Holi - a celebration of color!

I was listening to NPR this morning when a story came on about the Indian festival of Holi.  Basically, people gather together on the streets and paint themselves with beautiful pigments in celebration of the welcoming of spring and good overcoming evil.

I found the ritual so fascinating and dug up some photos from last year's festival in preparation for this coming Sunday's Holi celebration that will go until March 1st. I only wish I could be in India on this day...

npr story here

photos courtesy of Gemunu Amarasinghe





























photo from here

Simply amazing.

blender blunders

this is my life story. i need a new blender

originally from marc johns

stolen from hrrthrr

unhappy hipsters

i just found this blog, unhappy hipsters, and have fallen for its poetic design style.

taking everyday images of humans immersed in architecture, the author paints a different melancholy story for each space that reflects the people involved. and visa versa.

We’re not ready to go out there yet, honey. And besides, didn’t I do a pretty good job bringing the outside in?

(Photo: Christopher Sturman, Dwell, November 2009)

It was comforting to know that the neighbors had stopped speaking.

(Dwell magazine, April/May 2004)

She had this uncanny way of making him feel so, so small.

(Photo: Daniel Henessey; Dwell, November 2006)

Maybe naming him Rimbaud wasn’t such a good idea.

(Photo: Ake E:son Lindman; Dwell, February 2009)

shinichi maruyama water photography

a simple idea captured beautifully with technology. from photographer, shinichi maruyama



taken from Design Boom>>

 


maruyama takes full advantage of a recent advancement in strobe light technology 
which can record physical events faster than the naked eye can perceive them.

Coffee or Tea?

how about both!

for those of your who just can't decide in the early morning (or late afternoon) what your caffeine buzz might be...

designed by Naoto Fukasawa

Revenge

happy new year. have some cork popping fun. just clean up the mess afterwards : )www.weloveourwork.comA series of short videos as part of a 2 hour documentary about revenge for VPRO television.

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more about "Revenge", posted with vodpod

push my buttons

Using push pins and buttons, artist Ran Hwang creates beautiful installations that close up, look like a chaotic tack board, but are works of art from further away.















article found at buzz beast

human experience

from FUBIZ

lego kitchen!

So neat!

Munchausen, a duo formed by Parisian designers Simon Pillard and Philippe Rosetti, took a bold approach with their own kitchen by venturing to IKEA for the basic kitchen island and then spending the next week covering it with more than 20,000 pieces by another Scandinavian brand, Lego







found on thecoolhunter.com

happy thanksgiving!

now that i moved from the comfort of my midwestern home and decided to start up a new life in an apartment complex in the city of LA, i thought i would post some cozier images to bring back that "at home" feel.



one day, my thanksgiving table will look something like this. found here

here





happy thanksgiving!

sam gibbons

i've been meaning to make this post for a while now. first, because this is some of the most fascinating art pieces that i've seen, and second because i've known the artist himself since i was a wee little 9 year old as he is my cousin's good friend from high school.

Sam Gibbons launched his art career in NYC a while back, and has been successfully featured in art magazines and exhibitions over the years. you can very easily get lost in the intricacy of his work, and the detail he adds to these darker images.

here is an except about his work: "Employing imagery that was originally intended to entertain and pacify, Gibbons' paintings are at war within themselves. The typical role of the cartoon is subverted; these benchmarks of inexperience are engaged in violent and sexual acts. Acting as allegories for the loss of innocence, Sam Gibbons' paintings exist as a complex and beautiful mimicry of the human condition."

from Claire Oliver site

color cropping

what can i say, i'm into colors...

photo by peter dejong. a photojournalist. his stuff is absolutely amazing.

found here