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Funny Portrait Drawings of Winnie Truong

Winnie Truong was born in Toronto, where she still lives, and received her BFA in painting and drawing from Ontario College of Art and Design.

Using pencil, crayon, and chalk pastel on giant sheets of paper, Truong creates portraits with great detail. Her aim is to explore notions of beauty and discomfort and, inspired by science fiction, she portrays hair in all its ‘whiskery, wispy, curly, bristly’ brilliance.

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07 Jun 2015 10:44:00,post received 0 comments

Charming This Fox Thinks He’s A Dog

After being rescued as a young fox cub, Todd the 11-month-old fox is getting along just fine as a domestic pet together with his owner, Emma D’Sylva. Todd goes for walks on a leash, plays with D’Sylva’s two other dogs, and wags his tail when it’s time to eat. He was rescued by D’Sylva when he was 4 months old from other owners who could no longer care for him.

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11 Jul 2015 10:56:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Creepy Bottles by FraterOrion

Andrea Falaschi, the artist who made these creepy Lovecraftian bottles comes from Italy and as he states in his short bio he was born in ’86, during the months of the Chernobyl radiation accident – that changed forever his genes, turning him into a monstrous creature who still lives in a shell of human flesh. Andrea Falaschi is a self-taught sculpturer and painter.

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14 Jul 2015 09:30:00,post received 0 comments

Fact SpaceX Rocket Explosion Caused by a Two Feet Metallic Strut

SpaceX, the space transportation company built from scratch by visionary billionaire Elon Musk, has the grand goal of space travel evolution through the use of re-usable rockets. Its technology – which has proven its worth several times – can reduce the costs of space transportation to its fraction, making it a more affordable way of reaching orbit or traveling beyond.

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12 Aug 2015 08:47:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Hellenic Pride on Display at NYC's Annual Greek Independence Day Parade

Men dressed as traditional Greek warriors participate in the annual Greek Independence Day Parade on Fifth Avenue on March 25, 2012 in New York City. It was the 191st annual parade which ran from 64th Street to 79th Street on Fifth Avenue and celebrates Greek heritage. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

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26 Mar 2012 10:23:00,post received 0 comments

Touching Whimsical Street Art by Filthy Luker

“Filthy Luker is a painter who is really attacking his audience. Who could think that a green octopus suddenly starts to creep out from the windows, a huge banana rind lounges just in the center of a road and the trees start to see!” (Photo by Filthy Luker/Vedi tutte le foto via Giornalettismo.com)

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14 May 2012 08:40:00,post received 0 comments

Funny Art Sculpture by Soasig Chamaillard

Super Marie

Soasig Chamaillard is creating quite a stir in France with her current show at the Albane Gallery located in Nantes. Featuring the Virgin Mary as a Supergirl Mary, a vampire Mary or My Little Pony Mary, the French artist is facing criticisms from the French Catholic Community which called the exhibition "blasphemous" amongst other words...

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29 May 2012 11:52:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Shopping Mall Interior by Agence SEARCH

Another step further into the world of lattice shell structures: From Buckminster Fuller to Massimiliano Fuksas and James Law’s ‘Cybertecture Egg’, Agence SEARCH express their fascination by experimenting with the retail world proposing their version of ‘Cybertecture Egg’ for the interior of Beaugrenelle Shopping Mall without modifying the existing architecture. Thus the visitor’s first perception goes beyond the scale of the building, to encompass its referential universe, its status, and its identity.

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09 Jun 2015 10:30:00,post received 0 comments