Urban Star Wars

I found these urbanized Star Wars pictures by French photographer Cedric Delsaux onyawoot.com.

I love the dichotomy of these shots. Yet, the environments still feel like they have a lot in common with the original films.

I'd like to see someone do this with the Lord of the Rings. I'm thinking a balrog on the Golden Gate Bridge, hobbits at the Santa Monica pier, or orcs in the New York subway.

BBC Dimensions

The BBC has created a cool Google Maps mash-up called Dimensions that makes large objects and historic events even more relevant by allowing you to see them in relationship to where you live. Here is the flooded section of Pakistan compared to Dallas, Texas...

And while the current oil spill in the Gulf is the public outcry du jour...

It's nothing compared to the Pacific Garbage Patch that we rarely hear anything about.

Abandoned and Feral Architecture

This video was shot by Teddy Smith shows the state of Six Flags New Orleans after five years of Katrina-induced abandonment.



These are pictures of feral Detroit houses taken by James Griffioen on his blog Sweet Juniper.

Canon Pixma

Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life, by Dentsu London

Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

Absolute eye candy.

Kent Rogowski's Bears

Kent Rogowski is a New York artist who takes teddy bears, opens them at the seams, turns them inside out, restuffs them and stitches them back up.

I love how the more gimmicky the original bear, the more the Rogowski-ized version looks like an escapee from Arkham Asylum.

Pallalink

Palla (aka Kazuhiko Kawahara) is a Japanese architect and photographer who plays with symmetry. He'll take a photograph like this...

And turn it into this...

Or these things...

Becomes these things...

I first read about him in Wired several years ago. I had a chance to buy the print below as a limited edition poster, and passed it up.

I should have bought one.

Oil & Water Do Not Mix Posters

Posters commissioned by a Belgian creative agency Happiness Brussels, and created by British artist Anthony Burrill using actual oil from the Gulf Coast spill.

OIL & WATER DO NOT MIX from Happiness Brussels on Vimeo.

A very cool idea. Why didn't any Americans see the connection and jump on it first?

Minimalist Star Wars Posters

Featured on flickr from JustinVG, and available for purchase on his imagekind page.

Justin Van Genderen is a Chicago designer. His web site is 2046Design.com.