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Convenience Food Looks Kinda Gross In Cross-Section

If you’ve ever wondered what your pre-prepared food looks like while it’s still in the tin, these pictures are probably enough to halt your curiosity. The answer is kinda gross.


Photoshop Brought These Historical Figures Into Present Day

Photoshop has changed the world, but it’s not content with just the future; it’s going back to grab the past too. These digitally modernized portraits of historical figures were put together to promote History TV’s new series, the Secret Life Of…, and will make you wonder if maybe you’ve passed a modern-day Shakespeare on the street in Williamsburg.


Kramer Glitch Art Basically Re-Invents Glitch Art

Glitch art can get rather repetitive these days. But when the very subject of your glitch art is Kramer repeatedly sliding into Jerry’s apartment?? Well, the mould has been broken.


Seven Fan-Designed Covers For The Great Gatsby That Rival The Original

F. Scott Fitzgerald was still writing The Great Gatsby when he saw artist Francis Cugat’s original cover treatment. He apparently loved it so much he told his publisher not to show it to anyone else because he wrote it into the book.


What Abstract Art Would Look Like In Real Life

Fantastic artist Flora Borsi, who once hilariously photoshopped herself into old pictures, imagines a world where abstract art models are actually real people. Like if the features and characteristics that were exaggerated in classic art pieces actually existed.


Urville: The Metropolis That Lives Inside An Autistic Artist’s Mind

Spending a decade (or two) on a project isn’t uncommon amongst urban planners. Gilles Trehin is one of them. Except in Trehin’s case, the project is entirely fictional, and the scale is monumental.


This Kinect-Powered Installation Makes Humans Into Monsters

In this video installation by artist Bego M. Santiago, participants are projected onto little boxes through a Kinect like inhabitants of a small city. They react in terror when a visitor the room, because that person towers over them like Godzilla or King Kong.


The Rise And Fall (And Rise) Of ASCII Art

ASCII — aka the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, aka the numeric codes that represent those little shapes on your keyboard — turns 50 this year. And while it’s since been surpassed by UTF-8, it still holds a special place in our hearts (and computers).


Restoring A Pollock With X-Rays And Ultraviolet Light

In 1998, almost 50 years after Jackson Pollock painted “One: Number 31″, the curators at MoMA realised the painting was looking a little… grimy. As chief conservator James Coddington explains in a new video, the team at MoMA started wondering if something had gone terribly wrong in the painting’s past.


No Camera Was Used To Create These Unbelievable Photos Of Rain

Rain isn’t the weather condition that photographers generally hope for. But if you knew how to take marvellous pictures like this, you would be doing rain dances on the reg.


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