Eclectitude

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Seashell House by Mark Mills

It's funny how you can fall in love with something at first sight.

I had that experience twice in the past 2 days - once with a piece of jewelry that now graces my person, the second time this morning when I saw pictures of a wonderful house on the Carmel coastline designed by architect Mark Mills.

One love at first sight I could afford and the other I can't (currently on the market at a cool 3 mil.)

When you can't afford the things you love, you do the next best thing: immortalize them in a blog post ;)

Seashell House by Mark Mills, Architect

Monday, March 11, 2013

Garden of Cosmic Speculation by Charles Jencks

This weekend I tripped over another lucky soul who had his own 30 acres to play with and create his dream garden.

Landscape Architect Charles Jencks took his 30 acre playground and built a sculpture garden inspired by mathematics and science.

I LOVE this first image of the open air pergola. Oh, the things I could do with 30 acres and a generous budget...

Garden of Cosmic Speculation by Charles Jencks

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Coastal Glass House by Mickey Muennig

Chaos gets in the way of the blogging again! While we were out, this crossed my desk and I gave a long sigh of want. What a great spot to write, think, and daydream (does it get WiFi?)

(location: Big Sur, California.)

Big Sur Organic House by Mickey Muennig

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Tree Faces Projection - Craig Walsh

In the events world, many of us are students of the "use the gifts your venue gives you" school (translation: stop just covering up the good stuff with pipe & drape...)

An artist less clever than Craig Walsh would have gone to great expense to put up screens to project on or just uplit the trees in dramatic colors. I've seen projection onto buildings before (and lots of it) but using trees is just pure genius. Bravo.

Craig Walsh - Humannature

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Paint in Water - Mark Mawson, Photographer

Filed under: people who's creativity makes me envious. Photographer Mark Mawson shoots these amazing images of paint drops into water using high speed cameras. I love the colors and the shapes, the work has an ethereal quality to it - especially watch the video. Gorgeous stuff....

BONUS! Video...

Aqueous from Mark Mawson on Vimeo.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Amsterdam Light Festival

Y'all had to know I was going to blog this....

Pretty lighting installations viewed at night = slam dunk. I would have loved to be able to see the Amsterdam Light Festival in person, I'll have to schedule that into a future trip (pun intended, this is Amsterdam we're talking about.) I already have visions of a waterway art installation that would be fabulous, if extremely expensive, should anyone want fund ;)

Amsterdam Light Festival

Thursday, January 17, 2013

LED Bulb Maze

I was attracted to this at first glance as an event entry idea - what a great way to disrupt your audience and change their frame of view before they reach your primary event floor.

This installation at Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon, Portugal was (of course) designed to showcase IKEA's new line of LED bulbs - a noteworthy development in itself. Put me down as in support of art AND energy efficiency.

LEDscape - IKEA LED Bulbs