Cliff House concept by Modscape

Living on the edge has never been so close until we found this Cliff House concept designed by Australian architects at Modscape

From the website: "A five storey modular home clings to the side of a cliff in this conceptual design by Modscape. The Cliff House is a design response for Emma and David, a couple who approached Modscape to explore design options for a holiday home on an extreme parcel of land they own on the south-west coast of Victoria. Inspired by the way barnacles cling to the hull of a ship, a concept was developed for a modular home to hang off the side of a cliff as opposed to sitting on top of it. The home is visualised as a natural extension of the cliff face rather than an addition to the landscape, creating an absolute connection with the ocean. As the design itself would make conventional construction prohibitive, the concept utilises Modscape’s modular design and prefabrication technologies to deliver a series of stacked modules that are anchored into the cliff face using engineered steel pins. Entry to the home is through a carport on the top floor, where a lift vertically connects you through each of the descending living spaces. Internally, the living spaces feature minimalistic furnishings to ensure that the transcendent views of the ocean and the unique spatial experience of the location remain the integral focal point of the design."

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Food in 60 seconds

You have never seen food motion video like this. The team of Food Film directors Michael Roulier and Philippe Lhomme together with food stylists Emmanuel Turiot and Gilles Poidevin created a short spot for Marks & Spenser Food. Don't forget to check their portfolio, especially if you work with food photography, pretty awesome examples over there www.foodfilm.fr

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Morning Tents by Oleg Grigoryev

This playful collection of photographs features one man's view from the inside of a tent. Simply called Morning Views From the Tent, the inspirational travel series was created by photographer Oleg Grigoryev. Each image offers a unique glimpse of the Tajikistan landscape from the eyes of an adventurer traveling through the Fann Mountains.via oleg-girgoryev9

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Parisian rooftops photographed by Michael Wolf

"For a photographer living in a major city filled with iconic architecture, museums, and myriad tourist destinations, the struggle to capture an authentic image is great. This was the exact situation photographer Michael Wolf found himself in after moving to Paris from Hong Kong in 2008. Surrounded in a city filled with sights that could easily be interpreted as cliché, Wolf pointed his camera away from the recognizable landmarks and instead focused on the dense rooftops surrounding the city. Packed with stout chimneys, tv antennas, graffiti, and numerous geometric forms, these shots present a strange abstracted view of a usually recognizable place." text by Colossal

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Food Art by Dina Belenko

Russian self-taught photographer Dina Belenko creates alluring still life images which she calls “photoillustrations”. Combining creative and well arranged compositions with photography and a little bit of photo manipulation skills, Belenko creates beautiful food photography starring various inanimate objects: food products, utensils and other props.

I prefer still life because the role of chance is incredibly limited here. You may feel as a director < …> Each failure is your own failure, but every victory is also completely yours.

Belenko is participating in an ongoing project called “An Endless Book”. Each week, participants have to upload an artwork under a self-selected topic. At the end of 2015, a huge panoramic image will be made featuring all of their works. You can read more about it at the official website.

text by Beautiful Decay

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For What It's Worth

Mining has always been a balance of give and take. On the one hand, precious materials useful for humans are extracted from the ground, and on the other, gigantic scars are left on the landscape. In his latest series, For What It’s Worth (part II), photographer Dillon Marsh visualises the quantity of copper and diamonds unearthed at mines around his home of South Africa. Using computer generated spheres to represent the material, he is given us a strikingly clear picture of sacrifice and gain. via

The CGI objects represent a scale model of the materials removed from each mine,” explains Marsh, “a solid mass occupying a scene showing the ground from which it was extracted. By doing so, the intention is to create a kind of visualisation of the merits and shortfalls of mining in South Africa, an industry that has shaped the history and economy of the country so radically

Cooper

Tweefontein Mine, Concordia 1887 -1904 Over 100m deep, 38,747.7 tonnes of copper extracted

Jubilee Mine, Concordia 1971 to 1973 Over 100m deep, 6,500 tonnes of copper extracted

Blue Mine, Springbok 1852 to 1912  3,535 tonnes of copper extracted

West O’okiep Mine, Okiep 1862 to the early 1970s Over 500m deep, 284,000 tonnes of copper extracted

Nababeep South Mine, Nababeep 1882 to 2000 Over 500m deep, 302,791.65 tonnes of copper extracted

Diamonds

Kimberley Mine (1871 - 1914) 14.5 million carats of diamonds extracted

Kimberley Mine (1871 - 1914) 14.5 million carats of diamonds extracted

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Koffiefontein Mine (1870 - 2014) 7.6 million carats of diamonds extracted

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Jagersfontein Mine (1871 - 1969) 9.52 million carats of diamonds extracted

Nature arranged by colour by Emily Blincoe

"Photographer Emily Blincoe (previously) continues to make us smile with her arrays of food and plants perfectly organized by color. Blincoe collects every color permutation of tomatoes, oranges, eggs, and even candy and then sorts them into groups and gradients for each image. Her wildly popular photos have attracted a huge following on Instagram and Tumblr, and many are available as prints." text by Colossal

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Greetings from California by Damien Vignaux

Greetings from California is a video postcard created by talented fashion and model photographer Damien Vignaux best known as Elroy. The film also includes backstage material of 4 photoshoots he had with great models : Steffie Cook, Brianna Olenslager, Sophia Mondi and Courteney McCullough. You can see more of the photo sets on Damien's Tumblr : elroyo.tumblr.com http://vimeo.com/103597061

New Photography Paintings by Flora Borsi

Hungarian photographer and graphic designer Flora Borsi has recently launched her new series called "IRÉEL", featuring mix of photographic elements with painting techniques. Last photo below is a behind the scene frame to see how she produced the final work.

A hyperrealist painter aims to achieve a result which looks like a real photographic picture. A pictorialist photographer's desired result is visually equivalent to a painting. The photographs are real, I've just applied some color/toning effects, adjusted the contrast and a few skin retouch.

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Alessio Albi

Alessio Albi's stunningly atmospheric portraits explore light and shadows

I love natural light because it creates amazing shapes and volumes that I can’t obtain with artificial light. I could spend an entire day waiting for that precise ray of light coming through my window and shoot hundreds of photos only with this light source, because I love the way it interacts with the human body. I also love cloudy days for my outside shooting, because clouds create the perfect light diffuser and add lot of atmosphere to pictures. I love low light not only because it adds a lot to the atmosphere I want to create, but because it helps me to exclude a lot of details that would distract from the subject.

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Monochrome Food by Isabella Vacchi

Photographer Isabella Vacchi created delightful photographs of food spreads stylishly arranged by color in her project, ‘MONOCHROME’. In her work, Vacchi ensured that the monochrome theme is consistent throughout her photos by matching props, cutlery, and mood lighting with the respective food spreads, leaving viewers enthralled as they examine her photos in detail. via

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