where bikes and motorbikes go to die

-Bike graveyard, bike death trap, however you want to call it, in arizona or in mexico those are the places where your motorbike will go rest in peace. colorful and beautiful reflexion on our constant need for new products , imagine the amount of perfectly rideable products you would find in those places..

random wheels from san francisco

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Zander Olsen

- good old trick, new way of thinking about it, gorgeous
‘This is an ongoing series of constructed photographs rooted in the forest. These works, carried out in Surrey, Hampshire and Wales,involve site specific interventions in the landscape, ‘wrapping’ trees with white material to construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera’s viewpoint.’

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Acupainture aka Bowa , body painting ,face painting and graffiti

- We've seen body painting before, I've seen graffiti on bodies too, i just discover and fell in love with this symbiosis that Acupainture aka Bowa is creating between paint and curves , those curves are natural and are feminines but the colorful and violent lines and proportions that Bowa put on those body somehow compliment and create a all new level of beauty.

Those images are full of contrast, they are eye catching but they are also deep and somehow tells story ,I can only imagine that those kind of canvas are not just like a white page or a concrete wall, those ephemeral art pieces are for me some kind of a co-creation, between the model and the painter.

He's experimenting with paint but also with image through the lens of his camera,playing with light , mood , black and white ...

He's been also lately experimenting the mix of bodypainting and lightgraff with
Hide (that we highlighted in the past here on the design llama for a video collaboration with Benjiro) .

check his facebook page for way more pix .

From his own words:
"Après plus d'une dizaine d'années dans la pratique du graffiti...Me
tournant désormais vers la plus éphémère des disciplines,le body
painting.
& je passe dès lors sur le plus beau des "supports" : la Femme.
Je n'ai aucunement la prétention d'être photographe,ni même maquilleur...
Je suis juste un agitateur visuel, qui recherche la symbiose & la mise
en valeurs du corps féminin par la peinture."
AcupAinture aka bOwa

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"after more than 10 years spent doing graffiti ,my main practice is now the most ephemeral one: Body painting.
My support is the most beautifully one, Women's body .
I'm not proclaiming myself a photographer or even a make up artist ..
I am just a visual agitator,that search the symbiosis and try to highlight the women's body through paint.
AcupAinture aka bOwa

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Dead tires graveyard by edward burtynsky

-Shocking,insane and beautiful man made mess, this is what strikes me when i found those pictures of tires piled up till they formed those crazy landscape. Edward Burtynsky captured thoses in Westley, California, USA.

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Emily Carr University of Art + Design graduation show 09

- I went to the Emily CArr University last month (Vancouver BC-canada), it was the graduation event, this is a small selection of my favourite projects , enjoy .
In no special order:
painting by sheena-weber-leedham, bike by Adam Sabla,painting by Stephen Fritz , sculptures by Kitty Blandy Davies,Mixing Table by Jonhatan Igharas, playful kid games by Lucia Ho, and pictures by Brendon Hartley .

Digital-Divinations-Trey ratcliff

-impressive depth colors, contrast and subject, i like that .
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Slideluck Potshow

-Slideluck Potshow is a non-profit slideshow and potluck for members of arts, photography, and media communities. Participants bring food, drink, and up to five minutes worth of slides.
you should visit their website to see when the next event will happen, it seems really fun.
FEBRUARY
2: Chicago, Illinois
9: Los Angeles, California
15: Sao Paolo, Brazil
16: Washington, DC
22: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
29: Bogota, Colombia
pics by michaelitkoff
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Chris Jordan photography

-impressive way to photograph the everyday concumption of american people.
overal this website celebrate the beauty of mass consumption, go visit his website, it's a good way to realise how materialstic we are as human...
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new WWF ad campaign

-“15 km² of rain forest disappear every minute”. sad