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Legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE, has ALS since 2003, which has left him almost completely paralyzed, except for his eyes, and maybe an eyebrow he could raise once in a while at annoying people. So an international team of die-hard building graffiti aficionados, and everyone else, have been working [...]

Oh, what a cute and breathtaking sight to behold a skinned mammal is!

From Grant Cornet’s “Nature Morte”

Christien Meindertsma has spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelain, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel.
Meindertsma makes the subject more approachable by reducing everything to the scale of one animal. After [...]

Wen Chenling’s sculpture, “What You See Might Not Be Real,” on display at a Beijing gallery, is a critique of the global financial crisis, with the bull representing Wall Street and the man pinned to the wall representing Bernard Madoff.

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Inspired and deeply fascinated with the “Missed Connections” section on Craigslist, Sophie Blackall creates these heartwarming illustrations that capture a certain poignancy in the human experience.

Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of [...]

Chinese artist Liu Bolin’s art is simple: paint himself into the landscape, like real camouflage. You’d think, “hey, it’s super cool! I can go peep at ladies taking a bath!” But Liu’s reasons are actually weightier: it’s “his statement about his place in society, as an outsider whose artistic efforts are not always valued, especially [...]

Sipho Mabona, who’s been playing with paper since his teens, creates these stunning Origami insects, animals, and fish. And if you annoy him enough, he might even begin making Origami zombies, too. Just try!

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Artist Mio I-zawa’s “mechanical tumor” is like a piece of “fleshy, organic-looking material” that expands and contracts depending on the amount of your computer’s load. Play some hardcore 3D game shit, and it will palpitate like a mother, as shown in this video.
Actually some sort of CPU load meter, the “mechanical tumor” is just one [...]

Design student Anna Schwamborn has created jewellery made with the hair and cremated ashes of dead loved ones. Maybe between “thinking fondly” and “insanely freaking out” while admiring these pieces, yeah, maybe that might work.

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Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) created a number of woodblock prints showing legendary tanuki (raccoon dogs) using their humorously large scrota in “creative ways.”  Below, for example, shows how to use them testicles for muscle build-up.

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Photographer Dina Goldstein’s ‘Fallen Princesses‘ series features “fairy tale characters in modern day scenarios,” such as a domesticated Snow White (below), a heavily drinking Cinderella, and a cancer-stricken Rapunzel.

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Leonardo da Vinci, in a Renaissance version of Mad Magazine, may have painted his famous Mona Lisa in a number of ways, including nude. Now, a painting has surfaced that looks much like the original, sparking debate over just how far the master took his iconic painting.
The newly revealed painting, hidden for almost a century [...]

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This is a typeface-driven design based on the “Here’s to the crazy ones” ad campaign from Apple in the 90s, using Motter Tektura, Apple Garamond, Myriad, Univers, Gill Sans, and Volkswagen AG Rounded, fonts present in Apple branding and products.

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Performance group La Machine “terrorizes” Yokohama, Japan with its giant robot spider. All those people in the photo? Yep, all dead. DEAD.

Or this is just an art performance, for the 150th anniversary of Yokohama port. Probably that, too.

James Kuhn has painted his face with a different design each day for the past year. Now his 365-day project is finished. And here’s the outcome.

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Tomas Cap and Michal Kraus’s “Kill Your Politician” exhibit at the Roxy/NoD Gallery in Prague is actually just a wall with the portraits of all 200 members of the Czech Chamber of Deputies, which visitors can shoot with an air gun.

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Here’s a really clever way to recycle old cassette tapes: turning them into works of art. Sort of. For instance, below is Bob Dylan.

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