City Silhouettes

The Jacques Cousteau iPhone app, an electric camper, musical tree rings and more in our look at the web this week

The visually lucid images Beijing-based photographer Jasper James captures of people in cities around Asia are inspired by the 2008 demographic shift where the number of people living in cities outnumbered those in rural areas. They are also amazingly done without the help of digital retouching.

There You Are

Sandro Kopp's Skype sessions reflect the hybrid nature of painting reality from a two-dimensional plane

A series that evolved out of two friends chatting online while on opposite sides of the world, Sandro Kopp‘s Skype paintings are a natural progression for the young portrait artist. As a half Kiwi, half German, Kopp—who currently lives in the Scottish Highlands—is no stranger to the nomadic lifestyle that Skype enables, telling us he regularly uses it keep up with friends and family. One …

Diego Gravinese

GZA at MIT, Tweeting plants, North Korea architecture guides and more in our look at the web this week

In a series of richly hued oil on canvas and acrylic paintings, Argentine artist Diego Gravinese depicts people in an oft-bizarre setting with photo realistic detail. Among the intimate scenes is a girl mock-eating bait from a fishing line and a failed attempt to drink milk from the carton.