Today we come across the photo series ‘Dark Lens’ by photographer Cédric Delsaux. The artist recreates hyper real cityscapes and includes Star Wars vehicles and characters into his photos. The Millenium Falcon sits in between construction in Dubai and Jabba The Hutt is found in a ruin in Paris. While the photographer first ventured out to capture modern landscapes, the idea of adding sci-fi characters only came after and he ended up getting a photography prize for the series.

The book “Cédric Delsaux: Dark Lens” has just been published by Éditions Xavier Barral of Paris and is being distributed in the United States by D.A.P.

Take a further look at the series after the jump.

In the end of the day, Terry Richardson gets them all in front of the lense. After shooting ASAP Rocky already a while ago for the Happy Socks Campaign, the two got together once again before the holidays. From the usual portrait shots to the ‘ASAP Rocky As Me’ version, the New York photographer did a full shoot, also featuring ASAP Yams.

Check out the full series if images after the jump.

At a special event today, the much anticipated Pirelli Calendar 2012 will be released. Limited to only 20′000 copies worldwide, the calendar is actually not easy to get a hold of, as it does not go on sale anywhere, but is send out by Pirelli.

After Karl Lagerfeld last year, the 2012 calendar was shot by Mario Sorrenti and includes the usual high profile model faces (and bodies) that one would expect. The star of the new calendar is without a doubt Kate Moss once again. Other models featured, include Lara Stone, Kate Moss, Mila Jovovich, Rinko Kikuchi, Saskia de Brauw and Isabeli Fontana.

Photography: Pirelli / Vanity Fair Italy

Take a look at further images from the calendar (NSFW) after the jump.

The MADE team also stopped by the Jonathan Mannion exhibition in Miami last week.

Jonathan Mannion, NYC based photographer, director, designer and artist, who has photographed some of the biggest names in the hip hop world such as The Notorious B.I.G., Outkast and Jay-Z, came down to Miami during Art Basel and exhibited a selection of some of his classic photographs from through out his career. During the opening night of the three day exhibition at AE District in Miami, which also featured a live performance by up and coming rapper ASAP Rocky and a DJ set by Clark Kent, Jonathan showed them around his exhibition and talked to them about his craft.

Thankfully they caught it all on video for you to check out as well.

As we get close to the end of the year, one comes across lots of recaps. As usual images say more than a 1000 words and in the last 12 months a lot has happened. One tends to forget really quickly, but as you go through the following images, you only realize how much has actually happened. The passing of Steve Jobs and Amy Winehouse, the earthquake in Japan, Occupy Wallstreet and the wave of demonstrations around the globe against banking and capitalism, the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the killing of Osama Bin Laden,  the London riots, terror attacked in Oslo, the continued uprisings through out the Middle East and a lot more. These happenings stay in the news for a couple of weeks and the minute the next big thing happens, one forgets about all the previous ones.

Check out the full picture feature here.

A selection of the most powerful images of 2011 we have featured after the jump.

As many of you may know, Instragram is capable of producing some really nice photos. Stuff so nice and admirable to a point of meriting being printed. CanvasPop provides a unique way of realizing that by offering a way to print Instagram photos onto canvas. Introductory pricing starts at $29.95 at the moment, so head on over to CanvasPop if you’re interested.

National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest. The Atlantic published a selection of 45 images from the contest, in the categories People, Places and Nature. As you can imagine there is some very impressive material among the submissions. Last year they received 16′000, meaning that the winning photos of each category have defeated quite some competition on the way to the throne.

Check out some of the submissions after the jump.

Photographer/director and Vice Magazine contributor Patrick O’Dell put together this nice little photo series entitled ‘Babes on Wheels’ featuring some rather lovely ladies riding around on some wheeled apparatuses. The ladies were styled in pieces by Stussy, Volcom, Emerica, Von Zipper and DC and they are shown cruising on some Baker Skateboards, Harleys, roller skates and bicycles. Oh, and it is NSFW, so be careful while perusing.

Take a full look after the jump.

German artist Andreas Gursky once again set the auction record for a photograph. After he previously set a record with his “99 Cent II Diptychon” photo at 3.3 Million USD, his ‘Rhine II’ work now sold at Christie’s for 4.3 Million USD. Gursky is known to only produce 6 copies of each of his photos, of which usually 5 end up in museum collections. In the case of the ‘Rhine II’ piece, the other copies are owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, Munich’s Pinakothek der Modern, and the Glenstone Collection in Potomac, Maryland. His works are all massive in size, in this case 143 inches by 73 inches. It took a long time for photographs to be appreciated as real art and for auction prices to reflect that, one can safely say at this point, that this discussion is off the table. (Via Telegraph)

Oakley presented Thrasher Magazine’s 30 Year Anniversary this past week at The Lab in Costa Mesa, CA as part of a block party that included the Love & Guts art show, as well as a special Oakley event held inside of BLENDS. A makeshift gallery was constructed out of an unoccupied store location and it was filled with an amazing range of photos from the publication’s 30 year history. Photos were presented in a chronological order to give a timeline feel. For those not in attendance, take a look at our gallery, which goes in order from the beginning to the end of the exhibit. Also, be on the lookout for more coverage from this special one-night only block party event.

Photos by Highsnobiety.

Take a further look after the click.