Art

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.

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.

Michael Massaia's gorgeous architectural photos:

“For Xiaodan” — Early morning portraits of tenements scattered throughout New York City’s Chinatown.

He writes that, "All images are split toned and tinted Gelatin Silver prints."

Plenty more on Massaia's site.

Roger Deakins is best known as a cinematographer, but his black-and-white still photography is quite gorgeous.

Deakins also has a film-related podcast, Team Deakins, that he co-hosts with his wife James. The great thing about the podcast is how they often interview the rarely-interviewed film professionals: cinematographers, Costume Designers, VFX people, etc.

Deakins' official site is here, but the still photography is viewable as part of The Hulett Collection.

Nico Sawatzki's paintings manage to be both organic and industrial at the same time. I imagine that in person one would want to reach out and touch them.

More on Sawatzki's site.