In the US many of the hottest names to watch out for in the art world are electing to skip New York and are instead making the pilgrimage out West to the golden shores of California and its major hub, Los Angeles. What has inspired this move is partly because of rising rents in the Big Apple, […]
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10 Underrated Animated Movies
Are you sick of hearing “Let It Go?” Do you disagree that “Everything Is Awesome?” Although the big Hollywood studios may dominate the landscape of animation, it doesn’t take too much digging to find a fascinating world of animated films—each distinct from the last—just waiting to be discovered. With unique world views and employing various […]
DAIM’s 3D Graffiti Displayed On Street and Museum Walls
It is fascinating to see how graffiti art has evolved from the streets to now being displayed in museums. It has finally reached a level of acceptance from the fine art circuit. And it is about time! Showcased here, are works by DAIM, a German graffiti artist with over 25 years of experience and known […]
10 Best Tattooers of 2014—Editor’s Picks
Note: Contains nudity. Selecting the best tattooers, the best movies, the best of most things and put it into an article will generally cause controversy among readers, because we all have our preferences, opinions. But that’s okay, art is supposed to be subjective. The goal of this article is to group some of my favorite […]
Top 10 Articles of 2014
At the start of 2014, we closed Scene 360 website to focus on Illusion online magazine. We welcomed new writers to the team, expanded our Tattoo section and opened new ones like Cinema and Erotic. Published longer articles and interviews. Focused on what you (the reader) are interested in, and wrote articles based on that. […]
Selected Tattoos: The Work of Dean Lawton from Australia
Flowered skulls, women warriors and Marvel characters, the only connection among these themes is that Dean Lawton tattooed them on his clients. He’s done a bit of everything, color and greyscale with a light dose of photorealism. The artist can be found working at Method Ink in Brisbane, Australia. Images © Dean Lawton
The Delicate Photography of Berta Vicente Salas
It is all about the subtlety and details of Berta Vicente Salas’ pictures. Like positioning her father dead center of a Ferris wheel, creating the illusion his head is part of the wheel. Painting only the body of a girl named Carla in blue, which ends up highlighting her head like it was cut off […]
Mind-Bending Architectural Illusions
A fine art photographer based in Berlin, Markus Studtmann has carved out a stylish niche for himself: architectural illusions. In his work he takes apart the foundations of his subjects to find their true meaning, before re-building them up again into eye-catching new shapes. Artwork © Markus Studtmann Via 500px
Tattoos Inspired by Nature, Myths, and Fine Art
From Greco-Roman, Germanic, Chinese mythology to Shakespeare’s and Poe’s writings, the Raven has been mentioned with symbolism in various cultures and works of art. You can see the bird attentively sitting on a human skull in Timothy Boor’s tattoo shown above. This American tattooer, owner of The Bohemian Tattoo Club, has done dramatic-themed body art […]
New York’s Coolest Rising Artists
Note: Contains nudity. New York, New York. The city has given flight to some of the biggest and most exciting artists and movements that the world has ever known. They say if you can make it there, then you can make it anywhere. Well, the visionary artists selected here have certainly done that. Across the […]