20120611

Bluecanvas - The Artist Network

Bluecanvas.com is an international, multi-genre, online community of artists and art lovers. Bluecanvas magazine is a quarterly publication that features artists from its online community. We hope everyone will be able to find inspiration that reaches across genres, and hope that Bluecanvas can provide the right tools for our users to inspire everyone, artists and non-artists alike. Bluecanvas: The Artist Network:

20120608

Eric de Maré's secret country - Photography

Eric de Maré's secret country

Eric de Maré's sublime photographs of British industrial buildings forced postwar architects to look again at the landscape.
His influence is still felt today...













Shock of the old ... Eric De Maré's 'skyscrapers' in Hastings.
Photograph: Eric de Maré
- From: http://m.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/nov/16/eric-de-mare-architectural-photography?cat=artanddesign&type=article















Shipbuilding on the Clyde and Palace Pier, Brighton.
Image from RIBApix
- From: http://www.ribablogs.com/?tag=exploring-eye-goes-to-liverpool

20120604

Series 21 Bocci. Designer Omer Arbel

Series 21 Bocci

Designer Omer Arbel ...










Photo: http://www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com/accessories/series-21-one-pendant-canopy-by-bocci.html

In Memoriam: Carl Baum, trestle-maker







Baum’s EMP simulator testing a B-1B Bomber on
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rtland Air Force Base in 1989

- a wooden structure, two football fields long, over an 20-acre, bowl-shaped arroyo deep inside Kirtland Air Force Base.

Erected between 1972 and 1980 at a cost of $60 million, he nicknamed it “the trestle” because he said it was inspired by a railroad bridge.