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A mural by #fabianburgos in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood, seen on the wall and on a parked car.

My car reflections zine launches at the Miami Zine Fair on April 4β€”hope to see you there!

#miamicolortheory #practiceofseeing #brickell #shotoniphone
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β€œSpace and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” β€” Le Corbusier β€οΈπŸ’›πŸ§‘πŸ’šπŸ’™πŸ©·

#miami #parkitecture #miamicolortheory #museumgarage
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β€œColor is the place where our brain and the universe meet.” β€” Paul Klee πŸ©·πŸ’›πŸ§‘πŸ’šπŸ©΅

πŸ“@miamichildrensmuseum
Architect: @arquitectonicaarchitecture

#miamicolortheory #shotoniphone #miamichildrebsmuseum #arquitectonica #minimalphoto
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β€œIt’s not easy being green.” - Kermit the Frog πŸ’š
Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️ to those who celebrate, and a big happy birthday to my husband Eric!

#green #miamicolortheory #shotoniphone #miami
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β€œI believe in pink.” - Audrey Hepburn 🩷🩷🩷

#puddle #reflection #pink #miamidesigndistrict #miamicolortheory
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πŸŸ πŸŸ πŸŸ πŸ”΅πŸ”΅πŸ”΅

500 Brickell Ave, Miami
Architect: @arquitectonicaarchitecture 

#circles #parkitecture #miamiarchitecture #arquitectonica #shotoniphone
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” β€” Lao Tzu πŸ©·πŸ§‘πŸ’™πŸ’›πŸ’šβ€οΈπŸ©΅

#shotoniphone #practiceofseeing #shadowplay #stepsandshadows #noticing
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Pattern is the repetition of order, and order is the language of design. πŸ’šπŸ§‘πŸ©΅

 Pattern is the repetition of order, and order is the language of design.

The more you look, the more you find.

#miamicolortheory #pattern #repetition #geometry #colorstudy
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β€œOrange is the happiest color.” 🧑🧑🧑
β€” Frank Sinatra

#shotoniphone #miamicolortheory #orange #powerlines
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Originally Hoffman’s Cafeteria 
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1940

1450 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach

This Art Deco structure in the Nautical Moderne style that has had many lives. With wave-like designs and vertical images it evokes the feeling of a ship’s smokestacks or funnel. It opened on December 24th, 1940 as the popular eatery β€œHoffman’s Cafeteria” to accommodate 500 customers. Most of the establishment was a self-service one but a portion of it was a restaurant.
From 1942-1945, it became an Army Mess Hall. After that it was Warsaw Ballroom, Warsaw ballroom
Ovo at Warsaw, China Club, Jerry’s Famous Deli, 
Senior Frogs, and now it’s a surf shop.

#artdeco #artdecomiami #henryhohauser #artdecoarchitecture
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🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦

Miami Beach Art Deco
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β€œA good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
– Ansel Adams πŸ©·πŸ©΅πŸ’›πŸ’š

πŸ“The Drake
1460 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach
Architect David T Ellis, 1937

#shotoniphone 
#artdeco
#pastels
#oceandrive
#artdecodistrict
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πŸ“ Barbizon Hotel
530 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1937

β€œThe sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building.”
β€” Louis Kahn

πŸ’›πŸ’šβ€οΈπŸ©΅

#artdeco #miamibeachartdeco #henryhohauser #oceandrive miamicolortheory
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β€œNothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”
β€” Lao Tzu

I love how water bends light. 

πŸ“Flamingo Park 

#miamicolortheory
#practiceofseeing
#waterandlight
#refraction
#waterphotographyπŸ’¦
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β€œThe world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” - W.B. Yeats πŸ’šπŸ’™πŸ©·πŸ©΅πŸ§‘πŸ’›πŸ€

If you know Miami… you might recognize a few of these. Which ones?
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Things are looking up, and there is beauty everywhere! πŸ©·πŸ’šπŸ’›β¬†οΈ
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β€œA person who works with their hands is a laborer. A person who works with their hands and their brain is a craftsman. A person who works with their hands, their brain, and their heart is an artist”. - Marco Pierre White πŸ’šπŸ€πŸ™Œ
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β€œLight creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.”
β€” Le Corbusier πŸ’›πŸ©΅πŸ€

#fluting
#architecturaldetail
#artdeco
#miamibeacharchitecture
#miamicolortheory
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Β« Ceci n’est pas une pipe. Β» β€” RenΓ© Magritte πŸ©΅πŸ€πŸ’›πŸ€πŸ©·

#renemagritte #conceptualart #minimalism #practiceofseeing #miamicolortheory
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β€œYou were only waiting for this moment to arise.”
β€” The Beatles, Blackbird (1968)

Sometimes, all you have to do is look up. 

Includes Live Photos #shotoniphone 

#blackbird
#lookup
#practiceofseeing
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β€œAim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
β€” W. Clement Stone πŸ’šπŸ–€πŸ€πŸ’™β€οΈ

I included a hyper lapse and a what my camera roll looks like 😊

#miamicolortheory
#practiceofseeing
#geometriccomposition
#colorrelationships
#minimalphotography
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πŸ©·πŸ’›πŸ©΅πŸ’šπŸ€πŸŒ΄βš«οΈ

πŸ“ The Drake
1460 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach
Architect: David T. Ellis, 1937

Pastels are simply colors softened with white.

Blue + white = baby blue
Red + white = pink
Yellow + white = butter
Blue + yellow = green
Green + white = mint

In art, value is the lightness or darkness of a color (or hue).
High value = light
Low value = dark

#artdeco #miamibeacharchitecture #pastel #miamicolortheory #oceandrive
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β€œAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,” - Simone WeilπŸ§‘πŸ’™πŸ’›β€οΈ

πŸ“ @miamichildrensmuseum 
Architect: @arquitectonicaarchitecture
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Remember- If a potato can become vodka, you can be anything you want to be. πŸ’™πŸ€πŸ˜Š

πŸ“Southgate Towers, Miami Beach
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More hotels on my Photo Walking tour for Open House Miami with Open House Miami & @miami_cad 
πŸ©·πŸ’›πŸ©΅πŸ€πŸ’š

Parisian Hotel
1510 Collins Ave, Miami Beach

Geneva Hotel,
1530 Collins Ave, Miami Beach

Thanks to Barbara Baer Capitman and @mdpl1976 for preserving South Beach’s Art Deco, Mimo (Miami Modern) and Mediterranean Revival buildings!

The Miami Beach Architectural District, known as the Art Deco District in South Beach, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 1979. It was the nation’s first 20th-century historic district, featuring over 800 preserved buildingsβ€”mostly from the 1930s-1940sβ€”concentrated between 5th Street, Ocean Drive, Collins Canal, and Alton Road. πŸ©΅πŸ’™πŸ€πŸ§‘πŸ©·

#artdecomiami
#miamibeachartdeco
#decoarchitecture
#openhousemiami 
#photowalk
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Are you ready? β€œLook Up” by @miamicolortheory continues! Every night from 6-11pm at The Betsy Orb at @thebetsyhotel through the end of February! πŸ₯šπŸŽ‰

#lookup
#miamicolortheory
#miamibeacharchitecture
#seeingdifferently
#artinpublicspaces

Projected onto a super cool Miami Beach landmark by @shulmandesign

I like to stand in the crowd watching people discover it in real time! πŸ˜ŽπŸŽ‰
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β€œRepetition creates rhythm.”
β€” Robert Delaunay

πŸ–€πŸ’™πŸ€
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One of the stops on my β€œOpen House Miami” (@miami_cad ) Photo Walking Tour is @jessynite β€œIn Your Eyes I Come Alive” at the art deco Avalon Hotel (architect Albert Anis, 1941). Originally presented as part of the City of Miami Beach’s No Vacancy program, the piece uses sunlight to reveal its message through shadow, shifting throughout the day and changing depending on where you stand.

Other pieces of hers in Miami (I love her work!) that I’ve photographed are High Hopes on 71st Street in Little Haiti, (on a @slomo29 mural), β€œThe Sun Is High and So Am I” at Soho Beach House, and β€œPleasure” as part of a trilogy inside the Nike Store on Lincoln Road. 

#miamicolortheory #openhousemiami #novacancymiami #jessynite #avalonhotel
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LOOK UP by @miamicolortheory is back at The Betsy Orb at @thebetsyhotel nightly for the rest of February, 6-11pm!
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β€œThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” πŸ§‘πŸ’™πŸ€
β€” Dorothea Lange

#miamicolortheory #practiceofseeing #seeingdifferently #miamicolor #architecturedetails
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β€œI prefer living in color.” - David Hockney β€οΈπŸ§‘πŸ’›πŸ–€πŸ©΅πŸ€

Mural by @jenstark on Espanola way, Miami Beach

#miamicolortheory
#jenstark
#espanolaway
#colorandlight 
#miamibeachart
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β€œArchitecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” β€” Le Corbusier πŸ§‘πŸ’™πŸ’›

πŸ“ (Formerly β€œSurf Hotel”) 
444 Ocean Drive
Architect: Henry Hohauser, 1936

#miamicolortheory #henryhohauser #artdecomiami #oceandrive #colorandshadow
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β€œThe mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” β€” Frank Lloyd Wright

Leslie Hotel
Albert Anis, 1937
1244 Ocean Drive

Congress Hotel
Henry Hohauser, 1939
1052 Ocean Drive

Cardozo Hotel
Henry Hohauser, 1939
1300 Ocean Drive

Thank you @mdpl1976 for preserving, promoting, and preserving art deco. 

#henryhohauser #artdeco #miamibeacharchitecture #oceandrive #miamidesignpreservationleague πŸ’›πŸ©·πŸ–€πŸ©΅
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Loving the new colors of the Miami Beach parking garage! We have great Parkitecture.

🩷🧑🩡
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β€œYou can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”— Maya Angelou πŸ©΅πŸ’›πŸ’šπŸ©·β€οΈ

Happy birthday to my creative & talented daughter Mia! πŸŽ‰πŸ©΅πŸŽ‚ LOVE YOU!

And Happy Valentine’s Day to all! ❀️❀️❀️❀️❀️
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When glass turns architecture into a painting. The Lincoln Eatery reflected, creating waves of blue, green, and gold.
πŸ’™πŸ’›πŸ©΅πŸ€

#miamicolortheory #miamiart #architecturedetails #urbanabstraction #reflections
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β€œRhythm is a pattern in time.” β€” George Gershwin

🧑🀍🧑🀍
#rhythm #pattern #graphiclines #designinspiration #miamicolortheory
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So exciting to see Seeing Differently: Miami Color Theory out in the wild at @thebassmoa @pammshop @booksandbooks @dale_zine @wynwoodwallsshopofficial @miamibookfair @habitathyett @glottmanshop @studio_af_miami @nisi_b_home @miamibeachgarden and more.
πŸ©΅πŸ’›πŸ§‘β€οΈπŸ’™πŸŽ‰πŸ«ΆπŸ₯°

Thank you @trapublishing for bringing this book into the world. πŸ’›πŸ™Œ

This book is an invitation to notice color, shape, and beauty. The more you look, the more you find.

#miamicolortheory #seeingdifferently #artbook #miamiart #independentbookstores
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β€˜The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.’ -  Alberto Giacometti πŸ©·πŸ’›πŸ’™

#colorandform #abstractcomposition #artanddesign #architecturephotography #miamicolortheory
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An Art Deco eyebrow is a projecting ledge above a window that shades interiors from the sun β€” a climate-smart solution in the era before air conditioning β€” and gives Miami Beach Art Deco buildings their sleek, aerodynamic rhythm. In this series, curved forms transform a functional detail into a graphic signature. 🩷🧑🩡 

Thank you @mdpl1976 for helping preserve these gems.

#MiamiBeachArtDeco #ArtDecoArchitecture #MiamiArchitecture #ArchitecturePhotography #MiamiColorTheory
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