Superyacht adastra by John Shuttleworth yacht designs
May 25 2013 ·‘Adastra’ is a 42.5m power trimaran which was conceived for a couple (anto and Elaine Marden) for long range cruising. The yacht uses a trimaran shape that allows it to have multiple hulls. This is the second largest of its kind and can be controlled from a distance with an iPad. The superyacht’s aerodynamics and [...]
WEAPONS FROM NATURE
May 25 2013 ·Artist Sonia Rentsch created this striking series of sculptures for the magazine January Biannual , using natural materials like leaves, sticks and seed pods to create the form of guns and other weapons. Titled “Harm Less,” the images stir thoughts of beauty and violence within man and nature.
The Fantastic Fabergé Fractals Of Tom Beddard
May 25 2013 ·Parametric modeling is becoming ever more popular in the architecture world, both for the ways in which it can lead academic discourse and for its ability to generate façade and surface articulation. Of course, at an architectural scale, there are some limits in detail through parametric modeling, with the built component often lacking the fineness [...]
Kazutoshi Imanaga: sense, a single family residence in Tokyo
May 24 2013 ·Kazutoshi Imanaga has called this Tokyo residence ‘sense’ because it engages all of the physical senses. Double height glass walls give a contemporary spin on the international style of the home. The home engages the vision with strong lines while the transparency of the glass also allows one to see through the house, connecting the [...]
Heading for the beach? You need a balanced diet!
May 24 2013 ·Stylist Elena Mora has teamed up with photographer Karsten Wegenerto, to create this impressive series of Ricettario – “A balanced diet”, which bizarrely lined ingredients for different dishes. www.elenamora.com
Fun Site-Specific Wheatpastes on the Streets of France by Lavalet
May 24 2013 ·Lavalet is a new wheatpaste artist named who has been making some pretty imaginative site-specific pasteups in various locations around France since late last year. Almost all of his pieces interact with their direct surroundings and frequently include props or other three-dimensional objects. You can see more over on his blog, and if you happen to [...]
“Sand Sculpture” Festival in England
May 23 2013 ·In the English resort town of Weston in North Somerset took part a festival of sand sculptures. This year there was a Hollywood theme. Read More at freeyork.org/art/sand-sculpture-festival-in-england © FreeYork
The palace on the rock in Yemen
May 23 2013 ·Dar Al-Hajar – is a historical monument, considered one of the symbols of Yemen. It is located in the village of Souk Al Wadi, and often referred to as the Palace of Islam. The exact date of the original construction of the castle is unknown. However, there is a perception that the first buildings appeared [...]
Mitch Dobrowner Photographs Of Storms
May 22 2013 ·Photographer Mitch Dobrowner created a series of striking images of lightning storms in the black-and-white terms. Website: www.mitchdobrowner.com
Paintings by Patrick Kramer
May 22 2013 ·Photorealistic paintings depicting various subject matter. I came to realize that the appeal of representational painting since the advent of photography is due in a large part to the painting process. Although the image itself may come to resemble an ordinary photograph, a psychological intensity can be felt in the handmade work, as the artist’s [...]
Villa V by Paul de Ruiter Architects
May 22 2013 ·From the very start it was clear that the landscape around the villa should be preserved as much as possible. A basement was created for the house and the ground floor is semi-positioned in the slope of the hill. The first floor towers above the partially glazed ground floor and the undulating dune landscape. Both [...]
The Floating Temple: How to Lift a Seven Million Pound, 112-year-old Building
May 21 2013 ·Something’s up in Provo, Utah and it weighs around seven million pounds. It’s the 112-year-old exterior of the Provo Tabernacle that was severely damaged in a 2010 fire but has since been saved by the LDS church so it can be converted into a temple. Engineers first gutted the damaged interior and then supported the exterior walls with special [...]
Wally Esense Mega Yacht
May 21 2013 ·The Esense is an incredible 143 foot yacht with a extremely clean minimalist cockpit and 900 m2 of sail area. The boat features a dark hull and light wooden deck, it follows along the same lines that characterize most of the Wally boats. The boat is impressive not only because of it´s size but it [...]
Matt Barrett’s stroll in downtown Athens
May 20 2013 ·Matt Barrett has been traveling or living in Greece since 1968 and since 1996 he has been adding information to this website that is helpful to travelers to Greece and the Greek islands Matt came again to Greece yesterday and uploaded a series of pics from the historic downtown Athens and its nightlife in Psiri [...]
The Big Cloud: Photos by Camille Seaman
May 20 2013 ·Photos of giant storm clouds or Supercells taken in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota. The storms we were chasing were Supercells, capable of producing grapefruit sized hail, and spectacular tornadoes; they were 50 miles wide and reached as high as 65,000 ft. into the atmosphere. These clouds were so large that [...]