I’ve been a long-time fan of Pat Perry and have blogged about him before. Amazing watercolor work with a unique perspective. Love this Detroit artist’s style.
(Source: patperry.net, via theonlymagicleftisart)
Sculpture by Rob Mulholland
His amazing “Vestige” series of six life sized mirrored Perspex figures can be seen installed at the David Marshall Visitors centre, Aberfoyle Scotland. It was commissioned by the Forestry Commission Scotland.
From his website:
In Vestige I wanted to explore this relationship further by creating a group, a community within the protective elements of the woods, reflecting the past inhabitants of the space.
Before the First World War this area of Scotland was open hillside with small sheep farming Crofts [ farms ] and rural communities. The crofters were moved to other land by the government as there was a desperate need for timber after the war, the area was planted with fast growing conifer trees suitable for harvesting softwood and the landscape altered once again.
You can still see the some faint outlines of the crofts and past settlements within the forest, this intrigued me and I wanted to find a visual form that would represent the past inhabitants of this land.
The six male and female figures represent a vestige, a faint trace of the past people and communities that once occupied and lived in this space. The figures absorb their environment, reflecting in their surface the daily changes of life in the forest. They create a visual notion of non – space. A void as if they are at one moment part of our world and then as they fade into the forest they become an intangible outline.
The human desire to leave a trace of ones-self for future generations has always intrigued me. It’s a driving force to create and leave a semblance of our-selves as individuals and society. The reflective figures ask us to look again and consider the symbiotic relationship we have with our natural and man-made environment.
Paradise Parking
Paradise Parking is a new series of work (and soon to be book by the same title) by American-born, Paris-based photographer Peter Lippmann. The photos capture abandoned cars in a state of complete decay as each is gradually consumed by nature. The works will soon be on display in Brussels courtesy Gallery Sophie Maree. (via visual news, featureshoot)
Sarah Esteje is an amazing artist with some pretty compelling pen skills. Her portraits of people and animals in blue bic pen are incredible.
platypus © sarah esteje
The Pojman Pocket Protector Collection
1,200 strong and growing.
beautiful.
(Source: scientificillustration, via thingsorganizedneatly)
Young boys, victims of child labor, working in a bowling alley, 1910. This picture was taken at 1 a.m.
Colonial Theater, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, ca. 1913.
Showing the silent melodrama Traffic in Souls, tickets 25 cents. Photo by Hermann C. Benke.
via: Manitowoc Public Library by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
A smartly waxed vintage Barbour hunting jacket is a thing of beautiful form and function. A closet must-have.
(Source: barbour.com, via waxedcotton)
After he said stuff like “War is hell” and introduced the bed-head hairstyle, General William Tecumseh Sherman appears to have become a lover, not a fighter. According to an 1886 magazine, the retired general’s “specialty is in kissing young women, of which he has probably done more than any living American.” Another account has him telling President Ulysses S. Grant, “You may drive your fast horses and I will kiss all the pretty girls! Ha! ha! that shall be my fad.” For more on American historical figures kissing unsuspecting victims, see here.
Advert for the first Kodak camera, 1889 via Eastman Kodak: 130 years of history – in pictures | Business | guardian.co.uk
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