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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Barbie Is a Hoarder

Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse is a 1/6th scale model of a hoarder’s home. It’s furnished with actual generic Barbie™ and Bratz™ toys and tiny, tiny props hand-crafted by artist Carrie M. Becker. Trash mountains, gaping pizza boxes, books, paper, crap, many unnecessary stockpiles… add in a few animals and some missing art, and you’ve got the National Arts Club’s old diggs. Nifty.

What makes this excellent are the personal touches, not just the authenticity and details of the tiny, tiny artifacts. The dusty computer monitor stickered in notes, the classic composition books and corny inspirational poster replicas, Steve Jobs peaking from a Time magazine, the dingy water in the backed-up toilet, the scum on the drawers, the strewn about copies of The Sun.

See at the Riney Fine Arts Center Gallery at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas in September, 2012.

Rich People Almost Screwed Up NYC’s Grid

Rich People Almost Screwed Up NYC’s Grid:

As we’ve noted, there’s an ongoing exhibit on how radically awesome New York City’s grid system is and the fascinating history behind it when first proposed back in the early 1800s.

The plan was quite the controversial undertaking and the Times reports how the wealthy created all sorts of problems: “One obstacle was that the island was already parceled into irregularly shaped, privately owned properties.”

At first they were opposed to the grid, but soon discovered that their newly divided lots were worth a lot of money, and this is what birthed the city’s real estate market. Although not even these visionaries could have expected an era when $88 million apartments aren’t the most expensive and can be topped by offers on property that doesn’t even exist yet. (Image of 1st Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets circa 1866: Museum of the City of New York/NYT)

Light-sensitive inks by Lumi

Photographic print design team Lumi has come out with a line of awesome, permanent, light-sensitive inks that allow you to make light-transfer images on a variety of surfaces.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Chow Martin

Chow Martin deconstructs his drawings by stripping his subject matter to bare bones and then recreating his work by combining various elements. His style is executed with precision and fine detail.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Abandoned fake Disneyland in China

A decade ago, work began on a Disneyland rip-off amusement park near the Great Wall of China outside Beijing. As per many development projects in China, disputes over property prices between government officials and local farmers caused the construction of Wonderland to grind to a halt, and it’s been sitting half-built and falling into ruin ever since. Reuters just posted some haunting photos of the park.

La hora del té en el Orient-Express, vista en El País.

Fisherman’s Bastion, Budapest

Monday, December 19, 2011

Hotel Kakslauttanen

Glass igloos at Hotel Kakslauttanen for fantastic view of northern lights. Hotel Kakslauttanen is located 250 km above the Arctic Circle in the Finnish part of Lapland.