My wife loves white bread and baguettes inhabit a special part of her heart. This might be something I will have to invest in...
Link: Huge hidden pay phone burial ground in NYC →
This collection of images show where pay phones are put to rest in New York City. I am old enough to remember seeing pay phones, but too young to actually have relied on them.
Link: Aerial Beach Photographs by Gray Malin →
The photos in the blog post remind of a photograph I got when I was in high school, from a Brazilian photographer doing an exchange in Nuuk. I was given a photograph where the joyfulness of the many colors and the blandness of the sand of the beaches create a beautiful photo, these photos repeat those same tones and make them truly enjoyable to look at.
Link: The Art of Being in the Right Place at the Right Time →
I like this photo.
Link: Street Art from ROA →
One thing that I miss living in western Canada is the street art of Danish cities like Aarhus and Copenhangen is street art. There are a few pieces around the cities where there are tags and posters, but there are not very many places where you consistently can find street art.
A favorite street artist of mine is ROA, who has made some incredible pieces - all of them have some kind of animal motifs. There is little color involved in his pieces and most of them are incredibly detailed.
ROA on why does animals in his pieces:
.. I am obsessed by animals! For me they tell so much more about this world then any other creature ...
Here is a collection of work by ROA on unurth.com or you can go to the tumblr associated with ROA
Link: Things Come Apart →
Much like the Ikea Cookbook, Todd McLellan's book "Things Come Apart" shows how what everyday things look like when they are broken down to their elements. The book seems to be a pretty amazing work of art.
Link: Everyday I Show →
I found the blog 'Everyday I Show' from Booooooom (a site that consistently delivers great content) today. I love the collection of very honest photography and the way that pictures on the blog are able to humanize the subjects.
I found the pictures by Paul Meleschnig to be especially amazing. Like the one featured.
Link: Vertical Horizons of Hong Kong →
Romain Jacquet-Lagreze's pictures of the density of buildings of Hong Kong show how these same buildings to create a sort of kaleidoscope, where the buildings become the frame for the sky. He describes the pictures in his book as:
a photographic journey between the buildings of a relentlessly growing city. It is a deep immersion into the city's thick atmospheres and a visual record of its wildly diverse built environment. This book is like a contemplative dive into the raw nature of Hong Kong and an expression of its vertical elan.
Link: Cell Phone Towers as Trees →
Kottke posted an image of cell phone towers disguised as tress. It is amazing that we are going out our way to make sure that we as humans feel safe in our surroundings and trying to disguise things that we depend on. I think that it is important that we beautify our surroundings and things like cell phone towers should be disguised, but we should make sure they don't look weird.
This reminds me of urban drilling in cities like Los Angeles , where the oil and gas companies are able to drill where there are people and can use the newest technology (like directional drilling) to make their operations more safe.