I just added the Lyon Festival of Lights
to my bucket list of places I want visit.
The Festival of Lights in Lyon, France
(or Fête des Lumières) ignites a dazzling
light displays by artists from around the world.
By the end of it, between three and four million
visitors (I wish I was one of them) are expected
to have walked around the French city to see
the highly impressive light installations, which
this year include 80 works by 120 designers.
Impressive and beautiful.
Category: Color
Beautiful Architectural Exhibit
Love this colored pencil art installation by the
University of Minnesota School of Architecture.
The life-size exhibit represents the historical
moments of the school during their 100-year history.
The curvy installation is made up of 100 robotically-routed
plywood ribs that are joined together with 8,080 colored #2 pencils.
Clever, creative and unique.
Beautiful Places
Black Forest, Germany
Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina
Boat Hotel, Cocoa Island, Maldives
Botanic House, Thailand
Botafogo Bay, Rio de Janerio, Brasil
Beautiful Cabin in the Desert
Lucid Stead, by artist Phillip K. Smith III, is a
70-year-old homesteader shack’s weathered
and worn is transformed into a remarkable
vision that makes viewers question whether they
are hallucinating. The artistic, reconstructive
project adds an element of intrigue and
optical illusion through the addition of reflective
panels that echo the surrounding landscape.
Smith says, “Lucid Stead is about tapping into
the quiet and the pace of change of the desert.
When you slow down and align yourself with the
desert, the project begins to unfold before you.
It reveals that it is about light and shadow,
reflected light, projected light, and change.”
Located in Joshua Tree, California
Beautiful Boats
The boats at Greenlake, with their colorful, repetitive pattern
and texture, caught my gazing eye. Love the colors.
Beautiful Mod Playroom
The chair lover in me can’t resist these kid friendly
chairs from Pangea Home.
Also love these kid style mid-century tables
from Lunar Lounge Design. I want one.
And who doesn’t like bean bag chairs and trunks
for secret stash. Bean bags at One Kings Lane
and trunks are from Phat Tommy.
Beautiful Photography
Beautiful Quote
“Writing about music is like
dancing about architecture”
-Martin Mull
Beautiful Nature
Random moments of natural beauty captured
by an iPhone.
Wet leaves, love the texture and color
I usually can’t achieve this kind of detail with an
iPhone, the lighting must have been perfect to
capture the water droplets
The bright yellow and shadows caught my attention
Surprised to see hydrangeas in late fall.
Photo taken at twighlight
Beautiful Orange
History of Chrome orange:
Chromium was the chameleon-like fruit of a Siberian mineral, called crocoite and discovered in the eighteenth century. The mineral is deep orange, a natural form of lead chromate. It was analysed in the late 1790s by the eminent French chemist Nicolas Louis Vauquelin, who identified the new element chromium as the source of the color. Vauquelin studied the compounds of chromium, and found that he could make bright yellow and rich orange versions of lead chromate, both of which he proposed as potential pigments. Chrome orange became the first pure orange pigment since the medieval use of realgar, a highly toxic compound of arsenic. The chromium colors did not become widespread, however, until the discovery of chromium-containing mineral deposits in France, USA and Britain. By replacing the lead in chrome yellow with other metals, such as zinc and strontium, the color could be tuned to paler or more acidic hues, such as ‘lemon yellow’. Chrome orange was introduced as a pigment in 1809. The world production of chrome orange ceased few years ago.
Beautiful Surreal Photography
Kindra Nikole, a Seattle-based photographer, takes inspiration
from fairy tales and fantasy to yield compelling images.
I especially like the solitude and mystery the convey.
Beautiful Musings 
