Ours is a fast changing world, and as the world changes, so does the lifestyle of people living in it. Of course, some are affected slower than the others, and now we stand at the point where lifestyles of indigenous tribes that have changed little over the centuries are set to go into extinction. British photographer Jimmy Nelson went on a journey spanning several countries across the globe to photograph some of the vanishing indigenous tribes.
Beautifully arranged flower mandalas by Arizona-based artist Kathy Klein. She calls the temporary mandalas danmalas (Sanskrit for the giver of garlands).
Artist Geoffrey Guillin creates these portraits primarily with the use of color pencils and often adds glitter for shine to the portraits. While they do tend to seem focused on particular facial characteristics, the artist maintains these are not caricatures but compositions based on most prominent characteristics on a subject’s face.
Years have passed and Popeye is now an old sailor. While the image you see here has been around for a while, the artist has now crafted it into a sculpture with 3D printing. Everything on the sculpture was printed except the collar and the pipe stem.
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For the last decade, Canadian artist William Fisk has been painting quite stunning photorealistic images of vintage gadgets. The subject range is enormous, going from the phones, cameras and computer consoles, to something as simple as a cord. The series is called Portraits and is for sure a very impressive set.
Artist Sei-G has a set of prints set in feudal Japan, and representing the events from Game of Thrones. Illustrations have been done in the traditional Japanese woodblock style, and the characters have been given a bit of appearance change to fit into the narrative of the Japanese style. Prints available on RedBubble.
My Little Dalek are all about the magic of friendship and extermination, probably not in the same order. The cute crochet Daleks with a hint of My Little Pony are the work of artist Country-Geek-Crochet.
Artist myCKs created an illustrated set of Legend of Zelda characters painted as Samurai. To add to the sweet touch, the paintings have been done in sumi-e, a Japanese brush painting style. That looks like a great combination, and the characters look pretty darn good.
German designer Jule Waibel has created a set of 25 dresses, all for Bershka flagship stores in different cities. Jule creates her dresses in the style of origami, starting with a large sheet of paper and hand-pleating it into forms and shapes that fit the body, and create a nice pattern for the dress. Each turn can take as long as 10 hours; with attention like this, no wonder the dresses look amazing.
Farting was the shit in 1600s Japan, as these scrolls that depict a farting competition show. While the act of farting is glorified as it should be, the scrolls delve further into various positions that a person can take to completely destroy the opposition. It’s an aim, lock, and fire thing, but ingesting copious amount of beans is very likely to give you an edge. The images belong to Edo-era Japan (1603-1868).