Rainscapes: Hyperrealistic Rainy Windshield Drawings by Elizabeth Patterson
Jun 18 2013 ·Fascinated by the texture and color of water artist Elizabeth Patterson challenged herself to recreate the absurdly complex formation of water droplets on rain-streaked windshields. Her ongoing series titled Rainscapes blends drawing, hyperrealism, and traditional landscape techniques resulting in images that can be seen as both real and abstract. Patterson begins with her own photography and often utilizes several [...]
The Alfred H. Barr Painting and Sculpture Galleries at MOMA
Jun 17 2013 ·The Alfred H. Barr Painting and Sculpture Galleries feature on the fifth floor roughly span the years 1880 to 1940. Within an overall chronological flow, galleries highlight individual stylistic movements, artists, and themes, including Post-Impressionism, Cubism, the work of Henri Matisse, Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, and Surrealism, among other subjects. An ongoing program of periodic [...]
Truly Unique Illustrations by Polkadot Design
Jun 17 2013 ·At the foot of the Acropolis, Nearchos Ntaskas and Clair Georgelli run their studio, “Polkadot Design“. They enjoy creating illustration and design for clients, personal projects and exhibitions. Nearchos started out in 1994, making storyboards for animation productions around Europe. He is active in the field of art; through his exploration, he is more concerned to illustrate something ‘honest’ than [...]
Giuseppe Penone’s Incredible Tree Sculptures at Versailles
Jun 17 2013 ·This summer and fall the Palace of Versailles will be home to the incredible tree sculptures of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. The wood, stone, and marble sculptures are on display in the palace and surrounding grounds through October 30, 2013. Via
INFRAMEN, by Nir Arieli
Jun 17 2013 ·Nir Arieli launched his career as a military photographer for the Israeli magazine Bamachane, before receiving a scholarship to pursue a BFA at New York’s School of Visual Arts; he graduated with honors. Nir’s photographic passion is within the portraiture and dance fields. He is an admirer of beauty and gentleness, these qualities are the [...]
London hand drawn map by Jenni Sparks
Jun 17 2013 ·‘London by hand’ is a hand-drawn map of london, created by British artist Jenni Sparks for London-based art print producers evermade. Based on a geographic map of the London metro system, the print replicates the streets, neighborhoods, and landmarks of the city, as well as highlighting lesser-known, quirkier shops, museums, and tidbits of local history. [...]
House at Pipers End by Níall McLaughlin Architects
Jun 17 2013 ·Níall McLaughlin Architects have designed the House at Pipers End in Hertfordshire, UK. This new family house replaces a dilapidated farmhouse on 2 acre site in rural Hertfordshire. Planning permission for the house, which is within the Greenbelt, was awarded because the new house was demonstrated to be more sustainable in the long term than [...]
Ramon Esteve builds the continuation of a mountain
Jun 16 2013 ·Ascending the mountainside, an array of greens and reds take on various organic forms until the rectilinear retaining walls of crimson stone erect from the sloping ground forming the base walls of the ‘paz y comedias house’ by Ramon Esteve architecture studio. The masonry construction is made up of the very stones displaced during [...]
Photos by Marc Yankus
Jun 15 2013 ·Photos of cityscapes overlayed with textures using a computer program. The textures are borrowed from mottled and yellowing pieces of paper that give the works a certain patina.
Summer House in Ibiza By Recdi8
Jun 15 2013 ·Recdi8 studio offers a comprehensive service for interior decoration. This is an intervention in an old house in Ibiza. Here, we brought light and a sense of joy to a previously dark rustic country house. It is in an exceptional location for making the most of the Ibiza dream
The Wall House by FARM
Jun 15 2013 ·This is a tale of two houses – similar looking, yet independent and coming together to form a coherent whole. The two blocks sit on a sprawling piece of land, belonging respectively to the retired parents and one of their children. This separation of the house into two blocks, in part a response to the [...]
Awesome Wood Sculptures by Sergey Bobkov
Jun 14 2013 ·Sergey Bobkov an artist aged 53, has created amazing and unique sculptures out of Siberian cedar wood-chips. Sergey has developed his very own technique, that prevents wood-chips from falling apart, in time. After creating about 100-150 chips, from 2-3 inch long cedar stick, he puts them in water for several days. Then, making use of [...]
Exbury Egg by PAD Studio, SPUD Group, and Stephen Turner
Jun 13 2013 ·A temporary, energy efficient, self-sustaining work space for artist Stephen Turner situated in the River Beaulieu estuary. The Egg is designed as a place to stay as well as a laboratory for studying the life of a tidal creek. The Egg will be ‘tethered’ like a boat and will rise and fall with the tide. The light touch and [...]
A Massive Rotating Supercell Filmed Near Booker, Texas by Mike Olbinski
Jun 13 2013 ·On June 3rd of this year after four years of trying, Arizona photographer and storm chaser Mike Olbinski finally got the shot he’d been searching for: the formation of a gigantic rotating supercell. After four trips to the central plains since 2010, Oblinski and friend Andy Hoeland were tracking storms in northern Texas last week when they [...]
Cashouse in Urgnano reframes the horizon with concrete
Jun 10 2013 ·In the south Lombardian region of Urgnano, a private home by local firm matteo casari architetti is approached as a stark diaphragm upon the mountainous landscape of northern Italy. While the residential region is expanding, the home subverts the relationship of architecture and horizon line with a floating band of concrete raised a meter and a half [...]