Hedgehog in the Fog [Yuriy Norshteyn, 1975] HQ. Spectacular Abandoned Places - AnOther Happy Monday. With another hectic working week ahead, there's surely a part of all of us that's yearning to escape to somewhere deliciously quiet and blissfuly lonley.
To go someway towards assuaging that desire, this Happy Monday we bring you a collection of brilliant images of abandoned places, from a 15th century monastary in Germany's black forest to a sand-filled villa in the Namib Desert. Happy Monday! #anotherhappymonday. Official Website. I Feel Unmotivated. The miniature worlds of Maico Akiba. Maico Akiba, whose series, “100 years later,” we previously featured, has another project simply titled SEKAI, or “world.”
In it, she imagines miniature ecosystems growing on the backs of other animals. There are people but also remnants of civilization like electric poles or shops often overrun by weeds and vines. It’s almost like a reverse-Noah’s Arc. Fire and Ice: The Frozen Aftermath of a Chicago Warehouse Fire. Robert R Gigliotti David Schalliol Darek Szupina.
An Architect Gone Mad: Mysterious Buildings Assembled from Found Photographs by Jim Kazanjian. Without the use of a camera Portland-based artist Jim Kazanjian sifts through a library of some 25,000 images from which he carefully selects the perfect elements to digitally assemble mysterious buildings born from the mind of an architect gone mad.
While the architectural and organic pieces seem wildly random and out of place, Kazanjian brings just enough cohesion to each structure to suggest a fictional purpose or story that begs to be told. You can see much more of his work over on Facebook, and prints are available at 23 Sandy Gallery. Art Nouveau Carnival - Original Paintings by Emily Balivet.