Category: Art
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Voyeurism, Nudity and Art? The Life and Work of Conceptual Artist Milo Moire (NSFW)
Swiss artist Milo Moire is no stranger to controversy. She has sustained a career based largely on nudity and the controversy that comes along with it. When we first saw her, she removed all of her clothes and walked to Art Basel with the words of the articles of clothing she would normally be wearing…
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Can A Single Book Disrupt the Foundation of a Brick Wall?
How much power does one book hold? That’s the central question of a unique installation by Mexican artist Jorge Mendez Blake. For his 2007 project, “The Castle” (named after The Castle by Franz Kafka), Mendez Blake constructed a single wall of bricks—75 feet long, 13 feet high—without mortar. Each brick was placed uniformly and intentionally, as with any wall, but Blake also included an…
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Couple Mistakenly Buys Tickets for Bagpipe Band ‘Red Hot Chilli Pipers’ Instead of Red Hot Chili Peppers
Thinking that they’d gotten a really good price on tickets to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers, an unsuspecting Duncan Robb and his partner Sarah, who live in Chesterfield, Derbyshire UK, excitedly flew over to Belfast, Northern Ireland only to find out that they had not purchased tickets for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but…
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The Most Famous Cat in Istanbul Is Honored With His Own Statue
You might remember the various memes that hit the interwebs a little while ago when someone snapped a photograph of Tombili chilling on the steps of a street in Istanbul. It didn’t take long for Tombili to become an internet legend, so it was fitting that when he passed away in August, he was honored in the real…
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Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours: a Pre-Photographic Guide for Artists and Naturalists
Color swatches seem like a modern invention. Pantone, for instance, is tied up with the emerging post-World War II economy that needed to standardize colors in products and print media around the world. Paint companies, using carefully standardized chemical recipes, were able to sell the same shade of ecru in thousands of stores. In the…
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Indonesian Photographer Takes Spectacular Photos of Frogs
There’s something mysteriously fascinating about the transformation of a tadpole into a frog. The metamorphosis of something resembling a fish slowly growing legs, dropping its tale, and then hopping up onto dry land. So when we came across the spectacular frog photography of Jakarta-based Tanto Yensen, we were instantly in love. Tanto has a knack for getting up close…
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Government Conducts Experiment Giving LSD Drugs to Artist and Asking Him to Draw the Same Portrait 9 Times
These nine drawings were completed by an artist under the influence of LSD – part of a test conducted by the USA Government during its interest in psychometric drugs in the 1950s. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject…
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Artist Transforms Arabic Words To Illustrate What They Actually Mean
Fancy learning a new language? What about Arabic? Now you can learn it with ease with the help of artist Mahmoud Tammam who has created a series of illustrated Arabic words which show exactly what each word means in pictorial form. Tammam has manipulated the sloping curves and dots of the Arabic characters into the bodies of animals, pieces…
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This R2-D2 Coffee Press Will Give You The Force To Wake Up!
Are you a Star Wars fan or know one who is? Then this product is just for you! ThinkGeek made this awesome coffee press to celebrate the upcoming movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Just put your grounds and boiling water into the droid’s glass body, let it brew for a couple of minutes,…
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Mother Takes Darkly Humorous & Controversial Family Photos
Susan Copich is a photographer, actress and model from New York. When not in front of the camera, she finds herself behind it, creating fictitious, dark and domestic scenarios using herself, her daughters and her husband as the actors. In her series “Domestic Bliss”, Susan has combined metaphor, irony and satire to create a dialogue…