CULTURE | 2020/02/25 大阪の「社会主義的風景」写真集『OSAKAN SOCIALISM』は、ヴェイパーウェイヴ以降の「失われた未来」の文脈と接続する Twitterで話題になっていた、大阪の「社会主義的風景」の写真を収めたZINE『OSAKAN SOCIALISM』。京... Twitterで話題になっていた、大阪の「社会主義的風景」の写真を収めたZINE『OSAKAN SOCIALISM』。京都の誠光社や大阪のシカク、東京のReadin' Writin'など、本好きが集まる独立系書店にも置かれ始めている。 例としてこの写真集に挙げられた、どこか空虚な風景に「なるほど」と感覚的に伝わるものがあったのだが、「社会主義的風景とは何なのか？」ということを言語化するのは難しい。ただロシアのアンドレイ・タルコフスキーの映画にも通ずる、寂しさや人気の無さ、薄ら寒さ、終わった未来……

daigo ishii + future-scape architects has envisioned six great cities as tokyo-themed urban landscapes, drawing from the rich graphic language and vibrant visual effects seen on the city’s streets. presented as part of the venice architecture biennale, ‘worldwide tokyo-lization project’ explores the idea of ‘locality’ and asks ‘what is the image of a city?’ if elements from its environment are rep

Tender Moments Between Friends and Lovers Illustrated in Photos of the Sky by Thomas Lamadieu Venice, Italy We’ve long be fans of illustrator Thomas Lamadieu‘s quirky depictions of people inhabiting the strange spaces between buildings in his original photographs of the sky. His latest pieces are set against backdrops above South Korea, Italy, Germany, Austria and Spain, some of which also incorpo

laurent chéhère’s airborne architecture series sees french houses fly all images © laurent chéhère french photographer laurent chéhère‘s ongoing ‘flying houses’ series takes cues from his love of cinema and personal wanderings around little-known neighborhoods of his hometown of paris. five, never-before-exhibited images from the series are presented by muriel guépin, NY from now until february 22

sou fujimoto adds greenery to layered cube installation in paris many small cubes, 2014 steel, anodise aluminum, trees / 800 x 900 x 1000 cm presented by galerie philippe gravier, paris; with the support of intermonde light sculptor, patrick rimoux image © marc domage marking his first work in paris, japanese architect sou fujimoto has realized a monumental installation as part of the small nomad

Artist and painter Yusuke Asai (previously) has a new mud mural on display at Houston’s Rice Gallery. Working day and night with a team of assistants, the Japanese artist, who is known for his “earth paintings” made from locally sourced mud and dirt, spent just under 2 weeks covering the walls and floors of the gallery with soil collected in Houston. “There are so many kinds of soil in Houston and

r_b arc designs modular water chiller plant at OSU all images courtesy of r_b arc ‘the south campus central chiller plant’ by american firm ross_barney architects will provide the medical medical district of the ohio state university in columbus with a long term, efficient and sustainable solution for chilled water production and distribution. addressing durability and redundancy with a modular de

PRIVATE COMmISSION | an AMALGAMATE of folkestone’s key landmarks, presented as AN INTRICTE COLLAGE COMMERCIAL BRIEF | SHIFT.MS | CREATIVE METAPHOR TO COMMUNICATE THE MEDICAL CONDITION OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS COMMERCIAL BRIEF | NIKE LAB + THE ART OF PING PONG | 60 ping pong bats IllustratED in 7 days. Each bat a celebration of ROGER FEDERER

aymrc: A selection of Backgrounds made for Space Dandy #9, episode imagined and directed by Eunyoung Choi. I had the chance to paint every backgrounds which took 4 and ½ month for 340 cuts. If you like those I can make an other selection :) Anyway I encourage you to watch the show! You can also follow me on twitter : https://twitter.com/AYMRC I don’t usually reblog anything for Anime Backgrounds,

‘living together in paradise’, 2011 by nguyen manh hungimage © fee harding presented as part of the 7th asia pacific triennial of contemporary art in queensland, australia until the 14th of april, 2013 is the ambitious sculpture by nguyen manh hung titled ‘living together in paradise’. the artist created the diorama to surround a meticulously hand-built, three meter tall model of a residential hou