2012-05-03
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From Man Made, a collection by Natasha Otrakji. (via prostheticknowledge)
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The Millennium Bridge by Sandra Lousada.
The picture of the blade of light spanning the Thames has become something of a cliché, bit the angle here (from a part of Tate Modern that many people don’t get to, I think) and - particularly - the use of movement definitely help to make this stand out a little.
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Anthony Gormley’s Quantum Cloud on the O2 Pier by Sandra Lousada.
Previously: Quantum Cloud construction (via); Robin Hood Gardens by Sandra Lousada. (This location is barely a mile, but thirty or more years, from the other photograph.)
2012-04-29
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Sans Titre by Franco Grignani, 1955 (via).
Grignani is thought to be the designer of the Woolmark, which Creative Review named its top logo in a survey last year. Despite that, and photographs like this, he has no Wikipedia page in English (although there are versions in Italian and German).
There’s a selection of his work at myfavoritething.it.
(Source: regardintemporel)
2012-04-25
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A carnival ride turns inside of the cooling tower of a former nuclear power plant in Kalkar, Germany, near the border with the Netherlands, on May 28, 2011. The plant was constructed from 1977 to 1986, but never operated as a nuclear power plant. Now the plant has been converted to a fun park called “Wunderland Kalkar” and receives some 600,000 visitors a year.
Photograph: Patrik Stollarz
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NASA channeling David Hockney, via Ethel Baraona.
I hadn’t thought about the connection between Hockney’s “joiners” and NASA composites before, so seeing it brought up made me wonder. It turns out the artist’s first works using that medium were around 1970, so a few years after the Surveyor images seen here. The majority of works in the composites section of his site date from around 1982, well after the first round of planetary surveys.
Nonetheless, it’s an interesting topic to muse on.
