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In the final days of the 2016 Paralympic games, we’re diving into Bob Martin’s photograph which is so beautifully and graphically composed, and so structured, that the details come into focus only after a moment of looking. Here swimmer Avi Torres has taken off his prostheses, which are not permitted in the pool, as he sets off at the start of the 200m freestyle heats during the 2004 Paralympic Games.

Bob Martin (British, born 1959). Avi Torres of Spain sets off at the start of the 200m freestyle heats, Paralympic Games, Athens, September 1, 2004. Courtesy of Bob Martin/Sports Illustrated

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from all angles

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Second Life Toys Campaign Promotes Organ Donation With the Use of Old Toys

Japan’s organization Second Life Toys is hoping to promote the awareness of organ donation with a tender and provocative message. With the use of children’s stuffed animals, they appoint new limbs to the broken toys, in order to save them and make them whole again.

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THIS IS SO CUTE AND ITS SUCH A CUTE IDEA AS WELL I LOVE IT

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Midcentury Mower

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Tail lights!!

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House for a Painter

Joseba and María moved to Gaucin attracted by the location and the views of the city. He is a renowned painter (www.sanchezzabaleta.com) who needed a place to work and searched for an architect who understood his ideas regarding light and space. 

The result is House for a Painter by DTR studio architects, a house designed around a double height studio filled with natural light on the ground floor with the living areas on the upper floor to take advantage of the views.

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Déjà Vu

From the artist Caterina Rossato:

The déjà vu is a psychic phenomenon which is part of the forms of alteration of memories (paramnesie): it consists in the erroneous sensation of having seen an image or of having lived previously an event or a situation that is occurring. Although improperly, it is also called “false recognition”.

I create landscapes made through a collage of other landscapes, combining images in which the sense of recognition of reality slips from one level to another and it is never clearly identified.

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Relics of Olympic Venues: Old, Abandoned & Forgotten

Every four years, a the city host of the Olympic Games are often subjected to create new facilities and venues to cater to the upcoming games. What happens to these places after they’ve served their purpose?

Now abandoned as mere haunted displays, here are some photographs of old Olympic venues turned to ruins.

All images are sourced from MazMe89.

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Corridor 10, Wieland Strasse, 18, 12159 Berlin, Germany by Do Ho Suh (ca. 2013).

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Paradise Now

Ryan Koopmans (BA, MFA) is a photographer driven by the interdisciplinary practices of geography, art history, and psychology. Koopmans is primarily interested in photographing the points of intersection where the natural and manmade converge. Thus he is drawn to surreal structures in our megacities and manufactured landscapes. Formal aesthetic qualities such as geometry, repetition and saturation help him illustrate the poetry of form in these fantastical locations.

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Blueprint by Do Ho Suh (ca. 2013). Thread on cotton paper.

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Isolated Buildings of Chicago

In the words of the artist David Schalliol:

The Isolated Building Studies are the visual confluence of my interests in urban dynamism, socioeconomic inequality and photography. By using uniform composition in photographs of Chicago buildings with no neighboring structures, I hope to draw attention to new ways of seeing the common impact of divergent investment processes on urban communities.

Isolated buildings are particularly useful for the exploration of neighborhood transformation and its social correlates because they are immediately recognized as unusual. As urban buildings, their form illustrates their connection with adjacent structures: vertical, boxy, an architecture confined by palpably limited parcels. When their neighboring buildings are missing, a tension emerges: the urban form clashes with the seemingly suburban, even rural setting. Thoughtfully engaging the landscape requires further investigation to resolve this tension: Why is this building isolated? It is from this fundamental friction that the Isolated Building Studies launches.

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Artist JR Installs Giant Photos of Athletes Atop Tall Buildings in the Center of Rio de Janeiro

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Tile with Endless Pattern Possibilities

Dsignio, a design studio, has created a new tile which lets you tweak and play around with endless design possibilities simply by rotating the tile. One can create a wide variety of pattern compositions strictly by setting the hexagonal shaped tile in different positions.

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A Sculpture that Fuses Western Gods and Heroes with Buddhist Iconography by Xu Zhen  

European Thousand-Armed Classical Sculpture (2013–2014) by Xu Zhen fuses Western gods and heroes with Buddhist iconography. Nineteen statues in a variety of poses are lined up so that, viewed from the front, they resemble a “thousand-armed”Guanyin, a Buddhist symbol of compassion. The sculptures are radically simplified, all-white versions of 11 originals, including Athena Parthenos, Zeus, Hercules, Odysseus, the crucified Christ and the Statue of Liberty—chosen on the basis of their arm positions, copied in mirror image, and rescaled to the same 3-metre height.

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