the tree and the ice

These are two powerfully illustrated catastrophe scenarios by WWF.
The message is simple and immediate:
If the tree falls we all fall/ if the ice falls we all fall.

pictures taken from here

Territories

ING, Puma and Lacoste logos placed on various locations in The Netherlands. By Artist Helmut Smits.

smart dressed

spotted in Rome

on human stupidity

‘Based on recently revised estimates, BP’s ruptured oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico continues to leak 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil a day (…) Despite apparent efforts to restrict journalists from accessing affected areas, stories, video and photographs continue to emerge.’

via boston.com

below the surface

The underwater project by documentary photographer Mark Tipple. Pictures without watermark found here.

‘Yeah, but is it art, Eddie?’

Sam3‘s installation ‘bust’

”Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history

has so much been used by so many to say so little.” Banksy

past meets future II

AT- AT Walker at the second World War

path prints

A series of prints  from  Reas,  documenting the movement of synthetic neural systems.

generations of love

Anna James‘s projects Romeo & Juliet and Verona are inspired by the graffiti covering the walls of Casa di Giulietta (Juliet’s house in Verona)

self-folding origami

Harvard’s Robert Wood and colleagues created this self-folding origami: it’s made out of paper edged with actuators that can be programmed to automatically (and spookily) fold the sheet into simple origami forms. They propose that this might be used to create paper cups that resize themselves depending on the amount beverage you want to put in them.

via boigboing

my shit is gold / vol.1

London photographer Paul Herbst on himself:

“I want google and other search engines to show the link to this photoblog by me, Paul Herbst. So the only way I can make this happen is to type my name for many times. Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul HerbstHerbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst Paul Herbst.

Taken from his blog my-shit-is-gold.blogspot.com. You can check and order his zine here.

futures

Zero 7 – Futures (feat. José Gonzales). Made by artist Robert Seidel based in Jena, Germany. More of his work, here.

Holiday Horrors

Vintage New York under attack, from Anthony Hibbert‘s portfolio @ Behance Network.

1105@23rdAvenueSouth.Seattle

1105dwell, designed/built by Dwell Development.

more pics here, sales info & floor plans here

architect’s dream landscape

A series of pictures depicting the ideal place of an architect’s vacations: a mix of brutal architecture and impressive landscapes. We are sure that more pleasures are hidden behind the concrete masses.

The dream is provided by Nicolas Moulin (click to view his portfolio)

ok this one is a bit more urban than the rest but it remains an architect’s dream landscape

pictures taken from here and here

osseous transformations

If everything goes for sculpting material why not bones? Ioana Iliesiu transforms the osseous tissue from the interior, playing with the DNA concept.

The morfogenic scenarios include  immigrants trying  to conceal their identities and construct new ones, self mutilation, transplanting heterotopic bone data and digital gluttony.