Inside Google Data Centers

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New York City-based architecture and interiors photographer Connie Zhou was invited by Google to its high-tech data centers, to create a photo series that gives viewers a glimpse into its strictly off-limits world. In the series ‘Where the Internet Lives’, the photographs give a previously-unseen look at the technology, people and places that keep Google running. via Design Taxi

You can also visit one of the Data Center using Google Street View

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Psychedelic paintings by Ted Vasin

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Ted Vasin is a Russian-born artist raised and based in San Francisco creating a wide range of works, often bound by their digital origins, presented as painting or as sound. His work combining representational drawing skills with colorful abstract forms is oftenly psychedelic or hyperrealist with a frequent use of self portraits.

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Peter Gronquist sculpture

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Portland based sculptor Peter Gronquist sits with "new surrealists" if speaking of labels but huge heads of bison, goats and other species, with their horns replaced with gilded weaponry and often delicately wrapped in floral ornamentation speak for themselves. Gronquist’s juxtaposition of death, nature and destruction calls forth many pertinent questions about humans’ relationship to the environment; the animal heads seems so real, yet so artificial and manipulated.

Drawings by Huguette Despault May

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Despite all of those digital trends we have been following last days, we believe that the main reason the art "made in classic materials" still exist is the selfless dedication artists give themselves everyday on blank paper. This statement is again proved by an artworks of Huguette Despault May from Maryland, US with her intense love to charcoal as a medium. Just take a look at the series of abandoned hawsers lines reflecting on a life of a simple rope that likely has a sea-wolf stories.

Erik Marinovich

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Erik Marinovich is a letterer and designer based in San Francisco. He is a co-founder of Friends of Type and has worked for clients such as New York Times, New York Magazine, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, Wired, Metropolis magazine, GAP, Diageo, Nike; while also freelancing for various studios such as: Landor, Brand Union, Greatworks, Anomaly in New York.

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Christy Lee Rogers

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"Christy Lee Rogers is a self-taught photographer from Kailua, Hawaii. Her obsession with water as a medium for breaking the conventions of contemporary photography has led to her work being compared to Baroque painting masters like Caravaggio." As stated in personal bio, not sure what to do with Caravaggio or copywriter there but her photography is definitely worth to see.

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Illustration of Rory Kurtz

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Rory Kurtz has been illustrating since he was old enough to hold a crayon. Self-taught and focusing in pencil, ink and digital paint, Rory has carved out his niche as a unique voice in the illustration community. His influences are spread out across the respective worlds of literature, fashion, art, film and music.

Max Shuster

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"Max Shuster is a photographer & designer from Nashville TN, USA. He mainly works on psychedelic themes with installation mixing things you wouldn’t imagine combining. When a phone and an octopus meet, a keyboard and a disco ball, or even when some pills team up to create a bowl, you’ll find in his creations a quite original aesthetic" via Whitezine