This is a gorgeously grotesque study done by two french photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. I am frequently in Detroit (though mostly flying in and out) so I am particularly drawn to this architectural study. Furthermore, it looks strikingly similar to downtown Toledo (unfortunately). Here is there website: http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/index.html And here is a sampling of my favorites:

House.

Grrrrreat House, love the interior lighting.

Beautiful door. I want this door. Look how it opens. Genius.

Gettin Dirty

Margaret Boozer. Currently working in Washington DC. Owns and operates Red Dirt Studios.

In Your Own Backyard, Mt. Rainer red earthenware, steel, mastic, 70" x 38" x 6"

Cross Eye Bird, 2003, wagon wheel, clay encrusted root, 40" diameter x 5"

Blue Rift, 2004, Stancill brown stoneware, porcelain, slip, 13" x 5" x 1"

Ravine, 2011, unfired grey Stancill clays, basalt dust, steel, 48" x 32" x 2"

Lavender and Gold Horizon, 2011, unfired clays, steel, 30" x 30" x 2"

Purple and Yellow Clay Drawing, 2006, Ft. Lincoln clays raw, 50" x 20"

Reinvented landscape, 2005, porcelain, plywood, pencil, mastic, steel

Good Fireplace, 2005, Maryland red earthenware, steel, slate. Collection Rob and Kim Good St. Louis, MO.

Simplicity of the circle, relation to environment. Thomas Sayer, Gyre, Earthcast concrete, 1999.

David Nash

"When traveling I regret the loss of a sense of change. I see diffrences not changes. Change is best expirienced by staying in one place." - Andy Goldworthy

Function

Here are some awesome pieces I found while perusing the website for Gallery of Functional Art in Santa Monica California, http://galleryoffunctionalart.net/flash/enter/enter.html.

Light sculptures by William Leslie.

Table by Henrey Royer

Chairs by David Delthony

Damn. Look at the grains on that hot piece of wood.

Bruce Mitchell, Nexus, Bay Laural Burl, 24"x22"x6" love, Love, LOVE this wood pattern. Love the hint of the natural element. Love the mass. Love it. Other than this piece I don't find him particularly talented but whatever.