Exciting and Extraordinarily Vivid Digital Illustrations by Tiago Hoisel

These commercial digital illustrations by Tiago Hoisel are absolutely awesome!




















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Hip Scientific Tattoos: Evolution Ink, DNA Helix Tattoos, Periodic Table of Elements Tats

Cool tats. Evolution tattoos, DNA helix tats, periodic table of elements tattoos and other scientific shit. Totally and Completamente hip. If I ever decided to get inked, it would be something completely cheesy and played out like a red rose or a phoenix. Umm...No, no freaking phoenix. A butterfly with a question mark. That's what I'd call rad! You call it tachee (tacky and cheesy), I call it radical. Yea.






































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"True Blood" Fake Print Ads Promote Real Products for Vampires, Look Great!

Cable channel HBO's popular "True Blood" vampire series goes into it's 2nd season starting on June 14th and the cable outlet has opened up it's can of old tricks to promote the series. The Vault notes, "the cable outlet has unveiled print ads that seem to promote real products and services from Geico, Gillette, BMW’s Mini Cooper, Harley-Davidson, Ecko and Monster — but act as if the audiences for these popular goods are vampires."

This marks HBO’s second effort to generate attention for “True Blood,” which portrays a world in which the development of a synthetic blood product in Japan has allowed vampires to “come out” of their coffins, as it were, with all kinds of cultural ramifications. Starting last May, HBO began sending mailers to vampire hobbyists and bloggers; set up the website BloodCopy.com, which featured discussions and a blog (and has now returned); distributed viral videos; and, most memorable of all, perhaps, delivered samples of a red beverage known as “Tru Blood,” while distributing ads for the drink online and in alternative weeklies."



















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The Takao Trick Art Museum: Optical Illusion Artwork at its Best!

These fun, tricky images come from the Takao Trick Art Museum in Japan. Very imaginative and skillful illusion paintings and exhibits. Trompe l'oeil at it's best! I love the optical illusions and the trickery.




































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"Drop": A Horror Story Embossed on Toilet Paper

In Japan, the author of horror film The Ring, Koji Suzuki, is marketing a nine chapter novella aptly named "Drop" which is embossed on toilet paper.

The novella which, according to the manufacturer Hayashi Paper, can be read in just a few minutes, is set in a public restroom. "Drop" takes up about three feet (90 centimeters) of a roll.

The company promotes the toilet paper, which will sell for 210 yen ($2.20) a roll, as "a horror experience in the toilet." Toilets in Japan were traditionally tucked away in a dark corner of the house due to religious beliefs. Parents would tease children that a hairy hand might pull them down into the dark pool below.

And there you have it peeps.

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Beautiful but Freaky Eye Jewelry - “JewelEye” is Implanted inside your Cornea

Don't feel hip enough? How do you feel about having a piece of jewelry implanted inside your eyes?

Since 2004, eye surgeons at the Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery have been implanting a tiny piece of jewelry called a “JewelEye” under the surfaces of eyes.

The procedure involves inserting a 3.5 mm (0.13 inch) wide piece of specially developed jewelry (the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart) into the eye’s cornea. The implant is made of platinum and it can be molded in all kinds of desired shapes and sizes.

Gorgeous 3D Animation Milk Campaign -- Medusa and Sad Princess

Gorgeous 3D animation campaign from Psyop for the California Milk Processor Board.

Client: California Milk Processor Board
Agency: Grupo Gallegos
Chief Creative Director: Favio Ucedo
Director: Psyop

Racy but Creative Advert by Bontrust Bank Shows People Made of Money Having Sex

This attention-grabbing and creative ad by German bank Bontrust called "Increase in Currency (Money Love)" leaves little to the imagination in depicting a hot and heavy sex scene between two types of currency. I love it!

A Gorgeous 3D Animated Film Called "Up"

Pixar’s 3D Up will be the first animated opening film in Cannes history and rightfully so. Check our some early reviews of the flick, out May 29.

The Hollywood Reporter: “Winsome, touching and arguably the funniest Pixar effort ever, the gorgeously rendered, high-flying adventure is a tidy 90-minute distillation of all the signature touches that came before it.”

Roger Ebert: “this is a wonderful film. It tells a story… [Director Peter Docter's] whole film is an oblique rebuke to those who think action heroes have to be young.”

Time: Extending the patented Pixar mix of humor and heart, Up is the studio’s most deeply emotional and affecting work.

Guerrilla Musical Performance: "The Sound Of Music" at a Train Station in Antwerp, Belgium

The Sound of Music performed at a subway station in Antwerp, Belgium. Radical and well-executed. Was the guerrilla group Improv Everywhere involved in this?

Mannequins Made out of Photographs - The Work of Gwon Osang

Korean artist Gwon Osang creates sculptures using only hundreds of photographs of his subjects which he overlays on life-sized mannequins. Amazing artistry!































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Cool Animated Megan Fox Esquire Magazine Cover

The June 2009 issue of Esquire Magazine has Megan Fox on its cover. The cover image was shot as a video and not a regular photoshoot.

Greg Williams, Esquire director-photographer, recorded ten minutes of loosely scripted footage with Fox doing every day things such as getting out of bed, rolling around on a pool chair, lighting a barbecue. In other words, Megan is shot in motion and not posing for a typical photoshoot. "It allowed her to act," Williams explained. "She could run scenes without being reminded by the sound of a shutter every four seconds that I was taking a picture. As in still photography, a lot of it is capturing unexpected moments. This takes that one step further." Cool. Can't wait to see the rest of the video. Is this the beginning of a new trend?




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