Daily Odors
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
maceration
Hi all! It's been a long time without updaiting. I am currently working in two olfactory projects at the time. One which I will keep in secret for a while and another one which will take place in september and also will make public when it's time for it. For now I'm training my self with some odorant extraction technics. I started with maceration. All the plants and flowers are growing in our garden!
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
next step
First test with the geosmin odor and a fog machine made!
For now, I can say that there is a big delay between the moment the fog with smell comes out and the time when you can start smelling the geosmin. BUT, the smell stays for very long time in the space once the smoke is gone.
Some questions that give some base to my research:
*** Do we try to portrait nature because it makes us happy?
**** Are we happy when we are gardening because we smell the bacteries in the earth?
***** If so, would geosmin make us feel better in a non natural enviroment?
For now, I can say that there is a big delay between the moment the fog with smell comes out and the time when you can start smelling the geosmin. BUT, the smell stays for very long time in the space once the smoke is gone.
Streptomyces coelicolor
It seems the bacteria Streptomyces coelicolor is the main cause for the geosmin odor.
Some questions that give some base to my research:
*** Do we try to portrait nature because it makes us happy?
**** Are we happy when we are gardening because we smell the bacteries in the earth?
***** If so, would geosmin make us feel better in a non natural enviroment?
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Quick up-date
My current
project, Petrichor, a odor-analogue film performance is taking quite some time
to develop, but as the good wine, some time and rest will do it's magic, it's
while the maturation process when it gets the most special flavors. So there I
am!
For now, and this
is quite a big step, I have manage to obtain some Geosmine odor, which means:
I'm so close to the end smell I wanted to create!!
In the past months
I've been busy filming the Tropaeolum majus I planted in our garden, here in Berlin. It has grown rapidly.
What interests me about this plant,
is the reaction its leafs have to the rain, when it falls:
They seem to have a really
resistant impermeable layer which reveals us the superficial tension water
drops at it's peak!
Please have a look to this short clip, it's amazing how the tinny water drops get together.
Monday, March 17, 2014
head on...
Brainstorming
the earth /
gravity = heavy
the air / smell = light
the smell of wet
earth,
pleasant experience.
the right balance
between reality and dreams.
Perceiving the unperceivable.
the rain comes from above.
the feet is grasping the earth.
the moment of connection between
the unreachable and the reachable, sky + earth / air and land,
the diffusion of the limitations,
the limits diffusion.
hands on!
While researching how to generate in a very primitive and analogue way Petrichor smell I had several ideas on how to present the odor composition together with a analogue film performance. But starting from the beginning:
I've taken 2 samples from the driest earth in my garden. Both are kept in this new plastic containers, one of them has a solid base of cotton.
They've been for more than 2 weeks on top of the heater.
I've taken 2 samples from the driest earth in my garden. Both are kept in this new plastic containers, one of them has a solid base of cotton.
They've been for more than 2 weeks on top of the heater.
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