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An Introduction to the Suicide Squad with Beautiful Custom Illustrations It’s now just over a week until the much-anticipated Suicide Squad movie is released in cinemas, and it would appear audiences worldwide can’t wait to see what director David Ayer has produced. Focusing on a team of dangerous, incarcerated supervillains who are assembled for a top-secret mission on behalf of the U.S. government, the film brings a wealth of big-name comic book characters to the screen in one film....

Artist Combines Photos From Different Parts Of The World To Show How Different They Are Uğur Gallenkuş is a graphic designer from Istambul, Turkey who wants to show people the contrast between different parts of the world and the injustices people often face. The artist does so by creating dramatic photo combinations that are both emotional and shocking. “I started my first parallel universe work on a news story. I started to see fear and despair in the eyes of refugee children trying to go to Europe,” says Uğur....

Artist Creates A “Not Like Other Girls” Comic And Shows How Wrong Her Attitude Was Many of us probably felt the need to rebel back when we were teenagers. We wanted to stand out, be different and not like the others. And while we’re not saying it’s a bad thing, sometimes the strive for uniqueness at any cost can make you miss some important things. Artist Julie Hang recently created an eye-opening comic about not being “like the other girls” based on her own experiences and it will make you understand that being unique shouldn’t mean alienating yourself from others....

Artist Creates Comic Illustrating What It’s Like To Live With A Depersonalization Disorder For The Last 3 Years Lulu is a 26-year-old Swiss artist and the creator of “Planetmclulu” comics. Two years ago she was diagnosed with depersonalization/derealization disorder (DPDR) – a rare mental disorder that affects roughly 1 to 2 percent of the population. Recently she created an informative comic showing what it’s like to live with such a rare disorder....

Artist Creates Surprisingly Realistic Tattoos And Here Are 20 Of The Most Amazing Ones A tattoo artist named Quang Phạm creates amazing hyper-realistic tattoos of people and he has been going viral for the same. Currently, he has around 52k followers on Instagram where he shares photos of his works. The artist creates the tattoos with the help of photo references. Like the source photos themselves, his tattoos incorporate elements like perspective and depth of field....

Artist Draws Fun Letters That You Can Squeeze, Pull, And Bend Berlin, Geneva and Vancouver-based artist Cyril Vouilloz, aka RYLSEE, creates amusingly interactive 3D typography. As he writes himself, he is “obsessed with words and hand-drawn type compositions.” And it really shows! With these amusing letters, the artist makes it seem as though you could pull, bend, squeeze and otherwise interact with them in any way you wish. More info: rylsee....

Artist Felted 100 Cutest Felt Faces In 100 Days 100 days project is an awesome way to get good at something, with the hardest part being actually going through it… But if you do, there will definitely be some awesome results waiting for you at the end. A living proof of that is San Francisco-based artist Becky Margraf and her army of adorable Felt Faces. For 100 consecutive days, Becky was felting these cuties of all kinds, ranging from animals to foods and even some pop culture characters like Finn and Jake from the Adventure Time....

Artist Recreates Old Portraits Of Her Female Ancestors, Spanning 200 Years Multitalented Los Angeles-based photographer Christine McConnell is back with a new project, called “Seven Generations of American Women.” In this very personal photo series, the artist recreates the portraits of her family women from her maternal line, glancing as far back as to her great-great-great-grandmother, who was born in 1821. The project is a beautiful tribute to McConnell’s female side of her family tree, for which she did an amazing job recreating the poses, hair, makeup, clothes of her ancestors, and even perfectly mimicking the nostalgic photo effects of the original portraits....

Artist Shows What It’s Like To Be Nearsighted In 29 Paintings If you’ve never needed glasses in your life, then you probably don’t even realize how nearsighted people see the world. A South African artist named Philip Barlow has created a series of hyperrealistic paintings showing how myopic (nearsighted) people see everything around them without glasses. You can barely make out the shapes in the paintings at first glance, and everything looks blurry....

Artist’s Sarcastic Comics Perfectly Capture Life’s Absurdity (40 Pics) Sarcasm has a special way of saying what we are all thinking, and Steve Nelson has turned that talent into laugh-out-loud comics that hit just a little too close to home. With sharp punchlines, relatable situations, and humor that ranges from dry to brutally honest, his work captures the absurdity of everyday life in the most entertaining way possible. In this collection of the funniest sarcastic comics by Steve Nelson, get ready for clever observations, unexpected twists, and jokes that will have you smirking long after you scroll past the last panel....

Atari, A Company That Made ‘Pong’ 40 Years Ago Is Making A New Console More than 20 years after their last video game system, Atari has made a surprise announcement about a brand new gaming console in the works. It’s called the Ataribox, and besides bringing all the classic Atari gaming goodness from 20 years ago, the company also teased that the device will sport the “modern internal specs” to keep up with the “current gaming content....

Babies That Fit Inside The Palm Of Your Hand By Camille Allen Canadian artist Camille Allen has a rather unusual hobby and an impressive skill to match it. She handcrafts miniature clay sculptures of newborn babies that can fit inside the palm of your hand. It’s a skill the 35-year old artist learned from her grandmother-in-law, who was also making baby sculptures, except those were life-size. But when Camille started, she didn’t have enough clay for that, so she made miniature versions: “ When I held the first tiny baby sculpture in my hand I fell in love with it....

Ballet Dancers Perform On The Streets Of Harlem In This Majestic Video By The Dance Theatre Of Harlem The Dance Theatre of Harlem was founded by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook during the height of the civil rights movement back in 1969. It initially started out inside a converted garage in Harlem and the relaxed dress code allowed anyone to enroll. The theatre quickly grew in popularity and by 1979 was doing tours all over the world....

Bathe In Vader’s Tears With Star Wars Showerheads Is the Force with you in your shower, too? Now it can be with Oxygenics showerheads! They come in two varieties: Darth Vader’s head and R2-D2. The showerheads feature Oxygenics’ technology that infuses water with more oxygen, allowing for a stronger stream with less water. Save money, save water, and show everyone what a nerd you are! These showerheads have a lot of common features, like an anti-clog nozzle....

Boho Chic Style – A Simple Guide To Achieving A Great Look So you love that chilled-out hippy style that seems to be making fasion headlines more and more these days? You sure aren’t alone! Boho chic style is a fashion choice that tells people who you are, what you love, how you feel and why you are a great person! It somehow captures a sense of hazy sunshine, chilled-out afternoons with friends, early morning beach walks and late night memories, all within one very understated style!...

Bride Photographs Her Own Wedding And The Result Is Surprisingly Beautiful Liisa Luts didn’t want the standard, posed, beauty shots of her wedding; instead, the Tallinn, Estonia, photographer decided to be her own wedding photographer. Luts used a Fujifilm X-T10 to shoot the August 28th event, and mirrors to take selfies with her husband. The results were spectacular. “When we decided to get married, we knew that we don’t want the stress and fuss about all the wedding related issues,” Luts told PetaPixel....

Can You Guess What Is This Golden Egg Structure In The Arctic Circle? Swedes, especially the ones in the north part of the country, are not the most conventional of people. So while it does seem a bit odd when some of them erect a giant golden egg structure in Sweden’s Lapland, it does still feel totally in character. Now for those wondering what it is, it’s called the Solar Egg , and it’s actually a rather brilliant design for a social structure for townspeople to meet and talk, while also serving as a fully functioning sauna....

Cats Created Using Hundreds Of Pen Strokes By Luis Coelho Luis Coelho is an artist from Portugal who describes himself as a “slow art illustrator and sweetness sorcerer”. He creates beautiful and intricate ink illustrations of cats that will surprise you with their incredible level of detail. The artist has been drawing from a very young age: “I remember that my brother, which is a few years older than me, would bring some Superhero comics into the house and I would absolutely destroy them by drawing on top of those fantastic images with any pen that I could find,” says Luis....

Ceramic Chinese Zodiac Tiles I’ve always been fascinated by the beauty of Chinese characters and calligraphy. I’ve recently started experimenting with making ceramic tiles/coasters, and thought the Chinese Zodiac characters would make an excellent set to start off with! The particular glaze I’ve used gives them an almost bamboo-like color. I’ve shown the first four designs here – you can see the rest (and purchase the tiles) on my website at http://eyejayinstruments....

Children From All Over The World Pose With Their Favorite Toys In A Photo Series By Photographer Gabriele Galimberti (20 Pics) Toy Stories is a photography project started by Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti back in 2012. In her project, the photographer captures children posing with their favorite toys, and throughout the years has photographed kids in over 50 countries around the globe. In a recent interview with Bored Panda , the photographer said the whole project started almost by chance....