of you and of everything that surrounds us...
Hi this is Clementine. Sometimes you spot a beauty...anything, which makes you stop, which makes you forget anything else around you. This little discovery, be it a picture or a scene...or anything, just grabs you, looks into you. When this happens to me, I look around to see who else is going to see this, who else is going to feel the same way. That's how the reflection of what I just discover, reaches you. This is, reflectionof.me...of you and of everything that surrounds us. I hope you enjoy sharing what's reflected on you, like me.
If you want to contact with me my email is: clementine@reflectionof.me
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The Samurai Sword Chopstick Sets
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Jesse Van Dijk Artwork
Jesse van Dijk (1977) is a concept artist from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His primary focus is world design for games and other entertainment media. Jesse currently works at Guerrilla Games / SCEE as a senior concept artist. He graduated at the Delft University of Technology with a Master's degree in Industrial Design Engineering in 2003. After his studies he worked for several studios prior to joining Guerrilla in 2009.
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Dreaming living on water
If you've ever dreamed about living on water, this modern houseboat designed by Rost Niderehe Architects is for you. When the architects first started planning, they wanted to create a residence that had the character of a boat and the comfort of a traditional family home. The result is this stunning houseboat located in Hamburg, Germany.
Made of mainly wood and steel, the houseboat contains a single wall that wraps like a spiral from the outside to the inside. The kitchen and dining room are found on the upper deck, while the bedroom and bathroom are on the lower deck. And if you're ever bored and need a change, there's no need to pack up or hire movers. With the help of a tug, you can easily move to a new location.
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Art Inside Toilet Paper Rolls
Anastassia Elias, a talented French artist, creates wonderful paper art inside of recycled toilet paper tubes.
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Hyper-Detailed Photos by Jean Francois Rauzier
Combining art, photography and technology, French photographer Jean Francois Rauzier creates hyperphotos that will blow you away. Just what is a hyperphoto? It's a term coined by Rauzier which means 'stitching' together hundreds or thousands of enormous high-resolution images into one amazing collage. Look closely and you'll see that an incredible amount of time has gone into each piece.
Each collage is composed of between 600 and 3,400 individual close-up images, each taken one by one, using a telephoto lens over a period of one to two hours. Once the entire scene is captured, Rauzier stitches them together using Photoshop, working obsessively until the viewer can't discern where one image begins and one image ends.
Just what kind of person would dedicate himself to creating these hyperphotos? A man who is in love with the arts. As Rauzier states, “I agree that it may sound crazy but I've been a photographer, painter and sculptor for 30 years, exploring these different techniques of expression up until 2001. At that time, I began my Hyper-photo work and I haven't needed to do anything else. I'm entirely satisfied. As a photographer, I can use this powerful art medium to capture reality. As a painter, I can control my image exactly and put what I want where I want. And as a sculptor, I savor spending a long time on my work, as a meditation, to have the pleasure to approach, touch and feel the texture, then back away to see the entire work. Hyper-photo is a combination of all of these.”
“I have an emotion, but I can't really see how the final image will be. It's very important to know that because it was difficult for me at first. It's exactly the opposite of photography. As a classic photographer, I look in my viewfinder and shoot and I have my picture. In the case of the Hyper-photo, in the viewfinder, I just see details. I tried every wide-angle viewfinder as a movie director would, but it's impossible to have 360-degree vision; 180-degree viewfinders exist, but there's so much distortion that we can't imagine the result. So when I shoot, I have some ideas, but I don't know how it will be in the end. It's always an adventure, a discovery of a parallel world.”
To see just how detailed Jean François Rauzier's work is, click deeper and deeper intp his Paris photo. (Do you see the people in the windows?)
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3D Portraits Made From Phone Books
Alex Queral creates amazing three-dimensional portraits by carving faces of famous people into recycled phone books.
Using a very sharp knife, the artist carefully peels away the pages like the skin of an onion to reveal the portrait within.
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Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes has been done many times. Sometimes faithful, sometimes Guy Richtie. Whatever you like there is something about the character that needs revisiting now and again.
Sherlock is back this time in modern day London along with all the old skills but also has the technology savvy to go along with his deduction skills. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Sherlock and does so with apparent ease - he is comfortable in the role, it fits him perfectly and as an actor has a certain magnetism that is required. Martin Freeman is John Watson -almost the audience really in following Holmes and being impressed with his logical and quick mind. Having now seen all of the 3 episodes I can now say I can't wait for the next series - it has to happen - if not it would be a crime in itself! Each of the three stories are very well written - storywise and character wise. What I like most is that Holmes is not perfect. He can be childish and offensive, but the next minute he can be charming and brilliant. I was suprrised how well the character fitted into the modern age without it feeling wrong or out of place. Each story is 90mins long and just great entertainment. At times it is suspenseful, then there is some action then it is funny.
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What the Naked Eye Cannot See
Intrigued by what he could not see, Harold Edgerton made it his life's mission to analyze motion and extend our perception of time. He was an inventor as well as an MIT professor who was credited for taking the stroboscope from the lab to the forefront of our creative consciousness. Combining the stroboscopic process with the camera’s flash, Edgerton was able to photograph an entire range of movement that previously could not be seen by the naked eye. Suddenly, the invisible became visible, and we were able to experience a milk drop's beautiful coronet, an amazing arc of a golf swing and a bullet's immense power as it cut through everything from playing cards to a fruit's core.
The genius of it all is that Edgerton's photos engaged the public's imagination. He showed us how science, art and photography could intersect, leaving us with a new sense of reality. Most of all, though, he made the ordinary extraordinary, taking simple objects or movements and turning them into indescribable showcases of art.
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120 bikes
A bicycle shop in Altlandsberg, Germany advertises their goods with a wall of around 120 bikes mounted on the building’s exterior in lieu of a sign. Pretty, but what do you think would happen if they tried it in New York? [via Pat's Papers]
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