Posts Tagged ‘images’

Incredible Not-Photoshopped Photographs

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Aren’t you tired of all those digitally modified photoshopped pictures? Nowadays you can’t believe even your friend who’s showing his newest photos from his trip to Egypt, because all those photos might be photoshopped. It’s a scary world we’re living in – full of lies, sins and photoshopped images. But things can be different. There […]

Lovely Artwork by Cellar-Fcp

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These lovely illustrations/paintings are some of the artwork by an artist from Hong Kong that goes by the name of Cellar-Fcp. I really like the oil painting feeling he gives his illustrations. (Note: Some images are NSFW) Cellar-Fcp at DeviantArt.

The Ghosts of Old London

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To dispel my disappointment that I cannot rent that Room to Let in Old Aldgate, I find myself returning to scrutinize the collection of pictures taken by the Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London held in the archive at the Bishopsgate Institute. It gives me great pleasure to look closely and see the […]

Graffiti Animals in Street Life

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Roa lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. Roa’s fine draftsmanship sets him above other street artists and I particularly admire the vivid sense of life that he imparts to his creatures, which transfix you with their wide eyes. The anatomical detail of these animals is lovingly achieved, yet they are unsentimental portraits of feral beasts […]

Amazing Distant Soil Novel Art

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A Distant Soil is considered a classic of graphic novel art and has been profiled in books, magazines and documentaries. It is listed in The 101 Best Graphic Novels by Stephen Weiner, and is a perennial in American libraries. It’s themes and style predate the now common manga influence in American art, and it’s epic […]

And Still They Tango

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Sensual. Moving. A way to mourn, or to escape. Such are the allures of tango, the salacious dance and somber song of Buenos Aires bordellos in the late 1800s. Today, in Argentina, tango’s age-old themes remain unblemished: Remembering love, lamenting loss. These photographs and captions appeared in the December 2003 National Geographic article “And Still […]

Little Red Riding Hood Has All Grown Up

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Cultural anthropologists at Durham University have arduously assembled the many versions found worldwide of the popular fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood”. The story of violation, rape, murder, picnics and the general dangers to be found in a forest surprisingly has 35 different versions recounted in as many cultures. Here are illustrations of one version […]