Human Ventriloquist turns People into Puppets

Nina Conti is a ventriloquist and comedienne born in 1974 in London, England. Conti uses audience members as her ventriloquist dummies, transforming them from people to puppets with the aid of a face mask. The mask is built so that the comedian can control the mouth movements by squeezing a small balloon. While Nina Conti […]

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A cute little beastie sits in a beautiful alien garden in this surrealist painting by Yosuke Ueno

Japanese Pop Surrealism Paintings by Yosuke Ueno

Japanese artist Yosuke Ueno’s painting are an interesting blend of fantasy, surrealistic styling and cartoon elements. Although his characters are all his own original designs, their cartoon styling has been around for nearly a century. His pop surrealism paintings have an innocent appeal about them, even when darker symbolism appears in the art work in […]

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Animation of Dr Seuss “The Sneetches”

Animation of Dr Seuss “The Sneetches”

“The Sneetches” is a children’s story book that was written and published by world renowned author Dr Seuss. Like all of Seuss’s stories, The Sneetches begins as a nonsense poem but ends with a poignant moral. This animated version of the tale tells the story of the Sneetches on the beaches with stars on thars, […]

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Carrot Crazy – Cute Animated Short Film

Carrot Crazy is a funny animated video by Dylan Vanwormer and Logan Scelina in which two rabbit hunters fight to trick a bunny into their own traps by producing bigger, better carrots than the other hunter. You can see more animated films by these artists on their websites dylanvanwormer.com and loganscelina.com

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A mushroom man rides a bizarre animal in this surrealist painting by Naoto Hattori

Surrealist Human Nature Hybrids by Naoto Hattori

Naoto Hattori creates bizarre surrealist paintings with an otherworldly feel. Most of his paintings seem to be set in a bygone colonial era, with backgrounds of carefully created and tended gardens; the kind of landscape you’d expect to see on the grounds of an estate house. Hattori brings in both human and animal elements to […]

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Beautiful painting of the ugly duckling in a decorative style by Tim Shumate

Tim Shumate brings the Cute to Art

Tim Shumate was born in 1982 and currently lives in Chicago, USA. Shumate works in a number of different art mediums like pencil, paint and digital art programs, creating art works that are heavily influenced by cartoons, fantasy and fairy tales. Some art works are inspired by classic comic books while others appear to have […]

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It Snow Joke: The People vs Winter

This funny and often cringe-worthy blooper video shows clips of people taking a tumble while facing icy winter conditions. From people who are simply trying to get from one place to another on slippery roads and pavements, to winter sports athletes trying to perform a trick – winter rules them all with her icy grasp. […]

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Beatboxing Bird: Cockatiel Sings Dubstep

A cute cockatiel pumps up the beat with his dubstep beatboxing performance. This rhythmic bird might not have been the first to beatbox a dubstep track though. Dave Crowe performs a live dubstep track, beatboxing a parody of electronic music sounds in Dubstep Beatboxer creates Electronic Music with his Mouth.

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