Vivian Slate Quarries

We're off to Wales this weekend.
The main thing planned for this trip is to take photographs of Vivien Slate Quarries in Llanberis.
I will write about it more once I have new photos to post.
Meantime, here are few photos taken there during my last visit there.

Gerrit Engel

Here is my latest discovery, photography by Gerrit Egel.
With his work he looks at architecture's pursuit of permanence ending with inevitable failure but also tries to observe how social and economical transformations change our built environment.

Very good.

Sato de Moura-the Storyteller

This building has been widely published in nearly all of the architectural magazines this month. In my opinion it deserves the attention so I thought it should also appear here.
Casa das Histórias in Cascais, designed by Eduardo Souto de Moura is a museum dedicated to the work of Portuguese artist Paula Rego. The architect was asked by the artist (as apparently they both admire each other’s work) to design the building for her paintings and drawings.
What I find particularly special in the design is the storytelling quality to this building.
Sauto de Moura becomes, in a way, a bard that through these earthly and sculptural forms tells us about local architectural heritage, his inspiration taken from Aldo Rossi’s but most of all creates a sensitive home for the moving stories told by Paula Rego.
All incredibly powerful in it’s simplicity, inviting to visit and get to know the stories told with color, space, light and materiality.

endless rain record

I know I live in a country where I shouldn’t be enthusiastic about ideas like that but this record is quite special.
It’s grooves form circles which endlessly play the sounds of summer rain.
Hmm, I like that. If you like it too, you can order it here.
(via designboom)

Human Vs Nature

Visit at the Natural History Museum.

Coney Island

This time it wasn't the sunniest of days, it was quite gloomy and grey but still very atmospheric. The fun park looked like abandoned film set, unreal and temporary.

Despite all that it was nice to be so close to water and walk along the beach with bare feet (yes, that part was real but palm trees were made out of painted metal ;))

Taking Inspiration from Saul Leiter

Not so long ago I wrote here about photographer Saul Leiter.

Discovering his work made me look and photograph in a different way, creating more abstract and brave compositions, using color to add that painterly quality.

Here are few photographs that probably wouldn't have happened if not for discovering Leier's work. Of course they are nowhere near as good as his (!) but still... I do like them.