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Arts, Asia, Europe, FIne Arts, Painting, Print, Vintage Anna Ostroumova Lebedeva, Art Nouveau, Benois, Block Prints, Ilya Repin, Petersburg, Russia, Tolstoy, Vasily Mate, Woodcuts
Anna Ostroumova Lebedeva’s work rekindled an artistic interest in woodcuts—other than for print production. Lovely stuff. Check out 95 more pieces of her art on wikiart. I couldn’t help but notice the similarity between her monogram and the anarchist ‘logo’, coincidence? 😉 From Wikipedia article: Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (Russian: Анна […]
Asia, Events, Music, Performing Arts, PSA Acoustic Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, Japan, Jazz, MAKOTO KURIYA, PSA, Weather Report
Having been a huge fan of Weather Report, my curiosity was peaked when I got a tweet about an upcoming online live release by Acoustic Weather Report. A quick search gave me some youtube results, it turns out these are some cool cats from Japan and very good too. An […]
Advertising, Asia, Food, Health, Sculpture Art, Carving, Creative, Diet, Dressing, Food, Health, Lee Samantha, Makeup, Malaysia, Sculpture
Lee Samantha is a Malaysian mother and Food Artist who creates whimsical, colourful and healthy meals for her two young daughters. She started turning food into fun and unique artworks to help her eldest daughter eat independently and healthily back in 2008 and started posting on Instagram in 2011. See […]
Asia, Creative, Fashion, Photography, Sex, Skills burlesque, carnival, Corsets, cyberpunk, Dolls, erotic, Fantasy, Gothic, Japan, Kiyo Murakami, Photography, post-apocalyptic, retro
Not to be confused with that master of magical realism Haruki Murakami, Kiyo Murakami’s work could well be considered to be its photographic equivalent. Post-apocalyptic-carnival-retro-gothic-erotic-fantasy-burlesque-cyberpunk art. See for yourself. FROM KIYO MURAKAMI’s website: I was born in Shizuoka, currently based in Tokyo, Japan. After I graduated from art school, I […]
Asia, Creative, Funny, Health, Hmmn Interesting, PSA, Tech, Words etc Beijing Airport, China, Coronavirus, Face Mask, Funny Not Funny, Funny Pictures, Home Remedies, Improvisation, Water Bottle
The shortage of masks have forced some Chinese get creative in how they protect themselves. Water bottles are big it would appear. What I find striking in these pictures is the spirit, that they can still see the humour in what they are wearing. All of these photos I found […]
Asia, Creative, Fashion, NSFW, Photography, Sex Bullets, Chen Zhun, FHM, Mildy NSFW, Motorbikes, Photo Erotic Novel, Photography, Pictorial
Click on the image above to launch the slideshow. Originally I posted some stills from this pictorial in 2007. While searching backup drives for something else entirely I came across the whole set—somehow 13 years later and halfway around this flat earth—they followed me to Cambodia. This novel was first […]
Asia, FIne Arts, Food, Illustration, Sculpture baby heads, Ceramics, Creepy, Cute, Holland, qimmyshimmy, Singapore
Lim Qixuan–or Qimmyshimmy as she goes by on instagram–is a Singaporean artist/illustrator thats creates these shocking yet delightful miniature clay sculptures. To get a full appreciation of how she arrived here I’d recommend following the progression of her insta posts from the beginning. Whether contrived or not (the first post […]
Asia, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Logo Design Chocolate, Colors, DIgital Illustration, Food Packaging, Logo Design, Muhammed Sajid, Nationalities, Typography
Striking packaging designs by Muhammed Sajid Sajid spared no detail on these pieces. The typography, illustrations and colors all compliment each other, individually and as a group. The backgrounds of the illustrations summarize their respective country’s national traits. The European ones are particularly amusing if not downright cheeky, check out […]
Asia, Design, Hmmn Interesting, Politics, Tech Big Brother, China, Design, Documentary, Tech
China is marrying Big Brother to Big Data. Every citizen will be watched and their behavior scored in the most ambitious and sophisticated system of social control in history. This is an incredible undertaking, China doesn’t do things by half. They must have entire cities of people dedicated to running […]
