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Greg Rook

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Greg Rook‘s paintings are deceptive. They take the ‘honest’ framing and style of classic Westerns, but place the cowboys in gently sinister scenes of survival, skinning and cleaning dead animals in the woods. Look closer.

Like HBO’s excellent Deadwood, his new Clean Skins exhibition de-romanticises the cow-wranglers while keeping them within the filmic setting that idolised them.

Retro Robots

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Cool retro Robots made of cardboard from Jojo Mangoes

Anamorphosis

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Anamorphosis by Luc d’Hanis & Sofie Lachaert are plates with distorted pictures. The real pictures are only viewable when you place a reflective object in the middle of them.

Nice Idea! More pictures here.

Ernst Haeckel “Artforms of Nature”

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Graphic designer? Illustrator? Did you hear about Ernst Haeckel’s “Artforms of Nature”?

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834 – 1919) also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology.

The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures (see: Kunstformen der Natur, “Artforms of Nature”).

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Photographer Emma Tempest

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A neon girl. Very sensitive strip!

Apocalypse Now. Giant Asteroid Takes the Earth!


Created by Discovery Channel, this video simulates a 500km in the diameter asteroid drop into Pacific Ocean. As a result the blast wave burns entire living on the surface of the entire Earth. And enjoy Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” ;)

Retro Fashion by Taisia Kirtsova

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Back to the 50s! Amazing “good-old” fashion by Taisia Kirtsova. Some here. And…

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One-Eyes by BNDHT

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Custom One-Eye Toy Prototypes – handmade and hand-painted by BNDHT

Super Chameleon


A super-viral ad for Ray Ban. Created by www.neverhidefilms.com.

Book illustrations by Geliografic studio

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