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Sweden-based photographer Tommy Ingberg takes us on a surreal journey that has been two-and-a-half years in the making. The black and white series titled Reality Rearranged depicts an often-solitary, faceless man morosely trekking through life. There's a bareness to the series that is both intriguing and mystifying. It appears somewhat minimalist, devoid of any elaborate…

Multidisciplinary artist Tomek Sętowski has his own brand of surrealism known as "magical realism." The Polish painter practices the traditional style of oil on canvas but produces remarkably unordinary works. There's something highly mythological about his style that is clearly fantasy-driven. The circus of characters in Sętowski's creations each embrace their unique spirit of…

Italy-based digital artist Victor Faretina, aka Neko-Vi, finds inspiration from popular websites like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Facebook and reinterprets their visual aesthetic into evening gowns in his series titled Web in Vogue. The 19-year-old fashion designer-in-the-making does an excellent job of taking the essence of each internet domain's purpose and community to…

Photographer John Clang puts a new twist on capturing family portraits. Taking into account the number of families that live separately in different countries, like the New York-based visual artist himself whose family resides in Singapore, Clang decided to digitally adjoin relatives in one hi-tech family portrait. The photo series entitled Being Together places people against a blank…

Redditor jennyleighb submitted a series of photographs of an awesome Super Mario Bros.-inspired fish tank. Apparently, her roommate transformed a 55-gallon aquarium into a geekcentric stage for some marine pets using LEGO blocks and some artistic ingenuity. If only those…

Renowned author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, most notable for his popular children's book Where the Wild Things Are, left his creative mark on society that embraced individuality and an appreciation for an active imagination, before he passed away last month. His passing affected many who grew up with his creative cast of characters through childhood and his newly…

Whether she's constructing portraits out of socks and sunflower seeds or painting with…

Nowadays, there are endless alternatives to quenching that artistic thirst that lies deep within many of us. With countless apps and games right in the palm of our hands, it's far more convenient to spark artistic inspiration all while having fun. In our next…

Mushroom Cloud is a literal interpretation of a mushroom cloud filled with deep metaphors by British conceptual artist Chris Drury. The hanging sculptural installation is site-specific and can contain anywhere from 6,000 to 18,000 dried slices of fungi, covered in a layer of acrylic, mimicking its own form which is consequently also the shape of a nuclear explosion.

Drury is…

Who says you need a camera to capture a remarkable image? Portland-based designer Jim Kazanjian sifts through thousands of found photographs and digitally pieces approximately 30 of them together to produce his impeccably manipulated surreal landscapes, without ever physically operating a camera himself. Taking cues from the fictional works of iconic science fiction author H.P.…

It's one thing to stand in font of a projector to create shadow puppets, but it's an entirely different experience to block a text-based floor projection and see your typographic silhouette on an adjacent wall. Istanbul-based multidisciplinary creative studio NOTA BENE Visual has designed a mind-boggling audiovisual installation using an intricately executed video-mapping…

Solar Floating Resort is a design concept for a comfortable and adventurous eco-conscious getaway at sea by Italy-based industrial designer Michele Puzzolante. The self-sustaining structure has a sleek and modern design, as these sorts…

In the photo-realistic series Anatomical Self-Dissections, artist Danny Quirk depicts several subjects performing dissections on their own bodies. The fine art illustrator takes a surreal approach to visualizing human anatomy by presenting portraitures in which the subjects tear and slice themselves open to unveil the inner workings of various sections of the human body,…

The animated feature film Up may have introduced the masses to the image of a house being whisked away into the sky, but France-based photographer Laurent Chehere expands on the visual with a variety of residential structures surreally captured in mid-air. The aptly titled series Flying Houses takes…

At first, these images of misshapen homesteads boggle the mind. It's like we're looking at the Picasso of architectural homes. In fact, As it turns out, they're just a series of brilliantly manipulated photographs that intrigue, confuse, and excite us.

Designer Michael Jantzen's series, entitled Deconstructing the Houses, likes to combine different art forms,…

The days of using the big, bulky Yellow Pages books are behind us now that there are countless digital sources like Yelp and search engines like Google for finding anything from a restaurant to a repairman. It can be difficult to keep the idea of business lookups fresh, but Batelco, a Bahrain telecommunications company, sought to do just that…

Kazakhstan-based illustrator Evgeny Yakovlev, aka lost-angel-less, uses iconic characters from pop and nerd culture to create funny, illustrated scenes. Yakovlev shows the other side of the dark side in which Storm Troopers use the scare-them-straight method of parenting by telling chilling stories of Yoda,…

Korean artist Seon Ghi Bahk recreates man-made structures by repurposing natural resources, charcoal in particular, and suspending them with transparent nylon thread. Bahk's series of sculptural works are composed across a three-dimensional space, giving the illusion of a floating solid figure. The meticulous alignment of each lump of uniquely-shaped charcoal…

The Great Wave is a classic image we see again and again, but artist Chris Jordan puts a new twist on it by recreating the unmistakable piece with 2.4 million pieces of plastic. His reinterpretation, entitled Gyre, is composed entirely of plastic collected from the Pacific Ocean. Jordan takes massive global matters like man-made environmental pollution and…

Canadian filmmaker and photographer Gregory Colbert captures the beautiful, uninhibited relationship between man and wildlife. He took a ten-year hiatus from exhibiting any work to travel the world, exploring the vast and natural landscapes of exotic lands including India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Egypt, and Antarctica. On his journey, he discovered and documented the exquisite coexistence…