Elizabeth Peyton (b.1965, Connecticut) has been credited with infusing the ancient art of portraiture with a new life. Published this autumn to coincide with her major solo show at the New Museum in New York, Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton features full-colour reproductions of the artist’s portraits of contemporary pop stars, royalty, artists and friends. The …
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Zachariah Johnsen, is a young artist concentrating in watercolor, pen & ink, and mixed media works on paper. His medium of choice is the micron pen and he uses them exhaustively to describe a world of ghouls, monsters, and misfits – the shady characters in everyday life, but just hidden from normal view. Zach focuses …
Cityscapes by Mark Yankus. Originally trained as a painter, and then working as a collage artist, it was not until fifteen years ago that Marc Yankus began incorporating his own photographs into his artwork. However, when he did so, it marked a turning point in his career. In many of Yankus’ photographs, textures scanned from …
Using more than 1000 books and three weeks of filming in stop-motion, the producers Apt Studio and working with Asylum Films made this beautiful film to commemorate the 25th anniversary of imprint 4th Estate. The film contains numerous in-jokes and references to the books it features, and everything, from the ships in port to the …
Amazing pictures by Rune Guneriussen, from Norway. This is what he says about his work: I can’t tell in a few words about my work. Years have gone into planning each shoot. And remember, nothing is manipulated; it is like I saw it when I pushed the shutter-release. Bringing along this objects into nature gives …
Heiko Müller owns a small media design agency together with his best friends and likes Hip Hop as deeply as old books with animal illustrations. Currently he is exploring the borderlines between rural folk art, B-movie aesthetics and the Flemish masters. Outside his native country his paintings and drawings have been shown in Estonia, New …
In his brilliant short film and unofficial music video for “Gong”, by one of the world’s best bands ever, Sigur Rós, film-maker Eric Lerner explores not only the correlation between colour and emotion but what would happen if these colours were on display for everyone to see. Like a gigantic mood ring on our bodies. …
Fake boards and neat marketing campaign for Sony Playstation PSP. Conceived by french Skizo team. [ via Fubiz]
Oleg Dou from Moscow win the Professional Photographer of the Year in Fine Art.
