Russian artist and photographer Alexey Menschikov combines street art, wit, and sometimes pure photography skills to achieve these photographs that have an inherent sense of humor. Everyday scenes get transformed into witty and thoughtful photographs that go well beyond the usual fare.
En Puntos by Javier Pérez presents a very strong and almost hypnotic appearance. It features a ballerina whose pointe shoes are extended by kitchen knives. She stands on the lid of a grand piano set on a stage, fighting to maintain balance against the odds. The start is pretty graceful, as she moves on the piano on knife tip. As seconds pass, the ballerina meets exhaustion and anger as the graceful figure changes her tones to rage that show in hits on the piano with the knife bearing pointe shoes.
Moses Hacmon has quite the talent of an artist. He has been trained as a sculptor, is an architect, and when you see these images, you realize he is excellent at developing photographic techniques as well. The series is titled Faces of Water.
In a world where we prepare for wars with zombies and our future robot overlords, we have committed the huge mistake of ignoring something like the housefly. Fly Revolver by David Bowen shows just how big of a mistake overlooking flies as future weaponised adversaries can be. The flies live inside an acrylic sphere with a target backdrop. Movements of flies and their interactions are captured by a video camera that then feeds it to control circuits, which eventually end up controlling where the revolver aims.
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As India goes towards modernization, a lot of the traditional jobs of the country stare down towards extinction. New York based photographer Supranav Dash took a fascinating look at several of these jobs that in the near future are very likely to disappear from the face of the country. Of course, some are more deeply rooted and would take longer, while the others are already in their grave.
It had been a while since anyone heard much about Disney’s 90s classic, Ducktales until the recent videogame re-release. Now Mondo have come up with limited edition screen prints from the series, showing six new posters. As prints by Mondo go, these sold out faster than hot cakes, but we can enjoy the art nevertheless.
In the year 1906, people might have had no idea what the word “meme” meant, but they sure did know very well that cats and dogs could be put into funny settings. These hilarious images by American photographer Harry Whittier Frees are probably one of the earliest known examples of cat memes in history. It all started in 1906, when during a Birthday party a cat managed to get a paper hat on its head, causing laughter among the gathered. Harry picked up the idea and decided to follow through with photographs.
Fashion photographer Viktorija Pashuta dressed up women in fashionable clothing, and matched them up to the famous web browser that would best meet the style. The set covers Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera.
Artist Sebastien Millon creates these very cute, funny illustrations that often find their way onto T-shirts and prints available on his Etsy shop.
You just have to love this Game of Thrones inspired fan art series by Doodle-Mon. The color and style are vivid, to say the least, but it is the moment captured in these illustrations that makes it so truly impressive. Prints available on StoreEnvy.