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The Whimsical Faces of Artist Ayran Oberto

Ayran Oberto is a Spanish artist who paints bizarre portraits. Grim skulls with eyes, surrealistic faces from acid tripods and bright faces of beautiful ladies – Oberto manages to make each image unique and memorable. Continue reading »

Netherworlds: The Fantastic Worlds of John Pak

John Pak is an artist from the United States who has worked on concept art for movies such as Mandalorian, Transformers 4, Maze Runner, Godzilla, Spider-man 2, War of the Planet of the Apes, Dumbo, Star Wars, Battle Angle, Ad Astra, Deadpool, Avatar Sequels (2,3,4,5), Star Wars and many others. He is the founder of Brainstorm School art studio and has an amazing style. Continue reading »

The 5 Most Delightfully Cheesy Dinosaur Parks


Petrified Creatures Museum of Natural History. Richfield Springs, New York.

Dinosaurs were discovered in the 1920s, and a century later Arthur Conan Doyle in The Lost World cemented their image in the minds of ordinary people – they became part of pop culture. Along with this, theme parks began to appear in the U.S. in the 1930s. They grew along the federal highways like mushrooms, and most of them were just awful – about the level of street art from tires. Continue reading »

Alex Eckman-Lawn’s Surreal Layered Artworks

Alex Eckman-Lawn is a Philadelphia-based artist who creates stunning collage paintings. He stacks different plans in layers, which creates an effect of depth, and the dark context of the works turns this depth into a mesmerizing tunnel leading to the abyss of the unconscious. Continue reading »

Historic Photos of USS Recruit, a Dreadnought Battleship Built in Union Square From 1917-1920

USS Recruit was a wooden mockup of a dreadnought battleship constructed by the United States Navy in Manhattan in New York City, as a recruiting tool and training ship during the First World War. Commissioned as if it were a normal vessel of the U.S. Navy and manned by a crew of trainee sailors, Recruit was located in Union Square from 1917 until the end of the war. Continue reading »

This Artist Crerates Provocative and Bizarre Photo Manipulations

There is no information about this artist on the Internet, but one thing I know is that he has a good sense of humor. In his collages he subtly plays with the vices and problems of modern society. Continue reading »

Russian Artist Creates Superb Snowy Street Art and Installations

An artist from the Moscow region town of Protvino, Ivan Volkov, who paints in the snow, has become a hero of social networks.

His picture in support of doctors fighting the coronavirus instantly scattered across the Internet and received many positive comments. The “snowy” creator has already been compared to the British street art master Banksy. Continue reading »

Vintage Photos of Ugly Restaurants in the USA From the Mid-20th Century

The 1950s was a truly unique moment in time. Fresh out of World War II, the world – and North America in particular – were embracing prosperity and a strong economy, built and spurred on by the war. Continue reading »

This Artist Draws 100 Grumpy Animals

The artist who goes by the name Beast Flaps on Instagram decided to draw one 100 grumpy animals and publish them in a book which you can get on Amazon. Last couple of years have given us plenty of reasons to be grumpy, so we can relate. Continue reading »

Sad and Happy Moments on the Photos of Boris Register

Boris register is a photographer who didn’t do staged photos, so all of his images were caught in a moment and therefore wonderful. Even those which cause the feeling of discomfort. Continue reading »

Monsters and Some Magic: Fantasy Illustrations by Andrew Mar

Andrew Mar is an artist from the United States who draws fantasy illustrations for the card game Magic: The Gathering and other related projects. As a freelancer he has worked with VOLTA, Bethesda, Capcom, Kingdom Death, and WhiteMoon Dreams. Ma’s work is a perfectly calibrated mix of creepiness and monumentality. Continue reading »

Cutest ‘Angular’ Animals and Characters by Nathan Pangilinan

Nathan Pangilinan is a Filipino artist who draws animals in bizarre geometric shapes. Other than that we know nothing about him, but the animals are so beautiful that that’s all we need. Continue reading »

Inspirational Female Portraits by Eva Balloon

Eva Balloon is an artist from Kazakhstan who draws charming ladies. With light strokes, Eva manages to create portraits that are strikingly airy – illustrations so delicate, as if they were made of weightless marshmallow. Continue reading »

The Mind’s Dream and its Monsters: Creepy Illustrations by Daniel Peacock

Dan Peacock is a British artist who paints distorted infernal creatures crawling straight out of the underworld. For Peacock there are no shapes or clear images, all his monsters are as surreal creatures as possible, as if born of David Lynch’s mad dream. Continue reading »

The Art of Dreams: Illustrations by Jeremy Wilson

Jeremy Wilson is an artist from the United States who draws illustrations for books, comic book covers, and games. Among his works are projects for Scientific American Magazine, BOOM! Comics, Wizards of the Coast, Square Enix and many other famous companies. Wilson’s style is a bizarre mix of surreal imagery and hyper-realistic forms. Continue reading »

Photographer Visited Remoted Chinese Provinces And Took Aerial Pictures Of The Most Picturesque Landscapes

According to Florian Delalée: “With the complexity of traveling out of China during the pandemic, I kept traveling and meeting the diversity of the Chinese landscape as a break between industry and city to reconnect to nature. Continue reading »

Finally, 2022 Texts From My Cat Calendar Is Here!

If you give a cat a smartphone, he’s gonna want to text—his every fleeting thought. At least that’s the case with Mitty—the text-savvy, over-anxious, drama-filled housecat. Continue reading »

Animal Portraits in The Style of Old Masters by Tein Lucasson

What would an animal look like if it were a human? The question is actually a contradiction in terms, and Tein Lucasson’s answer is as humorous as it is creative. With digital photo technology, he combines pet portraits with human poses, celebrating each animal’s unique personality, while drawing on his passion for costume and art history. Continue reading »

Amazing Vintage Photographs of Harold Lloyd’s Magnificent (Year-Round!) Christmas Tree

If you haven’t put your Christmas tree up yet, then you are already too late. Did you know that Harold Lloyd kept his tree up all year long! Continue reading »

32-Year-Old Independent Modern Woman Draws Comics On Her Observations About Society

Content by women that’s meant to empower other women – now that’s what I like to see. Lainey Molnar is a talented artist who creates relatable comics about self-acceptance, motherhood, refusing to adhere to social stereotypes, and freedom of choice. These clever and very current comics touch on everyday situations that even men might resonate with. Continue reading »

Digital Artist Creates Thought-Provoking Illustrations That May Make You Look At Things Differently

Art can give us a better understanding of our emotions and the world we live in. Even though some art pieces can be difficult to comprehend, they might provoke one to think and find his or her own meaning. Art is often connected to human emotions. In the process of creating art, artists express what they are concerned or curious about. In this way, they explore their own thoughts and feelings and at the same time encourage the public to engage in the journey of meaning-making. Continue reading »

Uncanny Eye Illustrations from Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia, 1583

Georg Bartisch (1535–1607) was a German physician, a native of Königsbrück, Saxonia, who became, in the words of the University of Texas, ‘the father of ophthalmology’. Continue reading »

Charles Lister’s Creepy Dolls

Can puppets be frightening? Yes, they can, if a puppeteer who understands horror is involved. Charles Lister is just such a master. And while he only draws creepy puppets on paper, they are quite worthy of implementation both in the material and in some macabre video game. Continue reading »

Amazing Anatomical Photographs from Alec Fraser’s Handbook of Brain Surgery, 1890


Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library

It is difficult to categorize these photographs as art, since they are educational material. However, they are prepared, preserved, and photographed so carefully and even maniacally that one cannot help but see the whole thing as an art object. The photos were taken for The Handbook of Brain Surgery by surgeon Alec Fraser. Continue reading »

Cute Naughty Girls by Philip Bawasanta

Philip Bawasanta is a Filipino artist who draws charming girls. We don’t know what he does besides that, but the girls turn out just right – light, cheerful, and impossibly seductive. Continue reading »