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2/09/2010

Olfatory exercise Yerry

16:34 outside school: cold, fireworks, cars
16:40 shoppingstreet: warm shop smell, fries, people perfumes
17:00 entree house: garbage, cat toilet, fresh laundry, dusty hallway
17:02 my room: fresh paint
17:30 cooking smell of kitchen downstairs
18:26 waiting outside: sigarette from a person, perfume
18:34 ballet class: warm dry smell, little bit old
18:45 deodorant, heater
19:?? warm smelly peolpe, different kind of deodorants
19:08 outside:cars, sigarettes, coldness.
19:30 my room: fresh paint, old incense
20:00 toasted bread
23:30 fresh laundry
09:00 toothpaste, shampoo
09:16 warm jasmine tea


2/06/2010

Olfatory exercise 1: Melissa

Ginger; refresh.
Champa; home
Boxes with glue and food smells like cereals, sweets, salmo, candle boxes etc.
Vicks vaporub; mint and fresh.
Tea smell; home.
Coffee smell; home

2/05/2010

Olfactory assignment 1 - Jelle

13:15 - different rooms in the house: coffee in kitchen, leather furniture in living room, washing liquid in washing room, smell from outside from open door
13:27 - strong smell of the ham on my bread
-orange juice smell when close to the glass, one of my favourite smells :)
13:45 - upstairs smell of cold + 'sleep' + used beds + wood
13:57 - outside: trees, grass, sand, leaves, moist
14:48 - inside house, warm/cosy, familiar but slightly different today maybe because I'm paying more attention
18:05 - salty, spicy smell from soup
-baded/fried smell, fat/oil from frites
20:23 - still fried smell in kitchen
-outside smell of a cosy winter evening and fire(places) -> love that smell
21:00 - friend's house, familiar safe/cosy smell
-smell of weed in his room
23:55 - tea smell in the kitchen

8:37 - mixed smell of perfumes on the way to the train
-smell of a cigarette
8:45 - a faint smell in the train, mix of paper and plastic and damp clothes (from own coat)
9:33 - car exhaust
13:00 - academy cantine, smells like swimming pool??
- smell of glue and coffee in hallway
- smell of old clothes on staircase
- smell of paint upstairs

Where to Get the Supplies II

Just to share my experiences, here is the list of the places that I often check-out for the aromatic materials and mini-lab supplies.

city shopping streets / center
  • Dille & Kamille: for kitchen tools, tin-cans, glass jars and bottles
  • XENOS: for tin-cans, glass jars and bottles
  • Marskramer: for plastic bags (ziplock), candle, diffuser
  • HEMA: for kitchen containers
  • De Tuinen: for essential oil, aroma diffuser
  • apotheek (pharmacy): for empty brown bottles (10ml, 30ml, 100ml, etc), atomizer (spray), odor-free waselin, odor-free talk powder
  • toko: for aromatic ingredients, plastic (disposable) plates and containers
  • DIY: for materials
  • Drogisterij De Lang (pharmacy in Rotterdam Zuid): for chemical supplies, lab-supplies, essential (natural/synthetic) oils, how-to books
Nevertheless web-shop is always the best!

online shops:

Some more links in addition to the past post Where to Get the Supplies I

waar te krijgen chemisch spullen (where to get chemical supplies)
http://www.thuisexperimenteren.nl/chemicalien/waarspullen.htm

De Hekserij chemische spullen
http://www.hekserij.nl/

Brouwland
http://www.brouwland.com/

BUYSEN benodigheden
http://members.home.nl/buysen/winkelchemie.html#chemicali%EBn

etherische olie winkel
http://www.anthemis.nl/

DAY 3: idea development for mini-project

[Things to prepare for next Monday]

Hi olfactory students,

Based on the scratch mini-projct ideas that we've discussed yesterday, we'll [extract] the smells, with either alcohol (vodka) or oil on next week Monday, and perhaps also on Tuesday.

You are supposed to prepare whatever smelly materials based on your ideas for the mini-project.

You can buy empty bottles from me for 1 euro each. The same transparent ones as those cheese burgers and newspaper smells.

The rest, the lab supplies that I'll prepare, is covered by the interfaculty.

Also please bring the accompanying tools for cracking / pulverizing / cutting / chopping / sewing your materials. I'll prepare 1 mortar, some scissors, and some knives.

Thank you for posting the assignment (1) - we'll go through it somewhere next week.

Perhaps we see each other at Paradiso this afternoon?

Have a nice weekend!

Maki

2/04/2010

Olfctry Exc 1 -Erfan

1st of Feb:

20:20 on the street weed
20:40 metro station strong feminine perfume, bitter sweet, lasted for long
20:50 inside the metro smell of the fabric of the seats mixed with sweat and cold humidity
21:00 home carpet + shoes
21:35 home fried garlic with olive oil
21:40 home smelly socks
21:55 " computer fan
22:15 " dish washing liquid, onion left from the day before, hot water
22:20 " fresh orange
22:30 " cigarette
23:40 " tooth paste
24:10 " the radiator (cold wet metal)

2nd of Feb:

10:10 home air stuff in the room (smell of closed space)
10:30 " shower gel
10:50 " butter, honey(flower + sth else), rotten papricas
12:20 " my hat (strange salty smell mixed with shampoo)
12:35 street bitter almond
12:50 kabk smell of detergent in the mirror corridor + coffee
12:55 kabk earl gray tea

Olfactory exercise 1: James

1 February 2010:

16:45 Waffles, Sugar, Butter, rich sweet smell Koncon

18:45 Cigarette smoke Outside KABK

18:50 Exhaust Fumes Outside

18:55 Chicken, oil, mixed food - sauces, sweet "Eazie" restaurant

19:10 Mandarins and Rubbish Outside house

19:11 Unknown, pleasant, warm, slightly sweet smell Inside flat

19:20 Food, satay, noodles -starchy and thick smell, chicken Home

22:30 Sulphur (?) / minerals and salts Basin - smell of water

22:45 Eggs, salt (quite strong) Neighbors cooking

2/03/2010

olfactory exercise 1, Oxalis

starting time: 01.02.2010, 16.00

end time: 02.02.2010, 11.00


16.12 kabk -- paint

16.15 street, den haag -- exhaust of a truck and some other vehicles

16.21 train, between coaches -- salty, sweaty smell mixed with wet cobblestones

16.23 train, passenger coach -- mixed smell of croissant, ham, and new magazines

16.47 leiden centraal station -- bread, perfume, artificial smell for cosmetics, fried fish

17.06 super de boer -- strong smell of bread, some other artificial smell (maybe from the cleaning liquid they are using)

17.27 home, 1st floor -- damp old house, wet wood

17.28 home, 3rd floor -- strong hyacinth smell from the kitchen

17.28 home, bedroom -- vanilla, soft smell from the clothes I dry inside the room

17.29 home, bedroom -- almond cake (from my coat)

20.52 home, kitchen -- mixed fruits (peach, orange, lemon) smell from the dishwashing liquid

21.04 home, kitchen -- thick sweet smell (boiling jello powder and sugar)

21.20 home, kitchen -- canned fruits (subtle sweet smell)

21.26 home, kitchen -- rotten banana, eggs, vegetables from the trash can

21.28 home, kitchen -- strong garlic and onion smell, a bit of butter

21.32 home, kitchen -- mixed vegetables

21.35 home, kitchen -- spices (aromat/tuinkruiden), white pepper

21.42 home, kitchen -- hot rice

23.15 friend’s place -- chocolate cake, cream

23.25 friend’s place -- minced garlic, sour smell (receive some kitchen ingredients)

23.26 friend’s place -- mango, sour, sweet, thick (from mango chutney)

23.30 friend’s place -- old, damp papers

00.15 friend’s place -- smoke

02.00 street -- dry trash (boxes)

08.07 home, bedroom -- the smell of the blanket, giving a nice warm feeling

08.12 home, kitchen -- cooking oil

08.21 home, kitchen -- overcooked/burnt fries

08.28 home, kitchen -- fried egg

08.45 home, bathroom -- orange, milk, cream (from the soap)

08.55 home, kitchen -- mint, fresh smell (from the toothpaste)

09.10 home, bedroom -- mixed fruits, artificial smell, cream, flowery scent

09.20 street -- leather (passing a shoe store)

10.05 train -- old lady’s perfume (mildly strong)

2/02/2010

olfactory exercise 1, Ivan Henriques

1st February

19.46 - Clingendael - cheese biscuit

20.03 - Clingendael - cigar, coffee, Christmas biscuit

22.16 - Bus - bus smell, mixture of metal, seat fabric, heater

22.35 - Home - bread, green tea, garbage

2nd February

08.30 - Home - bed, cosy and comfortable smell

09.00 - Home - Cigarette, bread, strawberry, nuts, milk

09.30 - Way to the tram - Humidity

09.46 - Tram - tram smell: different people, heater, seat fabric

09.55 - Tram - tram smell + strong sweet perfume

DAY 2: Kodo - Japanese incense game

Kodo is a Japanese traditional art of olfactory game.

more information about Kodo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dd%C5%8D
http://www.japan-zone.com/culture/kodo.shtml


Maki-style Kodo demonstration, 02/02/10










Theme of the game: a poem by Basho

An ancient pond
A frog plunges
The sound of water

Incense used:
smell 1: Juniper tree
smell 2: Shoko (Japanese temple incense)
smell 3: Frankinsence from Oman
smell -: Jinko (Japanese incense often used in Kodo)

Participants:
Team A: Ivan, Huan, Pablo, Maki
Team B: Melissa, Orfan, Jelle, James

Rule:
After the each round of smelling, participants guessed which smell it was. The team that made more correct answeres was allowed to let the frog 'jump' once. The team with the frog that jumped further away from the start line wins.

Winner:
Team A

DAY 2: How smell and taste works

[taste]

How taste works
http://health.howstuffworks.com/taste.htm

How taste works - from molecular gastronomy perspectives
http://khymos.org/pairings.php

Tatse map of the tongue
http://www.musingsonthevine.com/tips_pai.shtml

[smell]


How smell works - general info page
http://health.howstuffworks.com/smell.htm

What causes a smell?
http://health.howstuffworks.com/question139.htm

About the organ
http://www.senseofsmell.org/feature/smell101/lesson1/01.php

Sense of Smell Institute: Abundant resources about the sense of smell
http://www.senseofsmell.org/


olfactory exercise 1, Pablo

Starting time: 16:00, 01/02/10
Ending time: 11:00, 02/02/10

01/02/10
16:45 home/kitchen, mixture of food + tea (smells like home)
16:55 home/bedroom, turkische pizza (impregnated in a napkin from the day before)
16:57 home/kitchen, cashewnut
17:10 home/kitchen, lee&perrins sauce
17:25 home/kitchen, red wine
18:30 albert heijn, unidentified typical scent (maybe soft mixture of food, packages, vainille?)
19:15 home, cooking falafel
19:30 home, eating falafel + salad + yoghourt dressing
20:00 home, neck of my coat (mixture of parfum with personal odour)
20:20 kabk, rooibos / capuccino coffee from the machine
21:50 kabk, cardboard-paper (smelling some flyers)
21:55 kabk, juan´s coat
22:20 home, fried-oil-falafel scent
23:00 home, preparing rooibos safari (different smell-flavour in the bag - in the cup and w / wo a pinch of soja milk)
00:57 home, cold rooibos safari
01:00 home, personal scent (smelling under my t-shirt)

02/02/10

09:35 home, tea (yogi classic), spicy
09:40 home/kitchen, preparing sandwiches
10:30 koncon, storage room, closed room scent
11:30 koncon/ewp, drinking tea (earl grey)
11:35 koncon/ewp, eating banana
11:40 koncon/ewp, eating apple

2/01/2010

Olfactory exercise 1, Juan

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Starting time: 16:00, 01/02/10
Ending time: 11:00, 02/02/10

01/02/10
16:21 Dirty pipe water at home entrance
16:28 Home, Tomato sauce cooked dish
22:30 Home, air freshener
22:40 Home, Strike a match
22:45 Home,Peas cooked dish
00:00 Home, Orange Roibos tea

02/02/10
10:09 Home, making coffee
14:20 Street, diesel smoke from bus

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DAY 1: Today's Topics

01/02/10

Wine Aroma Wheel
http://www.winearomawheel.com/




Foodpairing
http://www.foodpairing.be

Foodpairing in a general context: Molecular Gastronomy
http://khymos.org/

Smell Map of Rotterdam: the smell-extracting workshop that I gave at Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
http://scent-lab.blogspot.com/search/label/%5BSMELL%20MAP%5D

olfactory (experimental) project by Usman Haque, media artist
http://www.haque.co.uk/scentsofspace.php

NEA - Nederland Vereniging voor geur- en smaakstoffenfabrikanten
http://www.nea-nederland.nl/
Nea Nederland: NEA biedt u informatie over de geur- en smaakstoffenindustrie.

olfactory exercise 1, Maki

test posting.

starting time: 18:00, 01/02/10
ending time: 12:00, 02/02/10

18:10, home, cooking rice smell
18:12, home, pungent smell in the wc
...
...
...

Assignment (1) - olfactoy exercise 1

1/31/2010

Smelly Blogs

http://firstnerve.com/
smelly blog by Avery Gilbert, smell scientist

and offcourse...

http://scent-lab.blogspot.com
blog by Maki Ueda

Where to Get the Supplies I

Labstuff
http://www.labstuff.nl/
Breedspoor 64
Capelle a/d ijssel
Nederland
2908 AA
Telefoon: 010-4427644 / 06-24409864
Fax: 010-4427644
E-mailadres: stirling@box.nl

It's a great online-shop that offers diverse materials. You can also make an appointment to visit the place in Capelle a/d Ijssel (next to Rotterdam). By doing so you can find 2nd-hand lab equipments as well.

Drogisterij De Lang
http://www.drogisterijdelang.nl/
Groene Hilledijk 292B
3074 AG Rotterdam
Nederland
Telefoon / fax : +31(0)104190913

It's an online-shop as well as 'drogist' located in Rotterdam Zuid. What they have on the online-shop could be found at the shop too.

1/29/2010

Goal of This Course

In this course you will
  • (have to) smell a lot
  • learn about smell and olfaction
  • find another (hidden) dimension in the world
  • become aware of smell and that leads to a joyful, healthy, and long life (!)
There are many ways of using smell in art. You might want to perfume orange smell to your orange-colored painting, or you might want to add rose smell in an exhibition space where you show an installation that symbolizes love.

Most of the people only see the practical side of smell. Smell is like an additives that gives a good side-effect: it functions to make you feel relaxed or happy.

What we want to achieve in this course is a bit deeper than this.

Smell has a great potential as a medium. Let's use this course as a place to experiment. We'll focus on the theme smell and communication. You'll receive an final assignment (mini-project) under the theme of "olfactory game".

Books Recommended

Books Recommended

[history of the senses, anthropology, cultural studies]

1. Worlds of sense
Constance Classen
(exploring the senses in history and across cultures)

2. Aroma
the cultural history of smell
Constance Classen, David Howes, Anthony Synnott
(De culturele geschiedenis van het verschijnsel geur)

3. The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination
Alain Corbin
http://www.amazon.com/Foul-Fragrant-French-Social-Imagination/dp/0674311760/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265100988&sr=8-2




[general about the sense of smell]


1. The emperor of scent
Chandler Burr

2. SMELL: THE SECRET SEDUCER.
Piet Vroon, Anton van Amerongen, Hans de Vries
Translated by Paul Vincent
http://www.amazon.com/SMELL-SECRET-SEDUCER-Translated-Vincent/dp/B000N7I7CI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265101225&sr=1-2
Dutch title:
Verborgen verleider: Psychologie van de reuk


3. What the Nose Knows
Avery Gilbert


[about media and communication]

KOMMUNIKOLOGIE
Vilém Flusser
(I'm sure it's also available in English!)