Tag Archive | "Japanese"

Life After Death: Taxidermy’s Most Macabre Creations

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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Life After Death: Taxidermy’s Most Macabre Creations

All artists, it can be argued, are playing god when they bring their works into the world, but while some of these creations aim to please through their beauty, others are geared to cause pain as well as pleasure, fear as much as fascination. These objects of sublime horror have been sent to haunt our dreams; take a browse through this bizarre bestiary and you’ll see what we mean.

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5 Most Epic Japanese Tea Houses

Monday, March 23, 2009

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5 Most Epic Japanese Tea Houses

Japanese teahouses are usually small and simple wooden structures located in remote, quiet areas, but in recent years, architects have been pushing the envelope with modern interpretations of the place of the tea ceremony gathering. Check out Environmental Graffiti's list of five modern tea houses, which includes an inflatable igloo, a tea house on stilts, a cube, a round house and an eco-friendly bamboo hut. Tea, anyone?

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