My passion for vintage design recently had me googling old supermarkets. To my surprise, I found some great blogs and sites that focus on this exact subject. Pleasant Family Shopping is a sweet blog “dedicated to preserving the history of retail chain stores of the past - with an emphasis on supermarkets and discount stores.” Also catching my attention is Groceteria, “a site about the history of the American supermarket, from both an architectural and a business perspective,” concentrating mainly on the 1920s through the 1980s. Such wonderful history, details and photos on both sites.
Here’s a collection of color vintage supermarket photos from The Imaginary World that warm my heart.
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Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh
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Using LED glowsticks, flashlights, even fireworks, combined with time-lapse photography, light graffiti artists create a unique tagging that wraps around objects dimensionally, allowing them to tag in a way they’d never be able to with spraypaint. Although some street artists and taggers are not too fond of “Light Graffiti” being referred to as a real form of graffiti because it doesn’t have a physical presence or staying power.
Here is a collection of photos and a tutorial on how to make your own light graffiti photos from a crew in Germany who call themselves LICHTFAKTOR (Light Factor).
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Joana Linda has kept an on going self-portrait project for the past 5 years which initially began as ’somewhat of a joke’ and has now become a very important part of her life. In her own words:
“It’s a documentation of moods, required and un-required love stories, lucky days and rainy ones. It’s also a form of psychoanalysis, catharsis and self-knowledge. This is my way of dealing with problems, indecisions, impossibilities. Each person has its own universe, its own imaginary, more important than the mundane day-to-day routine.”
