SUPER SIZED SELF-PORTRAIT Artwork by RON MUCEK | Photograph by John1856 On display at the British Museum is Mask II, a hyperrealistic oversized self-portrait of artist Ron Mueck. From the museum’s description page: In Mask II he has represented the features of his own face with unstinting accuracy but on a superhuman…
Emil Nyström is an advertising and portrait photographer from Sweden. In an ongoing personal project, Emil has taken a series of creative portraits of his daughter Signhild. He then uses his Photoshop skills to create funny and unexpected scenarios for his daughter, something she’ll be able to look back on with delight. In a…
Sannah Kvist is a photographer currently living in Gothenburg, Sweden. In an ongoing series entitled all i own, Kvist takes photos of people posing with all of their possessions. The only guideline was that to participate you must have been born in the 1980s. This means it is likely these people are either in…
Franco Clun is a self-taught artist from Italy known for his hyperrealistic portraits drawn with only a pencil. All of his works are done on watercolor paper and take upwards of 50 hours to complete. Clun tells the Daily Mail: “At the end of each drawing, I feel I know so much more about…
Mikko Lagerstedt is a fine art photographer from Finland. Lagerstedt has shared his various photo series on Behance with great success, garnering nearly 500K views. On his work, Lagerstedt says: “I love to view the world from different perspectives. My goal is to create mysterious and atmospheric photographs that make the viewer feel something.”…
After losing his job as a bond trader in Chicago, Brandon Stanton moved to the Big Apple and started a blog called Humans of New York (HONY) in the summer of 2010. Stanton recalls: “HONY resulted from an idea that I had to construct a photographic census of New York City. I thought it…
Photograph by Dan Phiffer Heather Dewey-Hagborg is an information artist who is interested in exploring art as research and public inquiry. Traversing media ranging from algorithms to DNA, her work seeks to question fundamental assumptions underpinning perceptions of human nature, technology and the environment. In her fascinating series entitled Stranger Visions, Heather collects DNA…
OUT FOR A FAMILY STROLL Photograph by Réunion Underwater Photography | On Facebook In this majestic photo we see a mother and baby Sperm whale swimming in the ocean. The Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales. Its name derives from a waxy liquid called spermaceti, found in…
Last week, Redditor banana_rhino compiled two large galleries of biopic actors and their real life counterparts (here and here). From artists and musicians, to politicians and sports figures, the biopic is a popular film type in Hollywood and can be a defining role for many actors. While the selection below runs the gamut of…
THE BELTED KINGFISHER Photograph by HAROLD BEGUN In this stunning capture by Harold Begun, we see the beautiful Belted Kingfisher perched on a branch. The Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) is a large, conspicuous water kingfisher, the only member of that group commonly found in the northern United States and Canada. It is…
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