Friday Eye Candy

Friday Eye Candy: 'The Secret Life of Buildings'

The latest edition of The Paris Review includes a portfolio of 16 images by Mark Yankus. The print publication was kind enough to provide a sample of these deeply texture images online.

December 12, 2014 - The Paris Review

Wanderers

Friday Eye Candy: Stunning Visualizations of Civilization in Space

Dan Malouf shares a collection of still images taken from the four-minute film Wanderers showing "what human civilization might look like with colonies on Mars, in the asteroid belt, and on the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus."

December 5, 2014 - Greater Greater Washington

Rådhuset Station

Friday Eye Candy: The Most Beautiful Metro Stations in the World

John Benjamin rounded up stunning images of the most beautiful subway stations from all around the world.

November 14, 2014 - Urbanful

Canyon the Grids

Friday Eye Candy: 'Crayon the Grids' City Mapping

Artist-scientist Stephen Von Worley is taking on a new project— mapping the world's city streets based on a complex set of algorithms and psychedelic colors.

November 7, 2014 - Urbanful

Friday Eye Candy: 2014's Best Architectural Photography

The 2014 Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards were presented at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore recently.

October 10, 2014 - Dezeen

Friday Eye Candy: Life Finds A Way

NPR's Cities Project is crowdsourcing Instagram photos of nature creeping back into urban spaces.

September 26, 2014 - NPR Cities Project

Friday Eye Candy: Behold the 'Emojiopolis'

If you're not familiar with the world of emojis, bravo for holding out against the widely adopted trend. But now that (most) people have adopted pictographs for communication, could the shift in communication produce new kinds of landscapes?

September 12, 2014 - Sam Jacobs Studio

Friday Eye Candy: Social Media and the Beauty of Transit

Jenni Avins shares a collection of videos created on Instagram's new Hyperlapse app that capture the beauty of transportation from every corner of the world.

September 5, 2014 - CityLab

Friday Eye Candy: USGS Launches Historical Topographic Map Explorer

A new tool, released in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey and Esri, provides easy access to historical maps from all over the country, featuring a timeline to easily select maps from different eras.

July 11, 2014 - ESRI

Friday Eye Candy: The 'Most Definitive' Film About Water

Canadian filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier created a feature length documentary film called Watermark to capture the “existential interactions around the world with water."

April 25, 2014 - The Creators Project

Friday Eye Candy: Revisiting the Sites of Famous Album Covers

For the music aficionados: a recent article in Guardian Cities dug up the Google Street Views of the exact locations of iconic album covers, laying the album cover over the current condition.

April 11, 2014 - Guardian Cities

Los Angeles Sunset

Top Urban Instagram Feeds

Marta Bausells and the readers of Guardian Cities collaborated to create a list of top Instagram photographers from around the world.

April 4, 2014 - Guardian Cities

aerial view of identical suburban homes

Friday Eye Candy: Stunning Overhead Perspectives on Human Interactions with Land

The “Daily Overview” website provides a compendium of high-altitude, overhead photography from around the world.

February 21, 2014 - Daily Overview

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