Tokyo is an incredibly lively and beautiful city, but amid it's busy streets and constant changing cityscape, it's easy to loose sight of it's architectural beauty. Tokyo City Symphony looks to change how we see the city using a 1:1000 scale model of the city. The result is captivating.
Showing posts with label cityscape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cityscape. Show all posts
Friday, July 26, 2013
Video: Tokyo City Symphony
Tokyo is an incredibly lively and beautiful city, but amid it's busy streets and constant changing cityscape, it's easy to loose sight of it's architectural beauty. Tokyo City Symphony looks to change how we see the city using a 1:1000 scale model of the city. The result is captivating.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Video: Mirror City
This video features kaleidoscopic patterns of time-lapse footage of Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego.
"These clips were all processed from their original form, into the kaleidoscopic visuals that you see in this video. Many people visit these large cities every day, and all of these places have been shot and filmed, but I wanted to emulate these urban landscapes in a way that nobody has even seen before. I wanted to put man-made geometric shapes, mixed with elements of color and movement to create less of a structured video, and more of a plethora of visual stimulation."
Posters: Comic Locations
A set of travel posters that advertise real and fictional locations
of the Marvel, DC and Akira universe.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Lego Creation: Cyberpocalypse
On exhibit at Brickworld 2013.
Source: The Brothers Brick
This cyberpunk cityscape unveiled at Brickworld 2013 was an astonishingly elaborate collaboration between eight different builders. The signs are Japanese written out in EL (electroluminescent) wire.
"The apartment block behind my shop wasn't there when I moved in either. That was just shanty houses stacked one on top of the other. It's tough these days for a developer to legally purchase a patch of land and everything above it, but 'connected' guys can be pretty persuasive. They kept the boat dock at water level, but demolished the rest. I know some of the folks who live in the lower levels of that building, but the guys up top keep to themselves. One thing I've learned living here for so long is not to ask too many questions." - Henry Li, On the Neighborhood
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Video: Paper City
"Captured by an unseen helicopter, the narrative unfolds through winding roads, erupting forests, and emerging mountains. Paper City grows in one fluid take, with skyscrapers rising from the page—only to crumble, wrinkle, and gently crease back into the ground."
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Video: This is Shanghai
Shanghai as you've never seen it before.
"In 1980 Shanghai had no skyscrapers. It now has at least 4,000 — more than twice as many as New York. ‘This is Shanghai’ explores the diversities and eccentricities of the metropolis that is Shanghai going beyond the famous skyline.
Photographer Rob Whitworth and urban identity expert JT Singh joined forces combining deep city exploration and pioneering filmmaking. ‘This is Shanghai’ is a roller coaster ride seamlessly weaving between the iconic, sparkling and mismatched buildings of the financial district travelling by boat and taxi touring Shanghai’s impressive infrastructure whilst glimpsing some of the lesser-known aspects of Shanghai life such as the lower stratum areas or the stunning graffiti of Moganshan road. And of course there is the opportunity to try some of the vast variety of street food and Shanghai’s most popular homegrown delicacy, the pan-fried pork dumplings, the shengjian bao."
Monday, May 27, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
Monday, May 6, 2013
Photography: Day to Night
Wilkes took hundreds of photographs over the span of a day (some
shots took up to 15 hours), carefully adjusting the shutter to allow
for proper exposure as the sun set. To create these images, Wilkes
blends about 50 images into one incredible large-format panoramic. “Day to Night embodies a combination of my favorite things to
photograph; people on the street melded with epic cityscapes, and the
fleeting moments throughout the day and night,” says Wilkes.
Photography: PRIMARY
"PRIMARY - Experimento" by Singapore artist Alfonso Bonilla
"This is my first series of abstract photo experimentation and digital art, just feel free to get your own interpretation."
Link Round-Up: May 6, 2013
Interview: Duncan Mitchell, Co-Founder, CEO, and Art Director at Someecards
News: Google Fonts – previously known as the Google Web Fonts project has done a deal with Monotype font service that allows anyone to access its fonts for desktop use all for free! The fonts are delivered by Monotype’s SkyFonts software creating a directory of more than 600 web fonts for the world to use. This quick and easy to access resource is great for designers and web developers who are looking for professional and quality typography for their web pages and applications.
The George Eastman House is producing a series of nicely produced videos, each about 10 minutes long, demonstrating every major technological development in photographic process with guidance from historians, curators, and artists and illustrated by objects from their collection. There are more to come, but you can start now with The Dageurrotype, The Collodion Process, The Albumen Print, The Woodburytype, The Platium Print, and The Gelatin Silver Print.
Heather Dewey-Hagborg uses the DNA found on things like discarded chewing gum and cigarette butts to recreate the faces of the people who left them behind.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013
Paintings: Photorealistic Urban Landscape
Photorealistic Urban Landscape Paintings by British painter Nathan Walsh
Nathan Walsh captures scenes from the streets of Chicago and New York in paintings so detailed as to approach photorealism. He accomplishes the feat through an elaborate system of underlying sketches that resemble architectural blue prints. Each of the paintings takes Walsh between three and four months to complete.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Woodwork: Cityscapes
"Cityscapes" by Pennsylvania artist James McNabb
For his MFA Thesis last September, McNabb created a series of architectural sculptures using discarded wood. He described
his process as “sketching with a band saw.”
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Photography: Unidentifiable Traffic
"Unidentifiable Traffic" by Korean artist Jiyen Lee
Prints available for purchase at Saatchionline. US$3,000
Digital collage depicting people going up and down stairs at different times. The people seem to exist in a space where there is no beginning or end.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Friday, December 28, 2012
Photography: Darkened Cities
"Villes eteintes" ("Darkened Cities") by Thierry Cohen
San Francisco 37° 48′ 30” N 2010-10-9 Lst 20:58
San Francisco 37° 48′ 30” N 2010-10-9 Lst 20:58
Have you ever wondered what the night sky might look like without the light pollution of the city? Parisian photographer Thierry Cohen did. He traveled to regions of the world with little to no light pollution along the same axis as some of the biggest cities on the planet. He then superimposed the the silhouettes of existing cityscapes on top of the starfields he's captured to re-imagine what each city might look like without electricity. The results are stunning.
Villes Eteintes was exhibited in Paris from November 8th through November 22nd at Galerie Esther Woerdehoff. If you like the photos, you mights also be interested in Caspar V's thematically similar Dark City.
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