought a KB10 camera loaded it up with some color film that came complimentary with it … Continue reading
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So a few months ago, a bunch of us from the studio visited a defunct textile mill. We got the contact through a friend of ours who had visited there as well. It felt like we had stepped back in … Continue reading
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Once upon a time (last june) the first project on Side Order v1 was the pinhole camera project (with my partner-in-crime Rikta). Documented then, over the course of several months and posts that were few and far between, the project … Continue reading
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Finally finished the much-procrastinated album art and now present to you the second mixtape: Suprabhat which means ‘Good Morning’. The tracks in this mix are those that I really enjoy listening to in the morning, a defining part of which … Continue reading
Blog: Dark Roasted Blend
So I came across this link the other day: The Extraordinary World of Ex Libris Art In case you aren’t inclined to click-through here’s a quick copy-paste job: “Ex libris, meaning ‘from the library of’, or ‘from the books of’ … Continue reading
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Having got myself an Android phone with a decent camera, I was looking forward to shooting a lot of panoramas but about 6 months in and I hadn’t really had a lot of success with any of the apps having … Continue reading
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The first mixtape in the new series of mixes is here. Download the mix here