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madame gres + desert

By admin on October 13, 2011
This entry is filed under design, inspiration, places.

Finding exciting Fall 2012 inspiration from Madame Gres + the unique skies of the desert.

Stay tuned…

Bottom 2 photos via Indian Summer Vintage

Richat Structure

By admin on September 19, 2011
This entry is filed under places.

No one’s really quite sure how this geological feature of the Sahara Desert in Mauritania was formed. Initially it was hypothesized to be an asteroid impact site but more recent studies seem unconvinced. THE EARTH IS SO COOL!
Read more here. Via But Does it Float.

An ode to the end of summer

By admin on September 13, 2011
This entry is filed under inspiration, places.

I’m really having a hard time letting go of summer. Here’s a film made by Sully and Co which isn’t helping… Watch sully’s video here!

via- Kinfolk

Chefchaouen

By admin on August 31, 2011
This entry is filed under design, places, upstate.

Kalen and I are dyeing up a storm of new shapes and a new color for spring 2012… it might go a little something like this:

Eduard Imhof

By admin on August 28, 2011
This entry is filed under art, design, places.

As you probably have sensed by now, we at Upstate love a good combination of science and art… and here is yet another fine specimen. Eduard Imhof is responsible for the beautiful relief-shaded drawing and painting of many Swedish atlases and school maps from the 1920s to the 1970s. Many of his maps were carefully measured in field expeditions but he also produced unmeasured ‘map paintings’ and an abundance of landscape sketches. More on Imhof here at the ETH website.

Istanbul

By admin on August 5, 2011
This entry is filed under inspiration, places.

an all time favorite travel photo…

The man of the setting sun

By admin on June 29, 2011
This entry is filed under inspiration, places.

Coldsplinters makes us want to pack up ONE bag and run for the hills!

Shack Collection

By admin on May 25, 2011
This entry is filed under architecture, places.

Thanks for coming to our website. We’ve wanted a place to collect all the things that inspire us for some time now, and we finally got around to setting it up. Original idea, right?