Archive for Interesting photos
Amazing Balanced Stones
Posted by: | CommentsEarth may be one of the most geologically active planets in the solar system, but don’t tell that to these 10 brazenly oblivious balanced stones. Poised between inertial stability and the relentless force of gravity, these rock-steady rocks maintain a precarious balance between soil and sky.
Balanced Rock, Colorado, USA
Unbelievable Urban Mural Projects
Posted by: | CommentsFar removed from the small-time taggers that can’t resist any unmarked urban surface, muralists and street artists bring gallery-worthy art to the streets where they can be enjoyed by all. Sometimes the murals are commissioned and sometimes they’re done guerrilla-style under cloak of night, but splashed across the surface of a bare concrete wall or the unadorned face of an abandoned building, they’re a welcome touch of color and character.
Incredible Giant Treehouse Mural by Swiatecki, Poland
A mural of any size is quite an undertaking even for experienced artists, but imagine painting the entire facade of a 12-story building. Swiatecki, a Polish painter, graphic designer and urban activist, says that this impressive stylized treehouse – which even incorporates some of the windows on the building into the design – took 9 people, 350 80-liter cans of acrylic paint, 3 months and 7 days to complete.
howeler and yoon architecture: light drift
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‘light drift’ interactive RFID lighting installation by howeler + yoon architecture
philadephia, U.S.A 2010
all images courtesy howeler + yoon architecture
Yin Xiuzhen’s Portable Cities
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Yin Xiuzhen is an amazing textile artist from Beijing, China who works across a range of media.
Her Portable Cities series creates models of cities inside suitcases which explores issues of globalisation and homogenisation, but also memory and transience. Yin’s perspective examines how the concept of living permanently in one location has been overwritten by the modern pressures to keep moving and changing.