Posted by skadhu | Filed under design, nature, oceans and beaches
Reflected rock
02 Sunday Dec 2012
Category Archives: design
Maple (leaf) squares
26 Monday Nov 2012
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autumn leaves, color, design, design process, leaves, photography
I don’t have a camera that takes square photos, but I do like to see what happens when you take a section of an image and put it into a square format.
Creative hotels
12 Monday Nov 2012
Posted in design, from the world pool, just for fun
Ever get bored with hotel rooms? The sameness, the wrappers on the glasses, the overpriced bar fridge, the crappy art, the… well, you name it.
But I could get into staying in rooms like these.
(via hovercraftdoggy)
The Little Green Dress Projekt
27 Thursday Sep 2012
Posted in art, creativity, design, from the world pool
Lisa of Notes from Africa made a comment that reminded me of this. Such a cool thing! If you’re anywhere near Vancouver, you’ve still got a couple of days to go see it.
Raindrops pooling together on grass
25 Wednesday Jul 2012
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Pale and pretty
19 Thursday Jul 2012
I haven’t seen them here before, but I believe this is a white fawn lily, Erythronium oregonum. There was a little glade of them by a trail.
Sandstone and curves and light
17 Tuesday Jul 2012
Posted in design, nature, oceans and beaches
Clearly this man doesn’t own a cat.
25 Monday Jun 2012
Posted in design, gardening, just for fun
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And I’ll bet he has tile floors. But what a cool thing!
Anyone out there think they might take on the challenge? Because of surrounding forest we don’t get enough light in our house to try this, But I found some instructions here and here.
(Via hovercraftdoggy)
Nature by Numbers
24 Sunday Jun 2012
Among the things I (briefly) reference when teaching are the golden section and Fibonacci numbers, as they’ve a strong influence on historical and contemporary design practice. The math side of it tends to make people go cross-eyed, so I point out that nature provides plenty of beautiful examples of applied theory. This video from Eterea Studios expresses that beautifully!
Prospecting for gold
08 Friday Jun 2012
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Looks like I found it, doesn’t it?
But it’s really the effect of low late-day light and a touch of over-exposure in my settings. I’ve changed the overall setting to manual and every once in a while forget to make all the adjustments I need to, or the lighting in the wee monitor tricks me. Many more over- and under-exposed images, but some turn out interestingly, like this one.
It’s water puddled in the ripples on yellowish seaweed. Here’s another, but the puddles here have collected sand and the seaweed is brown.
