Rolitoboy by Jeremiah Ketner

vinyl+acrylic

“I like to make pretty paintings” says Chikago based artist Jeremiah Ketner. Pastel dreamscapes and Japanese pop art float in his work. Featured here are his designer toys and a painting. Check him here @ Small and Round and here.

Munni

vinyl+acrylic 

madL

madL

vinyl+acrylic

Piko toys

wooden toys painted with acrylic

‘When the dew children awake from there afternoon nap, the flowers begin to glitter’, 2007

Image: DesignFlute

{At Kala Ghoda Art Festival this year in Feb. This is a part of an art installation ‘Leheri Mochi’ (or say the humble shoe) by Clay Chakra}

Udaipur, India

A book by Christopher Bettig on murals of Udaipur

Udaipur, India” is a 50 page full color book ($30) of photographs from India. Photographed during October, 2008; the book documents the beauty and decay of murals painted throughout the amazing city of Udaipur.

Christopher Bettig is a French artist based in Los Angeles. Check out his other works at his design studio The Mountain Label.

See more mural images taken by Christopher here.

above 3 images: source: The Mountain Label

In the text books or travel notes one finds Udaipur described as lake city.

It is!  Some say it is city of palaces. It is! But it is also the city of  murals/ street painting/wall painting!!

For us Indians our rich cultural heritage is just everyday life! Nah?!

source: bengal*foam

source: Dey

source: Pixeloflight

source: Dey

Go for more images here:  (1)      (2)      (3)      (4)       (5)       (6)  or   (7)

After a long unexplained absence I am happy to post something so superbly fresh and beautiful!

Photographer: Jennifer Squires

Jennifer Squires of jennifer squires productions has one great talent – photographing everyday life honestly! So what you get to see is simply captivating with the essence encompassed!

A professional photographer based in Ontario, Canada Jennifer Squires has new set of photographs captured in Greece.

See more of her work here and here.

Unmistakable simplicity of Greece

A church in Oia on the island of Santorini, Greece.

Perched

The town of Thira on the island of Santorini, Greece.

Gateway to the past

A blue door on the island of Paros, Greece.

Blue Bird

(Does it matter where this blue bird was captured! A fine artwork indeed!)

(All images copyright: Jennifer Squires)

Heaven on the Earth? 

There is heaven on the Earth!

Work: Mauricio Pezo  & Sofia Von Ellrichshausen @ Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects

Come near, look!

Did you find the Heaven?

You will continue reading if you are an optimist …..

If you say it is simply brilliant piece of installation than your views meet mine!

If you are thinking on the line of being cheated or something; I say you are the most cynic person on this Earth!

Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects is a firm of young architects based in Chile.

 Gimme a flower of a cigarette any day!

Show concern to your near & dear addicts!

Play a lovely prank!

After watching this video you can also make a statement!

Till I figure out a way to put this video here (if at all I can figure out?)

go check this simply interesting how-to video - Flower or Cigarette? by  Crow Casla  @ Metacafe.

Happy flowers-moking!

Sitar chair

Designer: @ Saba

After discovering this sitar chair at Sabaitalia I am felling like singing or playing sitar!

Neither can I sing nor play sitar.

But can share these stunning sitar designs with you.

Sitar – the musical instrument (Hindustani classical music) itself comes with beautiful carvings and designs.

Sitar miniature painting with gold

@ Crafts in India

Sitar in the garden on Flickr by Tablaman

For more images of Sitar go here and here.

  Furniture from Mozaic

Can you look away from the beauty of this shell or a chair by the sea which rocks too! I can’t.

This happened when an architect (Dean D’Cruz), a product designer (Reboni Saha) and an artist (Subodh Kerkar) (all Indian) synergized together!

This collaborative effort was organized by the Cymroza art gallery, Mumbai in 2002.

Along with the camera, Bengaluru based Indian photographer Pallon Daruwala uses light and space as his tools. His love for the uncluttered and clean lines is evident in his work.

A leader in his own right he is dubbed as an advertising or industrial photographer. But I refuse to agree. I call him documentative photographer of architecture and interiors. In fact he has done lot of fashion photography too.

What I find enduring about his work is that his images are intimate and distant at the same time!

I simply love his interiors and architectural images.

And his architectural images are pieces of art!

I have wasted 4 days deciding which images to put and which ones too leave out. I can’t do justice to his work if I put everything together.

So here is Pallon Daruwala’s work in two posts- 1^st on architecture and 2^nd on interiors.

Please donot use or copy these images without photographer’s written permission.

When Pallon was in school he wanted to be an architect. He became a photographer but you can’t miss an architect in him! Do you?

This bag bibi has captured Indian grandeur and royalty onto bags. A riot of Indian colours and sensibilities are portrayed with the use of mediums like wood carving, marble inlay, brass, copper and silver engravings, the use of ‘kinkhabs’, ‘jadau’, ‘kundan’, semi-precious stones with extremely rich embroidery.

Meera Mahadevia is a Mumbai based accessory designer. Qualified as textile designer, Meera in her handcrafted bags uses exquisite texture like silk, jamewar, zari borders, organza, velvet inter woven with multiple layers. Her accessory line also makes shoes and belts and more recently sarees.

Her ornate bags have come to be considered as heirloom pieces and were displayed at Asian Civilization Museum Gallery, Singapore and at the Newark Museum Gallery , USA as pieces of creative art.

On October 3, as a part of The India Celebration Week (incredible India @60), a preview of Meera’s accessories and garments will be hosted by the Newark museum and displayed in the Museum Rotunda and the Education Shop in New York for exclusive shopping. She will be felicitated by the Newark Museum in New York for her 21 years of hard work and creativity.