Under regular circumstances, if someone were to imagine Mickey Mouse with a skull, we would prepare ourselves to look at a scary version. That’s just a fair bet. As a rule, that part wouldn’t have anything to do with cute, unlike the sculptures we see here.
A nursing home in Westfalen, Germany has a very interesting calendar photoshoot to show. Ten senior citizens dressed up in recreation of scenes from famous Hollywood movies for the calendar project. Stars of this calendar project are all aged between 75 and 98 years.
Animals play the famous personalities of history in this set of illustrations by artist Christina Hess. Walking the line of a previous set of illustrations by the artist, this set is currently finished in graphite in bristol. The artist intends to have them in color for her Animals From History book, and is currently looking for a publisher.
Putting skills of forced perspective to use, Finnish photographer and illustrator Vesa Lehtimäki aka Avanaut has a set of beautiful images where Star Wars reaches out for our planet. The photographer used toys for photography in the real world, and with a bit of perspective, actually managed to make them look like full scale objects out for action.
Popular TV shows and movies take to the cover of Little Golden Tales books for kids in an art show featuring several artists on Gallery Nucleus. Several of these are as unforgettable as the books themselves, which makes it all quite the combination.
Emoji icons and faces are quite popular, but a world where these faces were real would be drastically creepy, and downright scary. It would be fair to doubt that anyone would be smiling at these smileys. The set of images was created by ad agency Rosapark for a group called Innocence en Danger, a non-profit devoted to fighting the sexual abuse of children. The idea is to ask parents to be aware of who their child is chatting with online.
Oman based artist Nabhan Abdullatif (NaBHaN) has this series of very humorous conceptual illustrations. Several of them are also available as T-shirts.
Americans were asked to label countries in Europe, while Brits were asked to label states on a map of the USA. The effort is commendable, and the results are interesting and funny.
Creatures of Zelda just got real in the art of Nate Hallinan. You haven’t known a fear of spiders until you see Skulltula in its realistic look.
The Tiny Project is a house on wheels built by web designer Alek Lisefski. The house measures 8 feet by 20 feet, and for the most part intends to be a dwelling that has a low environment footprint, and is incredibly efficient.