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Antistructures: Photo Series Exaggerates Architecture to Impossible Proportions

Stretched and exaggerated almost to the point of absurdity, otherwise ordinary architecture takes on a bit of an uncanny feeling. Digital artist Alex Lysakowski describes it as “imaginary ...

Getting Real: Placeholder Graphics Lead to Literal Architectural Renderings

Architects are sometimes criticized for taking creative liberties with their artwork, setting unlikely green scenes or populating their rendered scenes with an improbable array of happy ...

Peeled to Reveal: Condemned Building Neatly “Unzipped” Along its Facades

Cracked open like a coat (or pair of pants), the walls of this structure in England, have been opened up to expose its abandoned interior ahead of its scheduled demolition. "Open to the ...

History Unzipped: Installation Reveals the Guts of an Abandoned Factory

This is no illusion - what you're looking at is literally the facade of an abandoned building peeling away from the structure itself, a gigantic metal zipper running down the center. The surreal ...

Darkroom Magic: How a Master Surrealist Shapes Scenes from Real Photos

His photographic manipulations are uncanny, creating bizarre effects and optical illusions, all while remaining highly realistic and (perhaps most impressively) quite true to the original ...

Trippy Transformations: Makeup Artist Creates Unreal 3D Illusions

Makeup artist Mimi Choy slices, disjoints, stretches, blurs and otherwise radically transforms her own face in stunningly realistic optical illusions using nothing but makeup. No templates, ...

Spellbinding Visuals: Magical Book Artwork Tells Surrealistic Stories

A series of book-centric illustrations (now collected into one big 'book of books') by Seoul artist Jungho Lee explores realms of impossibility through the deconstruction and re-imagining of ...

Spatial Bodies: Warped Architecture Bends & Twists Osaka Skyline

Imagine a world in which an abandoned city goes to seed, but rather than plants reclaiming buildings, the buildings grow and morph like unkempt weeds, twisting the skyline into impossible new ...

Warped Worlds: 30 Surreal Digitally Manipulated Landscapes

The plot of the movie 'Inception' is almost an afterthought compared to the impact that its distorted, dreamlike manipulations of architecture and landscapes has had on a generation of artists ...

House of Eternal Return: Trippy Exhibit Owned by George RR Martin

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin purchased a sprawling abandoned bowling alley in Santa Fe, New Mexico so an art collective called Meow Wolf could transform it into a bizarre and ...

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