lightly played

beautiful underwear by Jean Yu / epic angles by bassam el okeily / reflective graphics

silence in the shadowy land

Kim Høltermand

via the strange attractor

(and wise words from designer Chad Hagen for this article on overcoming a creative block)

Staying creative is hard work. Honestly, I don’t think when I got into art school I was very talented at all. I struggled to stand out. I struggled to stay in school. Staying creative was hard work. BUT, the one thing that kept me focused was my desire to be good. I wanted to be really good. I wanted to be as good as those people that WERE talented. I used to think I would eventually, if I worked hard enough, master art like a math equation and then I could relax and just make great stuff and let everything else follow. That time definitely never came, and I know now I never want it to, because the most important thing that keeps me creative is my wanting to be good. So if I’m ever in a rut, the best things to get me out of them is to put myself in places that engage that desire to be good. In a general sense this means to get out and be expose to others creating. In my opinion, there is no better way to trigger your own creativity, than to see what great things others have made or are making. Going to museums, galleries, shows, etc. always inspires my mind in a way that make me want to get back into my own work and make good things. Be good.

clean

what about your country house, and the life that is led there?

don't you think this holiday home in switzerland belongs in a modern day fairytale?

perfection, i like this very much...
(more abt villa vals here)

fading canvas

'closed lids' erwin blumenfeld

'the style of michelle obama', by brian rae

'resident church' by zecc

... when minusing is more important than adding.

losing my way in a labyrinth of grimy streets

spaces between...the ultimate grey area.
japan has the best alleyways and i became a little obsessed with photographing them when i was there...




Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Ando has explored this concept in his house of corridors... Mysterious, minimal and just extremely cool. see more at what we do is secret.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror

an artists studio in mexico.
epic light and shade and mindblowing angles. i'd be interested to see the art produced in this space...
by1o3

but this picture will remain always young

Pixel in der Galerie... part of pixel hotel in linz

that is what our century wants

if i was the writing kind i would write 1000 words about how much i like this trailer.

my playground teaser
(via kitsune noir)

form to formless things

floating house by mos

impossible to doubt

a genius

i am very interested in manipulating accidents to steer a design process. its a fact that change happens in the face of breakdowns. so to 'design a change' could be thought in terms of structuring an element of chance...

it takes a braniac like Sou Fujimoto to actually implement such things...

he seems to instill some form of disorder into the initial process, while the end products are aesthetically meticulous.

i have never been adverse to a slight institution feel... can always be counteracted with soft furnishings and well..the general chaos of life, but considering the above actually is a mental institution ...for kids ...in japan it seems a little cold, as in i would imagine they would have mini helmut lang uniforms, and be left to roam the grounds, chanting, in a semi-sedated follow the leader scenario. i know that is not the truth, but these shots (taken by the architect himself) do seem to accentuate the horror-film vibe.

It can be said that there is nothing center here and conversely, it can be said that there is a countless center. They are "relative centers" which always interchanges and changes with the consciousness of those who are there or the condition of light. (more here)

i love that this next one has an obvious 'front' and 'back' like a bended window box

A weekend house 2 hrs out of tokyo

imagined like the branches of a tree, it is one continuous room.

I intended architecture to be primitive, in between natural and man-made

i would give my soul for that

an old latin text book that i wish i never threw out had a great explanation of why ancient greeks structured their homes around a pool... have dreamt of building / designing / owning a version of that idea ever since.

this is the first minimal one i have ever come across:
concrete box house by architect Byoungsoo Cho