Friday, March 16, 2007
House is an island

Developers have turned a house into an island in China after the owner refused to move out.
The villa now stands alone in a 30ft deep man-made pit in Chongqing city, reports Jinbao Daily.
The Chongqing Zhengsheng Real Estate Company wants to turn the area into a £40m 'Broadway' square, including apartments and a shopping mall.
But the owner of the villa says he won't move out unless the company pays his price - the equivalent of £1.3 million.
"The villa owner refuses to move, so the real-estate developer has had to dig out all around it to force him to," says a saleswoman at Weilian Real Estate Sales Company.
"He wants 20 million yuan, or he'll stay till the end of the world."
Monday, March 12, 2007
Ingvar Kenne / photographer
By initially creating chaos and wildly slicing into his negatives and later trying to mend his impact using various transparent materials as "band aids", Ingvar Kenne’s "Landscapes deconstructed" project is starting to tell new stories about the land. The vast Australian scenery is getting bigger, points of view changes, layers and dimensions are added/subtracted. The flat photographic surface becomes sculptural. Seven of the landscapes were published in B&W Magazine #79.



