We dig this #SuperMario inspired piece by Dr Love in Tblisi,…
We dig this #SuperMario inspired piece by Dr Love in Tblisi, Georgia. See more of his fun work here: https://globalstreetart.com/drlove
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‘Poor doors’: not the worst thing about social housing
Separate entrances are nothing new, and the truth is that social housing providers demand them. Oliver Wainwright on why we need to think outside the apartment block to solve this modern-day apartheid
"We are not snobs," declares a prim housewife on a 1930s newsreel, stiffly posed on her doorstep, flanked by windows hung with neat net curtains. "But we do not wish our streets to become a perfect bedlam." The camera pans to reveal a 7-foot-high brick wall a stone’s throw from her door, built right across the street and topped with iron spikes. It was installed in 1934 by the residents of a North Oxford estate to protect their homes from council tenants, who had recently moved into houses nearby as the result of slum clearance. The Cutteslowe walls were deemed illegal and finally demolished in 1959, but their descendants live on in new segregated communities, with their separate entrances and divided facilities, as a Guardian investigation revealed this week.
This divisive tendency is now embodied in its most extreme form in London’s slick developments on the City fringe, such as One Commercial Street, a glassy behemoth near Aldgate that has already been nominated for the Carbuncle Cup, the award for the ugliest building of the year. Here, in a modern-day reenactment of North Oxford’s apartheid wall, the entrance for lower-income tenants is banished to an alley near the bins, while residents of the luxury private units enjoy a marble-lined, concierge-tended lobby at the front.
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Sport picture of the day: extreme mud
Lithuania hosted the extreme running Beaver path 2014, an event that mainly consists of 5km and 10km distances, across swamps, meadows and forest paths that are difficult to pass through. Despite this, the photographer captured a moment of levity rather than pain in this picture. Continue reading…
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Two Pigeons
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An image from the old town in Parga, Greece.
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Limerick Open House premium on architecture – Limerick Post
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Limerick Open House premium on architecture
Limerick Post IRISH World Academy of Music and Dance on UL campus is inviting teachers and relevant professionals to an Open House Limerick training seminar, “exploring how to introduce the concepts and value of architecture into the primary school classroom”. |
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Crime Time Kings show
Back in the early Eighties the New York graffiti virus was ready to spread around the globe…
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Over and above architecture: Bridges that are going places – The Independent
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Over and above architecture: Bridges that are going places
The Independent He says he “takes great satisfaction that the engineering and architecture are indivisible on this bridge”. Today, we're sensibly slotting in new bridges for people and bikes, rather than just for cars. Copenhagen has just put up the Cykelslangen … |
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Brushwork Techniques for Expressive Watercolor with Sterling Edwards
Ever stood in the brush aisle at the art store and felt intimidated by the variety on offer? Flat brushes, round brushes, big brushes, little brushes, bristle brushes, synthetic brushes, skinny brushes, fat brushes… where to begin?
Sterling Edwards has some answers for you. Since sometimes, knowing the right brushes and the paint techniques you can accomplish with them can be the hardest part of beginning (or completing) a painting, Sterling covers three types of brushes and the kinds of things you can create with them for watercolor landscape paintings.
In these art lessons, Sterling shares exercises on the best watercolor applications and painting techniques using flat, round and bristle brushes. Then, learn how to paint with all three types of brushes to complete a snowy landscape painting from start to finish. From short and choppy strokes to full-arm sweeps and gentle dabs, Sterling helps you put together brushstrokes that give your watercolor art new life!
Features:
- Watercolor painting techniques with flat, round, and bristle brushes
- Painting tips for creating expressive landscape art
- Lessons on painting for beginners as well as great tips for intermediate and advanced painters
Preview Brushwork Techniques for Expressive Watercolor now! In this preview, have fun with a flat brush, using it to paint trees, foliage and a building. Then watch how you can use bristle brushes with a wet-into-wet technique. Then, head over to ArtistsNetwork.tv for the materials list, reviews and the full-length video for all the watercolor painting techniques you need to create a beautiful, snow-covered landscape.
Get more art lessons on painting watercolor landscapes with this free download.
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T Magazine: When in Paris
For the 27th Biennale des Antiquaires, the designer Jacques Grange reimagines the Grand Palais as an enormous French garden under glass.
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Time and Desire in Toronto
The duo Time and Desire make road signs that celebrate street art. Here's some of their work accompanying a mural in Toronto.
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National Gallery relents over mobile phones
The National Gallery is allowing visitors to photograph the collection
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George R.R. Martin Admits Some ‘Game Of Thrones’ Fan Theories Are Correct
There are so many theories bouncing around the Internet about how George R.R. Martin’s popular Song of Ice and Fire series will conclude, it would seem almost impossible for none of them to be right. Indeed, Martin confirmed in an interview with The Telegraph that some of the fan theories floating around correctly predict how the series will wrap up. “So many readers were reading the books with so much attention that they were throwing up some theories and while some of those theories were amusing bulls — and creative, some of the theories are right,” he explained.
The sometimes unnerving accuracy of fan conjectures may have impressed Martin, but he claims it also drove him away from fan sites. “I want to surprise and delight my readers and take them in directions they didn’t see coming,” he said. “But I can’t change the plans. That’s one of the reasons I used to read the early fan boards back in the 90s but stopped.” Martin also refrained from revealing which theories are on the money, expressing his hope to provide a reading experience filled with surprises and excitement to those readers who don’t peruse fan boards.
The next installment of the series, The Winds of Winter, is still without a firm release date, though Martin plans to cut back on his involvement with HBO’s “Game of Thrones” in order to work on finishing the book. Though solid plot progression won’t be happening any time soon, readers and viewers of HBO’s “Games of Thrones” can take solace in knowing their wild hypothesizing might just lead them to the truth. Time to start digging through message boards and poring through evidence to definitively prove which theories are viable!
Here are 7 wild fan theories to get you started — could any of them turn out to be true?
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