Wonders & Wanders

enochliew: Home of Lorenzo Castillo 1960s Jansen daybeds...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:27:44 -0500

Home of Lorenzo Castillo

1960s Jansen daybeds upholstered in a Madeleine Castaing fabric, replica of a Michelangelo sculpture from a Paris flea market, and 19th-century Spanish doors.

talonwolf: hush - talon wolf

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:10:39 -0500

talonwolf:

hush - talon wolf

oxane: Walden Farm by LARRY CARLSON

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:09:44 -0500

oxane:

Walden Farm by LARRY CARLSON

eugenialoli: Wow, what a year this has been! I started...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:09:20 -0500

Normalization

The Sphinx

Glyphs

Perspective

Gravitational Pull

Pythia

Yerba Buena

Knots

Pilgrimage to the Urban God

Flamenco, Part 2 of 2

eugenialoli:

Wow, what a year this has been! I started collaging in April, and I haven’t been able to stop since. You got to know me as a collage artist, so for you it’s easy to imagine the artist’s zeal. But for those who know me personally, this was a surprising, major shift from “doing nothing, all day long”, to “doing collages, all night long”, like a maniac.

The thing started taking off around end of July, when the TumblR Radar featured my “Naive Honeymooners” collage (thank you guys!). Since then it’s been quite a nice, steady ride: a few magazine editorial work and/or commissions (UTNE Reader, among them), and interviews on both online and printed culture magazines (e.g. Curve, and in print). I’m still contemplating if I should apply for work at an illustration agency, or if I should just keep doing collages for fun.

I’d have to mention once more that the vast majority of my collages are available in their full resolution at my FlickR, so if you own a photo printer and some photo paper, you can print them yourself at home. Quality will be almost the same as what you get from my online store. It would only cost you anywhere between $1 and $3 to print at home (depending on paper quality, size). If you guys like any of my Creative Commons doodles, please go ahead and print!

So, anyway, in the photoset above it’s my personal best-of for 2012. Next Year’s Resolution is to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator better, since I’d like to incorporate some complex geometrical objects to my artworks, I’d like to evolve more… I will also play around with watercolor paintings (I bought all the supplies, now I just need to learn it). And at some point, I will finish that short-story movie I wanted to do using my collages…

Follow the artist: TumblR | FlickR | Facebook | Cargo | Society6

This incredible photo marks the end of Matador Torero Alvaro...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:07:47 -0500

This incredible photo marks the end of Matador Torero Alvaro Munera’s career. He collapsed in remorse mid-fight when he realized he was having to prompt this otherwise gentle beast to fight. He went on to become an avid opponent of bullfights. Even grievously wounded by picadors, he did not attack this man.

Torrero Munera is quoted as saying of this moment: “And suddenly, I looked at the bull. He had this innocence that all animals have in their eyes, and he looked at me with this pleading. It was like a cry for justice, deep down inside of me. I describe it as being like a prayer - because if one confesses, it is hoped, that one is forgiven. I felt like the worst shit on earth.”

knowledgeequalsblackpower: nativethinghood: “Afronaunts” by...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:04:50 -0500

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

nativethinghood:

“Afronaunts” by Cristina De Middel is an afro futurist glance into the exploration of space and time. Check out write up by Scrambler.

I love this!!!!! Yes.

I never really considered that my concept of how the future will look is Western/White until this very moment. Now I’m suddenly considering a different thing all together could be possible.

designismymuse: Old meets new- A renovated church by architect...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:58:44 -0500

designismymuse:

Old meets new- A renovated church by architect David Closes in Spain (via design milk).

A beautiful example!

Photo

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:50:47 -0500

oxane: Aggregate 2 4 2012 by Sea Moon

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:49:52 -0500

oxane:

Aggregate 2 4 2012 by Sea Moon

adayinthelandofnobody: Revolved forms by Črtomir Just on...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:46:11 -0500

adayinthelandofnobody:

Revolved forms by Črtomir Just on Behance

oxane: Ornament in a Box by Quasimondo

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:44:58 -0500

oxane:

Ornament in a Box by Quasimondo

inthemess: Matt W. More and aarn collaborated on these...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:44:10 -0500

inthemess:

Matt W. More and aarn collaborated on these numerically controlled sharpie drawings.

They made this series using Matt’s original vectors and a sharpie attached to a 3-axis CNC machine.

penabranca: ‘The Self is More Distant Than Any Star’ ©...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:07:30 -0500

penabranca:

‘The Self is More Distant Than Any Star’

© Penabranca

oxane: RoseBed [12036_V_Flower_PLUS_09_4_4 Holger Lippmann

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:06:26 -0500

oxane:

RoseBed [12036_V_Flower_PLUS_09_4_4

Holger Lippmann

darksilenceinsuburbia: JJ Cramer.Our Own Little Blind But...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:04:30 -0500

darksilenceinsuburbia:

JJ Cramer.Our Own Little Blind But Living Force, 2011. Mixed media o paper, 15 x 15”.

Simon McWilliams. Smoke and Ladders. Oil on linen, 60 x...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:40:35 -0500

Simon McWilliams.

Smoke and Ladders. Oil on linen, 60 x 72”.

Obelisk and Smoke. Oil on Linen, 40 x 32”.

Tower of Babel. Oil on Linen, 32 x 24 “.

Titanic Quarter Building. Oil on Canvas, 24 x 31”.

Chris Holmquist Stipple effect Micron...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:21:01 -0500

Chris Holmquist

Stipple effect

Micron Marker

lavabirds.tumblr.com

Nike Workers Claim Company Hired Military To Intimidate...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:20:31 -0500

Nike Workers Claim Company Hired Military To Intimidate Them

Workers at a Nike shoe factory in Indonesia say the factory paid military personnel to intimidate them into working for less than the minimum wage.

After millions of workers went on strike last year in Indonesia over low pay and cost of living increases, the government lifted wage rates.

But workers at the Nike factory in the west Java city of Sukabumi say they were made to sign a petition supporting the factory’s claim to be exempt from paying the new wage.

In mobile phone footage of the factory, shown to the ABC, a man standing over workers can be heard telling them, “you all have to sign it”.

The woman who took the footage does not want to be named, but says she and other workers tried to reject the pay restriction.

“We got summoned by military personnel that the company hired to interrogate us and they intimidated us,” she said.

“The first thing that scared me was his high tone of voice and he banged the table.

“And also he said that inside the factory there were a lot of military intelligence officers. That scared me.”

Unions in Indonesia say at least six Nike-contracted factories have applied to be exempt from paying the increased rate.

The Trade Union Rights Centre’s Surya Tjandra says there is a loophole to get an exemption.

“You have to provide financial conditions of the company in the last two years which show some not profit, and then you have to accept some consent from the workers directly, which is not that easy because for the workers, the new wages is actually better and fairer,” he said.

If the factory gets an exemption, the employees will get paid $3.70 a day instead of $4.

Activists say that after rent and transport to work, it is only enough to afford one meal.

Supermassive Black Hole by ELIA FERNANDEZ

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:13:29 -0500

Supermassive Black Hole by ELIA FERNANDEZ

caro-ma: “A Pagan Persperctive” collaboration Caro-Ma with...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:10:18 -0500

caro-ma:

“A Pagan Persperctive” collaboration Caro-Ma with Tomek Dakiniewicz