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Cross-Hatched Drawings by Olivia Knapp

Olivia Knapp, a visual artist, who has a degree in Fashion Design from Parsons, experience as a Printed Textile Designer and a passion for illustration, creates cross-hatched pen and ink drawings influenced by old European woodblock engravings.You can see more of Knapp’s pieces, as well as works in progress, on her blog. 

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In the can, Heidi Annalise

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The Art of Phillip K. Smith III 

Phillip K. Smith III received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design.  From his Palm Desert, CA-based studio, he continues to push the boundaries and confront the ideas of modernist design.  Drawing inspiration from the cold rigidity of the Bauhaus movement, the reductive geometries of minimalism, and the optic sensation of California’s Light and Space movement, Smith III attempts to resolve the complex challenge of finding a natural state of life and spirit within these ideological aesthetic constrictions.  The results are deceptively simple and compelling objects that seem to breathe and move as you observe and interact with them.

Projects identified from the top:

Lucid Stead (images 01-03)

Quarter Mile Arc (images 04-07)

Reflection Field (images 08-10)

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#NowPlaying Interstellar Overdrive - Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, 9 August 1969 by Pink Floyd

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The Animal Doodles of Rohan Sharad Dahotre

Rohan Sharad Dahotre is a designer and illustrator from India and a nature and wildlife enthusiast. He is a keen observer who loves exploring the wilderness, and illustrating animals, birds and all things wild. In the near future, Rohan would like to work towards the cause of wildlife awareness, conservation and welfare through his illustrations.

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Architectural Photography, Communication and Added Value by David Cardelús

An excerpt of the paper presented by David Cardelús on November 4, 2016, on the Inter 2016 = Photography and Architecture international conference at the Museum of the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, discussing some ideas on how semiotics are applied to the creation of added value to the communication of an architecture project in photographs.

When I am commissioned to shoot the photographs of an architecture project I always consider that:

Architectural photographs do interpret a project, they never document it: anyone can point a phone or a camera to a building and capture an image documenting its appearance without any other intention beyond certifying it. For me, architectural photography used as a documentary tool has little or any communicative power.

I can’t photograph architecture without understanding it before. Photographs are the vehicles that synthesize in images the essential elements that make unique a new architecture project.

I believe that communication is born from an informed and deliberate eye of the photographer on the project to select a consistent set of points of view that make it attractive first and intelligible later. And I also believe that architecture is the central body that dominates the composition of a photograph of architecture and to that any other elements in the frame are subordinated to build the communication of the project.

Read the full article here.

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The Art of Ray Morimura

Ray Morimura is a graduate of Tokyo Gakugei University, where he studied oil painting. Originally his works were geometric-style abstractions. But later he was inspired by Shigeru Hatsuyama and Sumio Kawakami, and began to study woodblock techniques. Unlike most other Japanese woodblock printmakers, he uses oil-based inks to create these detailed images.

His technique is to carve both 6mm thick plywood blocks and 3mm thick blocks laminated with P-tile, a flooring material. The “linocut” process permits quite complex designs, which are printed on mulberry bark kozo paper. Essentially each color requires a separate block, and separate inking. Some blocks are printed with solid colors, while others include bokashi or a gradation of color. Of his work, Morimura says “printing demands total concentration as a single hair or dust can ruin a print. I usually clean my studio thoroughly and wait to begin the printing process until after midnight when it is quiet. With prints one can never be certain of the outcome until the final print is completed. There is always the unexpected, which makes it all the more intriguing. As with Zen and ink paintings, I hope something spiritual, in a contemporary sense, can be expressed in these landscape works.”

Learn more about Ray Morimura here.

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Rough animation of Fox. Cleaned and coloured version here. Follow my work on my tumblr.

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Sand Tufas

You could be forgiven for thinking that the otherworldly rock formations in these pictures come from another planet, or from a sci-fi movie perhaps. But they’re actually called sand tufas and they come from right here on earth.

A tufa is a peculiar form of calcium carbonate, and they’re created when calcium-bearing freshwater springs well up through alkaline lake water (which is rich in carbonates). The carbonate and calcium combine and, over centuries, these elements form unusual spires, towering columns, and strange cauliflower-shaped mounds which can reach heights of up to nine metres (30ft). Tufas can only form underwater, and they’re only exposed when lakes are drained or dry out over many years. Check out this collection of pictures compiled by Bored Panda to see these curious formations for yourself.

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Mean Shadow Puppet

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I laugh. Every. Time. 😋

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