praça cantão, favela painting
it is not only dulux who has created these vibrant street scenes, dutch artists jeroen koolhaas and dre urhahn created their first ‘favela painting‘ back in 2006 and yielded two murals which were painted in vila cruzeiro, rio’s most notorious slum. this time their back on a monumental scale – unveiling a 7,000sqm art intervention that sees 34 houses, on the giant hillside favela of praça cantão, given a beautifully vivid overhaul…

cnn : go beyond boarders, berlin wall
ugly logo, but interesting idea.

david bowman
more beautiful images here.

andrew hem : cambodia
i love all things to do with cambodia, so coming across the work of andrew hem was a little exciting this morning. in this anticipated solo project, hem confronts the viewer with themes of history and tragedy based on his native cambodia. influenced by the idea of the "butterfly effect", where small differences in decisions or movements can produce large variations in the long-term outcome of events, hem creates a series of "what if" scenarios where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes. in this case the artist imagines if the violent Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia had never taken power and how the lives of the people would have been altered. hem's paintings return to acrylic after several shows of using oil in order to create a more fluid and layered effect. the detailed characters portrayed are layered over hauntingly sublime backgrounds of a past that has been re-imagined based on the "butterfly effect" and leads to the title of the show: one leads to another.

buenos aire's posters
i can`t get enough of these posters... they represent 48 of buenos aire's neighbourhoods, and each and everyone of them were designed by a different artist. all they had to do was catch the concept of the area, and transform its history and mood into an illustration. see more here.

design can save the world
i did a project on the lack of clean water in india, so it was interesting to see this new design solution; the hippo roller by project h design, a simple barrel of recycled materials, grooved for traction and designed to roll over rough terrain using a simple push handle. the hippo rollers sides taper up at the ends to minimize its contact with the ground, making it easier to roll. the top and bottom of the barrel are rounded so that the barrel can be tilted upright with less effort than a barrel with a flat bottom. its such a simple solution to a very basic problem, but can make a huge difference to peoples lifestyle.

steve mccurry
why i love steve mccurry. the colours and textures in this photograph are just beautiful, it makes me want to go back to tibet.

holi festival of colour
every march the holi festival of colour is held in india. the festival celebrates welcoming spring, and is a celebration of the triumph of good over evil. what this translates to is enthusiastic dropping of inhibitions, as people chase each other and playfully splash colorful paint, powder and water on each other. im dying to go one year. more photos found here.