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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 05:32 PM Nov 2013

Lucid Stead: A Transparent Cabin Built of Wood and Mirrors







Part architectural intervention and part optical illusion, Lucid Stead is a recently unveiled installation by artist Phillip K Smith III in Joshua Tree, California. The artist modified an existing 70-year-old homesteader shack by introducing mirrors to create the illusion of transparency, as the structure now takes on the lighting characteristics of anything around it. LED lighting and other custom electronic components were further installed within the building’s interior to illuminate from the interior at night. Smith says of the installation, “Lucid Stead is about tapping into the quiet and the pace of change of the desert. When you slow down and align yourself with the desert, the project begins to unfold before you. It reveals that it is about light and shadow, reflected light, projected light, and change.”

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http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/11/lucid-stead-a-transparent-cabin-built-of-wood-and-mirrors-by-phillip-k-smith-iii/
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Lucid Stead: A Transparent Cabin Built of Wood and Mirrors (Original Post) n2doc Nov 2013 OP
Many more pics of it at this site dixiegrrrrl Nov 2013 #1
Cool Kaleva Nov 2013 #2
How cool! nt Enthusiast Dec 2013 #3
You post the coolest stuff. K&R Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2013 #4
I've been saying for a long time that we should paint images of trees on our ugly buildings Ace Acme Dec 2013 #5
Somebody's gonna need a whole lot of Windex... Marie Marie Dec 2013 #6
I don't see a reflection of the photographer/camera in that first shot ... eppur_se_muova Dec 2013 #7
Hope it's on private land, or illuminated all the time. AtheistCrusader Dec 2013 #8
I was thinking, Joe Shlabotnik Dec 2013 #9
I'd enjoy looking at that for a good five minutes. Xyzse Dec 2013 #10

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
1. Many more pics of it at this site
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 05:35 PM
Nov 2013
http://www.viralnova.com/mirror-cabin/

you could get a serious eyeball burn approaching it from the sun side...

Most creative, for sure.
 

Ace Acme

(1,464 posts)
5. I've been saying for a long time that we should paint images of trees on our ugly buildings
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 02:12 PM
Dec 2013

Plant trees and put mirrors on the buildings would be better

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
7. I don't see a reflection of the photographer/camera in that first shot ...
Tue Dec 3, 2013, 04:01 PM
Dec 2013

how do you suppose that was done ?

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
8. Hope it's on private land, or illuminated all the time.
Tue Dec 3, 2013, 08:14 PM
Dec 2013

Otherwise someone's going to drive a dune buggy right through it.

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
9. I was thinking,
Wed Dec 4, 2013, 04:35 AM
Dec 2013

that I could see myself driving my truck through it in broad day light, skidding home from work, after happy hour on a Friday.

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