Look Twice: Chinese artist Liu Bolin camouflaged himself for a series of photos called Hiding in the City. They’re metaphors for government suppression of art, he says. Other scenes he’s painted himself into include the rubble of earthquakes in the countryside and a wall with text from The Communist Manifesto scrawled on it. From the February 2013 issue of Reader’s Digest, available digitally now.
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This is spooky…and fascinating: Design magazine Demilked recently featured Canadian artist Jon Rafman’s “Nine Eyes of Google Street View” project, so named because of the number of cameras that capture each moment on Google Maps.
Rafman took virtual strolls around real-world locations captured by Google, and the scenes he found are bonkers. There’s an apparently abandoned baby outside of a Gucci store, a police stop, a trapped dog, and much more. See our post on the feature »
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Joe Vaux—featured on our Tumblr for his work with Artifact Puzzles—is also a fantastic painter of the surreal and, well, Stewie from Family Guy. See more of his art »
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