LayerVault

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Just got a positive recommendations from designers to look on new version control for designers - LayerVault. Backed with unlimited storage, team collaboration and real-time feedback with updates you can easily manage design changes with customer or a team. It works with Adobe files, adapts to iOS resolutions and seems to be a dream box for any pixel-perfect maniac http://layervault.com/. You can try it for 30 days for free and of course it works only on Macs :) Sleek icon made by the best Russian interface designers from SoftFacade

http://vimeo.com/40932981

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=avP5d16wEp0

Petr Lovigin Photography

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Petr Lovigin is a Russian photographer born and raised in Yaroslavl. After graduating from architecture his passion to capture a states of art transformed into photography. In his latest photo stories each of the set has a personal dignity and same time can break apart to a small pieces of art with their own meaning and thoughts on the captured moment. (Livejournal on Russian only, check Flickr)

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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Kidult – Visual Dictatorship

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French graffiti artist Kidult is back with the short film ‘Visual Dictatorship’. Continuing to make strong statements about corporations, brands and the current state of our world. Known for his large tags on store fronts of International high fashion brands, the video follows the artist around the globe doing just that.

http://vimeo.com/50435668

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Ordos - A Skate Trip to Inner Mongolia

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Filmmaker Charles Lanceplaine went on a skate trip to Ordos, a test-tube city located in the remote area of Inner Mongolia. Dubbed “the Dubai of northern China” the city is crammed full of buildings, which seem to be built for the sole purpose of being skated on. Considering Ordos is designed to house a millions of people, but is actually inhabited by merely a few millions just adds to that feeling. Directed, filmed & edited by: Charles Lanceplaine Additional filming: Patrik Wallner & Tommy Zhao

http://vimeo.com/51333291

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Ponte Tower

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Another example of monstrous architecture - the tallest residential building in Africa "Ponte Tower" located in Johannesburg. The largest building to have an internal round well of a huge height all done by architects (Mannie Feldman, Manfred Hermer and Rodney Grosskopf) because of a law in 70ss to have a windows in bathroom and kitchen.Here is a mini documentary on the icon of Johannesburg directed by Phillip Bloom

http://vimeo.com/51295174