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Loving this set of photos Parker Fitzgerald shot for Kinfolk. Flowers have never looked so edible. More below!

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“Placements” (2008)

A lovely photo series by artist Julianne Swartz.

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Jaws knife sharpener is a cool mix of simplicity, practicality, usefulness and good humor. It’s another great product from creative studio Propaganda. Just slide your knife through “Jaws” mouth to sharpen, the bottom is designed with anti-slip material to keep it stabilized while you use it. The friendly sharpener costs $25, you can get it [...]

What does the world’s sexiest ice cream look like? Like Bardot Ice Cream, that’s what. When venerable branding agency Landor Associates were tasked with creating the visual identity for a Mexican boutique ice cream maker, they “crafted a name, identity, and design system that conveys the unparalleled decadence of the product, creating a sense of luxury, sensuality, and desire.” Which would explain flavors like Forbidden Fruit, French Kiss, Heart of Darkness, and Acapulco Love. Oh, and this meltingly beautiful packaging!

Images: The Dieline, Psssst

 

Digital artist Zach Dougherty takes classical Greek statues and then digitizes them into glitchy, geometric GIFs. These are a few of my favorites but you can see more over on his Tumblr, Hateplow.

“Museum Anatomy is a collection of documentary photographs of works from museums around the world that have been recreated onto the human body.  The artwork goes through a significant process until reaching the final outcome, a photograph of Chadwick, sometimes unrecognizable as a human form, with an elaborate, detailed painting covering a portion of his body.  The recreated paintings of these historic portraits recapture the subjects in their own moment in history. The resulting photographs reveal a unification of art combining antiquity, history and technology in a contemporary context.”

 

Today we want to show you two things at once: ring and sculptures. The author is Rebecca Rose. She creates unique rings-sculptures. "My methods involve a process called kit bashing, where I assemble found and burnable objects reminiscent of childhood toys, game pieces, organic materials, and imported miniatures in order to convey a narrative or [...]

Anna Eftimie utilise un tableau noir sur lequel elle dessine à la craie et imagine de jolies mises en scènes en posant un nouveau-né à un endroit précis.

There are many small, compact, hassle-free humidifiers out there, but Portable Amazing Humidifier looks like really convenient. When you travel a lot, you might want to use this humidifier to keep you from drying out in your hotel room with the help from this USB humidifier and a water bottle. You can also keep one in your car when the air is dry from heater or air conditioner.

Made in Korea, Amazing Humidifier offers you a tiny device (7cm diameter and a total weight of 75g) that you can use with most water bottle, powered by your laptop or any smartphone with USB cable. So basically, you can use it if you have your smartphone and a water bottle near you.

Each unit comes with 2 filters (each filter is 4.7-inch long and can be used up to 3 months), simply place the filter onto the main unit and place it on top of the water bottle. Plug the cable to your laptop and it starts to draw the water from the bottle and emits into the air as vapor. After 8 hours of use, it will automatically turns off, you need to refill the water and reconnect. You won’t hear irritating noise when this device runs. When not in use, please unplug the device from the cable and dry the filter under the sun. [Buy It Here]

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Toronto-based graphic designer and photographer Marc Ghali cleverly mashed up faces of famous personalities from past and present in the most freakily seamless way with his Then & Now project. James Dean somewhat lives on in Brad Pitt, while Princess Diana somewhat lives on in Kate Middleton — it’s like whoever lived in the past went on to live on in the lives of their present-day counterparts.

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01 ∣ People

02 ∣ Transport

03 ∣ Structures

04 ∣ Life

 

I just got back from a trip to Tokyo, my favorite city to visit. I will resume my photos from Seoul after I share my observations from Tokyo. This will be a five part series. The theme of Part 1 is "People".

 

  

At Shibuya station. They are lucky to have such a graphically elegant language.

Catching the Narita Express.

An attendant readies a train to leave Yoyogi station.

Control panel of a JR subway. Many Japanese subways have clear windows into the cockpit.

Subway passengers.

I've never seen so many commuters reading books. There are more passengers with phones/tablets but a good 30% read actual paper books.

Shinjuku station.

Typical exit signage of subway stations.

Harajuku station at peak hour.

By Muji Harajuku.

Construction workers in uniform.

I couldn't decide what to eat so I followed these guys. The only bad thing I've had in Tokyo.

Students in uniform. 

Tokyo police. They didn't mind me photographing their cars and vans.

Notice the lights that rise when necessary. Ideal in Tokyo traffic.

At Omotesando Hills, a beautiful shopping complex designed by Tadao Ando.

Waiting by the restrooms at Omotesando Hills.

Shoppers in Harajuku.

People of Harajuku have the strangest fashion.

Tokyo is apparently a candidate for the 2020 Olympics.

Reading the directory at a mall in Roppongi. 

People attending a cooking class in Roppongi.

Tokyo has more smokers than any city I've visited. Smoking rooms in malls are exquisite in result. 

Waiting in line for 21_21 Design Sight, a design museum in Roppongi.
 

21_21. Part 5 will cover the museum in its entirety. 

Buying pens at Ginza.

A man repairing a fountain pen. I enjoyed how the Japanese like to preserve as much as progress.

Ginza foot traffic. 

I was half lost and stumbled upon Yasukuni shrine.

Business men leaving after a moment of serenity at Yasukuni shrine.

Visitors purifying their hands and mouth at Daijingu shrine.

Visitors to Nakamise, one of the oldest shopping centers in Japan.

A Nakamise shop owner.

A Buddhist monk begging in Nakamise - apparently a part of the training in some sects.

Children looking at toys in Nakamise.

Visitors entering a Kichijōji shopping center.

Satou at Kichijōji. Expect long lines for their delicious fried meat balls.

Waiting to cross at Shibuya.

The great Shibuya crossing.

From the other side.

A flagship Starbucks store at the crossing.

Vistors and an attendant at the Yokohama Nissan Gallery.

 

mockingwords:

• there is a sustainable treehouse community
• in the middle of the costa rican rainforest
• people can zipline from house to house
• they have wi-fi ARE YOU SHITTING ME WHY DON’T I LIVE THERE RIGHT NOW

Coup de cœur pour l’artiste polonais Michal Karcz qui utilise à merveille les retouches photographiques pour détourner, modifier et transformer ses clichés en captures de mondes imaginaires. D’une très grande qualité, une large sélection d’images est à retrouver sur son portfolio et dans la suite de l’article.

Le photographe français Julien Coquentin nous emmène pour une excursion très poétique dans les rues de Montréal au travers de sa série « Tôt un Dimanche Matin ». Quotidiennement, il a apprivoisé la ville au travers de son objectif, nous offrant des clichés d’une sensibilité admirable.

Amoureux de Vespa, les équipes de l’agence créative parisienne Nomoon ont décidé de consacrer une jolie vidéo d’animation en l’honneur des différents modèles de la marque Piaggio & Co. Une jolie rétrospective allant de 1943 à 2013 appelée « Vespalogy » à découvrir dans la suite.

Focus sur les clichés du photographe autrichien Matthias Paul Hempt nous font entrer dans un monde à l’atmosphère légère et diffuse, dont les couleurs semblent parfois irréelles. Une très belle série de photographies à découvrir en images dans la galerie et dans la suite de l’article.

Education for young women is a pretty precious thing in Kibera. Free access to secondary education is not guaranteed in Kenya, especially for girls. Patriarchy is still a dominant force there, so it is not a priority for families to pay to educate a girl, especially if they have any boys that also need schooling. Instead, many young women are married off, become indentured servants in wealthy households, or are forced by circumstances into sex work.

A Kiberan man named Abdul Kassim founded KGSA in 2006 to provide women with a free secondary education and a safe place to learn and grow. The school is the first of its kind in Kibera. It’s a completely grassroots organization. Since it’s founding, it now educates some 120 students annually; some students have been able to go on to the University or vocational training, beginning to break the cycle of poverty that has trapped them and their families.—Jake Naughton

Washington DC-based photographer Jake Naughton shot his series on the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy last year in Kenya. Earlier, he had visited the school during a period of three years in a study-abroad program and was then invited back as a volunteer to assist in projects for the school. The resulting photographs came out of his close relationship with the community.

Feature Shoot Contributing Editor Carolyn Rauch is the Deputy Director of Photography at Newsweek.

Luxury Pavilions Blending in With Sea Waters: Qualia Resort in Australia

The sound of the surf on the beach quirk public, and rode on the waves of the Virgin softah, high heels when driving.

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Su Ami, a family run business from Vietnam, creates beautiful and cute crocheted animals, some of which measure only 1/4 of an inch! The little manufacture consists of 5 crocheters and is named after the nick name of the youngest member of the family, whose love for movie characters and various animals gave the idea for the business. The tiny creations are incredibly detailed, with whales actually spitting water out of their backs and macro-sized penguins wearing differently colored scarves. Wonder what the creation process looks like!

Website: etsy

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3. Miniature Body Part Jewelry by Percy Lau

Miniature Crocheted Animals by Su Ami originally appeared on DeMilked on June 11, 2013.

Indiana-based photographer Jon Smith invites everyone to the fascinating world of high speed photography with his colorful series of exploding light bulbs. Jon fills them with various objects such as feathers, beads, candies, beer caps or layered sand, and the shoots them making everything explode.

“People see and use light bulbs every day. They’re something we don’t pay attention to. By shooting them, having them explode and filling them with different materials creates an interesting juxtaposition that I’m really drawn to,” says Jon, also known as WideEyedIlluminations. Be sure to check out his other works as well!

Website: flickr, facebook

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High Speed Photos of Exploding Light Bulbs originally appeared on DeMilked on June 18, 2013.