Master Plan
In a series titled Master Plan, Chad Wright was conflating a child’s sandcastle with architecture typifying postwar American suburbia.
Photography by Lynn Kloythanomsup of Architectural Black.
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Wild Belle – Keep You
Chicago’s own Wild Belle have dropped a video for »Keep You« quite a while ago. The time has come to become familiar with their Reggae influenced summer music. Watch the video below, directed by Melina Matsoukas, and look out for Wild Belle’s debut album »Isles«. There is much more to discover.
Suburban
»Suburban« is a photography, film and installation project created by New York based artist Ian Strange. His work is a radical transformation of a familiar suburban world of detached houses with gardens. In addition, his video shows a massive explosion in slow motion to create a moving statement around Western ideas of home.
»Harvard Street« – Ian Strange 2012
»Lake Road« – Ian Strange 2012
»Corinne Terrace« – Ian Strange 2011
Überwachungsstaat
Überwachungsstaat – was ist das? Antworten gibt’s hier.
Drift
Snarkitecture is a collaborative practice operating in territories between the disciplines of art and architecture. Their entry Drift Pavilion at Design Miami 2012 was created from several hundred white vinyl tubes inflated with air.
Paper City
This delicate animation follows the charming rise and fold of a fragile metropolis. Paper City grows in one fluid take, with skyscrapers rising from the page – only to crumble, wrinkle and gently crease back into the ground.
Scooter in Indonesia
German weekly newspaper Zeit published a great series by American documentary photographer Ed Wray about pimped Vespa lookalikes in Indonesia, after all the production facility of the legendary scooter till 2001. The photographs were taken during a scooter festival in Cibeureum, about 100 km west of Jakarta.