Anyone who has lost a piece of work they have slaved over – a file erased forever, say – will know the word traumatic sometimes doesn’t put too fine a point on the experience. Yet what if the labour of love you had invested so much of yourself into was smaller than the head of a pin – yet more intricate than many artworks thousands of times its size? picked by bornbad 5 months ago

A Welsh woman is getting to the bottom of cultural attitudes about the female backside.

I know a few people who wish they'd thought of this first. picked by meggysue 5 months ago

Or how two people managed to continuously take their clothes off in public throughout the 1920s and get away with it. picked by bingo 5 months ago

Underneath the Dedham Community Theater, this little gem of an art gallery has since 1994 sought to preserve horrible artwork. Known as MOBA (museum of bad art) started one night when founder Scott Wilson pulled the first piece, dubbed Lucy in the Field with Flowers, out of a trash heap. Since then, it has grown into two galleries with numerous pieces. picked by bingo 5 months ago

Kodak has closed one of its oldest and most famous product lines, in the latest sign of the film business fading away against the onslaught of digital photography. Kodak said it would cease production of Kodachrome, the line of professional quality film that was first developed in 1935 and became one of the company’s pre-eminent brands, known for stunning colours and sharpness. picked by suebe 5 months ago

Air liners should consider adding a bit of creativity to their plane's appearance. The results could be very amusing and fun plane graphics. picked by spule87 5 months ago

Posters depicting the symbolic genitals of 100 artists have been deemed unsuitable by the Venice Biennale authorities. Jacques Charlier, a Belgian artist, had wanted to show the visual puns, each with a written clue, inviting viewers to guess who owned what. Of course, you can see them here.
NSFW picked by suebe 5 months ago

Add technology to classic album covers. I got an absolutely huge and awesome response, over 350 entries, which I whittled down to my favorite 50, including the top three winners. picked by bornbad 5 months ago

Only a few members on the council and some museum officials were aware that the temporary exhibit being installed in the Bristol museum was by the world famous graffiti artist Banksy picked by makuus 6 months ago

^^Yup, a dress, sewn out of meat, real meat. picked by suebe 6 months ago

Japanese font vendor Morisawa has created a fun little Flash application. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

The Guggenheim Museum and Google invite you to build something, somewhere. The alliteratively-named duo has launched the Design It: Shelter Competition, which asks contestants to design a virtual shelter using Google’s SketchUp 3D-modeling software and place it anywhere on the globe using Google Earth. picked by suebe 6 months ago

Crafting motorcycles with broken watches. Bizarre arts and crafts. picked by Sablewolf 6 months ago

The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 competition is now over and the winner has been selected. In the final 712 Wikimedians voted, of which 74 voted for the winner, Horses on Bianditz mountain. With 71 votes Fire breathing takes the second place. The third place is for Steam locomotives in the roundhouse with 46 votes. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

JD Salinger has started legal proceedings against the writer, publishers and distributor of a sequel to his famous novel The Catcher in the Rye. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Meatpaper is a print magazine of art and ideas about meat. We like metaphors more than marinating tips. We are your journal of meat culture.

*Artwork you can really get your teeth into!* picked by DAVEthefish 6 months ago

The combination of the Periodic Table of Chemistry with the Planck Snake of Physics is an inside joke at the expense of chemists: It took the Quantum Mechanics of Physics to explain to Chemistry its own Table of Elements. Got that? picked by suebe 6 months ago

Badassery. Post apocolyptic comic. Comes with zombies and an in depth storyline.

Be warned, some of the art within is not intended for those with weak stomachs. picked by donteatpoop 6 months ago

The Atomic Disruptor Raygun is straight out of steampunk fiction. The cool DIY raygun has been put together by Cohophoto entirely from old radio and camera parts. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Look at these great collection of tusk art items. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

Photoshop has revolutionized design, photography and illustration to the point where any image that manages to capture something really amazing is quickly dismissed as fake. But, it is still possible to create jaw-dropping images without the help of a computer. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Simon Schubert, a talented German artist, uses paper creases and folds to create incredible works of art. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very similar, and like us, they come in different sizes, shapes and forms. Potatoes grow, live, and then decay, mirroring the ephemeral existence and fragility of our own human nature. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

Dutch artist Evelien Lohbeck shows us we can do a lot with a paper notebook. Check out her other works as well. picked by suebe 6 months ago

Kuksi’s art speaks of a timelessness–potentiality and motion attempting to reach on forever, and yet pessimistically delayed; forced into the stillness of death and eternal sleep. picked by bornbad 6 months ago