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Artist Illustrates What It’s Like Living With Exploding Head Syndrome Even though exploding head syndrome (EHS) may sound like a made-up disease from some sci-fi movie, it’s actually a real condition not many people are even aware of. According to a paper by Achim Freese et al, the condition is categorized by “attacks of a sudden noise or explosive feeling experienced in the head occurring during the transition from wake to sleep or from sleep to wake....

Artist Paints Landscapes On Tree Stumps To Show That Nature Is In Danger Alison Moritsugu, a Hawaiian, artist paints nature landscapes on tree trunks. They mimic the art styles of 18th and 19th century, but with a purpose: to juxtapose the idyllic images of nature with tangible results of her destruction. Moritsugu’s art is supposed to remind people that nature isn’t just there; it has to be protected. “These landscapes, by artists such as Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church, were deeply rooted in the political constructs of the time and depicted the land as a bountiful Eden, a limitless frontier ripe for conquest,” Alison Moritsugu writes in her artist statement....

Artist Smashes Glass Storefront With A Hammer And Creates Amazing Art Simon Berger is an artist who recently chose a rather non-traditional medium for his art. Instead of using paper and pen, the artist chose something more extreme – a glass storefront and a hammer. And no, the Simon did not break open the glass storefront to steal some art supplies. The glass was his canvas and the hammer was his brush....

Artist Suffering From Anxiety Illustrates Mental Illnesses As Cute Monsters What if the demons of the man’s heart were actual creatures? A U.K. artist drew Toby Allen drew various mental illnesses as monsters. Borderline Personality Disorder and Depression look like Pokemon, but Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are a lot more monstrous in shape. And, embodied as such, they’re much easier to fight, that’s what the artist believes....

Artist Tattoos People With The Tools Of Their Professions Trade defines the man, so why not tattoo your tools on your skin? That’s what artist Oozy does with his tattoos. His detailed monochrome works frequently feature kitchen tools like knives (for sushi chefs), egg beaters, and so forth. If a person spends all day working with those tools and loves their work, why not have them inked? More info: instagram | facebook (h/t: ufunk )...

Artist Transforms Boring Buildings Into Psychedelic Cartoons In Germany Germans got fed up with classic architecture, so pop artist James Rizzi came to the rescue. The late pop artist James Rizzi is known for his psychedelic art style that incorporates vibrant colors with interesting variations of unusual shapes. In Germany he was given a couple buildings as his canvas. So he threw away the rule book and transformed the walls into these colorful paintings, that you would normally find in a comic book page....

Artist Turns Old Dolls Into Creepy Yet Amazing Sculptures When talking about career choices Freya Jobbins would have a story to tell. She started off as a police officer, but while at it, she didn’t find the job to be enjoyable enough, so back in 2004 Freya enrolled in printmaking and sculpture courses. This choice has opened new doors for her and eventually led to the project that got her famous....

Artist Uses Domestic Sewing Machine To Create Stunning Embroidery Sculptures Meredith Woolnough is Australian visual artist who creates intricate embroidered tracings resembling the original art of nature. By using a domestic sewing machine and a fabric base that dissolves in water, the artist repeatedly stitches threads into dense structures that ultimately become embroidery sculptures. The thread structures can then be carefully suspended in space or on walls to showcase their elegant forms....

Artist Uses Everyday Objects To Create Funny And Interesting Illustrations (20 Pics) Tineke Meirink is a Dutch illustrator who superimposes her drawings on photos of real-life objects to make creative and interesting illustrations. With the ability to see things from unique perspectives, the artist adds life to simple everyday objects. “There are always new things to discover when you look at the world a little closer. Open your eyes and see, inspiration is everywhere,” says Meirink....

Artists Uses His Own Naked Body To Create Surreal Landscape Photos It’s said that artists put a bit of themselves into their art. Arno Rafael Minkkinen does that literally. His photographs always feature a part of him interacting with the surroundings. And it’s not literally plucking flowers or throwing dirt; Minkkinen uses his hand to follow the curvature of the mountains, or pretends to be holding a bunch of hay (it’s actually a tree and it’s reflection in water)....

Brother Makes Prom Dress For Sister After Finding Out Parents Can’t Afford To Rent Her One Even if you and your siblings sometimes fight over ridiculous stuff, deep down in your heart you know they would always have your back no matter what troubles or hardships you’d happen to face. That’s why when Filipino man Maverick Francisco Oyao found out his parents couldn’t afford to rent a prom dress for his sister Lu Asey he decided to make her one from scratch....

Buy Shirts With Logic (Lost Cat™) Earlier this year I started a company called Lost Cat™, which essentially is an ongoing consumer experiment. It functions primarily as a streetwear brand but its main objective is to explore new ways of interacting with consumers. This is something I’m very interested in, as a Designer, so I decided the easiest way to learn would be from first-hand experience. Lost Cat™ allows me to try out all my “what if” ideas in real time....

Chunky Hand-Knit Blankets For Giants That Also Work For Humans Don’t show this to your grandma – knitting envy is a horrible thing – but Anna Mo makes the largest knitted sweaters and blankets from the biggest yarn around. At this scale, it looks like her works would fit Goliath rather than one of us. This huge yarn demands huge knitting needles, too! The wool used in making this huge knitwear comes from Merino sheep....

Coffee Lid Pay Tribute To Barack Obama, A Lover Of Coffee I am a designer Jang, Woo-Seok from South Korea. I designed new coffee lid for Barack Obama. There are some reasons. 1. He enjoys take-out coffee a lot. 2. This ‘human’ coffee cup lid contains message of reconciliation and humanism. I think politician’s mouth ought not encourage people to hate someone. I’d say that Obama try to reach out to LGBT, POW, islam, opposition party, enemy countries....

Colorful Food Styling by Linda Lundgren Meet Linda Lundgren , a talented food stylist from Sweden. She focuses on food photography and has already worked with such companies as McDonalds, Yoggi, Electrolux and Ikea. Recently Linda has created a series of ads for Hemköp (Scandinavian supermarket) in which she arranged food by color. The result is amazing – her arrangements look both beautiful and seductive. However, the campaign gets a bit boring as the food forms the same big water-drop shape in each and every ad....

Creepy Porcelain Crawling With Hand-Painted Ants by Evelyn Bracklow German artist Evelyn Bracklow has created a playful but exquisitely painted set of antique-style china that looks like it’s being invaded by an army of ants. Part of why the painstakingly hand-painted piece is so interesting is because, although it’s a simple idea, it has been executed very carefully and masterfully. Bracklow, however, has her own take on what’s so strange and interesting about the work;...

Cute Otter Comic Explains Why Men Shouldn’t Expect Women To Do Everything Around The Home Robert is a Singaporean artist who creates the adorable Robert the Otter comic strip. He regularly creates colorful comics that explore all sorts of social and psychological issues, and in one of his latest ones the artist decided to illustrate why men shouldn’t expect women to do everything around the home. The artist says that the comic was inspired by a conversation he had with his wife about cleaning around the house after they had an argument regarding this topic....

Dark Comics With Twisted Endings That Will Send A Shiver Down Your Spine (3 New Comics) Writer Ehud Lavski and illustrator Yael Nathan are a pair of artists that create mysterious and spooky illustrated horror stories that might send a shiver down your spine. We’ve featured some of their comics before and now the duo is back with three new eerie comics. Ehud and Yael started creating comics a couple of years ago but have been friends long before that....

Discover an Incredible Wildlife Habitation of India with Wildlife Tour Packages India embraces a complete vacation package that has everything to bestow its tourist’s right from beaches to heritage monuments and mighty mountains to backwaters to exciting flora and fauna. It has something to offer all types of vacationers and wildlife tour package is one thing that everyone would enjoy exploring. Wildlife Tour Packages in India includes visits to wildlife sanctuaries and national parks from complete north to south and from east to west that summarizes the beauty of exotic habitat region....

Dyed Wedding Dresses Bring Color To That Special Day White wedding dresses can be traced back to Victorian-era Great Britain where on her wedding day Queen Victoria wore a white lace dress which started a new trend among the elites. It’s been almost two centuries of white dresses in weddings and the creativity you can extract from those is really wearing thin by now. That’s when designers remembered Tie-Dye – a dyeing technique beloved by the hippies around the world....