Massive tilted cinderblock retail facades. Crumbling walls. Massive cracks in the outer wall leading to the entrance doors. All of these were used by the retail chain BEST in the 1970 to break away from the standard idea of retail construction. 
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Category: Art
Overview: Amazing patterns from satellite photos
Taken from extremely high heights, these satellite photos bring out interesting colors and patterns from across the world. I loved seeing entire tulip fields translated into simple stripes- almost looking like woven socks or a sweater.
Inspired by the “Overview Effect”—a sensation that astronauts experience when given the opportunity to look down and view the Earth as a whole—the breathtaking, high definition satellite photographs in OVERVIEW offer a new way to look at the landscape that we have shaped…Benjamin Grant is the author of Overview and also oversees the Instagram project Daily Overview, from which the book takes its inspiration. Since he began the project in December 2013, his daily posts have both delighted and challenged his audience from all corners of the globe. For Overview, Grant has curated and created more than 200 original images by stitching together numerous high‑resolution satellite photographs.
Overview by Benjamin Grant. Get it on iBooks.
Writing Is Not Typing
Writing understandable, meaningful words is very hard.
…Remember that writing is not typing. Thinking, researching, contemplating, outlining, composing in your head and in sketches, maybe some typing, with revisions as you go, and then more revisions, deletions, emendations, additions, reflections, setting aside and returning afresh, because a good writer is always a good editor of his or her own work. From How To Be A Writer: 10 Tips From Rebecca Solnit
Art & copyright: Do artists use other’s photos inappropriately?
How much do you need to change a piece of art to avoid a copyright lawsuit? Artist Richard Prince printed Instagram photos on canvas and priced them at $10,000. This sounds exactly like direct plagiarism, but is it?
The works displayed a screenshot of an Instagram post. Looking closer, Prince included his own comments below the photo. This addition of adding his own comments seems to tilt the scale towards original work, or commentary (literally) on the original work. Continue reading “Art & copyright: Do artists use other’s photos inappropriately?”
A Way to Avoid Clichés
Clichés can be difficult to avoid. So, you need to instead find something that’s yours, and work from that. Whether you appreciate this fact or not, you possess a unique viewpoint. It’s just that your world is so familiar to you that you don’t realize how unique it is.
In college, I made a painting of Mona Lisa—after she dyed her hair red. I thought this made it somewhat novel, but it wasn’t my cheeky gimmick that most viewers noticed. The part folks paid attention to was the background. I painted a silhouette of pine and spruce trees—common to where I grew up. Others in the class found this notable, because they lived in a different climate (a rainforest). To me, those trees were just trees, but they turned out to be part of my unique visual vocabulary. So, don’t mistake that which seems mundane to you, for actually being so…
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