Earlier this month, British stencil artist DS painted one of his signature characters, an old Hello Kitty spoof he'd long ago dubbed Bad Kitty, on an Islington wall along Essex Road. The next morning, the 28-year-old saw someone buffing the figures an
The short documentary “Wild In The Streets: Jilly Ballistic” follows street artist Jilly Ballistic as she posts her cheeky computer dialog boxes and
the residents of a glass-walled luxury residential building across the street had no idea they were being photographed and they never consented to being subjects for the works of art that are now on display – and for sale – in a Manhattan gallery
“A Visual Compendium of Cameras” is an illustrated print by Pop Chart Lab that features “100 landmark cameras tracing photography’s history from the 1888
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an illustrated print by Pop Chart Lab that features “100 landmark cameras tracing photography’s history from the 1888 Kodak to today’s digital wonders.” It is available to purchase online
More “tiny people” installation photos by Slinkachu, whose work is compiled in several books including the recent Global Model Village. The pieces featured above and below were commissi…
Link: ‘Hiding in the City’: New Camouflage Self-Portraits by Liu Bolin | Feature Shoot
Liu Bolin has mastered the art of invisibility. His secret? Patience. Bolin will spend as many as 10 hours preparing for a photo. He poses as his assistants carefully paint his suit to help him blend into the background
Jonathan on Jonathan: I have worked as an illustrator since 1999 after graduating with a MA from Kingston University, London…
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Imagine if someone put a gun to Arthur Grace’s head and asked him if he had photographed Evel Knievel jumping over trucks in Worcester, Mass.
He would be a dead man.
There’s a lot of crap out there when it comes to syndicated comic strips. I could get all Comics Curmudgeon on your asses and pick apart tons of strips for a variety of different reasons, but…
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This strip debuted in 1992, apparently an unabashed Far Side ripoff, except less weird and drawn worse. In the intervening bunch of years, it has apparently gotten much much worser
Stefan Zsaitsits was born in 1981 in Hainburg/Donau in Lower Austria where he currently lives and works as a painter and fine a…
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World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch have announced the call for applications for the second annual Tim Hetherington Grant, named for the photojournalist who was killed by a rocket attack in Libya in April, 2011. The €20,000 ($26,000) grant supports photographers who are working to complete a human rights-themed photographic project.
Chris Ware, who is widely-known to dismiss in self-deprecating tones any personal merit adjoined to his work (rumour has it he is collecting up and destroying one of his earliest published endeavours), is perhaps not ready to receive this thanks or the praise his latest, indubitable magnum opus Building Stories will inspire. But applause it will get (and probably stunned silence quickly followed by imaginative combinations of swear words, as was the case in our studio when this advance copy arrived).
Smosh has humorously reimagined some names for familiar snack foods and candies, giving each of the packages a much more realistic description of what’s
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Smosh has humorously reimagined some names for familiar snack foods and candies, giving each of the packages a much more realistic description of what’s inside
Examples of how graphic novelists have illuminated our stories, especially when it wasn’t possible to use photographs.
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Recurring motifs include the outdoors, tree stumps, magic and strange little men and there’s just the right mix of charm and weirdness which keeps his work fresh and interesting
Talita Hoffmann is a good example of this in her detailed paintings that draw upon a vast bank of subjects such as animals, plants, rural structures, musical instruments and tools among others. Combined with narratives of healing, misfortune, death and conflict, you think her works would be overwhelming and busy, but somehow all these elements fall together seamlessly.
Chip Kidd doesn’t judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book — and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the funniest talks from TED2012, he shows the art and deep thought of his cover designs
