Humorous Illustrations Of Chewbacca As Comical Visual Puns
London-based designer and illustrator Joe Stone is back with a follow-up project. Titled ‘Drewbacca’, this new series follows the theme of his ‘Drawntroopers’ project. With some humorous wordplay and visual puns, he imagines ‘Chewie’ from Star Wars as ‘Queuebacca’ (waiting in line), ‘Loobacca’ (sitting on the loo), ‘Stewbecca’ (cooking a stew), and more. Continue reading »
Artist Turns Old Mattresses Into Giant Foods
Recently, French street artist Lor-K has been cutting, shaping, and painting old mattresses so that they look like giant versions of common foods. If you’ve ever wanted a slice of pizza that’s big enough to be a complete meal, she can provide it! Continue reading »
My Brain Does Not Compute With This Artist’s Phenomenal 3D Drawings…
Stefan Pabst is a man who needs little introduction. The artist from Germany is a true master in the art of 3D sketching, and thanks to the trompe l’oeil techniques – which means ‘forcing your brain to have too many tabs open’ – the 35-year-old Pabst is able to amaze his audience – time and time again! Also, be sure to check out a couple of videos below to see how these incredible drawings are brought to live by the master himself. Continue reading »
Artist Paints Hyper Realistic Animal Portraits That Place Your Own Pet In Historical Settings
Always wanted to do something special to honor your beloved pet? Look no further! Dutch artist, Tein, creates these wonderful, custom made animal portraits by using a digitally morphed images — placing your pet in historical settings. Continue reading »
Artists Builds Tiny Tree-Houses Around Common House Plants And It’s Awesome!
Jedediah Corwyn Voltz is a Los Angeles-based prop maker for TV and movies. On the side, Voltz uses leftover bits of scrap wood, fabric, and other materials to construct tiny abodes around succulents and cactus plants, Slate reports. Continue reading »
The R.A.F. MK1 Cluster Bomb Drinks Cabinet
Iis hard to imagine a more unusual place to store your favourite tipple than in a bomb. The idea almost seems ludicrous, however the R.A.F MK1 Cluster Bomb Drinks Cabinet is an exciting piece of design that is sure to become the focal point in any man cave or stylised industrial chic interior. The Cluster Bomb drinks cabinet is a one of a kind piece from the Aviation Collection at Touched Interiors. This distinctively authentic design stands at more than eight feet tall and weighs more than 600BP ($880). Continue reading »
Artist’s Series Depicts ‘Game Of Thrones’ Characters Drawn As Pin-Up
For all its rampant sexuality, Game of Thrones is missing one thing: even more sexuality.
Fortunately, Russian artist Andrew Tarusov (previously) has illustrated a series of eye-popping posters depicting female characters from the show as early-20th-century-style pin-up girls. The stylized drawings depict Daenerys Targaryen, Cersei Lannister, Brienne of Tarth and many more of the Game of Thrones ladies as scantily clad, seductively posed, physically idealized pin-ups. Continue reading »
Jungle Book Cast Photos Pair Actors With Animals
Photo © by Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures has revealed a set of The Jungle Book cast photos, featuring the actors paired with their onscreen animal counterparts. Here: Ben Kingsley as Bagheera Continue reading »
If Modern Movies Would’ve Been Released On VHS Cassette
Audio and visual formats go out of style so fast that digital streaming now seems quaint, and we sort of skipped Blu-ray completely. But, while hipsters get nostalgic over vinyl records, there is no equivalent retro love for VHS cassettes. Which is odd when you think about it, as the first home video format seemed like a miracle in its day. Continue reading »
This Mom Makes Costumes And Takes Awesome Photos Of Her Kids
Anna Rozwadowska finds creative ways to documents her kids’ childhood before they get too old to play dress up. Everything from Harry Potter to Star Wars finds it’s way into this cool mom’s photoshoots. Continue reading »
12 Things You’re Doing That Make People Dislike You Immediately
Some of the things listed in this infographic by Business Insider might come as a shock, as we don’t really think about these things. Unknowingly, we might also harbor ill feelings towards people who have too many friends on Facebook or post too many pictures. Perhaps correcting these actions might make us more likeable people. Continue reading »
Photographer Freezes Time, Suspends Foods In His Zero-Gravity Kitchen
Time stands still in the home kitchen of photographer Francesco Mattucci, who captures fascinating images of foods suspended in air. Continue reading »
Liquid Marble Installation Turns Castle Courtyard Into Fantastical Pool
For the International Gardens Festival, French designer Mathieu Lehanneur creates his latest installation, Petite Loire, as part of series Liquid Marble, in the courtyard of the arts and nature center domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire. The illusive installation created by green marble looks like ocean waves caused by the action of wind or ripples on a wind-blown pond. Continue reading »
Everyday Things That Look Totally Different Under A Microscope
All the common objects are kinda boring when you look at them, but the situation changes when an awesome Electron Microscope comes on the scene. A scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a type of electron micrograph that makes images of a sample by scanning it with a focused beam of electrons. These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with the naked eye. Here: Ground black pepper Continue reading »
Felted Veggies Cling To Embroidery Hoops By Veselka Bulkan
Munich-based artist Veselka Bulkan crafts these whimsical veggies that dangle from embroidery hoops. Each piece is an amalgam of embroidered leaves affixed to felted carrots, beets, radishes and other colorful roots. Continue reading »
Shampoo Planet: Paintings Of North American Urban Landscapes And Interiors By Marc Trujillo
Photorealistic paintings of discount retailers, members-only wholesale clubs, fast food restaurants, car washes, and gas stations by San Fernando Valley-based artist Marc Trujillo. The interior spaces and commercial architecture he depicts are often places that are designed to be enjoyed and frequent by most people but move past through. These “nowhere places” inspire and fascinate Trujillo as they dominate the country’s urban landscape. Continue reading »
Terrifying Russian Architecture Which Looks Better From Above
The main highlight of these unique Moscow buildings is their architectural forms. At usual angles they may look absolutely differently. But the creative idea of architects is disclosed in full measure only if you look at the buildings from above.
The Circle
This is an experimental project of Russian architects Evgeny Stamo and Alexander Markelov. The residential house was built in 1972. The building was dedicated to the Olympic Games in 1980 and supposed to have 5 circles but after the second one the project was closed. Continue reading »
Illustrations That Reveal Our Weird Social Media Lives
Brecht Vandenbroucke’s illustrations tackle the current struggle of millennials in darkly humorous ways. From the struggles of Instagram narcissism to the awkwardness of meeting an online dating match in real life, Vandenbroucke pokes fun at our struggle to exist simultaneously in the online and offline world. Continue reading »
This Company Creates Unique Carved Wood Cases For Your Phone
Carved, a company out of Indiana, is creating cases for smartphones, but these are not your average plastic covers or skins. Using real wood and a mixture of colored resin swirls, Carved is able to produce true pieces of art that not only protect your phone, but look fantastic while doing it. Continue reading »
French Artist Makes Louvre Pyramid ‘Disappear’ In Optical Illusion
Photo by Francois Mori / AP Photo
The French street artist known as “JR” has made the Louvre Pyramid in Paris disappear in an optical illusion created by covering the huge glass structure with a trompe l’oeil photo installation depicting the museum that surrounds it. Continue reading »
Paolo Pettigiani Sees New York City’s Central Park In Pink And Blue
New York-based, Italian born photographer and graphic designer Paolo Pettigiani has recently captured a surprising collection of pictures of Central Park’s landscape, in a series named Infrared NYC. Continue reading »
Creepstastic Body Paintings From A 16-Year-Old Artist
Lara Wiкth, aka ArmageddonPainted, is only 16 years old and is already setting the body painting world ablaze with the quality of her creeptastic creations. She paints eerily realistic fantasy creatures with such uncanny attention to detail that it’s nearly disturbing at times. Continue reading »
“Fantplastique” By Ausra Osipaviciute
Photographer Ausra Osipaviciute delivers this outstanding story entitled “Fantplastique,” for the latest issue of fashion magazine Faint. Continue reading »
Once Upon A Canvas: Exploring Fairy Tale Masterpieces By Ivan Bilibin
Ivan Bilibin was born in 1876 in St. Petersburg, Russia. His first inspiration for illustrating fairy tales came from the Russian folktales he was told growing up. He also had a great love for the remote Russian countryside, and incorporated the Russian landscape into many of his illustrations. Continue reading »
In 1914, Baby Animal Photography Made For Exhausting Work
Photo © by Harry Whittier Frees / Library of Congress
From the early 1900s to 1950s, Harry Whittier Frees enjoyed a modicum of fame for his delightfully costumed and posed photographs of baby animals. Though he began photographing cute animals in 1902, he did not begin dressing them in tiny human costumes until 1905. As the story goes, his family was passing a paper hat around the table at a birthday party, and someone placed it on a cat’s head. Frees snapped a photo of the feline, and took it to a postcard maker, who demanded more. Continue reading »
