Camouflage Posters Turn 3D Reality into 2D Illusions
Blurring the line between reality and fiction, this urban camouflage photo series by French photographer Fred Lebain features posters that blend in almost perfectly with their environments. ...
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WebUrbanist Update: 5 Years & 50 Million Visitors Later
Five years ago, who would have thought that what started as an offbeat visual culture weblog would turn into a full-fledged (but still and always free) cosmopolitan online magazine? After just ...
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Corn Colonels: 13 Creepy Geeky Scarecrows
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Boat to Go: Portable Flat-Pack Vessel Folds Up Like a Tent
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The Best Boats: 22 Crazy Nautical Creations
There is a definite appeal to life on the high sea, cruising into vast and dangerous unknowns, with just the wind at one's back, and wood beneath the feet. For those who are not into this kind of ...
Underwater Town: Single Spire Marks Architectural Tomb
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Rebuilding Infrastructure: Viaduct turned Holiday Home
Construction on the highway from Salerno to Reggio Calabria in Southern Italy began int he 1960s - and it's still not finished. A stretch that has been abandoned for decades includes a viaduct ...
Urban Suburbs: 4 McMansions Atop Chinese Shopping Mall
It sounds like a hoax at best, an architectural student thesis gone wrong at worst ... yet it is entirely real: a series of conventional-looking, a-frame abodes atop a gigantic mega-block ...
Material Worlds: All Their Possessions in Just One Picture
After a recent look at urban Europeans posing with all they own, this potent look at rural Asian families and their worldly possessions shows stark contrasts but surprising similarities as ...
