Clément Valla

Postcard from Google Earth 

Daniel Rich -  Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang ; Tokyo ; Beijing ; Hong Kong ; Dubai ; Chicago

Raphael Olivier -  Vintage Socialist Architecture

Pyongyang, capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (a.k.a North Korea), is home to about 3 milion people and only visited by a small number of tourists each year due to the so-called "closed" status of the country. However this is not exactly true and the DPRK is gradually opening up to international travel with visitors from all backgrounds coming in increasing numbers. Those who do make it to Pyongyang only come to find a surprizingly beautiful city full of large avenues, green parks and spectacular architecture. Almost completely destroyed during the Korean War (1950 - 1953), Pyongyang raised from its ashes in the 1960's and 70's with the help of local architects and designers often trained in the Soviet Union, resulting in impressive structures marked by influences of constructivist, modernist, futurist and brutalist architectural styles. This photo essay aims to give a small insight into the beautifully preserved vintage socialist architecture of Pyongyang, one of the most isolated and unknown cities in the world.

Source

Bertrand Lavier - Pylone-Chat ;  Photo-relief n°1

Lewis Bush, Metropole

Chris Burden, Bed Piece

“As part of something called the Market Street Program, Burden moved a single bed into an art gallery. At noon on Feb. 18, he took off his clothes and got into bed. It’s not clear how long he stayed - surely it couldn’t have been nearly a month. At any rate, during this performance he spoke to no one, and started to prefer the bed to the world outside. It seems to have freaked people out pretty effectively.“

Sarah Charlesworth, Stills

John Hilliard, Camera Recording its Own Condition ( (7 Apertures, 10 Speeds, 2 Mirrors)

Djamel Tatah

Hans-Peter Feldmann, Two Girls with Shadows

Gérard Fromanger, Boulevard des Italiens

Robert Houzar, Mass movement/Anthropocene

Some installations views by Robert Longo’s retrospectives at the Bernado Museum, Lisbon, Portugal and the MAMAC, Nice, France

Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek, Inerumi

Inemuri ( 居眠り) litterally means "to be asleep while present". In Japan, this is a socially accepted method of soft sleep. Inemuri is viewed as exhaustion from working hard and sacrificing sleep at night.

Kim Jung Gi

Etam Cru, Insomnia

Michael Wolf, Lost laundry