the transformative power of books: they always make a space feel warm even if it’s grey and made of concrete.
via: chictip
This is what I’m looking for for my life.
in a day and age where everything has become about convenience and instant gratification, the beauty of something hand crafted that bears the scrutiny of a craftsman, it only becomes something more valued i think, and in that its something i will always love and keep a part of me. this guy has it right.
Monumenta 2011: Anish Kapoor
Well here’s something to aspire to… They’ve never given Monumenta to a woman before.
(via Eyewitness: Monumental art | Art and design | guardian.co.uk)
“Trace Heavens” is a series of gorgeous light installations by James Nizam. To create these images James painstakingly made incisions into the structure of a house to capture and manipulate sunlight into light sculptures.
How cool is it that I can go on Friday?
Daniel Buren
Excentrique(s)
2012
Site specific installation for MONUMENTA 2012, Grand Palais, Paris
(Opens the 10th Mai 2012)
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n. the desire to hold on to time as it passes, like trying to keep your grip on a rock in the middle of a river, feeling the weight of the current against your chest while your elders float on downstream, calling over the roar of the rapids, “Just let go—it’s okay—let go.”
this installation by Hackney studio Troika creates overlapping pools of light on the floor like raindrops falling on water. (via Dezeen » Blog Archive » Designed in Hackney: Falling Lightby Troika)
Paul Cocksedge‘s pendant lamp made from heat-shrunk plastic cups. (via Dezeen » Blog Archive » Styrene by Paul Cocksedge)
