Rodney Pike is an artist, illustrator and Photoshop ninja. The artist specializes in caricature, photo manipulation and political satire and his work has been featured in countless publications both printed and online. In an ongoing series of hilarious photoshops, Pike skillfully blends Mr Bean/Rowan Atkinson’s face into famous paintings by artists like Da Vinci,…
Bob Egan of PopSpotsNYC.com has an interesting hobby. He finds the real-world locations of famous album covers, fastidiously matches the distance and angle, and then superimposes the original onto a photo of present-day location. The Sifter first featured Bob’s fantastic work in 2012, roaming the streets of New York City. In this update we…
LANDFALL Artwork and Photography by ERIK JOHANSSON Website | Facebook | Prints available Artist Erik Johnansson (featured previously) has unveiled his latest artwork entitled, Landfall. While Johansson is well-known for his incredible Photoshop and retouching skills, the artist is an adept photographer and you might not realize the amount of ‘analog’ work…
Martin De Pasquale is an artist and photographer based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Martin is currently an art director for an advertising agency but is best known online for his incredible photo manipulations and surreal digital artworks. Using programs like Photoshop, Poser and 3DS Max, De Pasquale creates amazing images that distort the lines…
BuzzFeed staff writer Tom Phillips imagines what would happen if England actually won the world cup. You can see the original post here and read more articles by Phillips here. Who are you rooting for in this year’s World Cup? The international tournament features 32 national teams and is scheduled to take place in…
Svetlana Petrova is the proud owner of a fat cat by the name of Zarathustra. According to Svetlana, only the great artists can appreciate the “generous body and sublime soul” of the chubby feline, who weighs about 22 pounds (10 kg). At fatcatart.ru, Petrova photoshops her muse into famous artworks, from classics like the…
Spanish artist Antonio Mora specializes in creating dream-like self-portraits blended with landscapes and other imagery. The results are similar to double-exposure photography, except these images are superimposed digitally. Mora even does custom ‘dream portraits’ for people if they provide an image of themselves along with some information so he can derive some associated imagery…
A video released last week entitled Best Kitty Hug Ever has already been viewed nearly 700,000 times. Of course an animated gif of the video was created shortly thereafter and has already been popular on sites like reddit and BuzzFeed. As expected, the Internet has embraced the new cat, creating remixes and inside jokes,…
One of the greatest components of reddit are the thriving subreddits, niche communities of people who share a passion for a specific topic. One of the Sifter’s personal favourites is r/ColorizedHistory (featured previously). The principal contributors are a mix of professional and amateur colorizers and restorers that bring historic photos to life through color.…
Photograph by MIKE KELLEY Website | Facebook | Flickr | Prints available In this incredible composite image by architectural photographer Mike Kelley, we see every departure from LAX’s South Complex over an eight hour period. In a detailed blog post, Kelley explains: I spent about 16 hours shooting and putting this image together… I…