Forget Alice’s adventures. Leave behind those tiny luminous illustrations of Dr. Seuss. We’ve found the real magical world of Wonderland and verisimilitude right in the tip of a spray can belonging to Brazilian street artist DMS (Davi De Melo Santos). With surreal faces that melt and mold around outdoor switch boxes, awkward building creases and trash piles, […]
Maskull Lasserre is a talented craftsman/carvesman making his way through the world of aesthetics. Turning what was once simply a hobby into a web of handcrafted art, Lasserre is one of the more recent artists to crawl his way out of the basement of apprenticeship. The Montreal artist’s notoriety comes from his intricately carved anatomical lifeforms: animals, people […]
Awesome. Not much needs to be said, just watch the video by illustrator/artist Steve Cutts, you won’t be disappointed… MAN from Steve Cutts on Vimeo.
In a Struggle to Right Oneself, artist Kerry Skarbakka accomplishes the seemingly impossible act of capturing himself in the act of falling. Whether plummeting from trees, slipping naked in the shower or hovering over a deathly leap from a railway bridge, Skarbakka evokes a very strong artist statement. His inspiration for creating this ostensibly painful […]
Banksy is perhaps the most beloved, world renown vandal the world has never seen… and perhaps its most hated, as well. While other practitioners in their field watch their art get accosted by rival artists and whitewashed by property owners, Banksy watches as his pieces are dissembled and sold for thousands upon thousands of dollars […]
With desks dusted from dumpsters in Venice Beach, five lonely dollars, and a simple idea to help bring peace to the Congo, Falling Whistles began battling perhaps the world’s biggest war. In the Congo, child soldiers are sent to the front lines with only a whistle as a weapon. After meeting with 5 boys who […]
This is one of those pieces of art that massages us right in the sweet spot of our frontal lobe, or wherever it is in our brain that appreciates art. Japanese artist/skateboarder Haroshi crafted this exquisitely accurate and humorously detailed skull out of re-purposed skateboard decks, even giving the handsome charmer a gold tooth and braces. […]
Using highly detailed aerosol painting techniques, Australian street artist Ian Strange (aka Kid Zoom) has manipulated advertisements in bus shelters in Madrid, New York and Melbourne. The now Brooklyn-based artist’s highly realistic works are part of an ongoing collection entitled “Shelters,” a self-initiated project he began in 2007. To see the process of Kid Zoom’s McDonald’s ad […]