JJasso, or Jaime Jasso, is a notable artist that specializes in matte painting and conceptual art. Jaime has worked on important projects from all around the world, including video game cinematics, television commercials and blockbuster feature films. Below you will find a roundup of futuristic city concepts by JJasso.
As complex ecosystems, cities are confronting tremendous pressures to seek optimum efficiency with minimal impact in a resource-constrained world. While architecture, urban planning, and sustainability attempt to address the massive resource requirements and outflow of cities, there are signs that a deeper current of biology is working its way into the urban framework.
Innovations emerging across the disciplines of additive manufacturing, synthetic biology, swarm robotics, and architecture suggest a future scenario when buildings may be designed using libraries of biological templates and constructed with biosynthetic materials able to sense and adapt to their conditions. Construction itself may be handled by bacterial printers and swarms of mechanical assemblers.
Andrew lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a bartender. He bought his first DSLR back in June of 2009. Ever since then, he has been addicted to photography. He loves the cinematic style, and that is probably what he is best known for. He also uses his 5D to shoot video, and is working on a short film about the occupy Wall Street protest at the moment.
The world’s population is rapidly moving into city centers; by 2050, seven out of every 10 people on Earth will live in a city. But not every city will be a megacity--defined as an urban area with over 10 million inhabitants--and not every megacity is equally large.
Every year, Demographia releases a comprehensive list of the population, land area, and population density of urban areas with over 500,000 inhabitants. It’s a huge list, as you might imagine. But in looking at the top 10 urban areas by population, some clear patterns emerge. Below, the list.
I am 28 years old currently living just outside London in Hertfordshire, UK. I am a self taught photographer who has started photography in 2009 when I got my first DSLR.
My inspiration to start photography was due to a trip to New York when I just took my ‘point and shoot’ camera and when I got back home I was really disappointed with the images I had taken with it, hence the reason the next day I went out and bought my DSLR so I could learn the craft of photography.
I mainly shoot architecture and cityscape/urban landscape images in and around London and other parts of the UK, but also have a keen interest in other forms of photography like Long Exposure photography.
Amazing street photography by Scott Baldock, talented semi-professional photographer based in London, UK.
Beautiful urban landscapes by Tim Grist, talented semi-professional photographer from Southampton, who currently based in Sussex, UK.
Brendan Austin was 15 when his parents took him out of school, “My father was in engineering, and his job took us all around the world. I must have lived in 50 houses by the age of 21.” This time the decampment was to Durban, on the east coast of South Africa. “I was half way through studying for exams in the UK when we moved, so rather than start a new school I carried on learning remotely. It meant I had a lot of time on my hands.” Time which, eventually, he filled with taking pictures.
New technologies like big data, sensors, mobile, smart grids are changing the way cities operate.
Cities want to help you find parking spaces, avoid traffic jams, get instant help when emergencies happen.
Some cities are really leading the charge with super cool projects that show just how wonderful city life can be.
Almost a third of The Avengers may have been set in New York, but as this video from Industrial Light & Magic's YouTube channel shows us, hardly any of the filming took place in the Big Apple itself. Since actually filming in New York would have been difficult—what with the many road-blocking restrictions and the city generally looking down on setting their streets and/or citizens on fire—almost everything had to be digitally recreated.
Gokhun Guneyhan – Turkey based Web Designer. Gokhun never calls him a Photographer, he just travels a lot and captures photos. In this series you can find a beautiful typography of European cities.
Dmitri Spiros is a Russia born artist who’s now based in the popular resort city of Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Dmitri created beautiful paintings depicting city scenes, genre paintings, the sea, flowers, and portraits. He uses the medium of the palette knife, oils, and acrylic paint in most of his works.
By now you should know that we have a weakness for Photorealistic painters, and when we find a new one, we feel oblige to introduce it to you (especially when he paints our favorite city). Here is the amazing work American painter Nathan Walsh. His style is flawless and every paintings looks like a photograph. The reflections and shadows are beautifully executed and Walsh final painting are masterpiece. Enjoy some of our favorite below.
Jeremy Mann is a San Francisco-based artist that has created these gorgeous oil paintings of moody cityscapes. The dark urban streets appear to be soaked in rain, evoking feelings of wonder and mystery.
You can see more of Mann’s work on his website here. He covers a wide range of subjects beyond cityscapes, including figures, landscapes, drawings, and still life.
“As a freelance user interface designer, a contributor to Getty images and an ambassador of the Behance network, artist Gokhun Guneyhan has got his hands full. Hailing from the city of Istanbul in Turkey, Guneyhan has traveled around most of Europe while acquiring images of his journeys. After sifting through many of his photos from previous trips, he selected a few to use for his typography series.”
Black and white cityscape photographs have a spark in itself and create a nostalgic impression of the urban landscape. Absence of colors adds depth to these photographs and makes the high rise and other elements present in it distinct and clear. Black and white photographs help in bringing into limelight the different skyscrapers and other buildings present in urban landscape.
This genre of photography also creates a sense of seclusion in the landscape of urban jungle. Moreover, it also helps in capturing the magic and charisma of the city landscape in its true sense. It is best to include the imposing and soaring buildings in these photographs as they can create alluring shadow effects and distinct contours. This post is dedicated to all the photographers who have never experimented with this typical style but wants to explore with this kind as well. They can start their experiment from their hometown, especially the downtown area where a lot of skyscrapers of contemporary style are present. Or else you can also try to shoot some of the most sought after hang outs in your city for the black and white cityscapes photographs.
New York City is the capital of global economy, fashion, entertainment, education, technology, finance, culture and many other things. Thus, this city opens up plenty of opportunity before the different kinds of professionals who have expertise in different kinds of skills. No wonder, this city has given shelter to some of the renowned photographers of the world. The picturesque and quaint cityscape of this metropolis provides the professional and the amateur photographers with plenty of subjects as well as theme to experiment with.
Dubai is part of the seven emirates of United Arab Emirates (UAE). It has successfully become one of the most famous and sophisticated cities around the world in just a short period of time. In order to understand the evolution of Dubai, we’re going to travel in space and time investigating the nature, society and technology that surround this sunny futuristic city.
Typography is everywhere, from the most insignificant thing to massive billboards. It major role in our interaction with the world and it also helps in promoting ideas, products or feelings. It is very interesting to see how these words or phrases describe and deliver their messages and also how they evolved in time. In this article you can see a collection of street typography photos which shows various ways of displaying various messages, logos, or informational signs.
It doesn’t matter how you call this city ‘the Big Apple’, ‘the Empire state’ or ‘the city that never sleeps’ it still remains the New York we know, with all its attractiveness, daring and versatility. Maybe in order to feel and understand the lifestyle of this city, one should stay there at least for some time, but nevertheless, visiting this city of contrasts will definitely make an impression on you! And for now, we offer you to check out the collection of New York Photography inspired by the magnificence of this city.
