For those who don’t know, Shorpy the 100-Year-Old Photo Blog is a great place to get lost for a few hours looking at brilliant pictures of yesteryear.
The World War II gallery, in particular, houses an impressively generous group of photos of airmen and antique planes and machine guns. What really sticks out, though, are all […]

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Anthony Ventura has a nice collection of hip retro-style illustrations in his portfolio at Evolve-R. Though crude and demented, they capture the imagination with rich colors, grainy textures and smart patterns creating a visual web of trashy eye-candy. And who can beat Ventura’s twisted themes, full of tattooed half-human characters, skulls, sex, violence and muscle […]

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Andre the Giant has a posse. So does artist and toymaker Mike Leavitt. He rolls with Audry Kawasaki and Banksy, Vincent Van Gogh and Conan O’Brien, Jackson Pollock and Ghostface Killah, just to name a few.
Leavitt’s homemade action figure series called the Art Army is populated with artists and performers from David Lynch to Redman. […]

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