Art
September 4, 2009

21 Brilliant Illustrations by Noma Bar

Gun Crime Noma Bar is an Israeli artist who takes complicated ideas and simplifies them into graphic form. Using only a few lines and colors, Bar makes us look deep into an illustration. First, we find the surface meaning and then Bar prods us to discover the more complicated story. Particularly in his caricatures, Bar assigns symbols to each person, essentially exposing a side that's not often brought to light.

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Art
August 22, 2009

10 Twisted Princesses – Jeffrey Thomas

What would happen if a princess didn't need her prince? If you've ever wanted to imagine what the most prim and proper princesses would look like if they decided to take control of their own destiny, check out the artwork of Jeffrey Thomas. His Twisted Princesses series gets dark and dirty, changing up our familiar fairy tales and giving us beautifully wicked endings. Make no mistake, these princesses will kick anyone's ass.

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Art
August 19, 2009

Awesome and Magical, I Mean Mechanical, Mirrors – Daniel Rozin

Peg Mirror Daniel Rozin is an interactive artist who wants you to experience his magical mirrors. Made of various materials, these interactive art pieces act just like a regular mirror – when someone stands in front of one their image is instantly reflected on its surface. What's so weird about that? Well, the mirrors are made of substances like wood and trash.

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Art
August 10, 2009

Sculptures in Motion – Peter Jansen

Peter Jansen must have watched the slow motion parts in The Matrix thousands of times. A student of physics and philosophy, the Dutch artist captures sequences of human movements within a single frame of space and time. The result is quite stunning.

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