« Typologies » by Bernd et Hilla Becher
Bernd et Hilla Becher sont un couple de photographes allemands enseignant la photographie à l’académie des beaux-arts de Düsseldorf, depuis 1976. Ils photographies depuis les années 50, des batiments industrielles (les typologies), tel que des châteaux d’eau, des silos à grains, des usines de façon presque scientifique par la dimension documentaire et dans un esprit de catalogage de leur travail. Ils emploient des critères très rigoureux et systématiques pour faire leurs photographies : vue frontale, ciel gris pour avoir toujours la même lumière, cadrage centré. Leur travail est ensuite regroupé par type de typologies et exposé sous forme de panneaux de neuf ou plus.
Architecture: A crumbling farmhouse is revived as a life-sized dollhouse(via @io9)
From the department of reclaimed modern ruins, artist Heather Benning took a derelict Saskatchewan farmhouse and transformed it into a life-sized version of a child’s dollhouse. While living as the Artist-in-Residence at the community of Redvers, Saskatchewan, in 2005, Benning launched on her…
Situated north of the Cap Vert Peninsula in Senegal, northeast of Dakar, Lake Retba, or as the French refer to it Lac Rose, is pinker than any milkshake you’ve ever come face to straw with. And once you see it, you too will agree that a sippy straw may be in order over a boat. Experts say the lake gives off its pink hue due to cyanobacteria, a harmless halophilic bacteria found in the water. If the color weren’t enough to make you smile, it should be known that Lake Retba has a high salt content, much like that of the Dead Sea, allowing people to float effortlessly in the massive pink water. In fact, Lake Retba has an almost one and a half times higher salt content than the Dead Sea.
(Source: pizzzatime)
These are fictional magazine covers from Blade Runner. They were created by production illustrator Tom Southwell in 1980-1981 and appeared in the background on a magazine stand in the city streets. (!!!!)
