BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE Panoramic shots of Thailand prostitutes, mountainous Iceland landscapes, suburban kids bearing guns, and secluded waterfalls surrounded by lush wildlife. These are some of the images one can find through Google Maps’ Street View feature. While many use…
Here’s what famous art pieces look like when the gluten is removed
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE Tumblr is home to many image editing blogs, such as The Kitten Covers, which replaces human subjects in classic album art with images of cats. As photoshopping gets more creative and unique, desktop artists seek stranger and…
These eerie miniature sculptures are traveling the world to warn us about climate change (Photos)
BY: M. TOMOSKI Photos by: Isaac Cordal His installations have been seen on city streets across the world from London to Amsterdam, Montreal, Paris, Bogota, St. Petersburg and many more. They come as a surprise to passersby who stumble upon…
This surreal artist ditched his studio so he could paint with light and movement instead (Photos)
BY: ELI ROSS Artist Julien Breton has mastered the art of gesture, working silently in urban environments, using the world around him as his canvas, recording it with a long exposure on a film camera. When he is drawing, it…
These giant wood megaphones magnify the subtlety of nature in surround sound
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS With every footprint I sink deep within the soil, my troubles fade and I feel my senses come back in order. A walk in the woods can be a soothing experience – there is something about the sound…
With the female body as her canvas this artist blends into famous New York City landmarks
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ Photographer Trina Merry uses the female body as her canvas and New York City as her background to create a unique style of art. The portraits range from iconic locations such as the Brooklyn Bridge to vibrant…
One hundred cameras were given to London’s homeless to show us the city through their eyes
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ This past July a project by Café Art supplied the homeless people of London with disposable cameras and the opportunity to show people the city through their eyes. One hundred disposable cameras were given to the cause,…
23 beautifully illustrated letters by Van Gogh, Warhol, Kahlo, etc. show the long-lost art of hand writing.
BY: JOHN DILLON “Letter writing is probably the most beautiful manifestation in human relations, in fact, it is its finest residue” writes artist John Graham in a letter to his wife. Long before our hours were consumed with texting, tweeting,…
This artist uses a 200-gallon fish tank to create majestic landscapes
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ Artist Kim Keever turns Mother Nature into a fantasy with the use of water, paint and a fish tank. These unique works of art use a 200-gallon fish tank that is filled with water. Keever uses all…
This artist literally bleeds for his art
BY: ERIC ZDANCEWICZ Most artists are starving, some are bleeding. Marc Quinn is of the latter. Every five years, the British artist creates a frozen solid bust of his own head created purely from his own blood. It takes 10…
Jakub Geltner’s creepy art installations reveal how the surveillance state is always watching you
BY: ERIC ZDANCEWICZ If you’ve ever walked alone and stoned through the city streets you know how unnerving the experience can be. Cameras hover outside of every store and peak around every corner. Your phone, your credit card, and anything…
A community in Seattle turned this crime-ridden alley into a party area with music and circus performers
BY: SWIKAR OLI Todd Vogel recalls moving into his office in 2008. His window gave a view to Seattle’s Nord Alley, a space that had seen better days. He remembers seeing “a pool of blood and the apparent weapon, a…
These stunning photos combine the beauty of nature and the female body to create a masterpiece
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ Photographer John Poppleton constantly finds himself in awe of nature’s beauty, and has found a new way to portray the stunning landscapes the earth has to offer. It has always been his goal as a photographer to…
Do you know someone in these forgotten polaroids?
BY: ERIC ZDANCEWICZ Photography has become so accessible we have an app that instantly deletes photos after you send them. The tangibility of the art is still present, but not nearly as much as the digital is in everyday life.…
This illustrator encourages people to live differently by boldly showing us the sad truth about today’s world
BY: JESSICA BEUKER I have to imagine that the world was not always like this. People working grinding, soul crushing jobs they hate to get to the almighty dollar. Consumers filling their houses, their garages, their rented-storage spaces with all…
Here are five stunning pieces of art created using discarded ocean plastic
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The North Atlantic Gyre is one of five major oceanic gyres. A circular system of ocean currents, the gyre was recently explored by artists Alexander Groves and Azusa Murakami. As they made their way from the remote…
This artist stitches human faces to animal bodies to prove a disturbing point about animal rights
BY: SHAY ANSARI These chilling sculptures of human faces on real animal corpses are artist, Kate Clark’s, way of uniting mankind with the wild. When you think taxidermy, you probably aren’t thinking ‘what a great way to connect with our…
This street-art reminds us that life is short and nature is one sexy stone-hearted vixen
BY: SHAY ANSARI Destruction can be a beautiful thing. Artist, DALeast, illustrates the transience of life, both elegant and fragile, through a number of commanding murals painted across the globe. His art mainly consists of animals and snapshots of nature,…
Photographer analyzes brain waves to construct portraits of people’s ideal selves
BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN With the alarm clock blaring, you wake up abruptly, roll out of bed and walk over to the sink half asleep. After washing your face and attempting to wipe away your exhaustion, you look in the mirror…
Blind artist’s paintings will change your perception of what is and isn’t possible (Photos)
BY: JESSICA BEUKER John Bramblitt was only 30 years old when he lost his eyesight. He suffered from epilepsy since the age of two and as he grew older his seizures became more frequent and more violent. At first his…