Marilyn Minter’s paintings operate at a scale and intensity that often confuses the eye before it clarifies the mind. At first glance, her work reads as hyper-real photography. The surface is so sharp, so meticulously rendered, that the instinctive reaction is technological rather than painterly. What camera was used. What lens. What lighting setup. The revelation that these images are oil on canvas arrives slowly, and when it does, it reframes everything.
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The Blue Boy by Javier Cortina
The Blue Boy is a photographic series that understands the power of restraint. Photographed by Javier Cortina and featuring model Jonatan Argiz, the work unfolds slowly, allowing color, body, and landscape to merge without urgency. The title is literal, but the effect is atmospheric rather than illustrative.
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Pop Culture Portaits by artist Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo
Álvaro Tapia Hidalgo’s pop culture portraits thrive on exaggeration with intention. These are not neutral likenesses or polite tributes. They are high-saturation, high-impact interpretations that treat celebrity faces as visual symbols rather than subjects meant to be reproduced faithfully. Color becomes the language, and personality becomes the structure.
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Pourchassé for Graveravens ft. Briana Wall
Pourchassé unfolds as a fashion fantasy rooted in tension, atmosphere, and performance. Shot in black and white for Graveravens.com, the editorial places model Briana Wall in a wooded setting where glamour and pursuit exist side by side. The series feels cinematic and deliberate, drawing on classic fashion storytelling while leaning into something darker and more instinctual.
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Lily Allen – URL Badman (Official Video)
Miss Lilly Allen released a new video for her track URL Badman. The song is a shout out the the internet generation and influx of media and opinions poured out online (ehem.) It seems a bit bitter but still sassy, also fully of many shout outs of websites and celebrities. I wonder why … Either way I love Lily Allen and the visuals in this video are interesting and cool. How the guys get distorted and digitally stretched. Check out the video below!
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Little Dragon – Pretty Girls
New music video by Little Dragon for their track titled Pretty Girls. Directed by Nabil this video is s a story about a zombie queen, turned hypnotic beauty queen, that still has zombie queen tendency. Check out how this plays out in the video below.
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Mixed Media Portraits by Bernhard Handick
Bernhard Handick’s mixed media portraits exist in a space where familiarity becomes unstable. At first glance, the faces feel recognizable, drawn from pop culture and fashion photography, images we have been trained to read instantly. But Handick interrupts that recognition just long enough to make it strange again. What emerges is a body of work that feels seductive, fractured, and quietly surreal. The foundation of these portraits often begins with photography, particularly imagery tied to celebrity, editorial fashion, or mass media. Handick then disrupts that surface through manipulation. Photographs are layered, spliced, and overpainted. Faces blur into other faces. Features are obscured, multiplied, or partially erased. The act of painting…
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Sufjan Stevens, “Year of the Tiger”
Not a new song but a new official video for a song. Year of the Tiger was released back in 2001 but recently has been brought back to life by director and animator Geoffrey Hoskinson. The video has colorful animations of abstract lions slowly coming closer staring right at you, eventually multiplying and making a final creation. It’s all very hypnotizing. I like the paper like feeling the animation had. Check it out:
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Saint Laurent Menswear SS 2015 Western Rocker Throwback
Saint Laurent Menswear Spring Summer 2015 arrived like a sharp inhale of nostalgia, unapologetic and fully committed to mood. At a time when many collections were drifting toward futuristic minimalism and sanitized utility, this runway veered hard in the opposite direction. Sex, love, rock and roll. No irony. No apology.
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Geometrical Portraits by Boris Draschoff
“These are the central concepts of my artistic essence. The transformation of motives therefore is a clearing of reality through optical reduction and refraction of contents. In this way it allows each observer an exempt view on the essential marrow. In this connection my process follows strictly the etymological translation of the word kaleidoscope, which has its roots in the greek language and means ‘to see beautiful forms’.” -Boris Draschoff, Berlin, Germany borisdraschoff.com
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Thom Browne Menswear S/S 2015 Marionette Soldiers
Thom Browne’s Menswear Spring Summer 2015 show arrived as a jolt of theatrical ambition in a season otherwise dominated by repetition. Where many collections leaned into safe continuity, Browne delivered something deliberately strange, unapologetically avant-garde, and uninterested in compromise. Marionette Soldiers was not designed to blend in. It was designed to unsettle.
