Neck Face is an artist who manages to imbue humor into violence, locate amusement in fear, and takes pleasure in rattling nerves. His work is simultaneously sinister and grim, genuine and playful. He toys with the sacrilegious, antagonizes phobias, and triggers insecurities, all with a measure of ambivalence. His distinctive style straddles the line between reckless and deliberate, yet the work maintains a sense of immediacy, and is always provocative. Neck Face posits nightmares, prompts anxiety, and conjures the devil. In doing so, he champions the urge to laugh, rather than retract, at the discomfort felt from the true absurdity of horror. 

Dash Snow originally started taking photos when he was a yobbish teenager. Using his Polaroids as a diaristic record of the many ‘nights before’ he couldn’t remember, his snapshots piece together a fragmented portrait of peripheral existence. Filling in the voids of his blackouts, Snow’s photos broach the seedy and taboo with a dislocated intimacy. Suggesting a subplot of double-identity, Snow’s camera operates as a tool of psychological intervention. Creating a ‘memory bank’ through a lens, he becomes an observer of his own life, forging the personal as dissociative media experience. 

ANDOVERPIS - SOLO - IN - ANTWERPEN
The exhibition is a collection of calligraphy, typography and art books of Brazilian graphic designer Yomar Augusto. Antoverpis focuses on the relationship between geometric figures and handmade organic forms. 

This unique archive documents Russian criminals' tattoos and their coded meanings. Included in the collection are more than three thousand tattoo drawings made by Danzig Baldaev during his time as a prison guard between 1948 and 1986. Tattoos were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and provocative, reflecting as they do the lives and traditions of convicts.

View Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, Volume II, Volume III
16 photographs by Sergei Vasiliev (edition of 8 + 2 APs) are available to buy.

View Wilkes Street Exhibition

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“Magic Colorz“, or the art to make invisible graffitis ! A great video in which vandals and known street artists attack the city walls with… nothing. Just for the beauty of the gesture! It’s also quite amusing to see the reactions of people around…

HAKA festival is a multidisciplinary art, design and music festival with sustainability in mind. From the Design Dock we offer you a three-day program of interactive art installations, tasty snacks, live performances and a party on Saturday. Starring Halfway Station, Dion and The Magic Chords, David Vunk, Seutek, Bear, Renkas and many others.

Photographed by Flying Lotus and Theo Jemison Edited by StrangeLoop.
(via blindiforthekids.com)

Under this name hides the immersive experience offered by Alcatel-Lucent to its customers at the last Mobile World Congress. An experience-based video mapping designed by the agency and the Department SUPERBIEN New Media Agency \ Auditorium. The public was invited into a cube and discover an artistic vision of the tagline of the event: Transforming the mobile experience. (via chillinongreene)

Vintage CB radio QSL cards from countries other than Canada and the United States, including Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Mexico and others.

Pink Terror shot on a phantom camera at a high frame per second rate by Mike Barzman and Christian Swegal. For audio, stills and contact go to http://www.barzart.net