Creative Senny Rapoport posted this photograph on b-uncut. It’s called The Fall and it shows the artist jumping or falling or perhaps even flying through the air. Clear prints of Arabic and Hebrew newspapers hang next to him as the stool behind him falls backwards. We’re reminded of the surreal photograph of Dali jumping into [...]

Science fiction films Tron and Tron Legacy inspired Laura Aldred and Simon Haydn to create this photograph. In the films, bikes and planes leave trails of light behind them, creating iconic images like this.  To create this photo, Aldred and Haydn built a custom light fixture for a bike, which Hayden then pedalled while Aldred [...]

100 years before Frozen Planet aired on the BBC, photographer Herbert Ponting joined Captain Scott on the doomed British Antarctic Expedition.  He took this photograph, Grotto in an Iceberg, before the team set out for the interior without him. It magnificently captures the bleakness of the Antarctic landscape where extreme weather creates impossible structures like [...]

This photo is the work of one of our creatives on b-uncut, Matt Blum. It’s called The Expanse and it was taken at Lake Superior in Minnesota. We love the different kinds of stillness in the photo. The water’s perfectly still, but it can’t stay so for long. And the rocks look ready to fall. [...]

During the first Gulf war, Iraqi artist Karim took a brave stance against Saddam’s regime. In order to avoid military conscription he hid in the Iraqi desert for three years in a hole covered by rocks. His only human contact was with a Bedouin woman who brought him food and water. Long after his emigration [...]

Worried about Christmas weight gain? Don’t be! Check out the rest of these weight gain ads from vintage site Retronaut. It’s always interesting to see how advertising can work as cultural history, and in these ads you read exactly what women obsessed over in the 1960’s. The buzzwords in these eight ads are “firm flesh” [...]

Baroque.me: J.S. Bach – Cello Suite No. 1 – Prelude from Alexander Chen on Vimeo.   In an earlier entry we mentioned Disney’s Fantasia. This video is the 21st century version – far better than the schlocky Fantasia 2000. Alexander Chen created this animation of the prelude to Bach’s Cello Suites as part of his [...]

Exchange creative Rachel Glittenberg explains the story behind this self portrait, called I wonder what she’s thinking. “I used a palette knife and worked on it very quickly. The whole piece can’t have taken more than about 3 hours. So, it’s really a moment captured in time of how I was feeling that day.  I [...]

Zander Olson swathed these trees in white cloth – giving a new meaning to the words ‘Christmas tree.’ He’s working on a series called ‘Tree, Line’ showing trees wrapped up below the horizon. See the rest here, they’re arresting and beautiful. The low-tech technique creates a surprisingly digital look, many of the pictures look like [...]

Yes, we know, Spotify’s been around for three years already. But they didn’t achieve world domination until 2011. It’s a music-sharing service that functions as a kind of giant iTunes. You can play any song you like, but you can’t download them for free. Spotify’s shown us that total availability doesn’t mean piracy. Spotify has [...]