AI Imagines Nude Paintings as Terrifying Pools of Melting Flesh
When Robbie Barrat trained an AI to study and reproduce classical nude paintings, he expected something at least…
This Guy Makes Art Out of Sloppy Photoshop Disasters
People spend years mastering the tools of Photoshop. They labor arduously to create seamless images with no trace of…
These Intricate Neighborhoods Imagine a Suburban Sprawlpocalypse
If you grew up in the suburbs, you know the windy labyrinth of roads and driveways all too well. In these digital…
Windows 93: The Most Fun You'll Ever Have With an Operating System
A few months ago, a pair of French hackers teased a new project called Windows 93. It was a wonderfully weird…
Why Doesn't Every Stairwell Let You Play Digital Skeeball?Â
Kids shouldn't be allowed to play on the stairs. (Too dangerous!) Adults, on the other hand, just need a good reason. Th…
Full-On Nightmare Fuel: Birds With Giant Mouths Instead Of Beaks
Digital artist Sarah DeRemer has come up with a series of utterly unnerving animal mashups that are just begging to…
These Before and After GIFs Show Just How Fake Ad Photography Can Be
We all know that the modification, retouching, and compositing of photographs is utterly commonplace. But few actually…
The Bizarre, Glitchy Glory of Wiggling 3D-Map Disasters
Remember a couple years ago when everybody was freaking out about the all of the 3D-imaging fuckups in the new Apple…
Watch These Simple Vector Graphics Utterly Transform a Modern Dance
Marvel at these excerpts from Pixel, a modern dance performance that looks like it's taking place inside the computers…
Waste Hours Staring At These Mesmerizing Looping Works of Art
Drew Tyndell's latest series of digital works — made by painting each frame in Photoshop — could very easily double as…
The Giant Tortoise Carries Its Home and Yours on Its Back
We thought they might be operating on the same principle as decorator crabs, but how does it get all of that on its…
A Stunning Showcase Of The World's First Artworks Made On Computers
Today, thanks to computer graphics and digital drawing tablets, we see tons of artwork that has been made with the…
We Were Unprepared When the New Cyclops Arrived
All seemed peaceful on the day they appeared, but the large aperture in the middle of their faces are so menacing. No…
Mashup art puts Kaiju into classical paintings
Illustrator and digital artist Oliver Wetter photoshopped Kaiju and other big beasts into classical landscape…
Harnessing the Power of Butterflies Was a Boon to Air Balloon Travel
It's brought whole new meaning to the phrase "Butterfly Effect."
Inside the Color Factory: My Chat With a Photo Colorizer
Dana Keller is a colorizer. He takes old black-and-white photos and applies his digital paintbrush, transforming them…
Photographs Of The Signs We'll Need In The Near Future
The blog Signs from the Near Future imagines the traffic signs, advertisements, alerts, and warnings that we might see…
How a Team of Nerds and Artists Uncovered Warhol's Lost Digital Art
Retro-geeks and artists alike were abuzz last month with the news that the Andy Warhol Museum had recovered digital…
What would Middle Earth look like from space?
J.R.R. Tolkien's hand-drawn maps of Middle Earth have long fueled readers' imaginations about the land of Hobbits,…
Tilt-shift effect photos of the universe make the vast cosmos look tiny
These images look like miniature models of familiar galaxies and nebulae, the grand structures of space made small. But…