Anders Krisar is a Swedish artist/photographer who creates work that primarily represents human psychology. He attended the University College of Arts, Crafts & Design in Stockholm where he currently lives and works. He was recently nominated for the Best Swedish Photography Publication Award.

Architect Matt Gibson has created a lovely house named George Residence in Australia. The exterior is traditional Victorian with a surprising minimalist interior and rear. It sits on a narrow plot of land and a wooden deck runs through the home’s elongated layout, creating continuity between the indoor and outdoor living spaces. To see and read about more designs from down under go to:

http://www.designvic.com/

It took Scott Weaver over 30 years to build this toothpick model of San Francico. He started building the toothpick structure at age 17  and 3000 hours later, he completed his toothpick city. It stands 9 feet tall and 7 feet wide. Talk about obsessive dedication!

Joining our growing list of Farmhand profiles, this week, Megan’s been given our set of 60-odd questions.

Photo credit: Susan Gittens on Flickr

Photo credit: Tyler Ingram on Flickr

Vancouver is undeniably beautiful in the summer, but it’s even prettier when the sky is lit up like it was last night at the 20th anniversary of the Celebration of Light festival in English Bay. Don’t miss the next explosion of loveliness by Spain on Saturday, July 24th at 10pm.

Each week here on the Feedbag were profiling one Farmhand. Everyone’s been given 60-odd questions and asked to choose 20. The result is a kind of personality test of sorts and give some insight into the kinds of people you’re working with on your next project!

This week, it’s Susan Hunt! (Previous Farmhand profiles include Tim and Ariel.)

(In)Human is a current exhibition I stumbled upon at the Living History Forum while visiting Stockholm. What caught my eye intially, was a white room filled with white furniture of all kinds. There was an interesting system utilizing cards for the site and hearing impaired. For instance, placing a card with an icon of an ear, over parts of the exhibit would provide an auditory version of the information. It deals with race biology, racial hygiene, and Swedish connections to this during early 20th century.

Together with the Living History Forum, the Ethnographic Museum aims to shed light on some of the darker sides of recent Swedish history featuring how researchers and explorers in the late 1800s and early 1900s deliberately desecrated graves and stole the remains of indigenous people.

Newly transformed by Nuno Sottomayor and  Sam Baron, we can see why this Portugalian escape has been re-named Hotel FAVORITA.

photos (c) Pedro Lobo

Hotel FAVORITA

YEKPARE

Yekpare is a story teller to narrate 8500 years’ story of Istanbul. The story has symbols by from Pagans to Roman Empire, from Byzantine Empire to Latin Empire, and finally from Ottoman Empire to today’s Istanbul.

A building which we play on is Haydarpa?a Train Station has brilliant architectural forms. Connection between middle east to west as Istanbul since 1906 was formed by Haydarpa?a. In 50’s; it was a door millions of emigrant. Internal migration triggered chaotic order of Istanbul dialectical daily life scenes. Either its conceptual and political and geographical position or its location’s depth of field to watch the entire show from Kad?köy coast; Yekpare is dramatic as a representation.

First day of the performance is also 47th death day of famous Turkish poet Naz?m Hikmet Ran. We started with his quote:“At Haydarpa?a Train Station, in the spring of 1941, it is three o’clock. Sun, exhaustion and rush lay on the stairs” (from his epic novel Human Landscapes from My Country).

Art Direction & Visuals:
Deniz Kader – Canda? ?i?man

sourced from: Nerdworking

Rustical x industrial’ is a series of furnishings which derive from
an aesthetical and theoretical survey on rural and suburban bricolage. The objects enunciate the poetic language of such vernacular furniture by arranging a crude patchwork of archetypes and materials -Michels

photos from Frank Michels