I’m sure we have all been told before to not play with our food. However, the creators of these Bento box meals by various different artists seem to disagree.  Read More →

During the marketing for the film Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino, the production team partnered with Upper Playground to create a number of commissioned pieces based on the film.  The resulting batch of artwork included images by Alex Pardee, Sam Flores, David Choe, along with ten others. None of these illustrations were ever seen by the public until now.  Read More →

Joe D draws on US dollar bills and gives them new faces. Check them out!  Read More →

Most people use paintbrushes and other drawing utensils to compose their art on canvases and paper. Cheeming Boey on the other hand, uses a Sharpie and depicts his art on Styrofoam cups. Ever since 2006, Boey started drawing on foam cups as a hobby and has now turned into a serious business. Each cup takes a few hours to several months to create and is sold for hundreds of dollars around the world. Check... 

To celebrate the Sydney International Food Festival, the flags of participating countries were recreated using  popular local foods from each nation. Italy: Spain: Switzerland: Japan: Brazil: Lebanon: Greece: France: South Korea: Australia: India: Vietnam:  Read More →

Matt Held, a fine artist with a specialization in portraiture, has set out to paint 200 portraits of people’s Facebook profile pictures. It all started out as a skintone exercise for when he was painting a his wife’s Facebook photo.  Shortly after, the “I’ll have my Facebook portrait painted by Matt Held” group was created and people from all over the world have joined... 

These beautiful designs of art are conceived by Scott Wade, a talented graphics designer from Wimberley, Texas. From images of Albert Einstein to the Mona Lisa to various other famous paintings, he can create them all using only his fingers and a few brushes on the back of his and his family’s cars. Check out more of Scott’s work on his site at dirtycarart.com. Scott Wade... 

Won Park creates life-like animals and objects with extreme detail out of currency from around the world. By bending, twisting, and folding bills, he can create anything from Koi Fish, to military tanks, to even the Eiffel Tower. Check out some of his amazing work below.  Read More →

Astounding photographs taken by photographers Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas. These photos display tens of thousands of American soldiers posing as symbols of American history. (click images to view full size) The Living Uncle Sam: 209th Engineers: The Living Insignia of the 27th Division: The Living Emblem of the United States Marines: The Human American Eagle: The Human Liberty Bell: Machine... 

These paintings by Dan Lacey, also known as The Painter of Pancakes, shows his portrayal of the president of the United States in a series of unique paintings. Lacey’s artworks can also be ordered as posters at Dan Lacey’s blog. Some of the weirdest paintings you will ever see in your lifetime: ———————————————————————————————————— Are... 

Some truly interesting facial artwork created by carving pages out of a phone book. In this day and age, this is probably the only thing phone books are good for.  Read More →