This Photographer Captured The Life Of A Ping Pong Table For 5 Years
For five years, Japanese photographer Hayahisa Tomiyasu has documented the daily life of a ping pong table. Between 2011 and 2016, he captured the moments of life taking place around this urban object, which became the scene of the most diverse actions. An excellent contemplative series soberly entitled TTP. Continue reading »
Big-Jacket Memes Are Coming To An Instagram Near You
The latest nugget of fun to enter your Instagram feed is the big-jacket meme.
Yesterday, for instance, dapper street style star Luka Sabbat was morphed into a jacket-wearing Stay Puft Marshmallow Man by @itsmaysmemes. The mysterious account resized Sabbat’s coats to be comically ginormous: A fleece piece was turned into a woolly mammoth–like topper, a standard slicked blue puffer became the size of a parked car in the background, and a tailored coat with Quasimodo-style shoulders reduced Sabbat’s handsome face to a tiny pinhead. Continue reading »
Vivian Maier: Lost Photographs Of 1950s New York
Courtesy the Maloof Collection/Howard Greenberg Galleries
Found after her death, Vivian Maier’s photographs capture New York City in motion.
Two years before Vivian Maier died in 2009 at age 83, 30,000 of her negatives were bought at a Chicago thrift auction by former estate agent John Maloof. He was writing a book on Chicago history. Maier had been unable to pay the rental on a storage locker. So 100,000 of her unseen negatives housed in hundreds of boxes and undeveloped films were sold. Continue reading »
NSFW, Hyperrealistic Desserts Truly Bring New Meaning To The Word “Foodporn”
Why choose between food and sex, when you can have both? Deviant Desserts creates custom confectionaries and baked goods that taste sweet but aren’t quite as saccharine appearance-wise. Continue reading »
Photographer Set Out To Capture The Personalities Of Animals Who Adapt To Their Damaged Or Different Bodies Without Complaint
For her book “Perfect Imperfection”, the Australian pet photographer Alex Cearns set out to capture the personalities of animals who adapt to their damaged or different bodies without complaint.
“They push on, wanting to be included and involved in everything as much as they can”, the Perth-based photographer says. “These are the creatures who have lost a leg, been born without eyes, or are still showing the scars of former abuse”.
Part of the proceeds from sales of Perfect Imperfection go to the Australian Animal Cancer Foundation.
“Vegemite”. Japanese chin x pekinese. Lost an eye when attacked by another dog. (Photo by Alex Cearns/The Guardian) Continue reading »
“Raindrop Blues”: The Art Of Superimposition Photography By Alessio Trerotoli
“The rain washes memories off the sidewalk of life”, Woody Allen said in a old movie. Raindrops, like in a blues song, fall with a repetitive but fascinating rhythm, awakening, as they were called in XVII century, the “blue demons”: a suffused sensation of melancholia. Raindrop Blues Project tries to dip the viewer in a sort of oneiric reality, where the rain seems to fall on everyone, creating evocative images where every element – the street, the sky, the characters, the viewer – is involved in a romantic and, in the same time, melancholic feeling. As Bob Marley said, when it rains some “feel” the rain, others just get wet… Continue reading »
Superb Nintendo Super Famigun Concept By Allan Williams
A light-gun concept designed for quite possibly the greatest console of all time, the Nintendo Super Famicom (Super Nintendo/SNES). Inspired to look more like an industrialised object and less toy-like than the usual light-gun offerings, yet still retaining the aesthetics one would expect of early nineties Nintendo design. Built in Fusion 360 and rendered in Cinema 4D using Octane render. Continue reading »
“Hybrid Cities”: Futuristic Photo Manipulations By Margarita Zhitnik & Duck Knees
Digital artist Margarita Zhitnik worked in collaboration with art director Duck Knees to produce these incredible mashups of iconic destinations for Expedia. Continue reading »
Bizarre Hospital Images From A Very Strange Cache Of Japanese Stock Photos
There’s a website called Sukima Nurse that offers pictures of a Japanese nurse holding unusual objects in a hospital and similar locales. The pictures fall generally into the stock photo category, although with a very, very narrow focus. Continue reading »
Marvelous Female Portrait Photography By Katarzyna Markiewicz
Gorgeous beauty portraits by Katarzyna Markiewicz, talented photographer and retoucher currently based in Lublin, Poland. Katarzyna focuses on portraiture, she shoots awesome beauty, fashion, street style and lifestyle portrait photography. Continue reading »
Portland-Based Photographer Brian Crippe Captures Stunning Urban Shots Across The US
Gorgeous street and urban landscapes by Brian Crippe, talented photographer, retoucher and adventurer who was born and raised in Seattle, Washington and currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Brian studied at Portland Community College. Continue reading »
Photographer Sebastian Weiss Uses Instagram To Capture “The Syntax Of Cities”
A smooth granite church in Iceland and a curvy concrete water tower in Germany are among the architectural structures documented in this series by German photographer Sebastian Weiss. Continue reading »
Javier Mayoral’s Oddly Seductive Cartoons
It’s difficult to do more than open a website today before you’re faced with a semi-hilarious internet meme, but Javier Mayoral’s small surrealist paintings are easily the best of them all. The artist, who has received no formal training, paints in his spare time when he’s not working as a chef – a fact that makes the sheer quantity of work that he has produced astounding. Over the last three years he has made around 4,600 of these pieces, usually painting at least five a day, which he then sells on eBay. Continue reading »
A Millennial’s Guide To Cocktails
Chaz Hutton illustrates a humorous guide to cocktails for millennials. Continue reading »
Inspiring Beautiful Illustrated Portraits By Janice Sung
Janice Sung is a talented illustrator based in Toronto, Canada. Continue reading »
Fully Tattooed, This Young Polish Man Is A Real-Life White Walker
With his body 90% tattooed in gray, including his eyes, and a white dyed beard, Adam Curlykale has become a true White Walker, thanks to an impressive series of body modifications. Continue reading »
Colorful, Playful And Dreamlike Photo Manipulations By Jose Navarro
Awesome creations by Jose Navarro, instagrammer, graphic designer and visual artist based in northern Spain. Jose works as creative and art director at A&B. Navarro creates playful and surreal manipulations by combining photos, blending them, and adding a warm color effect. Continue reading »
“The Chronicle Of Unregistered Processes”: Contemporary Social Art By Mila Arbuzova
Mila Arbuzova spent her childhood in the downtown of Saint Petersburg. Her family lived in a block of flats in Grazhdanskaya Street where, according to Dostoevsky’s famous novel “Crime and Punishment”, the old female moneylender killed by Rodion Raskolnikov used to live. Continue reading »
“Fragments Of The Past”: The Superb Contemporary Industrial Paintings By Pavel Otdelnov
Pavel Otdelnov was born in 1979 in Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia). Member of Moscow Union of artists since 2006. Continue reading »
Thank You, Photoshop… Russian Wedding Photos Are Bizarre
It’s supposed to be the happiest day of your life, so what better way to celebrate your wedding than by posing as centaurs to demonstrate your love? Or riding a giant swan? Or perhaps fleeing a fire-throwing Transformer? Continue reading »
Ethereal And Atmospheric Female Portraits By Alessio Albi
Amazing radiant portraits of feminine beauty by Alessio Albi, extremely astonishing photographerr, who specialized in portraits, storytelling, and commercials. Alessio was born in Perugia 31 years ago. He grew up fascinated by nature and visual arts but his education and interest in science brought him to an academic degree in Medical Biotechnologies and 3 years of working as a nutritionist. His human subjects is a contemplative young women, emerging from within their natural surroundings. Continue reading »
Artist Isabella Montan Creates Pantone-Inspired Pop Culture Graphics
For her series Pantop, Isabella Montan presents a combination of ideas, colours, images and captions in a Pantone swatch presentation. Inspired by a myriad of ideas — from pop-culture, brands, trends, a news story, a personality or an event — Montan puts together an graphic that is a harmonious interplay of colours, pictures and words. Continue reading »
Artist George Pfau Makes Impressionist Paintings Of The Zombie Apocalypse
San Francisco-based artist George Pfau is more obsessed with zombies than you are. He is so enamored with them, that they are his muse for Impressionist paintings. What lily gardens were to Monet, iconic undead apocalypse scenes are to Pfau in a series titled “Zombiescapes.” Continue reading »
Marvelous Female Portrait Photography By Nick Ramsay
Nick Ramsay is a talented photographer and retoucher from Australia who currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Nick focuses on portraiture, he shoots amazing beauty, fashion, street style and lifestyle portrait photography. Ramsay uses Canon 5D MK III camera. Continue reading »
The Dark, Cyberpunk And Fantasy Paintings Of Jakub Rebelka
Jakub Rebelka’s work is like a cross between a stained-glass window and a colorful manga — it’s timeless, in a way, with a flat, intricately detailed style, but it also blurs the line between science fiction and fantasy in a way that’s absolutely gorgeous. Drawing is about the only thing he ever imagined doing; Rebelka’s illustrations have been featured in comic books and video games, but he says his favorite piece is whatever he’s working on at the moment. Continue reading »
