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Eyvind Earle

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:44:00 +0000

Mr. Earle came to Walt Disney’s attention in the early 1950’s, when he created the look for the animated 1953 short ”Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom,” which won both an Oscar and a Cannes Film Festival award. For the rest of the decade, Disney kept him busy painting the settings for films like ”Peter Pan,”.

He was showing his work in galleries in Hollywood and Beverly Hills when he was 20; when he was 21 he bicycled across the country, paying his way by painting watercolors. He was 23 when he sold a watercolor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He began adapting his landscapes to Christmas cards in the 1940’s, eventually painting more than 800 designs that have sold more than 300 million copies

Text via New York Times

Joe Johnson – Mega Churches

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:00:05 +0000

Joe Johnson’s series Mega Churches investigates the architectural ornateness of the contemporary, American place of worship. Perfect. More here.

Simon Harsen - Melt

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:38:00 +0000

Melt: A portrait of an Iceberg. Title pretty much says it all. Beautiful More here

Quaderna by Superstudio

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:34:00 +0000

Objects built on the base of the spatial lattice orthogonal grid. Sick. Designed and built by Superstudio in the 70’s.

The Ningyo-Do Bunko Database

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:32:00 +0000

The Ningyo-Do Bunko Database has a wealth of super lovely late 19th too early 20th century watercolour sketch designs of japanese toys. See lots more.

Ramón Figueroa Collection

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:26:43 +0000

“The posters are a great expression of a time when Mexico made an investment in popular culture as a way to promote the values and virtues that would unify society and consolidate the power of the system. I think it is very interesting that some of the poster artists (such as Josep Renau or Ernesto García Cabral) were also muralists. There is research to be done on the Mexican poster as an example of the aesthetic cohesiveness of government sponsored art in Mexico before the sixties.”

—Ramón Figueroa,

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Skinemax

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:26:31 +0000

“Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It’s long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind.

A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax takes a close look at the culture of that era. The images that motivated, delighted, and terrified us on the silver screen, set to propulsive modern music that pines for a simpler time.” - SmashTV.

Jean Charles Pellerin's Paper Theaters Illustrations

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:54:38 +0000

Jean Charles Pellerin’s paper theaters were wildly popular in the nineteenth century. Depicting folk themes, Gothic gardens, domestic drabberies, prison life, and Napoleonic battlefields. Completely mesmeric.

Gutzon Borglum – Mount Rushmore

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:29:53 +0000

Essentially a project to promote tourism to South Dakota, Gutzon Borglum + 400 workers started the colossal sculpture in October 1927, it took them a further 14 years to finish. (Read more about the history of it here)

Daniele Villa

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:14:36 +0000

Super nice collages. http://www.danielevilla.com/

Eric Cahan

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:33:00 +0000

Cabo San Lusas, MexicoSunset 7:09pm

Two Mile Hallow, NYSunset 7:22pm

Bridgehampton, NYSunset 7:48pm

Fort Pond Bay, Montauk, NYSunset 8:10pm

Captured gradients as the sun rises from across America and Mexico. So nice: http://ericcahan.com/portfolio/sky-series/

Keith Warren Greiman

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:26:00 +0000

This man will change your horizons. http://keithgreiman.com

Ana Cabaleiro

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:43:18 +0000

Beautiful. Check out Ana’s portfolio here.

The Stonemasters: Californian Rock Climbers in the Seventies

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:06:00 +0000

Decked out in bandanas, shades and cutoffs, they blew open the conventions of climbing. Dubbing themselves the Stonemasters, these now-legendary adventurers established techniques that allowed for some of the most spectacular climbs in history. They were loud, proud, smoked dope and chalked their lightning-flash insignia across rock faces. The glamour of their lifestyle made a huge impact on 1970s youth culture which would stretch across the world.

Larry Burrows: Vietnam

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:57:00 +0000

In the heat of battle, in the devastated countryside, among troops and civilians equally hurt by the savagery of war, Larry Burrows photographed the conflict in Vietnam from 1962, the earliest days of American involvement, until 1971, when he died in a helicopter shot down on the Vietnam–Laos border. His images, published in Life magazine, brought the war home, scorching the consciousness of the public and inspiring much of the anti-war sentiment that convulsed American society in the 1960s. Destined to be a classic of photojournalism.

Paul X. Johnson

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:08:21 +0000

Panther. Masonic book. Axe… Check out more of Pauls work here. Really lovely.

Wrapped Monuments

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:55:00 +0000

By the infamous Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Monuments (Vittorio Emanuele II, on Piazza del Duomo, and the monument to Leonardo da Vinci, on Piazza della Scala) were wrapped up with polypropylene fabric and red polypropylene rope. Milan, 1970. More here

Thomas Struth - Museums

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:50:21 +0000

Museums by Struth, one of Germanys greats modern photographers. Be sure to check out his other works here.

La Mer de Pianos

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:27:00 +0000

Short film about Marc Manceaux, the owner of the oldest piano shop in Paris. Like this man a lot.

Wolff & Tritschler

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:11:23 +0000

Photos by Paul Wolff and his partner Alfred Tritschler.