Audi Hires Photographer To Shoot Their $50,000 Car, He Uses $32 Miniature Toy Car Instead
Marketing a car costs big bucks. Unless you hire Felix Hernandez, who doesn’t need an actual car to make the magic happen. Instead, he does it with a $32 toy replica. Continue reading »
This Artist With Synesthesia Sees Colors In Music And Paints Your Favorite Songs
David Bowie, “Life on Mars.”
Melissa McCracken grew up with a neurological condition that means she processes songs as colors—a gift that translates into paintings inspired by her favorite musicians.The 26-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri has a rare neurological phenomenon affecting approximately four percent of population that mixes up the brain’s response to certain stimuli as if it had been cross-wired. Synesthesia affects people differently, but McCracken’s form—known as chromesthesia—means she spontaneously and involuntarily sees colors when listening to music. Continue reading »
Twitter User Had Fun Photoshopping Images Of Donald Trump Wearing Really Long Ties
So apparently someone is increasing Trump’s Ties. The recently created Twitter profile @TrumpsTies is taking over Twitter with manipulated images of Trump and his extravagant ties. Continue reading »
Symphogear Art Designer Thomas Romain Redraws Sons’ Character Designs
Artist Thomas Romain doesn’t just work on anime projects, he also uses his artistic skills to spend quality time with his two sons. Both boys enjoy creating their own fantastical characters, from steampunk doctors to gun-wielding cyborgs. Romain then takes his kids’ character designs and redraws them in what he dubbed “Father and Sons Design Workshop.” Continue reading »
Bikinis On Record: Album Cover Beach Girls Of The 1960s-1980s
What better method to sell records than to put a young surfer girl on the cover? At least that’s what record companies believed throughout the 1960s and into the 80s. The beach babe was a ubiquitous sight on the shelves of the record stores, especially in the “super hits by various artists” or “easy listening” categories… and implemented mostly by countries other than the US (for whatever reason). Continue reading »
Yes, This Is Barack Obama Battles The Pink Robots
Regardless of your level of interest in American politics or cultural disconnects, you must recognize the inherent humor of artist Jayson Scott Musson’s social commentary. Whether you love or hate Barack Obama, we should at least be able to agree on how awesome it is that his ‘Magic Tears’ give men more staying power in the sack, no? Continue reading »
Just A Simple Guy Who Loves Wearing Fabulous Female Shoes
Women are not the only shoe lovers in the world. This man enjoys wearing high heels, sneakers, platform shoes, etc. I have no idea what shoe size he wears, but he seems to find all possible shoes that fit him. Look how happy he is on these pictures Continue reading »
This Creative Artist Turns Everyday Objects Into Awesome 3D Illustrations
Artist Victor Nunes gives a new purpose to everything he touches. By surrounding different objects with simple line drawings, he creates playful illustrations. Popcorn turns into faces, lettuce into hair and dresses, scissors into animals and pencil shavings into mohawks and wings. Continue reading »
Expressive, Large-Scale Pencil Drawings That Are Amazingly Photo-Realistic
Arinze Stanley’s art defies what should be possible with pencil and paper. In his series of hyperrealistic drawings, he breathes life on to the page, using the shadow and depth to make it seem like they are alive and three-dimensional. Sticking to only pencils and an incredible amount of patience and skill, Arinze drawings often take around 100 hours to complete. Continue reading »
This Instagram Account Compares Young Thug To Historical Paintings
At just 22 years old, student Hajar Benjida has already amassed thousands of followers on what essentially started out as a last minute idea for a school assignment. Though the account does nothing more than compare images of Young Thug to some of history’s most revered works of art, the precision with which each image is matched to highlight Thugger’s unique sense style, his music and nuanced approach to gender fluidity, and the wealth of historical references Hajar explores, makes it one of the greatest visual projects we’ve seen in some time. Here, we meet the magical mind behind the meme to talk mentors, music, and old masters. Continue reading »
The Anatomy Of The Songs Graphically Explained By Artist
Illustrator John Atkinson reveals the anatomy of different styles of songs. John lives in Ottawa, Canada. His work can be seen in numerous publications worldwide. Continue reading »
This Girl Is Unbelievably Flexible
Sofie Dossi is only 15 but she can do incredible things with her body. Her amazing flexibility has helped her rack up over 250K+ followers on Instagram and they just can’t help but be impressed by what she can do. Continue reading »
A Creative Dad Brings Family-Favourite Cartoon Characters To Life By Putting Them Into Hilarious Situations
You would be forgiven for thinking that the following images are created using Photoshop – but complete with real fire and coffee splashes, Mitchel Wuís images are all shot in real-time. Using plastic toy characters from family-favourite films such as Toy Story, Star Wars, ET and The Muppets, the California-based photographer puts the plastic characters into surreal situations Continue reading »
City Signs In Russia’s Yekaterinburg Turn Into ‘Captchas’ By The Street Artists
Future, as described by cyberpunk classics, keeps taking a more tangible form. Robots have already become an integral part of industrial process and of contemporary existence, and their numbers grow by the year. Continue reading »
These Russian Social Media Profile Pictures Will Blow Your Mind With Photoshop Magic
Behold, the most magical social media profiles of Russia! Feast your eyes on the mermaids, unicorns, six-arm men, and angels living their wildest fantasies online. Whatever you’re into, these profiles are proof you can find like-minded people online. These gems were mined from the Russian social network Odnoklassniki, which means “Schoolmates”. Odnoklassniki is a popular network for old friend and classmates to stay in touch. It’s basically local Facebook for Russia and former Soviet Republics. Continue reading »
Steer Clear: A Collection Of Sketchy Looking Vans
Vans were once seen as the coolest vehicles on the planet by those groovy guys (mostly) and (a few) gals who thought driving their own magic room around town sounded like pure heaven. And then the 90s ended, and non-work vans started to represent “stranger danger” to people who’d heard stories about creepy guys with vans doing all sorts of unspeakable things. Sadly, this stigma stuck and vans became largely unwanted vehicles, except among classic car enthusiasts and ironic hipsters looking to make a statement with their customizable box on wheels. Continue reading »
Action Figure Collector Turns His Toys Into A Funny Visual Diary
Imagine action figures crossing over to Toy Story, and you’ll get this priceless photography series by Instagram user @bmyhero.
Definitely Han shot first:
If you loved these action hero mashup photos, the following pictures by this Bali-based photographer will be up your alley—they hilariously feed to any fantasy you’ve had of superheroes from rivaling franchises meeting each other. The photos also have a surreal quality to them, which makes them all the more believable and enjoyable to fans. Continue reading »
Illustrations You’ll Love If You Agree That Being A Woman Is Hard
There are many ways to celebrate being a woman—you can reiterate powerful quotes, empower others, or even get an underboob tattoo—but there’s probably no better way to unite women than to have us laugh at our own struggles. London-based artist Natalya Lobanova including this quiz about what your spooning style says about your relationship, draws pencil illustrations that women everywhere can relate to. Continue reading »
Hauntingly Beautiful Ophelia Paintings Seduce You From Beneath The Water’s Surface
Through a liquid lens, gorgeous flower-wreathed females gasp for air from below the water’s surface. Their hands and spindly limbs cling to bright and exotic floral arrangements as their bodies are ravished by lapping waves. Kari-Lise Alexander’s sublimely saturated paintings, part of a series called WAKE, are disturbingly beautiful. With just a glinting, sideway glance, Alexander’s painterly females have no trouble connecting with the viewer. Their relaxed forms are both provocative and vulnerable, and the aesthetic is reminiscent of the folklore-inspired paintings of Swedish artist John Bauer. Continue reading »
Artist Francesco Sambo Combines Humans With Beasts In Surreal Photo Collages
Italian artist Francesco Sambo’s Bestiary is a collection of digitally manipulated pictures where he swaps his head for that of different animals. The resulting beasts can be sometimes creepy, sometimes cute, but always interesting to look at. Continue reading »
Man Creates “Passive-Aggressive Art Gallery” For His Roommate’s Mes
Justin Cousson got tired of cleaning up after his roommate. So rather than constantly reminding him to tidy up, he created the “Passive-Aggressive Art Gallery”. Continue reading »
Photo vs Art: Russian Artist Turns Celebrities Into Adorable Cartoon Characters
Lera Kiryakova – Russian artist, who especially succeeds in portraits. She creates hand-drawn cartoons in a kind of “puppet” style, which not only affects the similarity, but also the way the character is correctly grasped. Look – you might like it! Continue reading »
Make Selfies Not War!
Weapons in popular movies replaced with selfie sticks. Continue reading »
Hilarious Childhood Hairstyles From The 1980s And Early ’90s You’ve Ever Seen
We have all had a bad hair cut at some point. Unlucky for these people though, their bad haircuts are forever immortalized. Here are the 30 worst kids haircuts you have ever seen. Most of them come directly from the 1980s and early ’90s, cool years for a lot of things but definitely not for hairstyles. Continue reading »
The Amazing Makeup By Lucia Pittalis
You have no idea of the power of a skillful makeup artist. By working his magic, he can transform a woman into a respectable gentleman, a young lady into a heartless drug dealer, or simply show how a person would look like after a few decades have passed. Some can even transform a not-so-handsome young man into a beautiful young girl, which can spell a lot of trouble if you see him/her at a night club. Lucia Pittalis is one of those masters of makeup, and she uses her skills to stun the audience by transforming herself and a few volunteers into famous movie characters, actors, and musicians. Continue reading »
