Black and White

Floors

German photographer Andreas Gefeller photographed the floors of each room in the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany. The final images were assembled from multiple shots - all taken from about six feet off the ground. Love em.

Jac de Villiers

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Jesse and The Raw Sharks

Charlotte-based (sorry Charlotte friends, but Charlotte? really?) graphic designer Jessie Walker came up with a killer design for the film poster and publisher's special edition cover for Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts. Man I love good graphic design.

Sixx Design

The NYC tandem known as Sixx Design are real-estate flippers of the most interesting variety. Instead of renovating on the cheap and leaving an eye-sore for the public, they snatch up random but promising properties, renovate them from the outside in, outfit them with an eclectic mix of modern and vintage, and voila, you have a much more valuable piece of New York real estate. The current home of Cortney and Robert Novogratz was featured in the New York Times today, but the piece didn't delve too much into some of their older projects. Here's a look:

On The Beach

Artists Gilles Cenazandotti and Thierry Lede recently created a group called Clear Art Planet. Their chief mission is to clean the world's beaches and turn the found scraps into art.

The Salton Sea

From Stephen Tamiesie's website: "Fifty miles south of Palm Springs in the California desert lies the Salton Sea - a man-made body of water created over 100 years ago from the flooding Colorado River. A once prominent tourist and vacation destination in the 1950's and 60's, the area is currently in ruin and decay. The salinity of the water is now greater than that of the Pacific Ocean and most of the area establishments have long since been boarded up. However, there are still residents living in a handful of small towns surrounding the Salton Sea and some who visit to regard the decomposition. Upon each visit I have made to the Salton Sea, my attraction to the peculiar relationship of this region's past and present deterioration has increased and I cannot help but feel a sense of nostalgia for the landscape when I view these images."

Photomatic

In the 1930's, a company called the International Mutoscope and Reel Company of New York City, a manufacturer of penny arcade games, nickelodeons, weight and fortune dispensers, and other coin-operated entertainment devices, developed a machine capable of taking a photograph and dispensing a black & white print in just a few minutes time. The machine was called a "Photomatic", and they were frequently installed at larger railroad passenger stations, where for fifteen cents departing friends or family members could make a farewell portrait on-the-spot. I recently found one of these featuring a little kid with a weird halo-like light above his head. Time has had a nice effect on these things.

Transformed in Toronto

What was once an old blacksmith's shop in a Toronto back alley has been transformed by Superkul Architects into a contemporary home of rusted steel and black knotted cedar.

Isabel Rock

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Specimens Preserved

Science as Art?







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Tired of the Clouds, Looking for One of These