We traded our signatures for passwords, but all the personality and thought behind those epistles has been diluted into shared fonts and a send button. The project “Signatures Exchanged for Passwords” by Donna Rumble-Smith takes a nostalgic look at the waning use of handwriting in the digital age and the loss of intimacy and emotion that [...]
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The storm
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something [...]
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Ca C’est Paris
Mark Andrew Webber is a printmaker and graphic designer who specializes in traditional linocut prints. His Where in the World City Map series consists of linocut maps of Amsterdam, London, New York and now Paris. Webber uses names of places and landmarks to delineate the various areas of a city, much the way traditional maps [...]
Oct
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Old News
Way back in 1949, LIFE photographer Gjon Mili visited Picasso. He showed him some of his photographs of light patterns formed by a skater’s leaps, obtained by fixing tiny lights on the points of the skates and, inspired, the two created these photographs of Picasso ‘drawing’ with a small flashlight in a dark room. There’s more [...]
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“Don’t fence me in”
“I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses And I can’t look at hobbles and I can’t stand fences Don’t fence me in Poppa, don’t you fence me in” Looking at the soft and tender, yet strong and powerful fence from the [...]
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If one sheep leaps over the ditch ….
When the original petting farm burned down in the early 80’s 70F Architecture was asked to design a new one on the exact location and the remaining foundation. They came up with this gorgeous and animal-friendly design. The upper half of the building features an open facade system allowing the wind to ventilate the whole [...]
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Nostalgia
They say that just before you enter heaven you’ll see your life pass before your eyes. Usually imagined as a fast-forward flip book of sentimental still images: birth, parents, school, holiday, first girlfriend, first sex, job, wife, kids, etc. and all the little things in between, summating a totality of meagre existence in a split [...]
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Baroque battlefield
Meter-high heads in baroque style, men with streaming locks and women with expressive faces, scattered around as fragments in space. They evoke associations of a battle having been fought between the gods and the titans, the remains of which have now become visible. The work shows a conflict, an inner battle, but also the result [...]
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Supersized
The street where I live used to be quite a boring street until Florentijn Hofman decided to do something about that. He applied a layer of only 2 micron of blue paint onto one of the most unseen blocks of houses in my street and it became Rotterdam’s most photographed one. His redecorating made people [...]
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Tea Party
Tea Time by Freaks United/ is a handmade porcelain high tea set based on characters. Build up to be a family each piece has it’s own identity. With their character-like look they seem to be living their lives on the table like soldiers in a little nation. But what is a high tea without a [...]