Familiar characters from our childhood in disturbing nightmarish situations in a highly detailed series. Artist Dan Luvisi has been adding to the intricate collection for some time and is happy to include Mickey, Goofy, and Tigger to the mix. Enjoy the creepiness of your tainted innocent characters. source:
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Moving Portraits by Romain Laurent
The power of a gif. These photographs still hold the valor of classic portrait photography with a subtle twist of animation. They still feel as if you could hang them on the wall, I’ve seen technology create paper thing lcd screens. So In the near future I believe we can actually have tangible albums and framed moving photographs. Visit his website via Photorest
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White straws by Francesca Pasquali
Francesca Pasquali’s 2014 work White Straws presents a mesmerizing exploration of texture, light, and form. The installation grows outward like a delicate cloud or a cluster of ice, its translucent glow creating an almost otherworldly presence. There is a subtle magnetism to the piece, a visual invitation that draws the viewer closer and encourages contemplation.
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Kristen McMenamy is a Captured Mermaid for Tim Walker
In a standout fashion editorial from 2013 titled Far, Far From Land, supermodel Kristen McMenamy embodies a modern mermaid in photographs by Tim Walker for W Magazine. The series imagines a mythic narrative rooted in both fantasy and emotion, capturing McMenamy in scenes that feel ethereal, glamorous, and quietly poignant.
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Boxers: Before and After the Fight
Young boxers retake the same portraits after their boxing matches. At first you don’t see much of a difference, but the longer you compare the more you see has changed within the two. Flushed, tired, and some bleeding. Nicolai Howalt – Boxers: Before and After the Fight (2012)
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Jeff Bark – Woodpecker (Present Day Romanticism)
“Woodpecker stretches the definition of romanticism to reference both the emotive paintings of centuries past, and the modern struggle with post-industrial malaise. Situated in a teenage wasteland that hovers between nature and urban decay, Bark’s listless figures partake in skinny-dipping, huffing, and smoking marijuana.” Artist’s statement: “I’ve always been very sensitive to light, even in my house… It’s all about how the light makes you feel. In my studio the light is very sexy, calming – it’s warm from all the tungsten lights, and very comforting. In the brightness you can’t see around you, so you feel alone, except for me yelling at you saying ‘Move your finger!’ More than trying…
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Brandon Vickerd – The Passenger II
Is this installment artwork a literately form of “duckface”? This is the second installment by artist Brandon vickerd titled “The Passenger”. Here is the artists personal satment of his entire body of work: “Purposely diverse, my work straddles the line between high and low culture, acting as a catalyst for critical thought and addressing the failed promise of a modernist future predicated on boundless scientific advancement. Whether through craftsmanship, the creation of spectacle, or humour, my goal is to provoke the viewer into questioning the dominate myth of progress ingrained in Western world views. A satellite resting lifeless in a crater, recalling a modern day Icarus whose faith in…
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Paul Thek “The Tomb (frequently called Death of a Hippie)”
Paul Thek – The Tomb (1967) “Officially Paul Thek died in 1988, but really he died twice. In 1967 he conceived The Tomb (frequently called Death of a Hippie) – the summation of a decade, a cultural ethos, and a career. It was the piece he never lived down and never lived up to. Thek became the unwilling prophet of the failure of counterculture idealism and could not regain the tragicomic intensity of The Tomb or his Technological Reliquaries, wax sculptures of raw meat and body parts encased within vitrines.” “The Tomb consisted of a one-story-high, pale pink structure reminiscent of a Sumerian ziggurat, within which lay a full-size, painstakingly crafted effigy of Thek himself. Painted pale pink, the replicant…
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Jeff Hong – “Unhappily ever after”
Not every story ends the way we hope, and Jeff Hong’s series Unhappily Ever After confronts that idea with a darkly humorous twist. The artist reimagines beloved Disney characters, placing them in scenarios where happy endings are replaced by realistic, often jarring consequences. The result is a series that is both playful and unsettling, challenging viewers to reconsider the familiar narratives they have grown up with.
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Chad Wright – Master Plan
“For the first part of this series, Wright created a mould in the form of an L-shaped suburban dwelling, and set out a series of sand castles on his local beach. This scale-model suburbia was washed away by the tide, which perhaps urges us to consider the relative transience of so solid a symbol of the American dream, particularly since the 2007 subprime mortgage collapse. “ Artist’s statement: “In Master Plan, I am conflating a child’s sandcastle with architecture typifying postwar American suburbia. This three-part series culls artifacts from my childhood, investigating suburbia in its vision and legacy.Phase One focuses on the mass-produced tract house, re-examining it as symbol for the model American…
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Ben Alper – Background Noise
Ben Alper’s Background Noise is a photographic series rooted in nostalgia, memory, and subtle unease. Drawing from what appear to be family archives and childhood moments, Alper revisits familiar scenes and places that feel deeply personal yet universally recognizable. These images suggest backyard gatherings, domestic interiors, and quiet pauses from earlier years, moments that might otherwise remain untouched in personal albums
