Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Clement Valla

Clement Valla makes a lot of interesting art using unexpected digital tools.

In his project Bridges, he uses satellite photos and 3D landscape information from Google Earth to find bizarre photos that wrap man-made structures to the contour of the earth.

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The result is almost a little scary.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Alan Wolfson

The only thing that I can find more beautiful than intricate, characterful-yet-accurate drawings of buildings is tiny, characterful-yet-accurate scale models of buildings. Alan Wolfson has been creating tiny city models for longer than I have existed, and my awe and wonder upon discovering them has compelled me to share these marvelous creations. The images below are from his latest piece. Not only did he recreate New York's Canal St, but he recreated the subway system beneath.

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His site has tons of larger photos so you can pore over their glorious splendor.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic

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Here's an incredibly painstaking, ridiculously intricate piece of art.
The Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech republic is probably one of the weirdest, most insane works of art. Imagine one part sculpture, and one part mausoleum.


Built from the skeletons of between 40,000 to 70,000 people, the arrangements within the Sedlec Ossuary defy imagination. A Woodcarver named Frantisek Rint, was hired to give order to the massive amount of human remains that had been exhumed after a push to reconstruct the holy ground around a Gothic church in the town of Sedlec.
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The bones used in this fantastic macabre wonder had once been the property of hundreds of thousands of people that had died in the mid 14th century due to the Black Death.


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These awesome original photos came from Curious Expeditions Photoset on Flickr.
There are more amazing photos
here if you'd like to see more!
There are 33 great ones in total in the set.


And, if you'd like to know more history behind this place, more images and content can be found at
SedlecOssuary.com