Mirror Magazine
Shape of things to come
It took Nissanga Warnapura 48 hours to print his first hand. Built for a little nine-year-old girl who lost her fingers and a part of her wrist to amniotic band syndrome, this prototype is made of plastic and nylon thread and consists of 54 parts. It looks uncomfortably geometric, its plastic skeleton all white and [...]
E- Forum: Bringing IT academics and industrialists together
The Expose Forum, also known as the E-Forum for 2014 organised by the E-Club of the University of Moratuwa took place recently at the BMICH. The event also marked the 2013 edition of the ‘E-Carrier’ magazine. While bringing IT engineers, academics as well as IT students under one roof, this year the organisers broadened the [...]
Have a big heart
Some tiny incidents in life though seemingly simple and insignificant can make us overjoyed and even capable of changing the whole philosophy of our personal life. Something similar happened to me recently. If my memory is correct five or six months ago, there was a private bus strike and I was a direct victim of [...]
The art of devising theatre
Last week, Jithendra Seneviratne and Julianna Rusakiewicz, co-founders of the New York based Basic Engineering Collective (BEC), staged their first workshop in Sri Lanka. It also marked another first – their debut as a team. The duo designing an ambitious programme packed with tons of improvisation, which pushed actors to explore their craft and instill [...]
