Beautiful Winning Photos From The LensCulture 2018 Street Photography Awards
Blow-up unicorns, a pig on a pulley and chickens on the lam populate the polychrome pictures in this year’s LensCulture street photography awards.
Beach Scene, Chaung Tha, Myanmar, by Maciej Dakowicz. First place, single image category. (Photo by Maciej Dakowicz/LensCulture 2018 Street Photography Awards) Continue reading »
“Beyond The Borders Of Mere Movie Posters”: See How One Instagrammer Is Making His Friends Into Movie Stars
To be filed under “awesome ideas we wish we’d come up with ourselves”: One movie-minded Instagram user has created the coolest photo stream, featuring his friends and family recast as Hollywood heroes with the help of petite movie postcards. Continue reading »
There Is A Subway Lower Than Hell: The Superb Dark And Sinister Artworks By Vergvoktre
Vergvoktre makes paintings in charcoal that feel like staring into the abyss. It’s as if the most harrowing, bleak black metal you ever heard became so powerful that it created tangible pieces of artwork with its icy, forlorn sounds. Continue reading »
The Superb Car Concepts By The Russian Artist Andrey Tkachenko
I would like to feature the work from Andrey Tkachenko who is a freelance artist based in Nizhiy Novgorod, Russia. Mainly focusing his work into a blend of Industrial Design, Illustration, Motion Graphics, I’m primary showcasing his car concepts and designs that are phenomenal in so many ways. Continue reading »
Incredibly Strange Collages That Will Make You Very Uncomfortable
Johnny Smith is an LA-based actor and artist who makes some pretty weird pieces of collage art. Continue reading »
Fascinating Letterring Graffiti Art By Ernest
There are many reasons to paint or to keep painting. But often the best ones are the ones you feel when you slow down or stop for a while. French artists ERNEST can probably relate to this more than most. For years as a young man his graff life was as much of his life as life itself. Skipping classes to empty Montana BLACK or Montana GOLD cans is the norm when graffiti feeds you, just as the food you eat. But at some point life kicks in and the food you eat can change. Graphic Design can be that change in diet, so designing logo’s on a screen everyday can syphon the time and desire to create your own logo’s on urban surfaces. Continue reading »
“Through Fire And Water”: The Superb Concept Artworks Of Ross Tran
Ross Tran is a concept artist and illustrator who attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Ross has worked for companies such as Walt Disney Studios, Psyop and Tyler West Studio. Continue reading »
I’m Not Expecting You To Fully Understand Me: The Intimate Artworks Of Tomona Matsukawa
Tomona Matsukawa was born in 1987 in Aichi, Japan, and graduated Tama Art University 2011 having specialized in oil painting. Matsukawa’s photographic paintings usually depict intimate belongings of women, particularly those close to her age. Continue reading »
Russian Artist Portrayed Retired Superheroes: Now They Are Nice Granny And Granddaddy
Artist Lesya Guseva from Perm in her Instagram created a series of funny drawings, related curious fantasy — superheroes and supervillains, retired. How they will look like, what they will do. Continue reading »
Twisted & Satirical Pop Culture Characters By Dan LuVisi
“A creepy trip down memory lane” …may be the best way to describe the “Popped Culture” series by LA-based concept artist Dan LuVisi where he features the most beloved characters from our childhood, in some unlikely, gruesome, and violent settings. Continue reading »
“Sculptmojis”: Fun Series Of Illustrations By Ben Fearnley
“Sculptmojis” is a new personal project by Ben Fearnley featuring digital illustrations that combine traditional sculptural art forms with modern emojis. Continue reading »
New Surreal Paintings By Matthew Grabelsky Take The New York City Subway For A Wild Ride
New York City is sometimes affectionately (or disaffectionately) referred to as a ‘concrete jungle’, but for Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Grabelsky (previously) it’s more of a big cageless zoo. Using the New York City subway system as the setting for his work, Grabelsky paints surreal portraits of people who are seemingly normal from the neck down, but who have had their heads replaced by animals, both wild and domesticated. Continue reading »
“Failed Memories”: The Superb Glitchy Digital Art Of David Szauder
David Szauder was born in 1976 in Hungary. He studied Art History at the Eötvös Loránd University and Intermedia at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest. In 2008/2009 David spent a year at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at the Aalto University in Helsinki with a scholarship program. Continue reading »
Comedian Creates Hilarious Fake Signs, Places Them All Around Los Angeles
Comedian and video editor Alan Wagner has created a number of flyers posted around Los Angeles. Continue reading »
Superb Street Art By Dolk
Dolk‘s career began in 2003 and he has already risen to be considered a part of the international elite within the street art movement. Through the years, he has worked side-by-side with the best of his contemporaries and has painted in most of the large urban environments of Europe, Australia and the USA. Continue reading »
Artist Pays Homage To Classic Video Games With Awesome Oil Paintings
Nikolay Lobzov is a Russian painter and digital artist based in Moscow who has been paying homage to games he loves with amazing oil on canvas paintings of classic titles like Halo, Half-Life 2 and Soul Calibur. From the texture of the paint to the contrast in the medium itself, these artworks are a fun and creative ‘fan art’ tribute to video games many of us grew up playing. Continue reading »
Extremely Shortened Versions of Classic Books For Lazy People
Illustrator John Atkinson (previously here and here) has been working hard lately to help you save a lot of time. Thanks to his latest creation you can now read ultra-condensed classic books! Continue reading »
Ironic Caricatures About The Modern World That Will Leave A Bitter Aftertaste
Every illustration by Davide Bonazzi tells a story that can make anyone reflect upon the state of the world today. Continue reading »
Artist Austin Light Makes Funny Collages From Boring Stock Photos
According to an artist: “I work in marketing, so I see a lot of stock photos. I thought it would be fun to add animals and descriptions to some of the strange images I found. So I did that, every day during the month of May.” Continue reading »
Artist Richard Wilkinson Mutates Insects To Resemble Star Wars Characters
Artist Richard Wilkinson is working on a collection of illustrations that celebrate that trait in both Natural History and modern culture. The first book – ‘Arthropoda Iconicus Volume I: Insects From A Far Away Galaxy’ takes its inspiration from perhaps the most widely recognized subject of obsessive fandom – Star Wars. Continue reading »
19-Year-Old Artist Takes Self Portraits To Create These Surreal Compositions
Alexandra Chertulova, who is also known by an artist’s name Rayda Ealvay, is a 19-year-old self-taught photographer, retoucher and artist from Perm, Russia. She’s constantly surprising her more than 10k followers on Instagram with her dreamlike photo manipulations that she creates using Photoshop. Continue reading »
This Russian Guy Hilariously Photoshops Himself Into The Daily Life Of Emily Ratajkowski
Most celebrities aren’t exactly known for hanging around with ‘average’ people, but for this guy, they make an exception. Meet Max, the russian guy and a photoshop troll savage. He spends long, cold winters in Russia photoshopping himself into ridiculous situations with Emily Ratajkowski. Continue reading »
The Art Of Mass Surveillance: All 135 Vintage NSA Security Posters From The 1950s And 1960s
In the 1950s and 1960s the National Security Agency (NSA) cranked out beautiful and captivating posters to remind Americans that keeping secrets was important. Continue reading »
Artist Esoj Luna Illustrated Iconic Brands As If They Were Humans
Thought I’d share this unique talent made by an Illustration artist Joseph Luna (Esoj Luna) from Cebu, Philippines. He took 20 iconic brands and personified them in his illustrations, turning them into unique and colorful characters. Continue reading »
Griffin Microsheen Used To Have Some Interesting Shoe Polish Ads In The 1950s
The 1950s were an innocent time in America as far as mainstream advertising went. But one campaign was quite racy. The Griffin Microsheen ads were for men’s shoe polish. But nary a man’s face and rarely a man’s foot ever made an appearance in the campaign. All the ads are from the mid- to late-1950s. Continue reading »
