Flickr Friday

‘Maybe you should treat yourself to a pigeon phobia.’, he says and the sun sticks bright strips on slate blue plumage. From somewhere a guitar is strumming rough longing songs, maybe from the riverside or – never mind.

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Gerhard Mayer

The Nuremberg-based artist Gerhard Mayer creates large scale wallpieces, using China ink and his own mathematical rules. He is into elementary particles and physics for a long time now and he develops his works following strict regularities.

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Visang House

Seoul-based architectural studio MOON HOON often raises questions like ‘Why so serious? Why not laugh more?’. Their effusive and quirky architectural design of Visang House is a response to these questions. One end touches the ground, while the other end stands straight into the sky, nearly like an inchworm.

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Listen to Your Hands

‘Listen to Your Hands’ by designer Lee Sanghyeok is a beautiful piece of furniture, exploring our interactions. The drawers in Sanghyeok Lee’s desk are all connected on the inside by a single, empty space. Close a drawer too quickly and the sudden burst of air forces another drawer to pop out unexpectedly elsewhere.

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Greetings from Utopia

Photographers and friends Amanda Jasnowski and Jimmy Marble teamed up for their new photo series ‘Greetings from Utopia’ which was shot in LA in February this year. It features their friends painted head to toe in color and represents their love for the colorful, surreal dreaminess of LA.

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Bones can wait

Caterina Silenzi makes mysterious sculptures, merging animal and human bodyshapes whilst using an old Japanese technique to create the ceramics, named Raku. This type of craft dates back to the 16th century and is known for having strong correlations with nature due to its creative process using fire, earth, water and air.

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Biosphere 2

Over twenty years ago, a group of scientists, entrepreneurs, philosophers, and free-thinkers put their minds and resources together to create a singular and lasting testament to an unfashionable notion: science and exploration, having become hyper-specialized and incremental, needed a return to big ideas and leaps of faith.

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Insta Favs #32: Amanda Jas

Amanda Jasnowski is now a Brooklyn Girl, originally coming from Ohio. Moving here last year, she mostly works in New York and Los Angeles. In High School she started taking photos and hasn’t stopped since. Her aesthetic has grown much since the beginning and that’s why she left work from her earlier days online, mostly to serve as a visual timeline that expresses the growth.

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Curaçao Video Recap

Earlier this year we already showed some pictures of our Curaçao trip here on iGNANT. Now we gathered our impressions and created a two minute long video of our one-week vacation at this Caribbean island.

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If I Were

Chinese artist Cao Hui challenges conventional perception of inanimate objects by re-imagining their innards as something more than the inorganic materials used to compose their exterior.

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