Political: Works By Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo is a South African photographer who primarily works in portraiture and whose work engages with both documentary and art traditions with a focus on African communities. Hugo has called himself “a political-with-a-small-p photographer”. He acknowledges that fact that “the power of photography is inherently voyeuristic” and that he wants “that desire to look…

Ashley Schenkein Jewelry

Inspired by her ongoing global travels to South America, Europe, Portugal and Africa, Ashley Schenkein “crafts with the kind of originality that embodies simplicity and femininity, while integrating cultural influences from across the globe into a vision of elegant East-meets-West glamour.” Each piece being handmade, the overall vision of her collection emerges as an eclectic…

Lungless Aquatic Respiration

Lungless Aquatic Respiration Suits absorb oxygen from water, letting you enjoy unlimited time with the other 70% of Earth. Inspired by the use of gills in fish and the skin respiration of the endangered Bornean Lungless Frog, researchers at Lungless have successfully created a scuba suit capable of “breathing” underwater. In nature, only animals with…

“Urban Geode” Street Art

Street art project called Urban Geode from A Common Name, a graphic designer and artist located in Los Angeles. “The finished shapes represent geodes, crystal, quartz, or any mineral formation that you would normally find in nature, now in our planned out cities…They are always unexpected treasures. “These will not last forever and the weather…

Bycatch: A Global Problem

Bycatch: 1 for the price of 10

Bycatch is a real and growing problem. We are catching more fish unintentionally than ever before thanks the to large-scale implementation of bottom trawling, a fishing technique in which ships as big as supertankers drag nets the size of a Boeing 747 along the seafloor swallowing everything in their path. Any fish that manage to…