“Asylum Of Shadows”: Horror, Nightmares And Dreams In Metal Albums Art By Ken Sarafin
“Metal bands want to portray the opposite of a happy life on their album covers,” says Ken Sarafin, and the Vale of Pnath frontman knows from whence he speaks. In addition to creating the awe-inducing artwork for his band’s latest release, The Prodigal Empire, Sarafin has illustrated at least a dozen album covers for an array of acts, both local and national, including Axeslasher, Listen to Reason, Exotype, Acedia, Arcania, Blue Waffle and Voiceless Location, among others. Continue reading »
“What We See When We Shut Our Eyes”: The Superb Digital Artworks Of BakaArts
“I’m Darius, a Digital Artist based in Germany. I design personalized and creativity-focused works for big and small clients. I have a keen eye for surrealistic, modern & colorful, thought-provoking designs. I love taking on new design challenges and making your ideas come to life. I am here to solve your problems.” Continue reading »
Artist Duo Alfredo And Isabel Aquilizan Craft Dystopian Cities From Cardboard
The husband-and-wife team of Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, who emigrated from the Philippines to Australia in 2006, address themes of displacement, change, memory and community. Their large-scale installations often reflect their own migratory experiences, while conveying points of exchange and communication that extend beyond borders. Continue reading »
Famous Music Hits Turned Into Vintage Ad Posters
David Redon wanted to take music hits and treat them like they were vintage ads, that the artist was the product and the title was the baseline. We can highlight the fact that David Redon adapted wonderfully every visual code of the first printed ads. Continue reading »
“Schoolgirl Nightmares”: Bizarre And Horror Paintings By Kazuhiro Hori
The world can be a cruel place.
But in it, Japanese artist Kazuhiro Hori sees young girls as the quintessential embodiment of innocence and purity. Channeling this outlook, his illustrations depict nightmarish worlds populated by rosy-cheeked schoolgirls in distress. Continue reading »
Japanese Sculptor Shows How He Transforms Wood Into Surreal Sculptures
These surreal wood sculptures by Japanese sculptor Yoshitoshi Kanemaki will become so much more impressive once you see how much work it took to make them! For one of his latest sculptures, an otherwise-ordinary girl with 12 faces, Kanemaki created a series of progress photos that show the sculpture’s progress from crude log to finished work of art. Continue reading »
McDonalds Opens A Tiny Restaurant For Bees
Bee colonies around the world are dying at alarming rates. No more so than in the USA, where it is estimated the 44% of colonies were lost in 2016 alone. There are many reasons for this alarming decline, most of which are down to us. Continue reading »
Cool Pics That Show People With Technologies In The 80s
Young woman with a walkman while reading and smoking
If you lived through the 1980s, then you know it was an amazing decade. It seemed like every month some cool new technology came onto the market. Many of the most popular consumer products today made their mark in the 1980s. Continue reading »
Rarest And Oldest Porsche: Yours For About $20 Million
Sotheby’s
The rarest and oldest Porsche of them all will go sale in August, expecting to fetch about $20 million at auction. The 1939 Porsche Type 64 was the personal vehicle of German car designer and manufacturer Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche. Continue reading »
Curious “Shiba Inu Sticking Their Heads Through Walls” Bath Towel Set Gives You A Patiently Waiting Shower Buddy
You don’t have to peruse Japanese online retailer Felissimo’s YOU+MORE! series (previously) that long to find out that they have a fondness for making products themed after funny internal images and shiba inu. One of their latest items takes the best of both worlds and combines them with shiba inu peeping out from a hole in the wall, based on the viral image below – the bath towel set! Continue reading »
Photograher Captures Photos From The Highest Places In Tokyo Show The Beauty Of The City
According to Davide Sasso (previously): “My name is Davide Sasso and photography is one of my passions. At the end of last year, I went to Tokyo fulfilling one of my biggest dreams. Continue reading »
Artist Creates 3D Sculptures Of Ancient Deities And Mythological Creatures With A Modern And Surreal Twist
According to Oliver Marinkoski: “I got to the idea what it would look like if the ancient Slavic gods were represented in Roman style sculptures, then added some modern attributes to their supernatural ability’s (God and Goddess of thunder got a boom-stick). Then I continued creating their Roman and Hellenic counterparts, and maybe ancient Egypt gods are next!” Continue reading »
Korean Artist Transforms Well-Known Products Into Origami Miniatures
If you love origami, then you will love these miniature origami sculptures by Origami Minimal, an artist based in Korea. Her collection of origami is a bit different however, they are unique miniature paper sculptures that have been carefully folded into branded items that we all know and love. Continue reading »
Haunting Photographs Of The Hell Of Serra Pelada Mines In The 1980s
Sebastião Salgado
Serra Pelada was a large gold mine in Brazil 430 kilometres (270 mi) south of the mouth of the Amazon River. The mine was made infamous by the still images taken by Alfredo Jaar and later by Sebastião Salgado and the first section of Godfrey Reggio’s 1988 documentary Powaqqatsi, showing an anthill of workers moving vast amounts of ore by hand. Because of the chaotic nature of the operation estimating the number of miners was difficult, but at least 100,000 people were thought to be present, making it one of the largest mines in the world. Continue reading »
Using a Strip of Paper To Give Birds Funny Eyes Is Ingenious
Meet Kahori Fuji, a beautiful cockatiel from Japan that has gathered a decent following on Instagram thanks to funny shenanigans like these featured below. Continue reading »
How To Teach Yoga Like Slav: Top 10 Drunk Yoga Positions
Yoga can be incredibly beneficial to your mind, body, and soul, but there are those out there who would argue that drinking can do the same… Continue reading »
Beautiful Paris Cityscapes Through The Lens Of The Photographer Tatiana Liccia
Tatiana Liccia is an artist who started her Instagram account, although it has 19K+ followers, only 2 years ago! Although she has always been passionate about photography, it was only a year and a half ago that she bought her first camera. Continue reading »
10-Year-Old Girl Follows In Dad’s Footsteps To Become Tattoo Artist
Noko Nishigaki, daughter of a famous Japanese tattoo artist, “Gakkin”, recently moved to Amsterdam. She worked for three years on her drawing techniques, and now she tattoos amazing images in the studio. Continue reading »
Remembering The Mod Top: Amazing Flower Powered Top Car Designs From The 1960s And 1970s
Back around 1966, Sixties counter-culture iconography was being injected into the everyday, infusing society with a collision of postmodern DayGlo colors, earth tones and psychedelically styled designs. And flowers–lots and lots of flowers. Most of these floral designs may have been a bit too loud on a Formica counter or trusty old Thermos, yet one particular print looked right at home on the top of a car. Counterculture became mainstream. Continue reading »
“Into A Dark Millenium”: The Superb 3D Concept Artworks Of Dylan Kowalski
The glorious sci-fi themed 3d characters and artworks of Dylan Kowalski, a self taught 3d designer and digital artist based in Avignon, France. Continue reading »
“Salt In Your Wounds”: The Astonishing Fantasy Works Of Zeen Chin
Zeen Chin is a self-taught artist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Drawing upon a mysterious well of horror films, memories, and mysticism, his digital paintings are wildly elegant and unpredictable; scrolling from one image to the next, you can never predict (nor comprehend) what you will see next. Continue reading »
A Finnish Factory Worker Dies, Leaving Behind A Wonderland Sculpture Garden
Veijo Rönkkönen (1942-2010) built remarkable park in Koitsanlahti, Parikkala, close to the Russian border in Finland. He worked on the site of some half a hectare for nearly 50 years. His hard work resulted in about 560 concrete statues and a magnificent garden. The young Veijo Rönkkönen was known to be very guarded. Art making was his way of communicating with the outside world; he did not dare to venture out into the world but instead invited the world to come and see him. Continue reading »
“One Summer Can Change Everything”: Stranger Things Season 3 Character Posters Released
Following the new promo video, Netflix has released 14 Stranger Things Season 3 character posters ahead of the season premiere on July 4. Continue reading »
Post Modern Architectural Cakes By A Fashion Designer Turned Baker
A.R.D. Bakery is a London based cake design studio specialising in bespoke cakes and chocolates with a unique, graphic style. Continue reading »
Japanese Cats Love Nothing More In The World Than Watching Farmer Next Door Plant His Rice
Just because cats don’t like to work doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy watching other people work.
You can find cat cafes all across Japan, but Yuzu no Ie, in the town of Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, is special. That’s because, according to its owners, it’s the only cat cafe in Japan that’s right next to a rice paddy. Continue reading »
