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The Cabin in the Woods

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Barcelona Apartment via CaSa

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Small white living room // full house tour here

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From Prudence Print

#Studio Ghibli

This post. It’s my note.

Just to let you know, I’ll be going on hiatus. I’m not sure how long I’ll be gone. Life and my job are getting in the way of blogging. So, I’m taking this as an opportunity to go through an internet detox.

See you soon!

#hiatus #mine #my edits #my hiatus won't be as long as Sherlock

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Audi Sport Quattro Stradale

#cars #audi

This book spoke to me on a spiritual level.

#books #lit #ender's game #orson scott card

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Attention Gearheads!

Next week on TopGear, the Star in the Reasonably Priced Car is none other than Aaron Paul, star of Breaking Bad and the upcoming movie, ‘Need for Speed’.

The episode premieres Monday March 10th at 8.30/7.30c on BBC America.

#Top Gear

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The Miniature Model Behind ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ | Via

While “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is busy with smaller design elements, one of its most striking designs is the hotel itself. Outfitted in shades of pink and purple and situated atop a hill, the hotel is grandiose and picturesque. It also happens to be nine feet tall. For wide shots of the hotel, the director Wes Anderson and his team decided to use a handmade miniature model.

“I’ve always loved miniatures in general,” Mr. Anderson said, speaking by phone from Paris. “I just like the charm of them.” He used miniatures in “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou” and more extensively in “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” He said he feels that audiences tend to recognize what is artificial, whether in computer-generated effects or otherwise, and that gave him liberty to use models. “The particular brand of artificiality that I like to use is an old-fashioned one,” he added.

He collaborated again with the production designer Adam Stockhausen (“Moonrise Kingdom”) to come up with the look of the hotel, then had it built by a crew. Here is a closer look at the hotel, including commentary and ideas from Mr. Stockhausen.

SoP | Scale of Representation

#architecture #film #wes anderson

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#architecture #design #urban intervention

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The Paradox of Nature Preservation | Ilkka Halso | Socks Studio

Ilkka Halso is a Finnish artist who investigates the relationships between architecture, technology and nature, through photo-realistic renderings and collages set in natural environments. In “Tree Works”, light structures are built around existing trees with the aim of protecting them and, at the same time, of turning them into a sort of “living museum” of nature explorable by a public. Nature is somehow commodified and transformed into a spectacle to admire from very close. The architectural language is that of the scaffolding, transitional structures used to build a construction or to refurbish it: the act of connecting metal poles to natural environments engages a surreal discourse based on man’s paradoxical attempt to preserve what he’s currently destroying.

#architecture #design