my inspiration

Well then, here are some underground cities that exist only in images:

Plastic Fish Tower

Aequorea

Orta Blu

Ocean Spiral

Water Discus Hotel

Permeable Facades

Valerio D’Ospina, Paintings.

Stunning cityscapes and industrial paintings from Italian artist Valerio D’Ospina.

RIJNSTRAAT 8 by Ellen van Loon / OMA

you see it on here a lot especially in (i won’t link anything but i’m sure you know what i mean) those album track ‘aesthetics’ posts, au ‘aesthetic’ posts (you see these less in kpop, but where people use non-royalty free images to kinda craft a visual au), and even just rather typical graphics that have a lot of ‘texture’ elements. and texture packs too!! that’s often where the problem starts; people just collect images (often literal art), compile them in a folder w/o sources, then insist no one can repost those images w/o crediting the person who compiled them. what???

SO may i suggest some of my fave places you can get FREE, ROYALTY-FREE elements that are totally legal to use

creativemarket has 6 free high-quality resources (textures, brushes, fonts, etc), different every week! wow awesome i check it every week

search ‘freebie’ on behance. awesome stuff!!! lots of v nice templates textures and fonts

mockup zone freebies

unsplash: tons of very nice free photographs, not shitty stock photos

pexels: same idea. + they have an adobe plugin so you can get photos without closing your editor damn nice

pixelsquid is a super cool free program (again w a ps plugin that i love) with lottts of super cool hq 3d elements!

Morguefile is my favorite free stock photo site

Texturemate is full of excellent free textures, brushes, and patterns. 

Jan de Jong, woonhuis met kantoor, Schaijk 1962-67

Miniature Calendar Tatsuya Tanaka

Everyone must have had similar thoughts at least once. Broccoli and parsley might sometimes look like a forest, or the tree leaves floating on the surface of the water might sometimes look like little boats. Everyday occurrences seen from a pygmy’s perspective can bring us lots of fun thoughts.

I wanted to take this way of thinking and express it through photographs, so I started to put together a “Miniature Calendar” These photographs primarily depict diorama-style figures surrounded by daily necessaries. Just like a standard daily calendar, the photos are updated daily on my website and SNS page, earning it the name of “ Miniature Calendar”.

Terra Preta soils are of pre-Columbian nature and were created by humans between 450 BCE and 950 CE. The soil’s depth can reach 2 meters, and exists in small plots averaging 20 hectares along the Amazon river. It was made by adding a mixture of charcoal, bone, and manure to infertile soils, making them ideal for agriculture, and it can even renew itself slowly thanks to all the microorganisms living in it.

It’s such a rich soil that researchers are trying to recreate it on a larger scale and include it in modern agriculture practices.

Chinampas. 

It gets my horticulture loving plant nerd ass going, let me tell you. 

Also if you want an excellent source for de-desertification here’s a documentary for you.