The opening of a new website also means the closing of this blog.
However, you can find all these posts and more on Carla’s new blog, in her new website.

Carla’s contribution to moon-unit.

Aidos y hasta luego mi amigos.

C.L McKee

She hopes you’ve been having fun too.

Here is one of them: Lawrence Leung and Andrew McClelland have a fabulous show.

Said lovely friend asked Carla to contribute.

This is Carla’s contribution:

A lazy Sunday afternoon of good old-fashioned storytelling and live music inside Polyester Records (City Store).

Short stories & tall tales by the Junior Captains of Industry: Josh, Daniel and Lawrence.
A comedy lecture by Andrew McClelland (Mixtape, History of Pirates).
Songs & sweet ditties by Emma Heeney
Special guest performance from Tali White (Lucksmiths, Guild League)

Admission: Bring a children’s Xmas present or buy a CD for the Xmas tree.

Carla made the poster.

Carla has recently finished a collection of books.

There are 3, they are titled:
Podemos
Somos Becarios
La Aventura

This collection of books serves as a short document of time for 4 people who spent the European summer of 2008 in Barcelona, Spain working as interns at Estudio Mariscal.
While in Barcelona, these 4 people, Lilli Langenhiem, Fernando Pisaro, Giacomo Orlando and Carla McKee documented their time with a digital point & shoot camera, a 35m film SLR and 2 Fish eye cameras. The images contained in this collection are a selection of the photos that best dipict their every day life – Podemos, work enviroment – Somos Becarios and a camping trip to the North east coast of Spain – La Aventura.

All captions are written to best mimic the language used to communicate between these people and their friends which was a mix of Spanish and English (Spanglish).

Photography by Lilli Langenhiem, Carla McKee and Fernando Pizarro.

Special thanks to Bianca Solomo, Tanja Steuer, Victoria Saja and Samira Freitag.

If you would like to order a copy of one or all three as a pack please contact Carla.

We are looking into creative spaces again.
But this time we are trying to see how new technology
can help make space more  creatively intuitive.

For example, how technology might be used so that
when you walk into a space it will know who you are
what music you like
what colours you  like
what pace you work at
If you are tired
what mood you are in.
& if you would rather be in the mountains
or at the cofffee shop.

And then adapt to your needs.
Adaptive enviroments
… or at least thats the idea.

photos thanks to lovely lilli

During the 5 months she was abroad Carla also completed a semester of her Honours degree in Melbourne via correspondence. One requirement of the semesters work was an illustrated weekly update on her thoughts and experinces over 9 weeks.

Here are a selection of those thoughts.
Theye were often used as a medium for Carla to improve her Spanish.

WEEK 9

WEEK 8

WEEK 7

WEEK 6

WEEK 5

WEEK 4

WEEK 3

WEEK 2
 

WEEK 1

From all this potential thinking i have realised my space at Mariscal (both psychological and physical) leaves me in a fairly unique position. I would even go as far as to say it is the most productive creative space ive ever had the chance to work in. To explain better:

First of all there is the physical aspects of the space, which although beautiful and relaxing it is not necessarily unique. Then there is the language issue, which is smaller by the day but keeps me within a certain state of focus which i wouldn’t have anywhere else. I am without the opportunity to chatter (as I do) and distract myself constantly with others activities such as youtube and conversation.

Then there is the lack of expectation. I don’t have the presure of someone relying on me to be creative, I’m not getting paid here, so there are no expectations of quality of thought, and to be honest the work im involved with isnt exactly ‘creative thinking’ of sorts. This leaves me able to think about what I like exactly how I want, with no stress of time and no judgment at the end. With all these qualities and the experience of being in a different country and well as the constant stimulation of learning a new language (to keep the brain moving) there seems to be nothing that could be improved about the situation. Even the lack of money is a benefit because im not distracting myself with consumerist opportunities.