The thing with tattooing is it's often hard to practice, and no one wants to be a guinea pig for a semipermanent procedure. So Tattoo Magazine created the "Skin Book" so people could do the tattoo equivalent of sketching, without a slew of unhappy customers giving them bad Yelp reviews.
We don't know who AXYZM are, but if this is supposed to be their resume we can assume they'll be getting quite a bit of work in the near future.
Using data drawn from super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, these three-dimensional visualizations give us the most in-depth look into cellular processes. Also, it's fascinatingly disgusting.
Tender is the easy way to connect with new and interesting meat around you. Who knows, you might even find your soulmeat.
This short documentary celebrates the late conceptual artist Chris Burden’s landmark work “Shoot,” in which a friend shot him in the arm.
What crayon enthusiast Ed Welter had discovered in his 14 years of collecting is that Crayola's color history is absurdly complicated. He laments how singlehandedly piecing it all together was difficult not only "just from the sheer amount of detail, but also because of the convoluted swapping and renaming of colors."
Right now, at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, you can purchase someone's Instagram photo for around $100,000. The money won't go to the photographer, however, it will go to "artist" Richard Prince, who has blown up and made prints of other people's Instagram photos for his exhibit, "New Portraits."
In the summer of 1967, Agnes Martin left New York and went off-grid before reappearing in New Mexico. The art she made there — with its buoyant bands of color — offer no clues to the turbulent life of an artist who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Animator Mackenzie Cauley created the virtual diorama by painstakingly picking apart the elements of the original painting, and then digitizing them with the help of 3D software. Read more on New Scientist.
What he's doing is called finger tutting. How he's doing it is anybody's guess.
