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Images of Gardens of the J. Paul Getty Center & Museum, Los Angeles

Rudbeckia flowers with Getty building in background

Following on from a recent post: Buildings as Art: The J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles California, I promised this post on the gardens of the J. Paul Getty Center. The gardens add so much visual splendor to the Getty Center. It blends with the artwork inside the buildings as well as the artistic architecture of…More

Buildings as Art: The J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles California

Getty Center: Museum Courtyard Fountains near East Pavillion

The J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles without doubt blurs the lines of art and architecture. In a city oft referred to for its lack of culture, the Getty is home to one of the world’s greatest free collections of art. The Getty Center is the vision of oil millionaire Jean Paul Getty. It…More

Architect Perspective: Frank Gehry genius of the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Walt Disney Concert Hall. Los Angeles, California. Photo: N.Hayter

Frank Gehry is one of my favourite architects. His most iconic works are the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggeinheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. What this man was able to vision with titanium and stainless steel is other worldy. He epitomises the ideology of the deconstructivism style of architecture.More

Photoshop globe planets made from panorama cityscapes

San Francisco Globe with Bay Bridge Panorama

With the downtime over the christmas break I tried out making my own cityscape planets using the concise photoshop tutorial at http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/create-your-own-panorama-planets. Edit: This tutorial is no longer online, I have written my own here. The process is actually very simple using Photoshop’s Polar Coordinates. The most amount of time is spent fussing to get rid…More