1. 4 Jan


    I’ll be moving in in the spring. I’ll also be the Queen of the Netherlands and I’ll ride my Unicorn to Saturn. Sigh……its nice to dream.

    I’ll be moving in in the spring.

    I’ll also be the Queen of the Netherlands and I’ll ride my Unicorn to Saturn.

    Sigh……its nice to dream.

     

  2. 10 Jan


    elektrabohemian: This is a unique geological phenomenon known as Danxia landform. These phenomena can be observed in several places in China. This example is located in Zhangye, Province of Gansu. The color is the result of an accumulation for millions of years of red sandstone and other rocks.

    elektrabohemian:

    This is a unique geological phenomenon known as Danxia landform. These phenomena can be observed in several places in China. This example is located in Zhangye, Province of Gansu. The color is the result of an accumulation for millions of years of red sandstone and other rocks.

    (via thanksearthquake)

     

  3. 10 Jan


    In the city of Harbin in China it gets cold during the winter, scratch that, really cold with temps 20 degrees (C.) below 0. So to stay warm the locals keep themselves busy every year by hosting the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. Artists and engineers get together to build massive structures out of ice – a small town if you will, consisting of churches, pyramids, pagodas and palaces. The structures are filled with modern amenities like elevators and escalators. Multicolored lights are installed inside the sculptures, making them look very beautiful in the dark. The ice festival has been held in Harbin every year since 1985, and it only continues to get bigger and more impressive every year.

    In the city of Harbin in China it gets cold during the winter, scratch that, really cold with temps 20 degrees (C.) below 0. So to stay warm the locals keep themselves busy every year by hosting the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. Artists and engineers get together to build massive structures out of ice – a small town if you will, consisting of churches, pyramids, pagodas and palaces. The structures are filled with modern amenities like elevators and escalators. Multicolored lights are installed inside the sculptures, making them look very beautiful in the dark. The ice festival has been held in Harbin every year since 1985, and it only continues to get bigger and more impressive every year.

     

  4. 10 Jan


    This guy in UNBELIEVABLE .  YOU MUST CHECK HIM OUT!!!!!! His work will numb your soul. http://www.joshuahoffine.com

    This guy in UNBELIEVABLE . 

    YOU MUST CHECK HIM OUT!!!!!!

    His work will numb your soul.

    http://www.joshuahoffine.com

     

  5. 13 Jan


    Amazing carved book landscapes…… For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says: So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are. Laramee’s next show will be in April of 2012 at the Galerie d’Art d’Outremont in Montreal. 

    Amazing carved book landscapes……

    For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says:

    So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are.

    Laramee’s next show will be in April of 2012 at the Galerie d’Art d’Outremont in Montreal. 

     

  6. 16 Jan


    I LOVE this bed. It will fit in nicely in my dream house.

    I LOVE this bed.

    It will fit in nicely in my dream house.

     

  7. 16 Jan


    A church, with its own cemetery, converted into a home. Oh, dream lover, come to meeeeeeeeeeeeeee……..

    A church, with its own cemetery, converted into a home.

    Oh, dream lover, come to meeeeeeeeeeeeeee……..

     

  8. 18 Jan



    Robert Gligorov Photography

     

  9. 22 Jan


    On June 11th 1963, Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline and He then ignited a match, and set himself on fire. Đức burned to death in a matter of minutes, and he was immortalized in a famous photograph taken by a reporter who was in Vietnam in order to photograph the war. All those who saw this spectacle were taken by the fact that Duc did not make a sound while burning to death. Đức was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm’s administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion.

    On June 11th 1963, Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline and He then ignited a match, and set himself on fire. Đức burned to death in a matter of minutes, and he was immortalized in a famous photograph taken by a reporter who was in Vietnam in order to photograph the war. All those who saw this spectacle were taken by the fact that Duc did not make a sound while burning to death. Đức was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm’s administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion.

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  10. 23 Jan


    all I want is to see this one day in person. 

    all I want is to see this one day in person. 

     

  11. 25 Jan



    Our trip to the Mansfield State Reformatory

    The cornerstone laid on November 4, 1886 evolved into this magnificent Chateauesque structure. Cleveland architect Levi T. Scofield designed the Ohio State Reformatory using a combination of three architectural styles; Victorian Gothic, Richardsonian Romanesque and Queen Anne. This was done to encourage inmates back to a “rebirth” of their spiritual lives. The architecture itself inspired them to turn away from their sinful lifestyle, and toward repentance. This grand structure is comprised of more than 250,000 square feet and houses the world’s largest free-standing steel cell block.

    Air Force One, The Shawshank Redemption, Tango and Cash, and Harry adn Walter go to New York have all been filmed there, along with parts of T.V shows like Ghost Hunters, and Scariest places on Earth. Music videos have also been filmed here, like Godmsacks and Marilyn Mansons. 

    My husband I took a trip there last September, it was awesome. Here are some of my pictures from it. 

    In any light, with all doors open, the light from all the windows casts a perfect X. It is said to be in the excat middle of the prison because the building is so bisymmetrical. Because the achitect, Scofield, was so paricular, it is probably so

    In “Shawshank” Andy crawls through 5 footballs fields worth of sewer pipe to escape the prison. In fact, it was about 4 foot of pipe, made to look sewer-y with dirt and choclate syrup. The pipe is on display at the prison. During the discovery of Andys escape, Warden Norton looks into the hole. Here, Rexs does his best Warden Norton impression….
      











     

  12. 27 Jan



    This is the actual chair the Abraham Lincoln was sitting in in Ford Theatre when he was shot in the head and killed by John Wilkes Booth. You can still see blood stains on it.
    This was another piece I was in awe of.

    Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI

     

  13. 27 Jan



    George Washingtons camp bed from Valley Forge.
    Again, I felt almost unreal being so near this. There are people in history, such as Washington, and Lincoln, that have become such a part of legend and myth that they no longer really seem like they were ever real, living people. 
    Seeing this cot, with its thin mattress, and the very crude and basic implements he had to cook with made the Father of Our Country seem human again

    Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI