Izumi Miyazaki is a Japanese photographer with a great eye for a witty composition, which she takes advantage of in her exploration of self portraiture. The young star has a wicked sense of humour and a strong sense of cinematic imagery. The way she explores perspective, size and colour with the help of plastic dinosaurs, vegetables […]
Category: Weird
Stretching the Skin by Juuke Schrool
Aren’t these startling images? They were made without the use of any digital effects. “Rek” (stretch in Dutch) by photographer Juuke Schoorl is all about analysing the aesthetic possibilities of the human body, particularly its skin. The project aims to highlight the many complexities of our outer layer, ones which we often take for granted. Images […]
The Bizarre and Fleshy Dreamscapes of Jung-Yeon Min
At the heart of Jung-Yeon Min’s art there is a contrast between abstraction and realism and between the microscopic and macroscopic. The shapes she manages to make and the colours she uses all help to create these dualities in her paintings. While they are full of surreal flourishes, they maintain a serious interest in what […]
Insane Junk Food Sculptures
Taking aim at the world’s sweet tooth and the sheer amount of junk food waste that as human beings we produce, photographer James Ostrer has crafted a visually stimulating project full of nightmarish candy fantasies. These photographs and sculpted works are like the twisted, sickly child of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” with melted pink icing and […]
Wicked Tattoos of Heads Cut in Half
Looking back at history, a beheading by a sword (or an axe) was an honorable way to die for an aristocrat or a valiant warrior. But if you did something bad, something considered a capital crime, you’d likely see the guillotine and that’s nothing to brag about. There are many paintings representing decapitating events like […]
10 Movies That Mess With Your Head
It is often said that movies are the closest thing we have to re-experiencing our dreams. As can often happen after eating a block of cheddar cheese before bedtime, directors can present us with perplexing movie-dreams packed to the gills with the absurd, the baffling, the confusing, the mind-melting and sometimes just the plain old […]
Yellow Flight Intestine
British designer and artist Chris LaBrooy has built up an impressive portfolio of digital artwork, including campaigns for some major clients like Nike and Time magazine. In his latest awe inspiring project he has concocted a visual treat for us in the form of fluorescent intestine tubes taking over a plane hanger. Bizarre and beautiful. […]
Decomposing Paintings
The visual artist Valerie Hegarty, originally from Vermont and now based in New York, takes great pleasure in the destruction of painting. Her art breaks down the traditional boundary between the artwork and the canvas, as everything from wildflowers to bullet holes emerge and rupture the surface. Truly staggering. Images © Valerie Hegarty Via Tumblr
Banned! 5 Movies that Disturbed the Censors
Note: Contains violence and sexual references. Movies can disturb people for all sorts of reasons. Across the world, Film Censorship Boards ban titles that they consider provocative and even potentially harmful to the public. Here’s a selection of 5 recent troublesome titles that were banned in various corners of the globe… Top: Who is being kidnapped in “The […]