In honor of Halloween, I thought I would post up something that I find to be a little bit on the creepy side. Some artist (if you know who did this, please let me know and I can add a credit at the bottom of the post) decided to paint a full eye on the […]
Psychology professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka recently posted this optical illusion on his Facebook page, which then made it to Twitter and quickly went viral through a large number of shares and retweets. If you look at this pattern, you will be able to find 12 black dots. The problem is, most people are completely unable to […]
I am always amazed when a talented artist can create a portrait that looks absolutely lifelike. This hyper-realistic portrait of a vibrant, young girl was created by an artist using a real photograph. You would think that with a lot of practice, anyone could create paintings such as this one. But, as we all know, […]
Robert Therrien is an American sculptor based out of Los Angeles, California. He attended the University of Southern California, where he earned an MFA. Some of his installations are very large versions of ordinary things, like the example below. This sculpture of an enormous table and set of chairs is meant to examine the viewer’s […]
Natalie Fletcher has a very interesting job… she paints bodies. The About Natalie section of her website indicates that: A young Natalie realized, around the age of 5, that drawing was a lot more interesting than Math class, and so it started. Around the age of 15 she discovered paint. Little did she know her […]
When I started this blog a few years ago, I was in need of some sort of header, or masthead, for the site design. At the time, I was working on a project with a talented t-shirt designer from Malaysia and asked him if he could come up with anything for me. Thankfully, he did! […]
Fritz Müller Perlwein is a German sparkling wine made by Jürgen Hofmann. Their unique packaging and labels use horizontal black and white stripes, and this poster uses offsetting black and white stripes a “phantom” bottle of their product. No bottle exists here, but you certainly cannot help but to see it. The original label and […]
