You know, we’re often so quick to give the title of most bizarre to the Japanese that we forget all about their European counterparts in Scandinavia. Multimedia artist Harpa Einarsdottir aka Ziska reminds me that weird breeds everywhere, especially in Iceland.
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Josh Farria is a local photographer that we previously featured. Hit the jump read of his journey from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina to our own neighborhood, San Francisco.
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Couldn’t find much info on Alexandr Ladanivs’kyy, but this Ukrainian photographer has some interesting stuff. Jacked from inspix.net.
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We’re gunning for an interview with every artist listed in our Top 100, but this particular one will hold a special place in my personal vault. Miru Kim’s Naked City Spleen series is probably the most audacious of all the art I’ve come across on the inter-tubes. Plus she’s legit enough to have had...
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Our previous post on Jung-Yeon Min was one of our most popular last year. We hit her up with some questions. Hit the jump for her answers.
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For our Bay Area audience, check out the brand new group show, Warhol ReImagined: The New Factory, curated by warholian.com. 59 local artists will be giving the timeless work of Warhol a contemporary spin. Hit the jump for all the info.
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We covered Derek Gores’ dope collage art in this post, and also featured him in our 2010′s Top 100. We recently got in touch and he told us about an upcoming show he has in LA. Never ones to miss an opportunity, we offered to give him a plug in exchange for an interview....
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Florian Kuhlmann is a German collage artist. He mines the internet for images and puts them together in Photoshop. Some of these took months.
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Daniele Manoli is a Swedish-born director/designer/illustrator & animator based in Hong Kong. He found EK and linked us his fantastic DIY project, where he made a short clip for each letter of the alphabet. He shot with a handycam and did all the post-production himself. His stylist, Phoebe Tong, provided the outfits and made...
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We previously showcased Jason deCaires Taylor here, as well as including him in Empty Kingdom’s Top 100 of 2010. Jason recently contacted us with some new work that he’d like to share, and he is still cranking out really impressive stuff.
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I don’t know who this guy is, but he is a mad scientist artist hybrid. Skip to 40 seconds.
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Geliografic Studio is an immensely talented collective of Russian artists, illustrators, and graphic designers. Based out of Moscow, they seek to infuse their country’s artistic tradition and style in all their work.
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Martin Oeullete’s paintings are inspired by photos of common objects decaying in the urban landscape. His works observe the transition from mass-produced objects to trash.
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Robert Piontek‘s distinctive tiny planets photography is spiffy as hell. He takes a bunch of images standing in one spot and then stitches them together using software. Sweet stuff from Germany.
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Evan Campbell is a sculptor from California. Hit the jump to see some really gnarly pieces.
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Serge Mendzhiyskogo is a Russian artist. He takes a crapload of photos of the same city and then cuts them into strips and puts them back together collage-style to get the very distinctive look in his pieces. My Google-fu couldn’t locate a homepage, but please enjoy what was found.
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Lori Nix is a New York-based photographer. She creates dioramas and takes photos of them, claiming no digital manipulation in any of them.
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Mike Libby is an American artist whose Insect Lab series is a collision between steampunk and entomology.
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We featured Federico Bebber previously here. Hit the jump to peep our interview with the artist himself.
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