Pages from a Dune Activity Book
Kitchen Overlord has 30 pages from the 1984 Dune Coloring Book and Dune Activity Book. (Thanks, Tim!)
Soviet Erotic Alphabet
Bturn has a gallery of images from a Soviet picture book in which naked people form the letters of the cyrillic alphabet. “The fascinating scans come from an alphabet picture book published around 1931, allegedly to fight widespread illiteracy across the vast Soviet territories. It was drawn by […]
Glitched-Out Rugs
Colossal has a gallery of Faig Ahmed’s amazing rugs. “Faig Ahmed distorts the patterns of traditional Azerbaijani rugs, dimantling their structure in order to build compositions that trick the eye by appearing to melt off the wall. By rearticulating the original design, he creates contemporary sculptural forms that look […]
“Lunar Mountains & Divine Spheres: 1,000 Years of Illustrating Outer Space”
Hyperallergic has a gallery of astronomical and cosmological illustrations from photographer Michael Benson’s books, Cosmographics: Picturing Space Through Time. (Thanks, Stephanie!)
“The Empire Strikes Thomas Kinkade”
The Daily Banter has a galley of artist Jeff Bennett’s “Wars of Kinkade,” which integrate Star Wars into the paintings of Thomas Kinkade. “But one modern artist has finally figured out what Kinkade’s scenes are lacking. What they’ve always really needed to be complete. And that’s a full-scale […]
Auto Mechanics Recreate Renaissance Paintings
Freddy Fabris photographs auto mechanics recreating Renaissance paintings. (Thanks, Stephanie!)
The Cultural Gutter 