This Victorian Tin Chapel (built at the end of the 19th century in corrugated iron) located in Faversham on the coast of England was re-purposed into a home by artist and craftsman Nick Kenny, who camped in the chapel with only cold water and a hotplate as he re-built for 18 months.

“Pretty much everything in here has been bought for a pittance as scrap or salvage, or picked up for next to nothing at auction,” Nick explains.

The spiral staircase alone is worth the dedication!

Via TrendHome.

Roughly textured, rich, and darkly exposed table objects hunted (mostly) on a new blog I’m loving: brown dress with white dots. Still life will always be a past time of mine, from my childhood days of setting up seemingly disparate objects in a group, photographing with a Polaroid, and drawing with colored pencils.

Kudos to K. You are forever a huntress of beautiful things.

Dreaming of studio spaces… it’s that cozy-winter-hold-up to write and create feeling. Looking at art books, strange images, the snow outside.   (by Old Chum) via fivedeer:
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Dreaming of studio spaces… it’s that cozy-winter-hold-up to write and create feeling. Looking at art books, strange images, the snow outside.  

(by Old Chum)

via fivedeer:

This beautiful little two minute vimeo Murmuration completely captivated me this evening. Duo of Sophie Windsor Clive and Liberty Smith have a project called Islands and Rivers where they work with a small crew and make amazing little shorts on or near the water. Watch here. /merr’meuh ray”sheuhn/, n. 1. an act or instance of murmuring. 2. a flock of starlings. “A short film that follows the journey of two girls in a canoe on the River Shannon and how they stumble across one of nature’s greatest phenomenons; a murmuration of starlings.” For J.R. ::via BOOOOOOOM!
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This beautiful little two minute vimeo Murmuration completely captivated me this evening. Duo of Sophie Windsor Clive and Liberty Smith have a project called Islands and Rivers where they work with a small crew and make amazing little shorts on or near the water.

Watch here.

/merr’meuh ray”sheuhn/, n.

1. an act or instance of murmuring.

2. a flock of starlings.

“A short film that follows the journey of two girls in a canoe on the River Shannon and how they stumble across one of nature’s greatest phenomenons; a murmuration of starlings.”

For J.R.

::via BOOOOOOOM!

The Unbelievable Airstream! A beautiful converted live-in Airstream trailer by artist Julie Montgomery and her young son Henry. Located a mile from the Pacific Ocean even! Lovely. I dream of this… Check out the tour Via Re-Nest
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The Unbelievable Airstream!

A beautiful converted live-in Airstream trailer by artist Julie Montgomery and her young son Henry. Located a mile from the Pacific Ocean even! Lovely. I dream of this…

Check out the tour

Via Re-Nest

“What might future cities look like?” ponders Melbourne artist Miso. Take a look at more of her installation/ street art here. via:: Booooooom!
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“What might future cities look like?” ponders Melbourne artist Miso. Take a look at more of her installation/ street art here.

via:: Booooooom!

These images are reorganized maps from a favorite blog (things organized neatly.) Looking at the right hand side, re-arranged in line information reminds me of Edward Tufte; the brilliant teacher/thinker/statistic seeker. Introduced to his work by my dad, I bought Tufte’s Envisioning Information while working on my BFA and began seeing connections between the way information (such as a map that has been created long before you experience a city) will influence the way you walk, and consequently, live in this city. Information’s organization changes the world, and how we experience it.   Most sites, blogs, and the web in general have this same feeling for me — we are expected to walk a certain street, for a prescribed length of time, and in another persons font. Or color. And layout. One part visual, one part organized thinker, I often synthesize double forms of the same information and put out in the world — especially at work. Looking at the above twin images but focusing on neither, my mind tells me I can somehow make sense of this complex data - that I can see the unseeable pattern — or make a third non-map to wander to. Organized un-neatly. Images via: thingsorganizedneatly: CMYBacon: Reorganized Cities
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These images are reorganized maps from a favorite blog (things organized neatly.)

Looking at the right hand side, re-arranged in line information reminds me of Edward Tufte; the brilliant teacher/thinker/statistic seeker. Introduced to his work by my dad, I bought Tufte’s Envisioning Information while working on my BFA and began seeing connections between the way information (such as a map that has been created long before you experience a city) will influence the way you walk, and consequently, live in this city.

Information’s organization changes the world, and how we experience it.  

Most sites, blogs, and the web in general have this same feeling for me — we are expected to walk a certain street, for a prescribed length of time, and in another persons font. Or color. And layout.

One part visual, one part organized thinker, I often synthesize double forms of the same information and put out in the world — especially at work. Looking at the above twin images but focusing on neither, my mind tells me I can somehow make sense of this complex data - that I can see the unseeable pattern — or make a third non-map to wander to. Organized un-neatly.

Images via: thingsorganizedneatly:

CMYBacon: Reorganized Cities

Stunning texture and radical color from an ‘iron of heaven’ - a piece of meteorite sold on the black market. And it’s just my kind of drug. Here is a bit from the NYT article: “The mystery began thousands of years ago with Egyptian hieroglyphs, which refer to the “iron of heaven.” Archaeologists have long debated whether the Egyptians made artifacts from iron meteorites that fell to Earth in fiery upheavals. The main evidence came from ancient knife blades of iron that had high concentrations of nickel — a rare element in the Earth’s crust that was considered a signature of extraterrestrial origin.” ::read the complete article here.
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Stunning texture and radical color from an ‘iron of heaven’ - a piece of meteorite sold on the black market. And it’s just my kind of drug.

Here is a bit from the NYT article:

“The mystery began thousands of years ago with Egyptian hieroglyphs, which refer to the “iron of heaven.” Archaeologists have long debated whether the Egyptians made artifacts from iron meteorites that fell to Earth in fiery upheavals. The main evidence came from ancient knife blades of iron that had high concentrations of nickel — a rare element in the Earth’s crust that was considered a signature of extraterrestrial origin.”

::read the complete article here.

Unnatural nature-like installations by artist Sonja Vordermaier. I like how organic and alien these sculptures are, and how massive! Taking over the room, moving toward you or shrinking away from you.

I thought this summed it up perfectly:

Amorphous growth on the ceilings and in corners that somehow resemble rows of mussels shimmering silver or grotesquely large fungi. At first glance, this seems nature-like, if not necessarily natural. It is as if one had been beamed through an electron microscope to another level of perception. On closer inspection the alienating structures, as beautiful as coral riffs and yet irritating and threatening like rampant tumors or nesting aliens…

(from Jens Asthoff: Interstices in reality via artnews)

A mineral bull’s-eye in the Oquirrh Mountains that is two and a half miles wide. I found a great selection of national geographic images - scans from old mags 60’s-80’s by Sarah Gossett here.  Nicely curated. Details on the image: April 1975 “The company’s [Kennecott Copper] mineral bull’s-eye in the Oquirrh Mountains stretches two and a half miles wide and more than half a mile deep - the nation’s largest open-pit copper mine, and its most productive.” From article Utah’s Shining Oasis by Charles McCarry, photographs by James L. Amos
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A mineral bull’s-eye in the Oquirrh Mountains that is two and a half miles wide. I found a great selection of national geographic images - scans from old mags 60’s-80’s by Sarah Gossett here.  Nicely curated.

Details on the image:

April 1975

“The company’s [Kennecott Copper] mineral bull’s-eye in the Oquirrh Mountains stretches two and a half miles wide and more than half a mile deep - the nation’s largest open-pit copper mine, and its most productive.”

From article Utah’s Shining Oasis by Charles McCarry, photographs by James L. Amos

Want to go to Italy with me?

Let’s live vicariously until we can go…for now…a great flickr set by Liivia on her daily adventures.

Bellissima indeed!!

(via englishmuse)

Spell and the Gypsy Collective have this amazing home filled with found objects: distressed furniture, a weathered porch, woodburning stove, bright turquoise jewelry, worn vintage pillows. 

I dream of a house.

Via (a little hampster)

Roving lone street photographer Julian Berman from LA.  It has been a long time since I have stumbled upon a photographer who doesn’t overly romanticize his subjects, is clear, open, and looks rigorously into worlds I haven’t experienced. It’s apparent to me that he is a strong editor of his own images - I’m guessing he takes many to arrive at one that works. Nice work! His official site here.
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Roving lone street photographer Julian Berman from LA. 

It has been a long time since I have stumbled upon a photographer who doesn’t overly romanticize his subjects, is clear, open, and looks rigorously into worlds I haven’t experienced. It’s apparent to me that he is a strong editor of his own images -
I’m guessing he takes many to arrive at one that works.

Nice work!

His official site here.

Images of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen’s work -  many pictured here are currently at the MET in the show Savage Beauty. And because I love lists, here is a list of materials: Duck feathers, mussel shells, medical slides,  castings of bone, butterflies, glass, ostrich feathers, gazelle horns, brocade, suede, ruffled organza, striped silk, wooden fans, metallic dust, and distressed mohair. Images of a beautiful post from In the Labyrinth which I stumbled upon (guiltily) looking for photos of David Bowie. Ahem. more images here. 
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Images of the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen’s work -  many pictured here are currently at the MET in the show Savage Beauty.

And because I love lists, here is a list of materials:

Duck feathers,

mussel shells,

medical slides, 

castings of bone,

butterflies, glass,

ostrich feathers,

gazelle horns,

brocade, suede,

ruffled organza,

striped silk,

wooden fans,

metallic dust,

and distressed mohair.

Images of a beautiful post from In the Labyrinth which I stumbled upon (guiltily) looking for photos of David Bowie. Ahem.

more images here. 


Marie Clerel’s lovely project. Reminds me of Lady Kate. Ten envelopes  containing each a coal piece are sent to ten people. Every step of the trip is recorded, the result is marker of a length, of a distance.  Of ten envelopes, four returned, ten pins are at the wall, four are occupied.  Six others await.  (My attempt at translating French) Via Jeff on Booooooom.
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Marie Clerel’s lovely project. Reminds me of Lady Kate.

Ten envelopes  containing each a coal piece are sent to ten people. Every step of the trip is recorded, the result is marker of a length, of a distance.  Of ten envelopes, four returned, ten pins are at the wall, four are occupied.  Six others await. 

(My attempt at translating French)

Via Jeff on Booooooom.