Featured Blog Posts – March 2012 Archive (163)

It doesn’t look much like a traditional sari, but this is the Louis Vuitton limited edition Sari Dress by Marc Jacobs. These gorgeous ready-to-wear sari dresses use vintage sari material sourced from New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Madras and other cities in India. The company says the pieces form a collective tribute to the country's long tradition of craftsmanship and splendorous…

Aaron Kizer, notably known for his Steve Jobs speed painting and…

The Wilderness Downtown is an amazing "Chrome experiment" that uses some of the new capabilities in HTML5 to present you with an interactive piece that may leave you pensively reminiscing about youthful sprints through your old neighborhood.

It also presents us with a very fascinating look at what can be done…

With the London 2012 Olympics fast-approaching, innovative designs for the gargantuan spectacle are slowly being unveiled. One architectural highlight of the massive event is The Coca-Cola Beatbox, an interactive stage. Designed by Pernilla & Asif, the joint effort of emerging London architects…

In their series titled Headshots, French artist collective Hello I'm Wild questions how different life would be if we allowed our inner child to dictate our daily activities. The creative duo behind the project, Caroline Sauvage and Marion Audefray, used their expertise in graphic design and photography to birth this series into a realm of believability.…

The Ritz Paris is set to close for renovations, but before it does, the famed hotel welcomed a photo shoot for Vogue Magazine with model Kate Moss. The extravagant photo spread, shot by British fashion photographer Tim Walker, features the grandeur architecture and design of the establishment while…

Brooklyn-based artist Matt Schwartz, founder of She Hit Pause Studios, has been photographing with Polaroids for the past eight years. The studio name stems from his idea that each photograph is a way of hitting pause on a moment forever, and he does just that in this retro series Girls & Dreams. In the images, Schwartz captures women in sweet and nostalgic moments that feel…

Spring is upon us! The flowers are in bloom, the trees are blossoming, and my allergies are at an all time high. After a gloomy winter here on the east coast, it’s exciting to spend more time outside in the sunshine and warmer weather. Every year in Washington, DC, the city celebrates spring with the Cherry Blossom Festival. The event is described on the website as a…

By cutting, reconfiguring, and layering images, artist Rusty Scruby produces his 3D photo-based works. The three-dimensional photographic reconstructions utilize multiple copies of the same image to display the shot in a new, transformed way. The idea is to take a fully constructed visual, break it down, and rebuild it. It holds new meaning and offers a…

Legendary TV host Dick Clark and his wife are selling their home in Malibu for $3.5 million. Normally, a celebrity selling a piece of real estate in California is nothing to write about, but, in this case, it's nearly impossible not to share images of the media tycoon's Flintstones-inspired house. Based on the classic 60's…

LA-based photographer Dave Hill combines two things that I absolutely love: music and photography. His black and white series of popular and contemporary artists in the entertainment industry is really impressive. By “getting back to the kind of photography that got [him] started in the first place—shooting black and white…

The Wakhan corridor located in the northeastern corner of Afghanistan, is a less-traveled region by foreigners. French photographers Fabrice Nadjari and Cedric Houin (aka Varial) decided to journey off to the remote district because of their growing fascination with the country, further heightened by…

At first it seems like these images by Spanish photographer Pep Ventosa are very quickly sketched line drawings of highly visited tourist locations. However, don’t be fooled! The Collective Snapshot is actually a series of photographs where images “blend together dozens of snapshots to create an abstraction…

Maskull Lasserre has brought new life, or death in this case, to old computer manuals with his amazingly intricate sculpture of a human skull. Lasserre's work explores "the unexpected potential of the everyday through allegories of value, expectation, and utility."

The emergence of the skull figure from these books is definitely unexpected, yet seems appropriate at the same time. He…

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There is no way for me to express how much I love illustrator and web designer Chris Gerringer's series titled I Know That Feel, Bro. The series of illustrations, which echo the artist's great sense of humor, follow the basic template of placing two subjects, often fictional pop culture characters, side-by-side,…

Japanese artist Shinji Ohmaki transforms an ordinary room into a flowery dream. Using pigments, felt, nonflammable cloth, fluorescent lights, and acrylic cases, Ohmaki incorporates traditional flower patterns to otherwise empty spaces. The vibrant spectrum of colors create a fun and welcoming environment.

The floor and wall installation, which has been shown several times over in…

Matthew Weatherstone's oil paintings and charcoal works in his series "The Disconnect" elegantly illustrate his theme with soft color palettes and smooth images. His work "explores ideas of human disconnectedness to the natural environment, genuine human community and relationship, faith and death."

The Sydney-based artist captures these feelings well with the contrast of industrial…

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You’ve worked hard to give your humble abode a modern flair by adding bright colors that pop, well-designed furnishings, and clean, crisp room decor. Then there’s your laundry room that looks like it’s stuck in the 1980s. If you’ve…

Swiss artist Andy Denzler depicts a hazy, abstract world in these oil on canvas paintings. The works are a collection of muted scenes, distorted by smears of brushstrokes and blurs of paint. Viewing his work is like trying to draw on a fuzzy memory or make sense of a low-resolution photograph on a computer screen.

The basic form of each subject is clear, but the details challenge the…

On a hot summer evening, it’s nice to sit back, relax, and marvel at the beauty of a colorful sunset. After viewing this vibrant Cloud Series, it seems that photographer Carolyn Marks Blackwood would agree. Based in New York, the artist has a keen eye for capturing basic natural elements like clouds in the sky or melting ice on the Hudson River and transforming…