Strange Sculpture and Painting Projects of Kari Byron

Kari Byron spent 1998-1999 backpacking around the world, focusing mainly on Asia. During her travels he was involved in personal and collaborative sculpture and painting projects as well as the research and acquisition of pieces for an investor.

Artist Statement – Her work quarantines the world into a more manageable space. The focus is the process, each piece is a meditation in his desire for a simple understanding of the daily white noise. Kari Byron currently lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

Fantastic KickAss Women Warriors

It is well known that in popular literature, comics and graphic arts, women warriors have always been a major inspiration of many fantastic artworks. There is something intriguing about a kickass woman fighting in this men dominated world. It is a start of a new era, an era where women are getting more and more powerful. This trend clearly reflects on modern art and fantasy 3D graphic designers. Is that the factor that makes these images so awesome?

The level that this graphic arts movement has reached is confirmed in this cool gallery of fantastic kickass women warriors.

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Street Superheroes Entering Our Everyday Lives

Street art is the youngest kind of art. This is the most urban and creative way to express your feelings and become part of the city.  Artist with their drawings touch the most interesting topics of our everyday lives. How superheros have always been the most enjoyable urban topic we chose to present this art collection of Street Superheros which pretend to be urban legends in today cities. Enjoy here with Cammy, Abel, Chun-Li, Sagat, M.Bison … C.Viper and others!

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Playing With Reality by Surrealist Artist – Jose De la Barra

Jose De la Barra (1956, Peru) has created a dream-like world through his expressing the internal and external fantasies of his imagination with his precise talents in painting and drawing. The expressions and the sensual movements that appear in each piece, create mystic allegories about the universe. By combining his interest in the human form with his desire for symbolic content, he has engendered a language that explains the human condition through a unique perspective. There is a method through which he develops his art relying on material and composition to develop his personal, magical universe.

Arlequines Femeninos, 2008

Curiosidad, 2008

Perfil 2, 2010

De la Barra considers himself a Surrealist, one who plays and exaggerates reality as perceived in this subjective world. He attended the Fine Arts Autonomous Superior School in Lima, Peru, where he studied Painting, Illustration, and Murals, combining this academic training with innate tendencies toward abstraction, he developed a figurative style that was immediately well received and noted for its innovation. De la Barra, reputation is well pronounced throughout South America, and has lead to a long career history of eminent exhibitions and Awards. His reputation has sent his work all over Europe and North America where he is recognized as one of the most innovative artists of his generation.

Discrecion, 2008

Encuentro, 2010

Gitana, 2008

Jugando con palomas, 2010

Musicos Adolescentes, 1997

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Art of Creepy Gadgets Biology

Have you ever imagined what is biology of your phone, or any other gadget? Extremely talented artist Mads Peitersen will show you using his art works. His work is highly creative – brilliant concepts, exceptionally executed. Great work!!!

If you visit his blog you will find different interesting and creditable fan quotes for his work.  We also adore his art works. Here are some funny and useful quotes.

“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.”– The Joker
“Some people are like slinkies – completely useless, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.”

Crazy Egg Art Shapes

People use very different materials to express their creativity. Sometimes material can be little strange, like eggs. As you will see below, these are very cool and funny art products created using eggs and inspired by eggs

Often a little bit of imagination, it will let people create amazing creativity. Even only the most common things in daily life, yes, just the eggs. Here are amazing photos of art shapes made entirely of eggs. Don’t ask me why anyone thought this was a good idea, but the end result is way cool. Which just goes to show, if you want to make great art, you have to break a few eggs.

Funny Eggs

Spooky Eggs

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Photo Proof That Geeks Are Attractive

‘Going geek’ has never looked better. And there’s no better way to show your geek badge than to get together with your friends and cosplay.

Here are collection of photos which give you big proof that geeks are so attractive today and draw attention everywhere they are. Their costume designs are very creative and unique more then ever.

What makes a physically attractive person even more? How about an attractive person with a dash of relateable geekyness! One really can’t deny that a solid mix of good looks and a nerdy personality makes dangerous combo. These “red warm girl” is proof!

Great Metroid cosplay by Jenni Källberg, a Swedish student and illustrator whose hobbies are art/design, cosplay, drawing and gaming. She is stunningly attractive, a gamer geek and confident as well. What else could a guy ask for.

This pair did a great job cosplaying Link’s Four Sword outfits with their clean and clear costume and image. Link is definitely popular among the girls with his pointy ears.

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24 Humoristic Toilet Inscription

The art of toilet inscription is as ancient as toilets themselves. Many of our favorite pub jokes have their origins on the damp, mucky walls of the loo. Here, we present 24 such specimens of spontaneously expelled humor.

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Japanese Monsters in Children’s Book Art by Gojin Ishihara

When we was a kid, we went through a phase where we was way into monsters — Draculas, Frankensteins, demons from the pits of Hell, all that good stuff — and, as these were the dark days before the Internet, I would hit the library on a weekly basis checking out books illustrated with the scarier pieces of pop culture and mythology. Well, I’ve got to say that right now, seven year-old Chris Sims is insanely jealous of his Japanese counterparts, because they had Gojin Ishihara, a manga artist whose work on numerous children’s books from the 1970s is both terrifying and awesome.

Here is a collection of wonderfully weird illustrations by Gōjin Ishihara, whose work graced the pages of numerous kids’ books in the 1970s. The first 16 images below appeared in the “Illustrated Book of Japanese Monsters” (1972), which profiled supernatural creatures from Japanese legend. The other illustrations appeared in various educational and entertainment-oriented publications for children.

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Ultra Realistic Paintings on the Wall

Ultra realistic paintings are as an expression of his own calculated observation and visual consumption of surrounding environment, introspective glimpses of reality imbue the art of David Jon Kassan. By immersing himself into his subject matter, Kassan is able to infuse his painting with life and realism.

Kassan’s direction of realism follows the philosophies employed by the Ashcan School of American Realists. Kassan’s influences are varied; citing Robert Henri and John Sloan as his primary influences on philosophy and subject matter. As for style and technique he cites Antonio Lopez Garcia, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline and Clyfford Still as influences as well. The results are fascinating, can you believe that these are paintings and not photographs?

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