Lets all walk over and say hi
Portrait "of a Young Man" by Lorenzo Lotto, finished 1510, oil on wood, 42,3 x 35,8 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
This is a special and quite beautiful shot of the Museum of anthropology, Vancouver.
It had been designed by Canadian architect Arthur Charles Erickson and was finished in 1976.
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Architecture,
Photography
USSR liqueur bottle lava lamp
More than design objects with a brand I love their interpretations (aka plagiarisms) and even more than that I love DIY design stuff.
I got this lava lamp on Ebay for nothing and even though it looks well produced there was a certain something that seemed unusual.
I unscrewed it and the wax/liquid bottle says, at the bottom: "Liquer bottle made in USSR".
Proud owner!
Drink me...not
I don't know what photoshop processing hell came over me when I made this, but I felt challenged as it reminds of some perfume ad. In the end I thought: "It's green, it's glowing - how can it be wrong in any way!?" Also: its just a sketch for a drawing.
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Gay,
My Own Work,
Object
American mid-century columns
- A drawing of the main room of the Johnson Wax Building (1936, additions 1951) in Wisconsin, USA. Building
by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959), drawing by Hugh Ferriss (1889 – 1962, author of the book, Metropolis
of Tomorrow (1929), artist and architect). - Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma USA by Frank Wallace, 1963
- Conservatory of Music of the Oberlin College, Ohio, USA. Photo by Minoru Yamasaki, 1963
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Architecture,
Drawing,
Photography
Beton Brut stairway to heaven
I love you little tree, I love you atrium-like rooflight. Can I come up now?
Via the polish brutalizm thread (Click!)
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Architecture,
Brutalism
A lung of bismuth
The lungs of a pigeon got dissected by hardening it with alcohol and painting it with a mixture of metals, including Bismuth. The tissue got etched off afterwards. (From the catalogue of the scientific collection of Humboldt-Universität of Berlin)
Here is more bismuth in form of grown crystals:
Or, how Christopher (Lets all walk over and say "Hi" - AGE: 19; TOP MOVIES: Steve Zissou; Dr. Strangelove, anything with zombies in it; LIKES: stupid facts, apple juice and delicious food; CURRENT OBSESSIONS: World of Warcraft; ANYTHING ELSE?!: It's 1a.m and I have a class tomorrow at 9a.m) would say:
(Click to enlarge)
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EffectEffect,
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