Archive: September 7, 2012

Purely Pacific Northwest from John Eklund on Vimeo. This is an absolutely beautiful video.

Claes shares this collection of beautiful paintings of otherwise not-so-beautiful places in America. Robert Watts’ artwork highlights the mundane, abandoned, and forgotten pieces of the American landscape. Stunning work!

I love this Sunflower Chair designed by He Mu and Zhang Qian from the Shanghai University of Engineering and Science. The chair surrounds the occupant with books in a circular bookshelf pattern, allowing for easy grab and read situaions anytime you desire a seat. LOVE!!

Photographer Rachel Lim dives into the phenomenon of modern China and the sudden surge in citizens taking vacations in Hawaii-like destinations like Hainan. The sheer number of visitors to these once-pristine locations in China has turned them into polluted wonderlands of sorts, with businessmen trying to set up get-rich-quick-schemes for tourists lending their hand in [...]

I was reluctant to post this because the first part of the series wasn’t embeddable, but what the hell, it’s the weekend. Enjoy the first part here and then watch the 2nd part above.