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“Untitled,” a 60 x 60 cm wood engraving by Paul Mutant.
Medical records from the turn-of-the-century indicate that some scientists predicted with uncanny accuracy the effects that electronic games of the future would have on the human brain. Their belief was that “electronic spirits” would haunt the brain, causing confusion and eventually madness.
An illustration by Terry Fan, an artist based in Toronto, Canada.
Prints, posters, T-Shirts, iPhone and iPod cases are available at RedBubble.
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A 30” x 24"acrylic and ink painting on canvas by Badass Ball, a self-trained artist from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The artist says that this painting was inspired by his favorite anime, Doraemon.
Image Credit: Untitled, by Paul Mutant
Watch Hungarian artist Paul Mutant (previously) paint a beautiful mural on a wall of the Talk of Tea, tea house in Brighton.
What would a comic book superhero be, without having a city to protect and operate from? Though Superman was brought up in the fictional town of Smallville, the equally-fictional Metropolis would be the city where he would find his true calling, and even love. The mean streets of Gotham city played a huge role in the rise of the brooding Dark Knight. New York city, with its towering buildings and dark alleys, is the perfect setting for Spider-Man to fight crime in.
Alex Litovka, a digital artist from Warsaw, Poland, designed this great series of posters, which feature various Marvel and DC superheroes against the skylines of their cities.
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The music video for Australian artist Kate Miller-Heidke’s single, “I’ll Change Your Mind” starts out innocently enough, but it soon descends into darker territory. A stalker, played in the video by the artist herself, wants nothing more than to be loved by the unwilling object of her affection. Spurned repeatedly, she finally decides to freely offer her heart to him, but not in the way you or I could ever imagine.
The video has been directed by the folks at Oh Yeah Wow, a creative production studio based in Victoria, Australia. For quite some time now, Oh Yeah Wow have been constantly creating a whole lot of edgy, but brilliant stuff. With this video, they have managed to inject subversive, black humor into what is essentially a sweet and upbeat pop song.
As this video contains some scenes of extreme violence, I wouldn’t recommend watching it if you are squeamish at, uh, heart.
Link to the video on Youtube.
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A 36.7″ x 12.1″ piece by Spanish artist Mario Soria.
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‘The Rainbow: Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms’ is an art installation by renown artist Michael Jones McKean, which will be launched at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.
For 20 minutes, twice a day, a huge rainbow will be artificially created over the roof of the Bemis Center. A decade in the making, this wonderful art installation is a labor of love for McKean, a professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University, who has collaborated with numerous experts and scientists for the project.
The installation will use nothing but sunlight, renewable energy and 100% captured rainwater. The harvested rain water will be stored in six 10,500 gallon tanks around the building, and will be pumped through nine nozzles mounted on the 20,000 square foot roof of the center. At timed intervals, a dense waterfall will be projected over the building, allowing the rays of the sun to create one of the most beautiful optical phenomena found in nature. The atmospheric conditions and the changing angle of the sun will make each rainbow to have a singular and unique quality to it.
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Watch “Skate,” an experimental short film by Charles Bergquist.
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“Gizmo Vangogh,” a 18″ x 24″ acrylic painting on canvas by Dave MacDowell.
A stunning piece by Argentinian artist Julian Totino Tedesco, based on Sandro Botticelli’s iconic “The Birth of Venus” painting. Tedesco created the painting as a variant cover for Fantastic Four #17, as part of the "Avengers Art Appreciation month."
“The Salaryman Project” is a photo-series by Bruno Quinquet, a French photographer living in Tokyo. With his project, Quintet has tried to build an aura of mystery around the archetypal (and quite often, unfairly lampooned) figure of the male Japanese office worker (aka the salaryman).
Quinquet says,
To reference in the same vehicle office work and the specifically Japanese sense of the season, the work comes in the format of a business schedule (paper or ebook).
I think that the project has some kind of documentary value, but in a poetic and conceptual sense rather than as a social critique.
To help self-publish his photography project, he has started a crowdfunding campaign at Ulule.
After a 20 year career as a recording engineer, Quinquet started shooting photographs during a stay in Japan, sometime in 2006. He decided not to go back to his native France, but pursued and got his graduation from the Tokyo Visual Arts Photography Department. His street photography has found a place in many books, magazines and galleries.
Hit the jump to see some select photographs from the project.
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An 1886 photograph of Bertha Benz, the wife of inventor Karl Benz, and one of the pioneering co-founders of Mercedes-Benz.
A woman of great fortitude and beauty, Bertha, in 1888, became the first person to ever drive an automobile over a long distance (66 mi). She completed the journey on the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, which had the effect of bringing her company worldwide publicity, and some much needed sales.
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