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visiting foreign countries is a good opportunity to catch up on unusual type combinations & letters that we don’t use much, italy for example, is a great place for the letter z (even zz’s..)

…close’s self-portrait – monumental in size, sculpturally severe in expression – shows off the capacity of Polaroid’s largest camera. Warhol uses a smaller camera to reduce his face to a fuzzy, leering, acne-pocked mask. Close poses for eternity; the vampirish Warhol looks as if he were remembering, with a shudder, what he looked like when alive…

a series of very expensive and very unique polaroids which are up for sale at sotheby’s in the coming weeks, including, warhol, chuck close & ansel adams… (tip via the ‘move your teeth’ blog)

…the Bay Area presents a unique blend of residential living that sits between urban and suburban in a way that never quite reconciles one with the other. In investigating this landscape I photographed thousands of homes throughout the area and then digitally assembled these images together to create new and illogical structures and streets. At first these images look plausible, however, closer inspection reveals their fabrication. The reconstructed homes and neighborhoods appear skewed, revealing their underlying and sometimes unconscious intentions…

some unusual (imagined) urban landscapes from american photographer leigh merrill (via ‘design observer’)