Modern Beijing: Wangjing SOHO by Zaha Hadid

These structures are part of the “Wangjing Soho” project currently underway in Beijing, China. London based architecture company “Zaha Hadid Architects” are behind this project that is part of the ”SOHO China” development works. “Wangjing Soho” gives the impression of three tall pebbles or dispersed rocks with a futuristic architectural structure to be made in a premium residential area. The tallest of the three towers will be 200 meter high while the other two would comparatively smaller.

Wangjing Soho building complex are being made in a premium estate between capital airport and urban center. It’s going to represent innovation is architecture and provide a modern look to the large industrial city. Occupying the total area of 115,392 square meters, it provides a healthy environment to employers since 50,000 square meters of this area is devoted to the supportive landscape  and urban garden-style offices.

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Depth of field Photography by Hanif Shoaei

Hanif, only 24, is an emerging photographer from Tehran, Iran. Today I stumbled upon his photoblog where he shares his works, most of them having large Depth of Field. In simple terms depth of field refers to the region in which the objects are acceptably sharp and in-focus. A higher depth of field means more area of an image is in focus. Here are some images from Shoaei’s blog:

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Amazing Water Drop Reflection Photography

Anyone can call himself a photographer in this age of hi-tech DSLR cameras with all those sophisticated shot-modes and lenses. But there remains some fields of photography that requires a huge amount of work on part of the person apart from camera. Once such field is taking shots of water droplets while capturing the scene behind them in them. It’s one of the most difficult arts to master in photography but those of you who want to enter into Water Drop Reflection Photography, here’s an easy and quick starter’s guide.

       Image Copyrights: Brian Valentine and Sergio Darcas

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Paintings on Swan Feathers by Ian Davie

Incredible enough, this comes from an artist who picked up a brush only six years ago. Ian Davie, a 46 year old artist, is getting fame for his marvelous paintings that he paints on the canvas provided by nature; swan feather. He collects naturally-fall feathers of swan each measuring 1 foot in length and 3 inches in width. He uses several fathers for a single sketch. These paintings are light, but they are selling for thousands of dollar a piece.

I would like to point again that he uses only those feathers that fell naturally every year during the shedding season. According to Ian, he first makes the sketch on a painter’s canvas and then port it to swan feathers due to the delicacy involved in painting on the feathers.

   

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Alphabets made out of Negative Spacing

There’s no limit to creativity when it comes to photography. A true artist always sees the things around him different than an ordinary person. One such passionate photographer, Bela Borsodi, uses nothing but ordinary objects in the scene to create a negative spacing to form English Alphabets.

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Minaret of Jam – The Lost Architecture

Built back in 1190s, located in western Afghanistan, the 65 meter high Minaret of Jam is the second largest religious monument of its kind in the world. The minaret is hidden in mountains that reach a height  up to 2400 meters and is famous for its artwork that includes calligraphy, geometric patterns and beautifully written verses of Holy Qur’an.

The minaret is famous for playing hide-and-seek, as for centuries it remained forgotten until rediscovered in 1886 by Thomas Holdich. It didn’t come to the attention of the world before Soviet war started and this beautiful architecture was cut off for outside access. The minaret got back the attention in year 2002 when it was included in the UNESCO’s list of world heritage in danger.

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Breaking: Floating Island goes Missing

Floating island was one of the sights at Secret Garden Party festival held in Cambridgeshire in July this year. A team of UK artists and designers behind this helium-filled masterpiece named it IS LAND. The news is that some thugs at the festival cut free the rope and set the island loose. The viewers saw months of hard work on the part of artist Sarah Cockings and designer Laurence Symonds flew away just like that and couldn’t do anything about it.

Its next appearance was planned at the Burning Man show in USA but sadly the folks at states are now deprived of this beautiful sight.  While the wind specialist identify that the IS LAND might have landed in Czech Republic, the designer team has also agreed to work on another piece. So Folks don’t be afraid if you find a flying sculpture over your head or see IS LAND landed somewhere, just report it to the designers.

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