By  Zuhal Kanar                

Maki Yamamoto

Maki Yamamoto (@bali_ayu) starts every morning with a photo shoot starring vintage items. This daily ritual is a warmup exercise for the graphic designer from Osaka, Japan, to get her mind geared up for work. “Things that have been worn out with time and damage carry a lot of history and love of the people who used them,” Maki says. Her father, who was a repair worker, inspired her love of antiques. “I have a growing fondness for his old tools and wanted to do something with them,” Maki reflects. Her flat-spread arrangements of worn utensils and aged keepsakes restore life into items which once served their owners well. “I’d be happy if people find something interesting in any of these objects, and feel good about that moment of discovery.”

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Troll cat, gets me everytime 

Townhouse renovation. Maletz Design, Brooklyn architects & building designers, NYC.

When

When I laugh you smile when I hurt you hold me you kiss away the tears when I cry is it any wonder then when you ask if I love you the only sound you hear   is a sniffling sigh

I’d tell you a chemistry joke but I know I wouldn’t get a reaction.

Izuki to Hyuuga (via shunspundorabox)

C.A.P.D. 5C. Anan City. Tokushima Prefecture. Japan. photos: Eiji Tomita

Onde Elles Moran (Where They Live) Guy Laramée

This project is inspired by two trips to a region of southern Brazil called Serra do Corvo Branco(Range of the White Raven). Aparados da Serra is a specific mountain pass that is part of a hundred mile long line of canyons, where the high plateau sinks down near to sea level – a 5000 foot drop over one mile, creating a dramatic topography of crevasses and needles, somewhat covered with the dense vegetation of the Matta Atalantica, the eco system with the highest biodiversity in the world. It is said that this fault line is actually the true topographical divide between Africa and South America.

The series is composed of nine book sculptures each of which have as a central feature a two sided work: the front and back covers painted, the inner pages carved. I found the books in various second hand bookstores, in Florianopolis – the capital of Santa Catarina. They are all tomes of the Classicos Jackson, a series of literature classics published in the ‘50s in Brazil. I Was greatly seduced by their rich, linen covers. The faded jade tones of the fabric inspired most of my palette for the paintings.

Images and text via Guy Laramée

It’s Almost Funny

It’s almost funny isn’t it that love isn’t actually anything real unless you care enough to give it and life is only a death delayed until you love enough to live it  

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Orange Grove Lofts Brooks + Scarpa Architects

Orange Grove is a five-unit for sale market rate loft project, featuring ceiling heights up to 30 feet. The building is sensitively designed and compatible with the neighborhood, but differs in material palette and scale from its neighbors. Referencing architectural conventions of modernism rather than the pitched roof forms of traditional domesticity, the project presents a characteristic that is consistent with the eclectic and often unconventional demographic of West Hollywood. Distinct from neighboring structures, the building creates a strong relationship to the street by virtue of its large amount of highly usable balcony area in the front façade.

Images and text via Brooks + Scarpa Architects