Tuesday, August 28, 2012

GREEN FINGERS

Quite by chance I came across these 'green' jewelry pieces. I'm always on the lookout for fresh and innovative thinking made real - and these definitely qualify.














Saturday, August 18, 2012

If a rolling stone gathers no moss...

...static rocks may be tiled, by this forward thinking artist Dalia Goncalez.












Cold blooded photography

I have a wild penchant for anything herpetological - so I was hunting through the world wide web for some emotive imagery and I came across the photographer Jean Francois Carly. Of course, he doesn't only do these snake photos, but these are the only ones that stirred my cold blood.













Thursday, August 9, 2012

The Ruins of Detroit

This is an amazing book by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre. Full of incredible photographs of the decomposition of a great city.










Wednesday, August 8, 2012

The illustrations of Ray Caesar









PUT A POT IN IT

Pothole gardening is on the up. An innovative idea that I may take up myself - and it's not just gardening that fills these holes, the idea has evolved to include textiles and even lego.

















MOVIE TIME - Metropolis

Interesting facts on this epic movie include

Metropolis was filmed in 1925, at a cost of approximately four million Reichsmarks. 
It was the most expensive movie of its time.
It is considered to be the only 'Art Deco' movie ever made
Director Fritz Lang quoted Goebbels quoting Hitler: ‘Here is a man (Fritz Lang) who will give us great Nazi films.’ Hitler, in short, wanted Lang to serve as the head of a new agency supervising motion picture production in the Third Reich. He would become the Nazi’s Fuhrer of film”
Fritz Lang left the need to leave Germany and head for Paris and America
Metropolis ranked No. 12 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.
It was ranked number 2 in a list of the 100 greatest films of the Silent Era.