Photographer Creates Miniature Landmarks On His Dining Table Using Household Items
Hong Kong-based photographer Ric Tse creates creative miniature landmarks on his dining table using household items. Ric started creating miniature landmarks on his dining table after the outbreak of coronavirus. Continue reading »
Anonymous Artist Draws Soulful Pictures of Life in The Russian Provinces
The romance of night trains, the nightlife of small towns in Russia, the existential states of the human soul. A small and cozy world without war, suffering and death.
Lord, save and have mercy on us, sinners. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Images of The World Nature Photography Awards 2021
Celebrating the world’s best nature photographers, as they highlight the wonders of our planet. When great science and great art combine, amazing things can be achieved. That’s the philosophy behind the World Nature Photography Awards, a global nature and wildlife photography contest for planet Earth.
A scuba diver with a school of mackerel in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico, wins the silver prize in the people and nature category of the 2021 World Nature Photography awards. (Photo by Mike Eyett/World Nature Photography Awards) Continue reading »
Beehive Hairdo: The Women’s Popular Hairstyle Throughout the 1960s
The beehive is a hairstyle in which long hair is piled up in a conical shape on the top of the head and slightly backwards pointing, giving some resemblance to the shape of a traditional beehive. It is also known as the B-52 due to a resemblance to the distinctive nose of the Boeing B-52 Strategic Bomber. The ’80s band The B-52’s, took their name from the hairstyle which was worn by members Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson. Continue reading »
Life in a Notebook: This Prague-Based Artist Draws Interactive Illustrations Using Everyday Objects
Prague-based artist Kristián Mensa (previously featured) is living proof that talent and creativity can manifest pretty much everywhere if you take your time to look really look for it. Mensa’s work usually has real-life objects used as part of his illustrations: he integrates a seemingly out-of-place item and draws on top of it, creating eye-catching artwork. Continue reading »
Perfect Logo Redesigns For Companies Leaving Russia
Big brands are boycotting/leaving the Russian market to express opposition to Russia’s invasion in Ukraine. Art director Václav Kudělka has created a series of brand redesigns to show what company logos would say if they could speak. Continue reading »
Custom LEGO of Zelenskyy and Molotov Cocktails Raise Funds for Ukraine
A custom lego store in Chicago is selling custom designed LEGOs modeled after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Molotov Cocktails. All the proceeds are going to a charity that provides medical aid to Ukraine and the surrounding countries. Continue reading »
Fascinating Photographs of Old Shopfronts Taken in the East End of London in 1988
“In 1988 these ex-shops didn’t have long left. Long after the interiors had turned to dust, what you see are pretty much their last appearances on earth.” Continue reading »
Creep Magic: An Artist Makes Fairies Out Of Dead Insects
Cedric Laquieze is an artist and sculptor from Amsterdam with a fantasy that is astoundingly inventive. One of his most famous series of works are fairy tales that Lakuiz creates from pieces of dead beetles. Continue reading »
Creepy and Naughty: The Scary Hotties by The Tragic Girls
Tragic Girls is an art project by an US female artist, who draws great pictures in the spirit of mid-century pinup illustrations and covers of penny-ante horror comics. They’re funny, horribly creepy, and generally make you want to immediately revisit Kaleidoscope of Horrors and the best episodes of Tales from the Crypt. Continue reading »
As Alive and Even Better: Seductive Pinup Beauties by Artist Olivia De Berardinis
Olivia De Berardinis has been working as an artist since the mid-70’s. Since 1985 Olivia has been a contributor to Playboy Magazine, where her art pinup page often appears with captions written by Hugh Hefner. Continue reading »
The First Photos of Chernobyl After The Nuclear Disaster, April 26, 1986
Above is Ukrainian photographer Igor Kostin’s grainy picture taken on the morning of April 26 1986 of the Soviet-era Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Within hours of the Chernobyl explosion, Kostin (27 December 1936 – 9 June 2015) and four other photographers flew over the nuclear power plant in a helicopter. The high radiation ruined all of his pictures except for one. Continue reading »
Blunt Action – Contemporary Digital Art In A Nutshell
Have you ever thought about the fact that we seem to be the last generation destined to be creative. Then – bang! – technological singularity, and only neural networks will create. Therefore, real contemporary art is meaningless, kitschy, useless and for some reason resembles the decoration of a sauna – the burden of responsibility is too great. And, it seems, we have failed. Continue reading »
Darth Vader and the Underworld: Kevin Cassidy’s Brutal and Infernal Demons
Kevin Cassidy is a 3D artist from the U.S. and the chief character developer at Roundhouse Studios. Continue reading »
EVA-01, Astroboy, and Venom: Colorful Illustrations by Chun Lo
Chun Lo is an artist from Florida, mostly working on all kinds of freelance projects. He is a very good at drawing conceptual characters, comics, advertising illustrations, and even makes hundreds of commissions; this guy can do it all, not for nothing that ImagineFX magazine in 2010 named him one of the most promising illustrators of those years. Continue reading »
Stunning Pictures of North Korea Industries in 1972
Medical facility. June 1972, Pyongyang, North Korea.
In June 1972, The Toronto Star’s veteran Asia correspondent Mark Gayn was one of four reporters allowed into North Korea. The trip yielded four lengthy feature stories, published in The Star in July 1972, where Gayn detailed the country’s political landscape, then dominated by Kim Il Sung, and its people. Continue reading »
Food Monsters: Sandwich Beasts by Kasia Haupt
Sandwich Monsters is a hobby blog created by creative director Kasia Haupt where she publishes her absolutely spectacular sandwiches that she makes out of everyday lunchtime foods. Continue reading »
Grandpa’s Life: Cozy and Melancholic Paintings by Gary Bunt
Gary Bunt is a British artist who paints the life of a simple English grandfather. This grandfather works on a farm, takes walks, and occasionally picks at the garage – that’s how he lives.
Bunt’s paintings are cozy, though somewhat sad – a kind of nostalgia for something unfulfilled. Continue reading »
Colors of Other Worlds: Superb Paintings by Kai Carpenter
Kai Carpenter’s oil paintings use archetypal imagery to explore psychological themes. Drawing on a variety of influences both ancient and contemporary, his work invokes the storytelling ethos of myths, legends and fairy tales to express emotional realities native to dreams and memory.
Kai was born in Washington and educated in Rhode Island. Continue reading »
Life Before World War II: Fascinating Color Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Budapest, Hungary in 1939
Though the history of color photography dates back more than a hundred years, the production and publication of color enlargements (photopositives) has only been widespread since the 1940s, when color film first entered mass use. These fascinating color photographs were taken by an unknown photographer using Agfacolor, they show everyday life in Budapest in 1939, just before the Second World War. Continue reading »
A Comic Book Classic and Master of Abstraction: Illustrations by Bill Sienkiewicz
Bill Sienkiewicz (pronounced sin-KEV-itch) is an Eisner-winning, Emmy-nominated artist best known for revamping the style of comic and graphic novel illustration from 1980 onward, most notably with Marvel Comic’s Elektra: Assassin and his acclaimed graphic novel Stray Toasters, earning him an international reputation and cult status across media industries. Continue reading »
Toads, Witches and Satan: Superb Drawings by Bill Crisafi
Bill Crisafi is an artist who lives and works in Chicago, IL. His body of work is heavily influenced by the dark nostalgia of his home state of Massachusetts. Continue reading »
Gods and Monsters: Sculptures by Jorge Norgaard
Jorge Norgaard is a sculptor from the United States who works in both material and digital form. As a freelancer, Norgaard does not limit himself to any one theme – he brilliantly sculpts both characters already existing in mass culture and authorial monsters. Continue reading »
Photographer Creates A Magical World For Her Children Within Her Photo
Usually, when a baby is born, the family takes it upon themselves to document the early lives of the said baby, capturing everything from their first word to their first steps. The said photos, videos, and artwork often have a lot of sentimental value for the families and it is something they treasure a lot even after many years have passed. Continue reading »
Pictures of Fascinating Jacuzzi Hot Tubs From the 1970s and 1980s
If you weren’t burning up the disco dance floor during the 1970s, chances are you could be found steaming things up in a Jacuzzi. These hot tubs were a relaxing and soothing place that became a must-have for anyone looking to enhance their swanky, sexy living space. Jacuzzis seemed to fit right in with the hipness of shag rugs, and the laid-back appeal of wood paneling. Owning a Jacuzzi meant that you would never again have to settle for an ordinary, run-of-the-mill bath. Instead, take the plunge into a Jacuzzi, and you could take bathing to a whole new level. Continue reading »
