To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...
The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
Artist Bart Vargas spends his time gathering the unwanted, discarded 'trash' of other peoples' existence. He transforms things like bottles, keyboards, old toys, wood...
Self-taught artist Gregoire A Meyer creates pieces that question what it's like to be a human spirit existing in the ever-advancing today world. His futuristic...
UK-based painter Tom French creates intensely beautiful and dark 'double portraits' that explore the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious mind. A combination...
Artist Max Zorn makes incredible 2-dimensional artworks, but he doesn't actually draw or paint anything to produce them: he constructs his artworks by meticulously...
In the daylight, the urban murals of Reskate Studio appear to be simple silhouettes. Bunnies, loaves of bread and ringed planets stretch across walls...
American artist Mike Winkelmann has been creating digital art consistently since childhood, when his parents bought him a computer to keep him busy. For...
French photographer and creative retoucher Cal Redback has released a haunting new series of manipulated portraits that will make your skin tickle.
'Treebeard' is a...
Melissa McCracken is a visual artist who doesn't paint what she sees. Instead, she paints what she hears. McCracken has an incredibly rare neurological...
California-based artist Russell Powell combines traditional oil painting techniques with experimental body art to create detailed portraits using his own palm as a stamp....
