As many of you may know, I have neglected this site for a bit to concentrate more on photography on my other site TheDenverEye.com, as opposed to illustration here on ModMidMod. Sorry if I have been missing your comments, I thought they were forwarding to my home email, sadly they were not. I will be posting more illustrations here soon, as well as continuing with photography on The Eye.

Thank you all for the kind words!! -Tom Lundin 

My computer crashed, so it’s time for some links:

» First up is from Spiegel Online: 90 Years of Bauhaus. I usually don’t post links to slide shows, but this one is great.

» Next, 10 Modern Chairs that revolutionized sitting

» I can’t read any of this, but the designs are just incredible on this Russian site called Elff House

» Another slide show, but this one is also worth it, a new radical London bus design

» While we are in England, some beautiful nighttime photos of London from above

» To get around the skyscraper ban in Paris, architects have designed The Triangle, a 50-story pyramid that cast no shadows!

» An incredible building material, Light Transmitting Concrete

» A Cardboard Chair, winner of the Volvo For Life Design Award. Though, I don’t think setting a big red martini on it is such a good idea.

» Next, a cardboard house. . . the Universal World House.

» Instead of cardboard, how about caves, igloos or sewage pipes, the 10 Weirdest Hotels. I like the inside of a Yurt.

» An entire underground cave city in Turkey, Derinkuyu. The English translated text could have used a little editing by a native speaker.

» In Japan, the abandoned island city of Hashima

» Let’s take a quick look at the San Diego-Tijuana border

» Back in the U.S.A., some Strange and Unique Buildings. It’s nice they included the Air Force Academy Chapel, one of Colorado’s most important architectural achievements!

» Another strange building, this time from who-knows-where, from a site called Frinko

» This house design maybe the strangest of all. OK, maybe I was fooling around with that one.

» And lastly, from Life Magazine, an early Apollo spacesuit design. If you are old enough to remember the 1960s, you could get this suit for Major Matt Mason, G.I. Joe’s rival.

So this darn power surge knocked out my main computer. I thought surge protectors prevented that, but I guess not. It may be a little while before I can find someone to help me get my files off of my old computer. It’s a shame, because I spent three or four days working on a great new historical feature for this site. I will add it soon, nevertheless.

Sorry all, I have been working longer hours lately, so haven’t had as much time to get stuff together, so here are some more links I think you will enjoy. . .

» First off, Gaudi’s House of Bones!

» Always a favorite for me. . . 50 Strange Buildings of the World

» And another fave of mine, 24 Ghost Towns and Abandoned Cities. I am a sucker for bleak photos of ghost towns.

» Check out this photo of an interesting art installation by Doris Salcedo.

» Presenting the Hearst Building, the first green building in New York City.

» TWA terminal by Eero Saarinen during construction, 1961

» The Capitol Records Tower by Welton Beckett being held up by
Tennessee Ernie Ford!

» Three cool Coney Island photos from the 40s.

» Great 50s-era rooftop shot of a Motel in Venice, Florida

» And finally, a beautiful overhead shot of New York City from the 1930s

And. . . not that I expect everyone to find this interesting. . . but, since I am also a movie and music nut, I have a couple of pages where I list what films I watch, and what music I listen to, mostly so I can point friends to these pages without having to rely on my memory

» Let’s start this with a stunning photo of a Japanese tree

» Next, the top 15 Modernist Gas Stations

» The top 10 craziest Concept Cars

» But hey, they forget to include this one, the Strangest Concept Car of all

» And what about this car, a sort of Dwarf Batmobile?

» Or maybe this truly qualifies as the Strangest Strangest Concept Car of them all

» Whew, let’s get back to architecture with 15 Gravity Defying Homes from around the world

» World’s Tallest Building planned, for where else. . . Dubai, of course

» That was just a drawing, here is an incredible photo of this structure, the Burj Dubai Skyscraper

» Which reminds me this other new tower, the Chicago Spire

» The Skinniest Homes in the world

» Welcome to the Fun House “with its undulating floors, zig-zagging room dividers, Crayola colors and windows at odd angles and heights”

» A hideous McMansion Neighborhood, from above

» Then wait, you think McMansions are bad, look at this Neighborhood in Mexico

» Finally, let me wash those last two ugly images from your mind, with the beautiful Overhead Shots of London, England

First off, from Dubai, The Dynamic Tower, a constantly shifting, rotating skyscraper by Italian architect David Fisher. You must watch the video.

Also from Dubai, the wild organic architecture of the Dubai Opera House by Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher

Some great photos of organic Earth Homes. The photos are great, if the text is a little useless, sorry

From Tokyo, The Ring House by TNA architects. The ring walls are designed to hide the interior features when viewed from outside!

Unique Beach and Lake Houses, including The Mushroom House of La Jolla, designed 1968 by Dale Naegle

Fascinating photos of Two Clifftop Cities from Spain and Corsica

A beautiful panorama of Hong Kong. I love panoramas of big cities. . .

. . . such as this incredible panorama of New York City

Now let’s head back to the New York City of old, in glorious Black and White

The New York Whitney Museum has a Buckminster Fuller Exhibit. Don’t miss the Dymaxion Car

Smashing Magazine presents a nice long web exhibit of classic Pop Art

Unique, creative Table Designs

And finally, you have probably seen the panorama of Obama in Germany, but also check out this shot from the Valley of the Kings in Egypt

» First off, an incredible panoramic photo of the Big Apple. Where did they set the tripod?

» Construction photos of the Structural Expressionist masterpiece of the Victorian era, the Eiffel Tower, and more photos here

» And for the Beijing Olympics, a beautiful HDR construction photo of the landmark CCTV Tower Building

» Videos of the planned Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid of Tokyo, which will apparently build itself with robots!

» An oddity, the Namba Parks Shopping Center in Osaka, Japan

» The stunning Malaysian Sky Bridge

» I am 6 foot, 4 inches tall, so I hate flying as it is so uncomfortable, but maybe if I was flying on A380 Airliner of Signapore Airlines I wouldn’t have any complaints

» Buildings of the future may just merely be Printed on inkjet-type printers. Guess they will have someone standing by feeding it cartridges

» And to finish this off, some fun videos of the amazing DB Fletcher Capstan Ilona Expanding Table and here

» One last fun video of an interesting design, the Walking Table

I haven’t been drawing for a couple of weeks. I hope to get back to that this weekend, but as the winter weather lifts, I like to get out and take pictures before all the landscaping buds!

» First off, let’s take a quick peak at what is hanging right now in Wright’s Guggenhiem

» A slice of Americana, early color Kodachrome photos

» Cool and creepy at the same time, the Abandoned City of Tiawan. More here

» The world’s Most Beautiful Buildings. Seems to be a short list

» The world’s Most Interesting Bridges. And along the same lines, Eighteen Stunning Bridges from around the world

» Is this a movie theater or a spaceship? Pacific Palace in Hong Kong

» 3D urban design proposals for Skyscraper Farming

» Modernist Home Garden designs

» An island paradise floating on top of Recycled Plastic Bottles

» Ice Palaces, Hotels and Castles. Winter is over so you better look fast

» And finally, Metaefficient, a great website with many fascinating “Green” building designs. Be sure to scroll down and see the India Tower

I’ve been a little busy to post pictures or drawings, so here are some links to enjoy through the weekend:

» First off, the future of photography: Some truly fantastic
High Dynamic Range photos

» Next stop, the beauty of Lost America

» Hong Kong from a hilltop

» Compare that last shot to this panoramic view of London

» Then see what is planned for Dubai’s artificial Island City

» Is it time to update Gustave Eiffel’s Tower? Well at least, temporarily!

» 10 of the world’s most Beautiful Bridges

» A Staircase like no other

» Umm, there is no other way to put this:
Extremely impressive shiny balls. Sorry about that!

» 30 of the most creative Bookshelf Designs

» Mod eco-friendly “Green” Cardboard Furniture. Just don’t get them wet.

» Speaking of paper, you have to see the Papercut Art of Peter Callesen

» Eccentric architecture. Again with the shirtless russian mob guy, sorry!

» Crazy Apartment Addition. Not so sure I could get comfortable in this room.

» Another “stunning” Solar Building

» And finally, tell me, what is this?

» I am thrilled that preservationists in Seattle want to save this Denny’s.
What a great roof on this structure.

» Which reminds me of these ghostly images of Vanishing America

» The incredible wood residences of Canadian architect Arthur Erickson.
There is another link here as well. The sad news here is the impending doom
of this beautiful structure at the top of both of these links.

» Speaking of incredible, here are Eleven of the most incredible places to live

» Similarly, Breathtaking Monasteries from around the world

» A Dutch Chapel converted into a modernist apartment

» Blend into the environment with Natural Architecture

» The homemade skyscraper of ex-Russian mobster Nikolai Sutyagin.
Sorry in advance for some of the language (and especially sorry
for the barechested shot of Nikolai!). This reminds me of
Bishop’s Castle, here in Colorado

» Odd, creative, and sometimes upside-down Hotel Rooms

» 3D murals that create Architectural Illusions

» And finally, some true Marvels of Design.
(Maybe they should have included this bookcase)

» The influence of 1960s-era Dieter Rams’ Braun Designs on contemporary Mac products

» High Res 3D Photo Panaromas! They are truly breathtaking.

» 30 Rock! The art of Rockefeller Center, NY.

» The Eighth Annual Harbin Ice and Snow World in China. Hey that reminds me of the Leadville Crystal Ice Palace.

» Crystal Island, the world’s largest building, being constructed in Moscow.

» Sanyo’s Solar Ark. Apparently, it’s The World’s Most Stunning Solar Building.

» Proposed futuristic Sky Cities

» Discover your hidden talent with this Jackson Pollock Simulator