Rain Room by rAndom International

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Barbican's Rain Room: it's raining, but you won't get wet.Architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright steps into the Rain Room, a technical wonder by contemporary art studio rAndom International. The free installation, which runs at the Curve at the Barbican in London from 4 October until 3 March 2013, uses 2,500 litres of water, falling at 1,000 litres per minute

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Photographies courtesy by Felix Clay via Oliver Wainwright from Guardian

Batishta

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"Batishta is a Moscow-based musician who originally began his career with electronic rap group Band’eros. Following a recent split and seeking to establish a solo career, Batishta commissioned design agency The Bakery to develop a new visual identity, website and CD packaging solution for his 5010 album that would position him as a modern urban gentleman and reflect his ‘established celebrity, rooted in street culture and hip-hop’." read more analytics and thoughts on BP&O

Back to the Future by Alex Varanese

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"I've explored that idea in this series by re-imagining four common products from 2010 as if they were designed in 1977: an mp3 player, a laptop, a mobile phone and a handheld video game system. I then created a series of fictitious but stylistically accurate print ads to market them, as well as a handful of abstract posters (you know, just for funsies)... The irony is that all post-modern, smugly self-referential retro porn aside, I'd gladly trade in my immaculately designed 21st century gadgets for these hideously clunky, faux-wood-paneled pieces of uber-kitsch. Sorry, Apple." - Alex Varanese

Ceramic street art by Daria Makarenko

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“Ceramic Speaks in the Street” is a series of street art by Russian artist Daria Makarenko where missing bricks or stones on a wall or panels absent from pavement are replaced by bricks/stones/slabs with thoughts and phrases. The idea was to take an architectural item from an urban space and replace it with something thought provoking that can communicate between the artist and the viewer.

The project’s pieces were located throughout the streets of Stockholm, Sweden from 2011-2012.

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Portrait of Julian

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"Julián Cánovas-Yañez is a multidisciplinary and complete artist. He is, at the same time, film director, sculptor, painter, photographer and writer. Julian suggested time ago the idea of doing a portrait of him that could describe his capacity of creating and his constant search to understand his body and spirit. All these made Alejandro Maestre think about his work and helped him to develop the idea of this work. Therefore, with this photograph series he intend to show an artist fighting to get to know and shape himself and turn into a better human being." via defringe

Nikolay Biryukov

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Russian-born fashion photographer Nikolay Biryukov is currently based in London. He works between London, Moscow, Paris and Milan shooting mainly fashion stories for a range of international magazines. Recent work includes editorials for magazines such as Elle Ukraine, Interview Russia, L'Officiel, Stylist UK, SNC, and many other. I personally admire Nikolay's website as an example of perfect photographer's portfolio - no flash, previews and etc. Just pure awesome HD images.

One Minute Wonders

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"One minute wonders is just that. A series of video portraits of wondrous people, telling their personal story in 60 seconds flat. Artists, entrepreneurs, designers and rain-makers offer up an insight into the individual, their motivations and what really makes them tick. People who live within a moment in time that we define as the Present Plus."

http://vimeo.com/44309170 A gentleman first and the vice president for all things creative, playful and HD at Vimeo. Enough said. This is Blake. http://www.vimeo.com

http://vimeo.com/40528840 Designer Claire Malcolm has worked with Kim Jones, Kanye West and Alfred Dunhill and is now creative director of eponymous British fashion brand Hardy Amies. This is Claire. http://www.hardyamies.com

http://vimeo.com/47997794 Born in Israel in 1973 Avinoam Noma Bar grew up collecting pictograms, knowing he wanted to be a designer. Today, Noma is a designer and illustrator renowned for his political graphic observations of controversy and negative space. This is Noma. http://dutchuncle.co.uk/noma-bar

Watch all on http://oneminutewonder.tv/

Daniel Kukla

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"In March of 2012, I was awarded an artist's residency by the United States National Park Service in southern California’s Joshua Tree National Park. While staying in the Park, I spent much of my time visiting the borderlands of the park and the areas where the low Sonoran desert meets the high Mojave desert. While hiking and driving, I caught glimpses of the border space created by the meeting of distinct ecosystems in juxtaposition, referred to as the Edge Effect in the ecological sciences. To document this unique confluence of terrains, I hiked out a large mirror and painter’s easel into the wilderness and captured opposing elements within the environment. Using a single visual plane, this series of images unifies the play of temporal phenomena, contrasts of color and texture, and natural interactions of the environment itself." - Daniel Kukla

via Triangulation