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08 Nov 07:39

Sunday, November 08, 2015

Sofía Henao

@David Pelaez (aunque creo que no lo entendí... stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye)

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 08, 2015
28 Oct 11:19

George Miller recibirá premio en San Sebastián por "Mad Max"

Sofía Henao

@David Pelaez. Tocó vérsela... Yo ya la tengo por aquí :P

El director australiano George Miller recogerá el premio Fipresci 2015 a la mejor película del año en el Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián por su cinta "Mad Max: fury road", informó este martes la organización del evento.

"Mad Max: Fury Road (Mad Max: Furia en el camino) ha sido elegida como la mejor película por los miembros de la Federación Internacional de Críticos de Cine, FIPRESCI", anunció el certamen, que se celebrará del 18 al 26 de septiembre en esa ciudad vasca.

"¡No salgo de mi asombro! Es maravilloso que este gran grupo de críticos reconozca de esta forma nuestro esfuerzo colectivo", afirmó Miller citado en el comunicado.

El director australiano recibirá el galardón en la gala inaugural del Festival el próximo día 18, uniéndose a una nómina de cineastas que integran nombres como Pedro Almodóvar o Jean-Luc Godard, desde su creación en 1999.

"Mad Max: Fury Road", que se presentó en mayo pasado en la sección oficial fuera de concurso del Festival de Cannes, volvió a traer a la gran pantalla al héroe que se mueve por un panorama apocalíptico y cuya primera versión, protagonizada por Mel Gibson, dirigió el propio Miller en 1979.

En esta nueva entrega, Mad Max, encarnado por Tom Hardy, y la Emperatriz Furiosa, que interpreta Charlize Theron, se enfrentan a Immortan Joe, un señor de la guerra que los persigue. (Video Charlize Theron y Tom Hardy explican la reinvención de "Mad Max"). 










02 Oct 11:41

A New Book Celebrates the 200 Most Beautiful and Innovative Cabins Ever Designed

by Kate Sierzputowski
Sofía Henao

@Davvis Pelaez

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Built as retreats for solitude and reflection, cabins are typically found in remote areas, tucked into the forest-filled corners of civilization. Due to their remote nature, they are often secreted from the public eye, unless you know the right path to explore. However, as a group of friends (including co-founder of Vimeo, Zach Klein) began to collect inspiration for cabin building projects, they discovered a vast array of outdoor structures and tree-houses with unique architecture on the backroads of America and around the world. They quickly began to document their discoveries online, and the Cabin Porn site was born.

Cabin Porn grew over the course of six years to amass a following of over 350,000 on Tumblr and became a visual bastion for architects, camping aficionados, and anyone craving an escape with a collection of over 12,000 cabin designs. The site has now been transformed into a printed book by the same name, Cabin Porn, a collection that adds narrative to the spaces first documented online to include interior photography, new homes, and advice from cabin makers that touch on subjects from how to live underground to crafting an off-grid bunkhouse.

The book narrows down its sprawling inspiration to just 200 cabins and hopes to not only present the aesthetic of these cabins, but the feel they elicit in their construction. “Inside each of us is a home ready to be built,” says the book’s website. “It takes a supply of ambition and materials to construct a cabin, but the reward is handsome: a shelter for yourself somewhere quiet, and a place to offer warm hospitality to friends.”

Cabin Porn can now be found on Amazon. Take a peek inside the book, and watch a lovely trailer below.

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01 Oct 06:23

The Ornate Mosaics and Colorful Tiles of Parisian Floors Shared Through Photographer Sebastian Erras’ Instagram Account

by Kate Sierzputowski

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Photographer Sebastian Erras‘s Paris-based project has only one perspective—down. This vantage however, never fails to delight as it is captures the ornate mosaics of Parisian floors, brightly patterned tiles and scenes that exist underfoot. Each shot within Parisian Floors (@parisianfloors) is uniform, a cropped image of Erras’s own shoes and the surrounding tile decorations. This repetitive shot ensures we keep our focus on the tiles, highlighting the exquisite forms that make their way below the photographer’s feet.

Inspiration for the project began when Erras took a trip to Morocco, bringing his love of mosaics back with him to France. Here he became aware of the beautiful floors that graced Paris, coming back to the city with a fresh eye to start his Instagram-focused project.

“After a while being in Paris and wandering around the city, the main attractions and sights become a given,” Erras told Colossal. “Now looking down more often I get to see a whole new side of this city! It has been a good motivation to rediscover Paris again.”

Placing the project on Instagram also allows Erras to map the city of Paris through geotags, building comprehensive map of images and allowing the photographer to see which areas of the city he has yet to discover. (via My Modern Met)

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14 Sep 09:30

writingbox: A very useful demonstration of the importance of...

Sofía Henao

@David Pelaez



writingbox:

A very useful demonstration of the importance of sentence length.

09 Sep 21:04

Bamboo Brilliance

by Sarang Sheth

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They say that if you spend 10,000 hours practicing something, you can perfect it. That’s all that comes to mind when I look at Taiwanese Designer Cheng-Tsung Feng’s work with bamboo. In its modern design style lies age old practices. The kind that absolutely glorify Bamboo as not just a material, but also a source of inspiration.

Cheng-Tsung Feng learnt to work with bamboo traditionally, in the old craftsmanship style. This, along with his young age and relatively fresh outlook on life resulted in a a stunning merge between traditional material treatment and modern aesthetic and application.

If you’re as gobsmacked as I am, and you happen to be in Paris, drop by the exhibition in Maison and Objet to check out Cheng-Tsung’s work. I guarantee you’ll never look at bamboo the same way again!

Designer: Cheng-Tsung Feng

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09 Sep 04:06

on such days like today (dark, chilly, melancholy, windy, stormy, cloudy, and rainy as hell) I...

Sofía Henao

@David Pelaez, aunque también le aplica a Juan Pablo Salazar :P

on such days like today (dark, chilly, melancholy, windy, stormy, cloudy, and rainy as hell) I understand why I chose to study translation. nothing cheers me up better than the thought that one day maybe won’t really need to go out on such days, because all I’d need will be my computer, my sweatpants, and a cup of coffee. 

08 Sep 12:59

Baby Burrito Swaddle Blanket

Sofía Henao

@Juan Pablo Salazar

04 Sep 10:29

languagesarerad: when everyone around you is speaking a language you don’t know and you are like I...

Sofía Henao

Current state

languagesarerad:

when everyone around you is speaking a language you don’t know and you are like I WANT TO PLAY TOO

02 Sep 16:38

Source: @BahnAnsagen Twitter account.



Source: @BahnAnsagen Twitter account.

31 Aug 21:01

Portraits reveal a desire for human connection;a desire so...


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Portraits reveal a desire for human connection;
a desire so strong that people who know they will never see me again
open themselves to the camera,  all in the hope that at the other end
someone will be watching, someone who will laugh or suffer with them.

For more portraits please visit our Wordpress blog:
https://stevemccurry.wordpress.com/2015/08/30/portraits/

27 Aug 20:23

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sandandglass:

Last Week Tonight s02e19

27 Aug 05:10

Volcano

by Leticia Roncero
Sofía Henao

@David Peláez

27 Aug 05:07

Star Wars vs WWII Print Set


by Dobis
25 Aug 07:05

Extracting beauty from the mundane: Wouter Rietberg

by Leticia Roncero

When you look at the mundane patterns in the world, are you able to extract a dynamic view or do you look the other way? For Wouter Rietberg, even the most quotidian aspect of a gray city turns into a vivid pastiche of angles and photographic elements.

Wouter is a software engineer and photographer from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He says he didn’t get interested in photography until a few years ago, when he bought a camera with manual settings for a trip to the United States. Later on, he bought a DSLR and a few lenses and started trying out different kinds of shots: flowers, macros, landscapes…

“The walks to and from work grew longer and longer because of all the photographic detours, and I started to do proper photo walks in and around the city,” he said. “My focus started to move towards geometry and minimalism. And now, I don’t leave the house without my camera.”

When it comes to taking photos, Wouter doesn’t follow any particular processes: “I found that when looking for a specific shot, I’m far less likely to find something good than when I just go with it.”

He selects an urban area and tries to find interesting aspects to shoot: “I regularly get stares or questions from people: ‘Why are you shooting those ugly buildings?’ or ‘There’s a beautiful old church around the corner, why are you looking at this garage door?’ I guess I enjoy trying to find something interesting in mundane or downright ugly objects more than shooting beautiful stuff.”

Whenever he wants to discover a new place, he just opens Google Street View to get an idea of the location, grabs a bike and wanders around the spot trying to find more interesting subjects. “I also revisit places to improve already-taken shots, or to visit on a different time of the day to get different lighting conditions.”

Wouter uses a 70-200 f4 lens, which allows him to get close enough to the objects he wants to shoot. “I like details on the pixel level, and I want to keep the end result image as large as possible, so I try to crop as little as possible,” he said. In the composition side of photography, Wouter declares himself a big fan of the rule of thirds. “I’m a bit of a pedant, so I use a nice script in Photoshop, called Golden Crop. It draws an overlay with the lines, diagonals and golden ratio spirals,” he said.

The patterns in his photostream mix and match in a very particular way, but Wouter says this is because his shots have all a similar theme: lines. “Most of the time I upload an image that has some link to the previous one, or at least don’t clash with each other. Unless it’s one of those awful ‘eye hurters.’”

In addition to patterns, Wouter enjoys photos of landscapes, minimalism and “urban ugliness”, as he calls it. Anything that is geometric and doesn’t involve people. “I don’t like portraits, or street photography. I can admire the quality or craftsmanship, but I can’t connect with the image.”

Wouter has been on Flickr since 2007, and he is a member of a few groups, like Cream me! “Most of the members know each other in real life, and all are long-time Flickr members, so the critiques can be long and painful, or just short and blunt, but always helpful and sincere.” He also mentions Bitches Brew as a source of inspiration: “It’s filled with strange abstracts, beautiful minimalism, and downright strange stuff. And most importantly: No people!”

Aside from these Flickr groups, Wouter finds inspiration in a few other things, like the work of graphic artist M. C. Escher, or the architecture of “normal buildings,” he said. “Not the high-end buildings by the big names, but the day-to-day stuff designed by nameless people. From a distance, those buildings might look uninteresting and often ugly, but if you look more closely there are often interesting symmetries or geometrical discrepancies.”

Be sure to check out Wouter’s Flickr photostream for more patterns and figures.


25 Aug 07:03

Fashion Illustrations with Embroidered Accents and Accessories by Izziyana Suhaimi

by Christopher Jobson

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Singapore-based artist Izziyana Suhaimi introduces embroidered accents to her carefully rendered pencil and watercolor illustrations. Patterns of flowers unfold much like a tapestry across the paper canvas creating pieces she refers to as “evidence of the hand and of time.” For her series The Looms in Our Bones Suhaimi focuses mostly on fashion acessories where scarves, hats, and other clothing is depicted in thread, while she also uses the same techniques for more abstract shapes and designs. From her artist statement:

Embroidery for me is a quiet and still act, where each stitch represents a moment passed. The building of stitches then becomes a representation of time passing and the final work is like a physical manifestation of time – a time object. Each stitch is also a recording of the maker’s thoughts and emotions. I enjoy the duality of embroidery, in its movements of stabbing, cutting, covering, building, repairing, taking apart. Every stitch made seems to unfold a story and withhold it at the same time.

You can see much more of Suhaimi’s work here. (via Fubiz)

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23 Aug 05:59

teacupthesauceror: inferrance: blazepress: These are pictures...



teacupthesauceror:

inferrance:

blazepress:

These are pictures of different dried human tears. Grief, laughter, onion and change. Each type has a different chemical makeup which makes them appear different.

i would like to view my dried tears then so maybe ill know why tf im always crying

The four basic human emotions: grief, laughter, onion and change

18 Jul 10:20

nickmillerturtleface: I am George, George is me.





nickmillerturtleface:

I am George, George is me.

14 Jul 06:42

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29 Jun 05:17

montt en dosis diarias - #19

by noreply@blogger.com (montt)

26 Jun 10:08

And If I want to find the song “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac I...













And If I want to find the song “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac I have to remember that I bought it for someone in the fall of 1983 pile, but didn’t give it to them for personal reasons.

26 Jun 05:29

http://ffffound.com/image/2cf10aef3850b4e7e90baba942f47e5ac81fc4cb

by rkn
07 Jun 17:05

ErgoCloud Deluxe Beach Lounger

Sofía Henao

Algún día... Algún día...

15 May 09:41

Monsoon

by Blog Import
Sofía Henao

"During the year I spent following the monsoon in a dozen countries, I learned to see it as a critically important event, and not the disaster it had first seemed to my Western eyes."

Rajasthan, IndiaFor months there is no rain, and then there is too much.
Half the world’s people survive at the whim of the monsoon.

Bihar, India
I was eleven years old when I saw a photo essay on the monsoon in India in Life Magazine by Brian Brake, the New Zealand-born Magnum photographer. His work established his reputation as a master color photo essayist. Twenty years later, I proposed a story to National Geographic to photograph the monsoon.

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Monsoon History
by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
The air is wet, soaks
into mattresses, and curls
In apparitions of smoke,
Like fat white slugs furled
Among the timber
Or silver fish tunnelling
The damp linen covers
Of schoolbooks, or walking
Quietly like centipedes,
The air walking everywhere
On its hundred feet
Is filled with the glare
Of tropical water.
Again we are taken over
By clouds and rolling darkness.
Small snails appear
Clashing their timid horns
Among the morning glory
Vines.

Porbandar, India

Porbandar, India
The rains fall on one horn of the buffalo, and not on the other.
-Indian Proverb

Rajasthan, IndiaLast Night the Rain Spoke to Me
by Mary Oliver 
Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling
out of the brisk cloud,
to be happy again
in a new way
on the earth!

Bojonegoro, Java, Indonesia

Bagmati River, Kathmandu, NepalDuring the year I spent following the monsoon in a dozen countries, I learned to see it as a critically important event, 
and not the disaster it had first seemed to my Western eyes. 

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Rain is grace;
Rain is the sky descending to the earth …
– John Updike

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Sulawesi, Indonesia
Farmers experience the monsoon as an almost religious experience as they watch their fields come back to life after being parched for half the year. 

 

Varanasi, India
For half the world’s people, good monsoons, those rain-bearing winds of
Asia and the Subcontinent,  mean life and prosperity.
Poor ones are marked by famine and death.

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Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Only He shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes out the winds.
He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain.
He does all those things.
– Michael Servetus (1511-1553)
Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer

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13 May 05:27

MONSOONFor months there is no rain, and then there is too...


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MONSOON

For months there is no rain, and then there is too much.
Half the world’s people survive at the whim of the monsoon. 
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From These Hands, published by Phaidon Press, will be released on
May 6. From the foothills of the Andes to the slopes of Kilimanjaro, images document the realities of life for the people working at the source of this familiar commodity - coffee.

See our other blog on the monsoon:
http://www.stevemccurry.wordpress.com

02 Apr 13:14

Episode 3: When Knowledge Conquered Fear, Cosmos: A SpaceTime...















Episode 3: When Knowledge Conquered Fear, Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey
24 Mar 03:14

(tweet via dyldonot)

Sofía Henao

I usually said something like: "when you grow up you'll find out there are worst thing in life to cry about" :P (moms usually don't like it)



(tweet via dyldonot)

21 Mar 22:28

Pavlov’s Tongue

by The Awkward Yeti
Sofía Henao

David...

Pavlov's Tongue

21 Mar 18:43

otfilms:"When I was young, I invented an invisible friend called...



otfilms:

"When I was young, I invented an invisible friend called Mr Ravioli. My psychiatrist says I don’t need him anymore, so he just sits in the corner and reads."

Mary and Max (2009)