Other than a circular skylight near the top and a couple of air holes, there are no windows. The hotel was built by designer Andreas Strauss in 2004. It was originally opened at Linz and later moved to the nearby Ottensheim. Guests who wish to spend a night or two are required to book their rooms at thehotels website. Upon acceptance of the booking, guests receive a code to unlock the door to their pipe....
Brooklyn based artistAmy Bennettuses an interesting technique for her paintings. Amy Bennett likes to tell stories through her models and paintings. The paintings are glimpses of a scene or fragments of a narrative. Similar to a memory, they are fictional constructions of significant moments. For my previous project I constructed a fictional model neighborhood.
By 1980 the art world still continued to embrace modernisms such as, conceptual art. As a result, Ginsburg turned towards commercial illustration to earn a better living. Ginsburg quickly discovered he had a propensity for the genre.
Inspired byTodd McLellan’s Disassembled Objects, Singapore-based photographer Qi Wei created this beautiful series of images called exploded flowers", by carefully disassembling different flowers and then photographing in a way that honors their radial symmetry. From theartists website: The act of disassembly (I hesitate to use the term dissection because this series is not meant to be a scientific treatise) lays bare the various shapes and textures of the flowers, and what is interesting to me is how much more expanded some flowers can get when they are disassembled the relative surface area to size of a rose is so much greater compared to a larger flower like the sunflower....
Teenage photography sensationNatsumi Hayashitakes pictures of herself seemingly floating in midair. All poses are captured in mid-jump with no aid of a rigging system or Photoshop. Sometimes it takes her over 300 shots to obtain the perfect frozen in time look.
The hotels comprise of individual blocks of small, coffin sized living quarters with just enough room to sleep. Some capsules include a TV, a wireless internet connection, mirrors and alarm clocks. The capsules are sealed with a door or a curtain and bathroom facilities are normally shared. A locker key is usually provided to each guest to keep baggage in a locker outside the capsules. The capsules cost 2500 to 4000 Yen per night (about $30 $50)....
Genetic Portraits is an ongoing photo series by Canadian photographerUlric Collettewhere he explores the facial similarities between family members by combining the portraits of two members of the same family into one. Ulric concentrates on father/son, mother/daughter and sibling/sibling comparisons creating new faces that look quite normal, but bizarre at times. [viaMyModernMet]
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Boston artistSteve Millshas been drawing and painting since he was a child. He sold his first drawing at the age of 11 and has been selling ever since. Still, he chose meteorology as his major in college but realized quickly that it was not for him. Mr. Mills found he had an extraordinary knack for capturing details in his paintings. “I fell in love with it,” he says. In 1989 he began his affiliation with Gallery Hencoh in New York City....
Passengers will be taken aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. While floating above the earth, guests will be able to watch TV and surf the internet. In the gravity free space cabins guests will have the option to sleep either vertically or horizontally. Food prepared on earth will be freeze dried before being carried to the hotel. Also alcohol will be strictly prohibited. The images in this gallery are all computer generated, of course....
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Covering an area of 10,582 square kilometers, it is the world’s largest salt flat. Salar de Uyuni is estimated to have a reserve of 10 billion tons of salt. Underneath the surface of the Salar is a lake of brine 2 to 20 meters deep. They include unusual and fragile coral-like structures and deposits that often consist of fossils and algae. The Salar contains large amounts of sodium, potassium, lithium and magnesium as well as borax....
The series Broken houses is based on photographs of abandoned structures neglected by man and destroyed by the weather. His photographs are used to create small scale models.
