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Etienne Jacob:  New Work

Etienne Jacobs, who has been featured in Cross Connect before, is a 24 year old from France working on a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics.  He saw the work of Wavegrower and was inspired:  He wanted to do the same kind of thing.  He succeeded.  Now you see his gifs all over Tumblr, and for good reason.  While they are generative based on math, they are also extremely seductive experiences for a viewer because he has a great sense of motion and design - and he makes great vortices.  Why just black and white?  Again, being inspired by Wavegrower, he said about other colors ‘I feel like it adds nothing, it is unnecessary’.  I have to agree.  His gifs are perfect for now, as is.

You can see more of his work at Necessary Disorder

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Canvas (2018), Alexandra Leroy

Traditional paintings combine with fashion design and makeup art in Canvas. Done in collaboration with Moscow-based stylist Tali Rutman.

Surreal Paintings by Paco Pomet

Paco Pomet (born 1970) is a contemporary Spanish artist. His paintings, (my personal favorite) inspired by archival photographs are full of humor, grotesque and strange at the same time. Follow him on Facebook. 

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Household Objects Cross-Stitched by Ulla Stina Wikander

Swedish designer Ulla Stina Wikander uses household appliances and cooking tools as the base to her cross-stitched sculptures, bestowing outdated objects with a new life. Most of the items come from the 70s, yet the patterns she covers their bodies in are much older. For more check out her website and Instagram.

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Marco Polo title sequence

creation by The Mill 

Marco Polo, series based on a true story in Kublai Khan’s court in Thirteen century China. The creative team at Mill wanted to visually represent the metaphors of the show with themes of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue & rivalry by contrasting them with various images of beauty, grace, and authenticity. Important note on the last image: in the drop hides an ‘easter egg’, a skull !

Be Safe Around Water With Swim Reaper

The Swim Reaper is an interactive public service announcement launched by the government of New Zealand to promote water safety.

Water can turn deadly when people make bad calls in the water – The Swim Reaper is a reminder of this – danger lurks everywhere. He’s a character you definitely don’t want to meet and this campaign aims to make young people stop and think before they make bad decisions with potentially deadly consequences. On Instagram.

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Clash of the History of Art with Pop Culture in Digital Collages Shusaku Takaoka

Shusaku Takaoka is a Japanese graphic designer and an expert at turning history into a hipster. His works hilariously transform some of the classical art world’s most iconic faces into modern city slickers, and we actually wouldn’t be surprised if we saw any of these made-over canvas characters chilling on the subway, or strutting the latest trends on Broadway. But Takaoka didn’t stop there - he’s also reimagined them as movie stars, magazine covers, and even baristas. For more check out his Instagram.

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The Art of Beau Stanton

A multi-disciplinary artist, Stanton’s work takes the form of paintings, murals, large scale installations, stained glass, mosaics, and multimedia animations. Focusing on meticulous technique and craft, Stanton’s work is heavily informed by historic ornamentation, religious iconography, and classical painting.  A keen interest in iconic visual symbols and Jungian archetypes often provides the foundation for his images.

Stanton is originally from California where he studied Illustration at Laguna College of Art and Design. He relocated to New York after graduating in 2008 where continues to live and work in Red Hook, Brooklyn constantly drawing inspiration from local nautical history. His Instagram.

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Mixed Media Paintings by Kazuki Takamatsu

Kazuki Takamatsu was born in Sendai, Japan in 1978. Influenced by media and subculture growing up, he attended the Department of Oil Painting at Tohoku University of Art & Design and graduated in 2001. Takamatsu’s depth-mapping technique, a style of illustration inspired by Japanese girl’s comics, is as unique as it is painstakingly intricate, fusing classic drawing, airbrush and gouache painting with computer graphics. In this method, the individual pixel becomes a shade of gray which is proportional to the distance from which the viewer sees it

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Lace Street Art by NeSpoon

NeSpoon (born in 2009) is a Warsaw-based Polish street artist. Her unique brand of art - public jewelry, can be seen in various manners, including, paintings, ceramics, stencils, and crochet web installations. Her Facebook.

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Conrado Salinas, Illustrations.

Totally epic and gorgeous illustrations by artist Conrado Salinas (Previously on Supersonic Art).

Tom Colbie & His Astronaut Art

If there is such thing as an astronaut fetish, Tom Colbie has it. Visit his Facebook page, his Tumblr blog, his WordPress blog, you’ll see nothing but surreal images of astronauts in strange places. Astronauts in history. Astronauts interacting with fictional characters. Celebrity astronauts. Astronauts who are actually animals. Astronaut artists. Sheesh, NASA doesn’t have this many astronaut pictures. Txt Via  || Thanks eric-generic

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