shannon rankin::exodus

[Rankin is selflesh on flickr; in a roundabout way, via @doingitwrong]

jake longstreth::sonoma

[see more of Jake Longstreth's paintings here]

eric lusito::traces of the soviet empire

[Former Soviet military base near Choibalsan, Mongolia, which, coincidentally, is the nearest sizeable town to the village that my sister lives in; photography by Eric Lusito, via @atlasobscura]

polaroid topiary

[polaroid photograph by flickr user anna verlet; via but does it float]

iakov chernikov

[Drawing by the Russian Constructivist Iakov Chernikov; source; via sinking cities]

eduard imhof

[Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof's "Mount Everest or Chomolongma", from the Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas, editions 1962-1976; see also the hand-drawn hillshade which underlies the final atlas version; via but does it float]

ascension island

[Concretized hydrology; "Water catchement system built by the British military... in order to supply water to the troops who man [Ascension Island]", from photographer Simon Norfolk's series on that island; via The BLDGBLOG Book]

chris foss::spice tug

[Couldn't resist posting a second of Chris Foss's Dune paintings; see below for details and attribution]

chris foss::the emperor's palace

[The Emperor's Palace, depicted by British artist Chris Foss in production artwork for Alejandro Jodorowsky's unrealized 1975 adaptation of Dune, the cast of which was to include Mick Jagger, Orson Welles, and Salvador Dali (as the Emperor). The soundtrack would have been provided by Pink Floyd. Jodorowsky's Dune collapsed in pre-production after spending a quarter of its budget and producing a script which ran a purported fourteen hours. An exhibition of artwork for that version of Dune, also including work by Moebius and H.R. Giger, is currently showing at the Drawing Room in London. Original link via Blueprint; more of Foss's work for Dune at skiffy and dune info.]

to soar and never falter

[photograph from Jennifer Juniper Stratford's series "To Soar and Never Falter", via the in-between]

brian rosa::on the grid

[Detail of photograph from On the Grid, "a project by Adam Ryder and Brian Rosa, [which] explores the landscape immediately surrounding high-tension electric transmission lines in Rhode Island. Starting near the Ocean State Power facility in Burrillville, Ryder and Rosa spent several days walking along various sites of arterial infrastructure."]

richard mosse::untitled

A portion of "Untitled, Lincolnshire", photographed by Richard Mosse. Not quite sure where I got the link, because it has been sitting in an open tab for well over a week now -- BLDGBLOG seems likely, if only because he recently did an interview with Mosse.

richard barnes::murmur

More photographs from the artist here (link via pruned).

didier paquignon

Painting by French artist Didier Paquignon (image source). Paquignon via BlogLess.

mike tyson's mansion

Danny Wills photographs Mike Tyson's abandoned mansion, via bldgblog.

morning, coldfoot

Photographs of Alaska's Haul Road, taken by photographer Ben Huff. Seen at Good Magazine.

vincent fournier's space project

[via but does it float and sci-fi-o-rama]

look to windward

[the art of John Berkey, via but does it float]

I am thinking that, if anyone ever takes the obvious step of creating a series of films based on Iain Banks' Culture novels, John Berkey would be the perfect visual touchstone.

form #4, 2003

[the photography of Josef Schulz, via but does it float]

goals, without players

photograph by Maximilian Haidacher, from the series "Block" [seen at the excellent Polar Inertia]

eglin fps-85 radar building

As drawn by artist Leah Beeferman, in a series entitled "Imagining the universe as seen by a building used to track orbital debris" (via things magazine):

This particular drawing is "Dedicated sensoring/how to hear with clarity". The drawings are quite nice, managing to be both delicate and imprecise (a bit like Klee?); the title adds a lift¹ of melancholy. Beeferman describes the motivation behind the series:

"The Eglin FPS-85 radar is a building used by NASA to track orbital debris. Rooted to the ground, yet gazing toward the sky, this structure epitomizes the persistence and limitations of human exploration. My latest series of drawings picture the universe seen by the Eglin: a rotating mass of detritus, rocks, dust and information streams. I imagined the Eglin's desire to project itself into this space alongside its radar waves, to experience the clutter first-hand."

For comparison, the building itself:

[1] In landscape construction, 'lifts' are a way of describing the process of laying imported or excavated soil in repeated, measured thicknesses (often eighteen inches) in order to arrive at a desired finished grade with even compaction.

matt shlian::12 morning glory lane

Seen on _urb_:

matt shlian::12 morning glory lane [link]

More drawings and paper engineering can be seen and/or purchased at Matt Shlian's website; while its more or less all quality work, the drawings like 12 morning glory lane, which filter clean lines through computer and pen plotter to achieve distortions that resemble perfected topographies, are particularly evocative, suggesting a midpoint between Maya Lin and Tron (bonus: Tron Sweded).

r&sie(n)::i'm lost in paris

Seen on core.form-ula:

images via new-territories.com

Project by R&Sie(n), twelve hundred hydroponic ferns and three hundred blown glass beakers add up to one unique wall.

alec soth::sleeping by the mississippi

Via we make money not art, this collection of photographs, Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi, caught my eye:

[images from soth's website]

More:
::Watch an interview with Alec Soth by Minnesota Public Radio
::No post related to the Mississippi is complete without a link to (a) Pruned's series "Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River" and (b) the 1944 Fisk report by the same name to which the Pruned series refers.