Nas montanhas de Fafe, Portugal, by Feliciano Guimarães.

This amazing small house in the Mountains of Portugal is an other example of really simple and inventive way of dealing with the lack of traditional building supplies.

Here is also a short video.

This wonderful small cantilevered river house in Portugal designed by Correia/Ragazzi Aquitectos is a great inspiration for a potentially completely recycled small house.

Perhaps using discarded highway overpass sections? (An idea my friend Jack the architect was playing with years ago.)

Its making me feel even more pressure to make some serious cash in the next 2 years… Dang 40’s why you coming so soon?







The only catch with this house is the interiors.  which looks like some high end un-original, absolutely un interesting high end modernist Ikea inspired show room. 

So much more could be done with this… 

This work by Shigeru Mizuki is both fun, beautiful, and imaginative.  It represents Manga style illustrations of the anatomy of Yōkai Daizukai, or traditional japanese folk demons.

I found this on the wonderful site pinktentackle.com

Above: The Fukuro-sage — a type of tanuki (raccoon dog) found in Nagano prefecture and Shikoku — has the ability to shapeshift into a sake bottle, which is typically seen rolling down sloping streets.

It brings to mind one of my favorite books by Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings describing the life and mores of fantastical, classical, mythological and literary creatures.

The Kuro-kamikiri (“black hair cutter”) is a large, black-haired creature that sneaks up on women in the street at night and surreptitiously cuts off their hair.

The Makura-gaeshi (“pillow-mover”) is a soul-stealing prankster known for moving pillows around while people sleep. (…)

These are some amazing steam punk looking fireplaces made out of recovered marine antiship mines…
The are designed and created by Estonian Mati Karmin more at marinemine.com

Nice way to recycle WWI, WWII, armaments.

Shader version of workshop desk.

4 different states of a classroom+workshop model.
A really impressive example of modern 3D modeling + compositing skills, by Studio Aiko.
 
 
Daylight version 


Night time version 


Sunny Day version


Flash version 

Skilllllllz.
Definitely check out the site for hi-rez imagery. The level of detail is astonishing.