Where are the hot photo spots in your city? Eric Fischer took the time to create city maps based on Flickr’s geotag data. Tourist photos are red, locals are blue, and yellow is unknown. If you are a tourist, this is a great way to find out where the locals hang out.
Did you know there is an International Garden Festival? In fact there has been 22nd of them! And one is happening right now in France. I came across this beautiful public art garden installation by French architects Meir Lobaton Corona and Ulli Heckmann, titled Outside-in. Outside-in is a garden within a garden, a “micro-universe” where … Continued
A daily quote from a favorite book, thematically paired with a song. This is a side project from one of my favorite bloggers Maria Popova. “Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable … Continued
Eastern State Penitentiary, an imposing castle, was built to watch over the citizens of Philadelphia. It held prisoners for 141 years, from 1829 to 1971. It was initially designed to hold prisoners in complete isolation. The Quakers of Pennsylvania thought that undisturbed reflection would turn scoundrels into a citizens. To achieve this isolation the building … Continued
Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself designed by Allen Crawford; combines Walt Whitman’s acclaimed “Song of Myself” with Crawford’s inventive illustrations and hand drawn lettering. It’s quite impressive, so much so that design superhero Milton Glaser sent Crawford a note of congratulations. Likely, more meaningful to Crawford than any award or article. Each 117 spread is a work of art in … Continued
In 2012 Lisa Congdon brought us the 365 days of hand lettering, and now she brings us the same whimsical quotations in print: Whatever You Are, Be a Good One: 100 Inspirational Quotations Hand-Lettered. She is one of my heroes. I have been working on my own hand lettering side project, and I just adore her work. … Continued
“There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment” —Henri Cartier-Bresson Apparently the decisive moment even applies to shuttin’ off the TeeVee. I really like the photographs in Stephan Tillmans’ Luminant Point Arrays project. He captures these beautiful minimal images that I’m sure I’ve seen a million times without ever thinking … Continued
London artist Robert Currie transforms gallery spaces with the simple materials of old cassette and video tape ribbons. His large scale installations explore the contrast of positive and negative, rational and irrational, and as stated in his artist statement “the inevitability of the emergence of order from disorder.” These repetitive reflective textures change based on your physical position … Continued
Found this on a blog I recently discovered and love, Thinking aloud, You are what you share. Sometimes, we just need to simplify life.
This is my favorite film title sequence it recent memory. I liked the movie, but I might not have been open to the dark and uncomfortable places the film went if not for this opening sequence. It is perfectly abrasive. It does what a great title sequence should do, it sends clear signals without revealing … Continued