You ever see those images of future-spaces or -buildings that are "coming soon" and wonder who creates them?
One of the companies responsible is Design Distill and their work is great. Who wouldn't want to be in these places?
More at Design Distill.
Alex Hogrefe is one of the partners there and he's also responsible for the Visualizing Architecture site, which offers tutorials and has a blog, though it hasn't been updated in a few years. You can see some of this gorgeous work below.
I've been reading Craig Mod's wonderful books about walking Japan and I realized how infrequently I see photos of the country that are not Tokyo, or at least not bustling. A bit of searching led me to these lovely b&w photos from Seiki Hayashi.
Many more on his Hayashi's Behance page.
TOILET FESTIVAL captures the essence of festivals through unexpected photographic portraits of festival-goers emerging from the toilets. These photos, taken spontaneously with a flash, reveal a gallery of unusual looks and attitudes, tinged with a touch of humor, constituting a sociological inventory of the various festival communities.
More on the Toilet Festival web page.
Someone name Terry is posting images of and thoughts on Edward Gorey to a blog. I'm letting you know, because who doesn't love Edward Gorey?
View the rest on Nature's Website.
Nick Veasey's X-RAY photos truly are spectacular. I have some X-RAYs of my dog that I've always meant to get printed but Nick's work is a whole other level. Extraordinary.
Plenty more on Veasey's website.
I've posted about Don't Hug Me I'm Scared before. They now have an official website.
If you're a musician, you should probably watch this video from Benn Jordan. It's only 3 minutes long.
If you want to get into the weeds on this, here's Jordan talking with Top Music Attorney about what's legally going on here. It's an hour forty and I've time-jumped it to skip their opening intros.
Masha Ivashintsova died in 2000 at the age of 58 and she left behind a considerable amount of undeveloped film, which her daughter found in the attic, sorted into dated envelopes.
She got it developed and shares them on the Masha Ivashintsova Website.
I sleep at Walmart that night, but the police will continue to come as if I’m some kind of one-man crime wave.
I meant to post this last month but it slipped through the cracks. Well worth a read: My Life As a Homeless Man in America.
The author had formally written for the Boston Globe and Reuters.
Patrick Fealey
