London-based artist, Mr. Bingo, wants to offend you. “I will send an offensive postcard to the first person to reply to this message,” he tweeted one night back in 2011 and thus, a new Internet art project, aptly titled Hate Mail, was born. The response was overwhelming, so he realised that people really wanted to [...]
For his Alpha Beauties project, artist Nazareno Crea retouches paintings and sculpture from throughout history, a process which normalizes each period’s ideal of female beauty to that of the present day. That is, much skinnier, with smaller noses, higher cheekbones, and larger breasts. Click the pic to see more.
For his “Colourful Shit” project, copywriter Gabriel Morais ate several types of the same food (like Froot Loops cereal) for 30-36 hour timeframes. To show how much the food we ingest affects our body, he artfully documented his coloured feces. His images were not manipulated and there are more examples at his website. To achieve [...]
Jack Daly, a photographer at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, is working on a portrait project titled People with Passions. Each photograph in the series features a person posing with the objects of their passion (e.g. things associated with their interests, pursuits, and pastimes). The picture above is Andrew Gadsden: Creator of All [...]
Conceived in Spring 2010 by Eric Firestone and organized with curator Carlo McCormick, The Bone Yard Project revives disused airplanes from America’s military history through the creative intervention of contemporary artists, taking entire airplanes and their elements out of aeronautic resting spots in the desert, known as boneyards, and putting them into the hands of [...]
French photographer Celine Artigau created a series of photographs entitled Goodbye Childhood that are the embodiment of bygone imaginary friends and symbolize her lost childhood. She starts from a photo she captures of a place that holds specific meaning for her such as her grandmothers garden which had fallen into disrepair or the subway she [...]
Latvian conceptual artist and creative director Voldemars Dudums created this insanely clever bird feeder using an old computer keyboard and some cubes of bacon fat. When the birds would fly down to snack their inadvertent key presses were fed to an api that parsed each little tap into a bonafide tweet on the @hungry_birds Twitter [...]
Michael Wolf has done what we all have done ever since builders started putting houses, and their windows closer towards each other. The German born photographer, currently living in Hong Kong has created a series called Window Watching – in which he used his skills as a photographer to capture what his neighbours get up [...]
An estimated 1.1 billion people in the world survive on just $1 a day. It’s a fact economics students Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci couldn’t get out of their heads. Together, the pair decided to take their studies outside the classroom, to someplace more practical –– the edge of poverty itself. Living on $1 a day for two [...]
You may have seen Birds of Paradise on David Attenborough’s numerous documentaries – but you’ve never seen this many. The Birds of Paradise project is attempting to document all the birds in their myriad forms, as well as capture some of their courting rituals. The project took Tim Laman and Ed Scholes through more than [...]
