It’s been a week since my last posting and posts are going to be few and far between for a while because LUCKY ME, I am going to write another book that has all the pieces it needs in place to make me very happy. My agent and principal buyer are on side and I [...]
For his student thesis project at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Thomas Hillier produced an immersive narrative world, complete with origami-filled hand-cut book pages and an elaborate model of the story’s architectural landscape. Hillier’s project was called The Emperor’s Castle and it was inspired by the work of Japanese printmaker Hiroshige.
The Emperor’s Castle originates from a mythical and [...]
“These are light refraction patterns or ‘caustics’ formed by a light beam passing through a shaped and textured plastic form. Colour is added into the clear plastic which modifies the way the plastic hardens further enhancing the patterns.The pattern is captured directly on to 35mm film by removing the camera lens and putting the transparent [...]
In the glory days of agricultural fairs, our own here in Vancouver (the Pacific National Exhibition) used to feature a craft competition among many other features, and one year I was absolutely blown away by one competitor’s entry: the entry was a large petit pointe of several small squares—each one a miniature quilt. What the [...]
There are indoor ones, outdoor ones, lots of round ones and some square ones, one inside a tree: spiral stairs have been a showy architectural feature for ages and this blog shows lots of them. Thanks to Neatorama.
I enjoy posting images that reveal the beauty of nature. Photos like these make me believe that the origins of our need to create art is to reflect the beauty we often see around us. Stan, on his blog TYWKIWDBI, seems to share my love of natural beauty. His blog is where I first saw [...]
According to comments attached to this video, this strange cloud formation could be something called a “fallstreak hole” formed from supercooled ice crystals that sink quickly through a warmer layer of clouds leaving a hole behind, also called a “hole punch cloud”. Undoubtedly, they are rare.
Video link. Thanks to Neatorama.
OMG, as Texters “say,” here is a blog to melt your heart. Hand-drawn infovisuals about everyday life. I love New York Times blogger, Christophe Niemann’s blog!
Thank you Julien and Information is Beautiful.
Vancouver, my home town, is Canada’s third largest city. We are a bilingual nation. thanks to Quebec. (Full disclosure: I was born with 100% Franco-Canadien blood.) But the bicultural nature of life in my city has always been its Sino-Caucasian character. Part of the culture of growing up in this city are chinese cuisine and [...]