I used to read articles in Popular Science as a kid that proclaimed we would one day have flexible, high definition televisions that we could drape on a wall. Well, my friends, we’re getting there. LG just put their 55″ Curved OLED TV on sale for $14,999. It’s a whole lot of cash, but also as cutting edge as it gets. And as with any technology, look for prices 1/10th of that in a handful of years. What do you get for 15k? A gently curved monolith with amazing color and efficiency, using OLED display technology. It also has all of the 3D, ‘smart’ features you’d expect. All of this in a package that is as thin as a pencil.
Adrift is a masterpiece of fog photography, and especially fitting, seeing as it’s my homebase city, and this site’s namesake. Simon Christen spent a number of years tracking down perfect instances of fog, and he has some beautiful shots of fog rolling like waves over the hills of the scenic Bay Area. Be sure to watch the video in its glorious high definition on Vimeo.
Progress is slow, but this week the Supreme Court made equality for this country’s gay community a little more within reach. And that’s a very good thing.
Photographer Gregory Boratyn has a surreal and fantastic portal to Antelope Canyon, in Arizona, through his color-manipulated images. The slot canyon is among the most photographed in the world, yet Boratyn brings the images new life with his dramatic warm and cool hues.
An Opera that is taking high-tech wizardry and turning it into an incredible storytelling tool. New York City Opera’s Moses in Egypt uses an enormous LED backdrop to change scenery, moods and expression in split-second fashion. Via FastCo Design:
“Often, people’s expectations allow them to be too passive because they think they know what to expect–and many productions don’t go beyond those expectations,” Counts tells Co.Design. “I think there needs to be a sense of mystery and uncertainty in a production like this to fully engage the audience.”
FastCo Design has a look at cell phone towers disguised as trees in Capetown. Photographer Dillon Marsh documents them in a series he calls Invasive Species. Personally, I think it’s a noble effort, if a bit silly. What do you think? Is this manmade artifice clever, or just a waste of time?
A house in France known as GUE(HO)ST HOUSE makes new inroads into bizarre and stand-out architecture. Not sure if we like it, but it sure is hard to miss! Looks like someone spilled a whole lot of Wite-Out. Via DM.
Though there’s an American verion of Holi, it’s always good to know the celebration started long, long ago in India. The Holi celebrations in India is held every year in the spring to commemorate good harvests and the fertile land. Via the AP and Yahoo:
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If you’ve ever been to a touristed cave, you might have noticed the human architecture that sometimes pops up in these unique and bizarre spots. The Morning News interviews photographer Austin Irving as she presents a new and idiosyncratic look at caves.
The project came about very organically. In 2008 and again in 2009 I had an amazing opportunity to travel throughout Southeast Asia with my large format camera. I am extremely inspired by that part of the world: the architecture, the plant life, the tourist attractions. When I got back to the States and started scanning and organizing all my negatives, I realized that I had been attracted to and photographed a lot of caves. I then became interested in this idea of a “show cave.” These are natural caves managed by government or commercial organizations that have been modified to accommodate tourism.
Next I started to wonder how American show caves compared to the ones that I had visited and photographed in Viet Nam, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. Since returning from Southeast Asia, I have been intentionally seeking out caves to shoot. The caves I focus on have been modified to accommodate tourism—if the hand of man is present, I will for sure have something to photograph.
What’s so awesome about American caves is that there are so many of them! Each state has at least three or four caves to visit; truck stops, information stations at motels, and camp sites all have pamphlets boasting about some incredible cave that you have to see. “Come see the Cave of Wonders!” “Don’t miss the Endless Caverns!” I’ve done a lot of research and have a long list of caves I still need to photograph. I’m thinking Kentucky is next on my list. I’ve heard that there is a really weird underground picnic area in Mammoth Cave that I’m really going to need to get.
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The home of Bob Hope. Designed by John Lautner. 23,000 square feet. One-of-a-kind. All of this adds up to one hell of a home, and one that is now on the market for 50 million dollars. Quite a spot, and one that harkens back to the glory days of old Hollywood, in classic over-the-top fashion. Via FastCo Design:
DesignBoom has a great look at the work of Craig and Karl, two fantastically creative designers originally from Australia, now working in New York and London.
A fun design and architecture project, Windows of New York is a weekly project by Jose Guizar.
Via the artist: A product of countless steps of journey through the city streets, this is a collection of windows that somehow have caught my restless eye out from the never-ending buzz of the city. This project is part an ode to architecture and part a self-challenge to never stop looking up.
U.S.A. (burnt/unburnt) is a 2011 installation by Paris-based artist Claire Fontaine constructed from thousands of green matches that were inserted into a wall at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art as part art of “Evidence of Bricks” at the 2011 Time-Based Art Festival. Fontaine has made somewhat of a name for herself with her match installations and flaminggeography, most recently completing a similar U.S.A. map at Queens Nails Gallery in San Francisco. Unlike the installation in Portland above, the Queens Nails artwork was actually set on fire, and while it may not have gone exactly as intended, the final post-flame artwork is impressive nonetheless. Photographs above for PICA by Dan Kvitka.
This gorgeous time-lapse by filmmaker Jamie Scott starts off like any other video capturing the change of the seasons with the movement of the sun, but then around :30 something pretty remarkable happens. To create the effect Scott filmed in 15 locations around New York City’s Central Park, two times a week, for six months using the exact same tripod and camera lens settings resulting in the footage you see here. (via jason sondhi)
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