This is a time-lapse footage from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), based in Chile. You can see the stars moving across the screen as Earth spins and rotates around the sun. Breathtaking. “ESO is the pre-eminent intergovernmental science and technology organisation in astronomy. It carries out an ambitious [...]
I fell in love with the work of two French men Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre as soon as I saw it. It nurtures my obsession with architectural photography and abandoned, desolate urban landscape. I have posted before on this topic, the most recent post being the work of David Schalliol, who photographs isolated buildings [...]
The Barbican Centre has got to be one of my favourite places in London. Not only for the culture but also for the architecture.
David Belt, the Executive Director and founder of Macro Sea, came up with the ingenious idea of dumpster pools. The concept is rather simple: get a bunch of dumpsters, clean them, line them in plastic and fill them up with water. Simple but genius. He then rented an abandoned parking lot somewhere in Brooklyn and [...]
Photojournalist Brenda Biondo documents the extinction of old school playgrounds in America. Artist statement: “Once Upon A Playground” is an on-going series of photographs centered on vintage playground equipment that is quickly disappearing from the American landscape. The equipment we grew up with – from towering metal slides installed in the 1940s to giant rocket [...]
Serpentine pavilion by Jean Nouvel…
When I went to see Electric Hotel in King’s Cross I had unfortunately already heard about the raving reviews. So my expectations were probably set quite high. Whatever the reasons though the show left me deeply…. bored. The only things that grabbed my attention were the set and sound design. And what a setting as [...]
I got lost in the back streets of Islington last night riding back from Sadler’s Wells and saw this parking space. I thought it was very filmo/photo/genic.
So the World Expo 2010 has just started in Shanghai (1 May – 31 October) and I was wondering, does anybody really care? I mean, some of the pavilions are pretty amazing, such as the UK one for example, and it’s a great exercise and deal for architects, designers and engineers alike but it costs [...]
I just love Noel Kerns‘ photography. Kerns specialises in night photography and his photographs are of abandoned houses, cafes, petrol stations, military bases etc. mostly around Texas. The intensity of the colours, the dim light and the choice of places make these scenes look totally unreal. He uses diverse sources of light, including moonlight, and [...]
I’m finally resuming activity here after a major breakage of my computer and intense party organisation (check this out Cake snaps at Dick And Fanny April 10). On a slightly less glamorous note, I recently went to Margate to see Anat Ben-David‘s show, which I unfortunately missed as Anat had just packed up when I [...]
Miru Kim is a photographer, who takes pictures of herself nude in urban, isolated and desolate places. I get goose bumps just looking at these photographs. They are eerie, melancholic, bold, scary and beautiful. The contrast between her small naked body and the roughness and desolation of these long forgotten places is particularly interesting. Quelques [...]
Check out what Aakash Nihalani does in the streets of New York City. It’s pretty awesome. All with sticky tape. Genius.