Moody And Cinematic Street Photography By Alex Fernández
Stunning street shots by Alex Fernández, a talented 21-years old photographer, filmmaker, and urban explorer from Madrid, Spain who currently based in New York City. Alex focuses mainly on urban and street photography. Continue reading »
“Dancing With Sharks”: Incredible Underwater Photography By Juan Oliphant
Spectacular underwater shots by Juan Oliphant, a multi-talented photographer, and ocean diver based in Haleiwa, Hawaii, United States. Juan focuses mainly on the ocean and underwater photography. He received his degree in fine art and photography at BYUH in Laie Hawaii. Oliphant is also co-owner of One Ocean Diving and co-founder of Water Inspired Conservation Group. Continue reading »
Russian Tuning Specialists Put Tank Treads On A Bentley To Create “Bentley Ultratank”
The tuning specialists from the popular Russian YouTube channel AcademeG have taken a Bentley Continental GT coupe and removed the doors while replacing the wheels with tank-like tracks. They dubbed their creation “Ultratank.” Continue reading »
“Straight Out Of Inception”: Enthralling Optical Illusion Bookstore Will Draw You Into A World Of Fantasy
Straight out of Inception or the grand staircase from ‘Hogwarts Castle’ in the Harry Potter series is a whimsical, mind-tripping bookstore in China. Continue reading »
The Best Creations Of 2019 Texas SandFest And Facepalming Lincoln Is The Winner
1st Place – Liberty Crumbling, Damon Langlois
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Each year Texas SandFest gathers massive crowds to the beach in Port Aransas. The biggest event of the year invites thousands of people to gaze at extraordinary sand art situated along the coast. This year, 20 sculptors from around the world decided to show off their incredible skills for the competition. The event was filled with creative sand artists who choose to create sea turtles, detailed designed sand castles and even elephants. Continue reading »
Weird Grave Stones Of The Russian Bandit Cemetery
This cemetery in Yekaterinburg is a final resting place for many local stars and war heroes. But one section of the cemetery surrounded by pine trees is special. It is full of huge granite grave-stones with giant realistic portraits of people – many of them wear leather jackets or expensive suits, have thick gold chains and tattoos, hold cigarettes or keys from a Mercedes… All of them belong to representatives of the criminal world murdered in the 1990s – early 2000s. Continue reading »
“This Is What I See When I Create Art”: Beautiful Paintings Of Natural Russian Landscapes By Stepan Nesterchuk
We rarely have a chance to see what an artist saw when he was creating his masterpiece. But the Russian painter Stepan Nesterchuk from Dmitrov decided to provide us with such an opportunity. And, you know, it’s really cool to immerse yourself into the atmosphere of art creation. Continue reading »
Street Artist Pays Homage To Pop Icons With Giant Murals
The work of a Manchester-based street artist AKSE is unbelievably photorealistic. He has been spraypainting the walls since 1992. Movie actors, sportsmen, TV series characters and singers are honored with murals scattered throughout the city. He also travels across the UK to share his art. Continue reading »
Prague’s Narrowest Street is So Narrow it Has Traffic Lights For Pedestrians
In the heart of Prague’s oldest neighborhood, the historic Mala Strana or “Little Quarter”, there is a street so narrow that it’s impossible for two people to get past each other no matter how hard they try. Continue reading »
Moped Delivery Drivers Of Hanoi
From footballs to live fish, delivery mopeds piled high with unwieldy, unlikely goods are one of the Vietnamese capital’s most distinctive sights. As the city plans to ban motorbikes altogether, photographer Jon Enoch captured the drivers at work.
Flowers. “When I first travelled around south-east Asia 15 years ago, the motorbikes and mopeds just astounded me”, photographer Jon Enoch says. (Photo by Jon Enoch) Continue reading »
Spectacular Winners Of The Society Of German Nature Photographers’ Nature Photographer Of The Year 2019
During their annual general meeting last weekend, the Society of German Nature Photographers (Gesellschaft Deutscher Tierfotografen – GDT) selected the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2019. The overall winner is Klaus Tamm from Wuppertal, Germany with the photo of a yellow-collared mouse.
Winner, mammals and overall winner: Klaus Tamm, “Nuisance” (mouse and mosquito). (Photo by Klaus Tamm/2019 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year) Continue reading »
The Strikingly Unique And Colorful Art Of Hiroyuki-Mitsume Takahashi
Designer and artist Hiroyuki-Mitsume Takahashi is known internationally for his vividly colored illustrations which seem to resonate with multiple strands of Japanese and global youth culture. Traditional Japanese aesthetics and science fiction, sacred Buddhist iconography and profane symbols, street culture and high culture, the soft, organic and kawaii body intersected and interfaced with the hard, inorganic and the digital, Eros and Thanatos, tentacle fetish and oral fixation, war and peace, all of these seem to find expression at various junctures in his work. Continue reading »
“Atlas Obscura”: The Magnificent Illustration Work Of Artist Kevin Hong
Kevin Hong is an Illustrator born and raised in New York. His work draws from his passion for anime and manga, classic JRPGs, video games, woodblock prints, and the internet. He graduated with a BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in 2015. Continue reading »
Ethereal Cut Paper Illustrations of Women In Water By Sonia Alins
Somber illustrations – sometimes they’re slightly haunting – by artist Sonia Alins from a series she calls “Dones d’aigua” which translates to “Water Women.” Continue reading »
Girl Draws Self-Portraits Before And During LSD High
According to Redditor ‘whatafinethrowaway’: “I don’t think it had anything to do with honesty, the fact that the last one seems more accurate than the first one probably comes from the fact that she spent several hours drawing before, so she was kind of more trained? Actually I don’t know if this makes sense. Anyway, the first one is way more accurate when it comes to the hair, for example. She did everything without a mirror” Continue reading »
Artist Uses Girlfriend’s Back As A Canvas For Illusive 3D Artwork
Artist Natasha Farnsworth is well versed in the complex world of three-dimensional art. With acrylic paint, palette, and paintbrush in hand, the creative uses her girlfriend’s back as a canvas to create optical illusions that make her Instagram followers do a double take with each new posting. Continue reading »
“Watcher On The Lane”: Absolutely Breathtaking Digital Sci-Fi Masterpieces Of Col Price
Col Price is a freelance concept artist and art director currently working in the film, television and game industry. His list of past video game titles include Wipeout Fusion, Battlefield, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift and Apocalypse. Continue reading »
“Packed Music”: Artist Alessio Bichi Turns Album Covers Into Clever Brand Packaging
In his series ‘Packed Music’, Milan-based graphic designer Alessio Bichi creates a visual playlist of his all-time favorite bands. Going about the project by association, Bichi reworks iconic album covers into ordinary objects with the help of Photoshop, Illustrator and images pulled from Google. Continue reading »
Realistic Classic Car Drawings By Alessandro Paglia
Alessandro Paglia is known for his hyper-realistic drawings of iconic designs. This time, he has created a series of classic car drawings. The meticulous artworks show a selected range of iconic cars such as the Mercedes 300 SL “Gullwing” from 1954, a 1970 Lamborghini Miura, a Bugatti Atlantic Type 57 from 1937, and others. Continue reading »
Futuristic Images Of Tokyo Which Trapped Two Photographers
Damjan Cvetkov Dimitrov and Nina Geometrieva spent a few days in the bustling metropolis of Tokyo. Their first stay was the Nakagin Tower, a capsule hotel based on compact minimalism where the exterior perfectly matches the interior. Continue reading »
This Post Is Dedicated To All The Veterans Past, Present And Future
Reaching for Rescue, Vietnam. 1968
“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.” – Aldous Huxley. Continue reading »
This Wall Lamp Design Was Inspired By Italian Men Watching Work Being Done On A Building Site
During Euroluce 2019, Italian lighting company Karman, released Umarell, a fun wall lamp that was inspired by a familiar sight in Bologna, a man watching work being done on a building site.
Designed by Giorgio Biscaro, the lamp is a typical wall ‘cube’ with an unglazed ceramic finish and decorative front plate. However, the part of the light that draws the most attention, is a little man that looks down into the light, as if peering into the workings of the light, much like watching a building site. Continue reading »
Trümmerfrauen: The Women Who Helped Rebuild Germany After World War 2
After the end of World War 2, one of the main tasks was to clear the urban areas of ruin and start rebuilding Europe—Germany in particular, where the damage was extensive. Allied bombing had laid to waste nearly every German city, town and village, destroying millions of homes, public buildings, schools, factories, as well as centuries-old cathedrals, mediaeval houses and other historic structures. Continue reading »
Amazing Black & White Photographs That Capture Everyday Life Of Paris From The 1930s And Early 1940s
Roger Schall (1904-1995) was a renowned French photographer of the 1930s & 1940s. He worked in all photographic disciplines from fashion, portraits, nudes, still life and reportage. From June of 1940 to August 1944, Schall photographed German occupied Paris, hiding his negatives so they wouldn’t be found. Schall also documented post-war Paris and continued working as a photographer into the 1970s. Roger abandoned photography in 1967 and devoted himself to painting and managing his archives, which included nearly 100,000 images. Continue reading »
Miracle Black & White Photos Of A Desolate And Deserted London From 1977
These fascinating photos were taken by John Goodman an Australian who made two trips to UK in the mid 1970s.
These fascinating photos were taken by John Goodman an Australian who made two trips to UK in the mid 1970s. While in, as he puts it, ‘my raw early 20s’ – he pursued his interests in such things as Industrial Archaeology, science – ‘I joined the Quekett Microscopical Club (you might have to look that one up) in London – still a member of it’. John now lives back in Melbourne. Continue reading »
