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Algorithmic Art: Dynamic Display ‘Paints’ Surreal Scenes & Melting Cityscapes

Abstracting views of the city, this huge installation uses computer algorithms to deform local everyday footage on a massive 14-by-23-foot display canvas. Ordinary wall art can get old, ...

The Empire Has Collapsed: Miniature Scenes Illustrate the Post-Apocalypse

Nature begins to take back New York City after all the humans are gone in this series of artfully photographed post-apocalypse miniatures. A collaboration between artists Lori Nix and Kathleen ...

Architecture with a Twist: Installation Artist Knots Columns & Flips Facades

In his latest work dubbed Birth, Death and Midlife Crisis, artist Alex Chinneck is back at it again, exploring the limits of seemingly solid structures (and observer imaginations). This latest ...

Graffiti Artists Awarded $6.7M from Landlord Who Destroyed Their Work

Prior to 2013, a warehouse in Queens known as 5Pointz was a graffiti mecca packed with murals and other work by hundreds of artists, many of whom rented space inside the building. That is, until ...

It’s in the Bag: 13 Ultra-Functional Backpacks for Busy Urban Lifestyles

A bag is definitely not just a bag when you're commuting in all weather conditions, biking to work, carrying a lot of expensive gear and trying to look professional and stay organized all the ...

From Chaos to Creative Compositions: The Anamorphic Art of Bernard Pras

It takes a special kind of creative brain to sort a pile of random junk into an anamorphic arrangement that looks like complete chaos from most angles, but comes together into a work of art from ...

Raised in a Barn & Proud: 15 Farm Buildings Converted to Modern Homes

They could be so dilapidated they're practically ruins, but old barns have both historical value and rural charm, and when architects dramatically rescue them, they become incredible modern ...

Deserted Dollhouse: Street Artist Crafts Eerie Miniature Abandoned Home

Created over the course of six months, this 1:10 scale model of a rundown home may be the most creepy and depressing dollhouse ever created, softened somewhat with miniaturized graffiti murals by ...

Creature Comforts: 12 More Animal-Shaped Buildings

See the creature, be the creature... live in the creature? These animal-shaped buildings take the concept of surreal estate to a newer, wetter-nosed level. Whose necks? Youse necks! The ...

Link Rot: ‘Social Decay’ Renders Tech Media Giants as Urban Abandonments

Physical businesses that fall on hard times often leave signs in the built environment, like the distinctive facades of deserted or adapted Pizza Huts, but what might social media sites look like ...

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