Things that inspire us: The work of Sophie Calle
We have always been struck by the installation and presentation of Sophie Calle’s work. Beyond the artwork itself, the structure she deploys to tell a story is extremely enjoyable. It reveals the care for her audience’s personal engagement. Here is a very short introduction to a few of her pieces that inspire us the most:
Gotham Handbook – documents social interactions around a specific place in NYC.
Suite Vénitienne – is the documentation of the artist following total strangers in the street. Calle is documenting and annotating her pictures with their actions and behaviours
Sleepers – is a collection of pictures of people sleeping. Sophie Calle took one photograph per hour for 8 days of an invited guest, sleeping in her bed. Twenty-eight people succeeded one another for eight-hour documented sleep-shifts.
Why we like it:
• The sequence in Suite Vénitienne depicts her investigation into unsuspecting individuals. It works exactly like a storyboard.
• She mixes photography, text and written notes within the frame. She uses her experience, as an author would, to deploy a narrative.
• She works across media and combines text, images and annotations.
Apps that we like: TwoDots connecting
Join two brave dots as they traverse arctic tundras, navigate fiery jungles, and plunge the ocean depths. Sharpen your skills across 285 challenging levels while uncovering many exciting new features along the way.
Why we like it:
• Everyone needs a little bit of relaxation now and then; It provides the short entertainment-break needed to re-envigorate thoughts and focus
• Connecting dots is the basic for creativity!
How to Collaborate on a Board
With Curator you can easily collaborate on Boards with colleagues or clients. Invite someone to a Curator Board via their email address, or simply select someone you have already worked with. It’s really simple to build a collaboratively moodboard, explaining an idea visually, or prepare a simple presentation together.
Tap the ‘Share’ button under the board and select Share – Board.
If your personal profile is incomplete you will be prompted to add your name, so that the person you are sharing with knows who you are.
By default, Collaboration is enabled, this means the other person can add content to and edit (but not delete) your Board.
Enter the email address of the person you want to share the Board with, or tap on the name of someone you have previously shared with. Finally, tap the green Share button at the bottom of the screen.
Curator will send an invitation to the user. If there is already a user registered with the email they will soon after see the Shared Board folder appear in his/her own Board view. If the person is not yet a Curator user they will receive an email prompting them to sign up with that email to receive your board.
Tap the X in the top right corner to close the screen and return to the Board view.
You can now together assemble content and collaborate to refine your visual ideas!
Apps that we like: Paper
Download: Paper, by FiftyThree
Sketch out a new product design, draft a kitchen remodel or outline a great business plan. Paper is the essential digital notebook that works the way you think, with no fussy settings or distractions. Paper’s five beautiful tools to Sketch, Write, Draw, Outline, and Color, are now completely free. Paper includes unlimited, free, cloud backup of all your journals when you sign up for a FiftyThree account.
Why we like it:
• it’s a beautiful tool
• the colour mixer is incredibly intuitive and refined
