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April 24, 2013 Kyle Chayka

In between projects, artist Nathan Freda wasted time by inserting soda machines and old-fashioned bottles of Coke into historical paintings. And then, it got out of hand. Here’s an entire Tumblr of art history, carbonated. Many of these paintings — taken directly from a college art history study guide — feature soda imagery as an Easter Egg, while others […]

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March 28, 2013 Marina Galperina

Oh, wow, that’s so cool man how you and your buds climbed those famous pyramids in Egypt and took some photos and Gawker’s like waaaahhh. Tell me about it in Russian. “One of the richest experiences of my life.” Was it now? How you climbed 450 feet upon extremely old and fragile architecture and how you had to hide out in […]

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March 27, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

Sorry, that’s not the long-awaited Bloomberg-Cuomo-Kelly sex tape. But if we were living in China, we’d be very trendy. Photoshopping government officials into pornographic scenarios is all the rage and it’s making government officials upset. This renegade blackmail phenomenon has apparently spun so out of control that authorities in China’s Hunan Province have put up […]

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March 15, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

Artist Antonia Basler re-imagines her old family photos with her recent series Content Aware, using the Photoshop feature of the same name. Basler transforms the original photos into two sets: the first in which her subjects’ faces are erased entirely, and the second in which those same faces, as if they’d left their bodies behind and teleported into […]

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March 11, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

Thousands of years ago, the ancient Greeks… No, wait, thousands of years before that, the Babylonians would gaze at the night sky and name constellations based on mythological figures they vaguely envisioned in the stars. Some of those very old school names remain relevant. And now, there’s Photoshop, so British illustrator Chris Keegan does the imagining […]

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