Sunday, November 27, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
HEAVEN OR BUST
I do love this city! I forget who the quote is from but it made me laugh. It is also hard for me to pass up a nice photo with popping white text/graphics over it.
GUTS
This reminded me of a performance Erin and I saw at Kingsbury Hall a while ago. The Peking Acrobats if I recall correctly... AMAZING!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
CROUCHING TIGER & TURTLE
The city of Duisberg Germany has recently installed a piece of landscape art that is a walkway which is laid out like a roller-coaster. It’s entitled “Crouching Tiger and Turtle,” because it gives the impression of potential speed but can only be experienced slowly, step by step.
via - www.twentytwowords.com
via - www.twentytwowords.com
Monday, November 14, 2011
WOOD ANYONE?
This is the world’s largest wooden structure, a contemporary urban community center called the Metropol Parasol in Seville, Spain.
The city scrapped its original plans to build a parking garage where the graceful 90-foot honeycomb now stands when Roman ruins were discovered beneath the site. Instead, they hired German architecture firm J. Mayer H. to design a project that would revitalize the city’s Plaza de la Encarnacion in a way that better reflected Seville’s rich cultural history. Beneath the Parasol’s wooden arches, people entertain themselves in bars and restaurants, a farmers’ market, pedestrian walkways with excellent views, and a space for concerts and other public events. Virtually the whole space is open to Seville’s mild Mediterranean climate. The remains of that Roman city still lie under the building, with mosaics and other relics found during construction preserved in an archaeological museum.
The city scrapped its original plans to build a parking garage where the graceful 90-foot honeycomb now stands when Roman ruins were discovered beneath the site. Instead, they hired German architecture firm J. Mayer H. to design a project that would revitalize the city’s Plaza de la Encarnacion in a way that better reflected Seville’s rich cultural history. Beneath the Parasol’s wooden arches, people entertain themselves in bars and restaurants, a farmers’ market, pedestrian walkways with excellent views, and a space for concerts and other public events. Virtually the whole space is open to Seville’s mild Mediterranean climate. The remains of that Roman city still lie under the building, with mosaics and other relics found during construction preserved in an archaeological museum.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
CAFE TERRACE
Vincent Van Gogh, one of the favorites! So many things I love about this piece. The sketch as equally
awesome as the painting. Enjoy!
awesome as the painting. Enjoy!
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
NOW THAT'S SOME CRAZY LIGHTENING
Flashback to earlier this year. The eruption of the Puyehue volcano in the Andes mountains of southern Chile. Really amazing shots of the lighting going on, almost unbelievable! Pictures from National Geographic.
CHAN HWEE CHONG
Pictures of Chan Hwee Chong's demonstration on the precision and control of the Faber Castell Artist Pen's. There is an amazing video of him doing it on the following link- http://www.behance.net/gallery/Faber-Castell/2267302
INVITATION
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