We’ve never been to Japan. But we came across these images from the 1880s by Italian photographer Adolfo Farsari and we were amazed. Farsari was one of very few if any Europeans allowed access to the Japanese interior in the 1800s. He shot numerous photos (painstakingly hand-tinted) of rural life. The images are astounding and [...]
Aggravure is a series by French artist Baptiste Debombourg depicting the fall of Phaeton in an unusual medium. The image is based on The Four Disgracers (1588), engraved by Hendrick Goltzius, after Cornelisz van Haarlem. Debombourg spent nearly 75 hours creating these works, and after the jump you’ll see why.
We have a fascination with creepy old industrial places here at Creative & Sons. Something about their energy puts us on edge and gets our adrenaline pumping. So today we really hit the jackpot when we came across this great interactive panoramic photo of a control room from the Czech Republic. Talk about steampunk…it’s actually [...]
We needed some color in our lives today! Jen Stark is an artist who turns practically two-dimensional paper into three-dimensional works of art. Her explosions of color and shape bursting from mundane stacks of paper is beautiful and intriguing. Take a look at her site for more amazing examples of her work. Above is Coriolis [...]
Jonathan Blow’s Braid is hard to describe. If it were simply a puzzle-solving side-scrolling game it would be a solid, beautiful game. It has a lovely soundtrack, lush artwork (by David Hellman) and simple arrow-to-walk, space-bar-to-jump controls. But Braid is on an entirely different with the addition of a third dimension, and we’re not talking [...]
Rhett & Link put together this amazing stop-motion video animated on 222 screenprinted t-shirts. Have some fun today! T-shirt War!!! on YouTube
In his series “Primates” French photographer Ruben Brulat reminds us that, in relation to nature, humans are just another type of animal. Brulat photographs himself nude in vast landscapes devoid of other human constructs to emphasize our frailty and our often-forgotten symbiosis with the planet. The results are beautiful and striking. Also check out his [...]
Nuit Blanche by Spy Films is a beautiful short about a fleeting encounter in Paris. Rendered in 1940s-noir style, the movie is both beautiful and visually stunning with surprising slow-motion moments. We won’t ruin the story, just watch. (And if you’re more interested in the innovation than the illusion, view the making of.) Nuit Blanche [...]
Somewhere in Detroit photographer Gregory Holm and architect Matthew Radune are encasing an abandoned house in ice. The “architectural installation,” Ice House Detroit, is being blogged about from start (fundraising) to finish (disassembling the house and recycling the usable materials). Their purpose is to bring attention to the foreclosure problem in Detroit (Holm estimates “nearly [...]
This past weekend we saw a dozen houses on the Austin Modern Home Tour. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and are glad we’ve been exercising because that was a lot of work! (Tip to home tour goers world-wide: wear comfortable and easily removable shoes.) Although several houses made an impression, none stuck with us like 2900 [...]