May 2012
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March 2012
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The Scalimeters is a very talented group that are...
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That Lindsay Style
mikasavela:
John Lindsay biking in Central Park.
If you ever read about urbanism and cities, you’re bound to read about New York. And if you read about New York, at some point mayor John Lindsay’s name will come up. And very often, the Lindsay-stuff seems very current, in the light of what’s going on in urbanism today. It’s possible that he merely became the poster boy of things new urban,...
February 2012
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WatchPeople don’t buy what you do, people buy why you do it
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Today I learned about... Eiko Ishioka
She was an innovative costume designer and art director who brought an eerie, sensual surrealism to film and theater, album covers, the Olympics and Cirque du Soleil, in the process earning an Oscar, a Grammy and a string of other honors, died on Saturday in Tokyo.
oscar award for costume design of 1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola
director of costume design...
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Watchmidoripfc:
FIN / THE END
January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Costume ideas for Halloween
by missatlaplaya
More ideas HERE >
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Autobiography Iconography
via NLDR
“The illustrations on the following images are important ones stored in my head. When I design or invent a building they are always hovering somewhere above me. These are the basis of my projects. They are with me when I sit gazing at the “white sheet of paper”, so to speak. It is always my aim to build something that is related in some way or other to these images -...
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Project Remake by Booooooom!
Booooooom! is a great site created by Jeff Hamada in hopes of hosting a community of people excited to go and be creative.
The idea of this project is to remake a famous work of art using photography. If you want to get involved in the “Remake” project full details are here.
“The falling soldier”: remake by Diego Fuente / original by Robert Capa
“Automata”: remake...
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Alexandr Deineka
Born 1899, was one of the protagonists of the artistic movement that went under the name of Socialist Realism, which had as its aim to spread the ideas of the communist regime.
“In the worst moments of my life I have endeavored to look at what it is beautiful and I tried to paint pictures full of sunshine. Sports and landscape are inseparable. My joy is not complete if the magnitude of the...
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Look-a-like... Lubetkin vs Campo Baeza
Penguin Pool (Berthold Lubetkin) vs. Museo de la Memoria de Andalucía (Alberto Campo Baeza)
via parasite visions
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September 2011
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11S
by Mark Yokoyama via dearphotograph
1979 Pakistan International Airlines Advert via fuckyeahvintage-retro
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Shibaura house
via designboom:
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA) were named recipients of the 2010 Pritzker last year. For her latest project, Sejima has designed a community workshop space in the Shibaura district of Tokyo. Having been subject to massive redevelopment since the 1990s, the area, consisting largely of office buildings, has begun to take on a new face in recent years, attracting young...
August 2011
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Real paper architecture
via Lebbeus Woods
When rummaging though her extensive library, Aleksandra Wagner discovered a pattern book of the old city of Prague. Similar to a dressmaker’s pattern book, it is meant to be cut up, very precisely, and assembled into a three-dimensional paper model.
Designed and printed in the early 1970s, in Czechoslovakia, it is remarkable in several ways:
First: in that pre-computer era,...
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The mirror tower
(txt by Omar Harb arch.) via skyscrapercity
Every city is remarkable, yet clearly some are more so than others, however Beirut is an exceptional urban phenomenon. The 486 MINA EL HOSN, the ‘mirror-tower’ designed by LAN Architecture, which is absolutely novel in concept: the building’s casing will reflect the city surrounding it. One will be able to see it from everywhere, and everywhere one’s...
July 2011
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June & Helmut
You will enjoy watching “Helmut Newton by June”, a movie by Newton’s wife documenting Helmut at work. It’s an intimate, charming and yet ironic work, it’s an insight of Newton’s action through the lens of his lifelong companion. June was devoted not only to Helmut but also to his art. As she recounts, when Helmut asked her to marry him, he made clear what his priority was: “My first love is...
June 2011
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Where ships (go to) die
Near the city of Chittagong, in Bangladesh, a city of nearly 4 millions, one can find the biggest ship graveyard, or at least one of the most polluted places in the world. Today, most ship breaking yards are in developing nations, principally Bangladesh, China, and India, due to lower labor costs and less stringent environmental regulations dealing with the disposal of lead paint and other...