X-Men Kitties!
A breakfast-eating dude is in for a surprise when he doesn’t feed his kittens when commanded. Puny human gets what’s coming to him.
Beautiful Drawings by an Unknown Butcher who Dreamed of Flight
Charles Dellschau was an American butcher who lived between 1830 and 1923. He was a part of the Sonora Aero Club, a group of men that met to discuss and design flying machines. According to his diaries one of the members of this seceret society had discovered the formula for an anti-gravity fuel he called “NB […]
Louie Schwartzberg Reveals the Magic of Mushrooms in his Time Lapse Film
Time-lapse cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg aims his cameras at the mysterious, often-overlooked world of fungi. The kingdom of fungi is separate from the kingdoms of animals and plants, evolving on a seperate path over millions of years. Many forms of fungi, including yeasts and moulds, often live unseen and unregarded, while their more visible cousins, the […]
The Funny but Functional Fantasy World of Potter Mitchell Grafton
Panama City artist Mitchell Grafton throws convention down the drain when he creates his clay sculptures. Unlike many pottery artists, who focus either on function or form, Grafton combines the two to create highly imaginative yet functional art works. His specialises in what he calls “face jugs”; artistic and often humorous jugs that can either […]
Birds on Electric Wires turn into a Hauntingly Sweet Melody
When musician and artist Jarbas Agnelli saw a photograph of birds sitting on electric wires, he decided to make a song. The melody for the song was created by using the birds’ positions on the wires as music notes. The result was a beautiful, emotive melody that seemed to express the essence of the photograph. He […]
The Art of Madness: Britain’s Most Dangerous Inmate Paints his Fighting Spirit
Born in 1952, Michael Peterson, aka Charles Bronson, followed a life path of violence and rebellion, leaving in his wake a stream of bruised and abused prison staff, psychiatric workers and fist fighters. Bronson’s aim in life has been to become famous, and he’s used his aggressive personality to become both notorious and infamous. From taking […]
Impossibility meets Reality in Arianna Piazza’s Surreal Paintings
Arianna Piazza is an Italian artist who not only mixes media, she also creates a mix of subject matter and art styles in her paintings. Working in paint and pencil and with either paper or canvas, Piazza’s imagination gives life to a variety of obscure, bizarre and appealing creatures and characters. Piazza’s art style is […]
We Need to Talk about Kitten
Tilda Swinton faces a nightmarish nemesis in her new film, which according to director Russell Bates is not showing in a cinema near you… Check out more animals on Mayhem and Muse.
The Wonder and Wisdom of Qinni’s Magical Art Works
Qing Han, aka Qinni, is an artist from Canada who works in both traditional and digital art mediums. When creating a painting with traditional methods, he leans towards watercolor paint, creating emotive manga scenes with an artistic flair. When working in a digital art format, Qing likes to work in Painttool SAI, Corel Painter and Photoshop CS4. […]
Watch Dutch Artist Marcel Witte take a Fish for a Walk
Marcel Witte is a photorealistic painter from the Netherlands who paints surrealist and photorealistic images of animals. Some of his paintings are simply beautiful portraits, but others have a single human element added to the scene that personifies the animals and gives them character. Witte has this to say about his paintings; “In my artwork, […]