When you look at some of our species’ greatest creative achievements, you will often find that a little madness is not too far behind. So perhaps it’s not surprising to learn that neurosci...
San Francisco Based Jewelry Designer Alexes Bowyer Shows Us Her Studio
Alexes Bowyer is one of those mythical San Francisco natives we’ve all heard about from 70s rock songs and Jack Kerouac novels, but rarely get to meet in real life. She’s creative, inspiri...
Watch Artist Lisa Park Move Water With Her Mind, Hauntingly Beautiful
In a world crowded with ideas and artists reaching for ever more extreme shock tactics to get noticed, it can be hard to blow people away with something dazzlingly simple. That’s why, artist Lis...
The Magical Life of Tippi Degré, The Real Mowgli from The Jungle Book
We’re going to go out on a limb and say Tippi Degré’s childhood was way waaay more awesome than yours. In fact, her young life is the stuff childhood dreams are made of, it was all about b...
What 10 Famous Historical Figures Would Look Like Today, from Emily Dickinson to Marie Antoinette
What would some of history’s familiar faces look like if they were alive today? We decided to give ten of our favorite historical figures a digital makeover, and bring them to the 21st century. ...
Old Photos of The Real Alice in Wonderland Reveal How Illustrator’s Created the Disney Classic
Her name was Kathryn Beaumont, a young actress who was both the voice and the model for the character of Alice in Wonderland. She was just ten years old at the time. Walt Disney personally cast Kathry...
Mind Blowing Contemporary Surrealist Collage Artists
Surrealist works of art aren’t just insanely cool, they’re also ridiculously insightful. The exceptional power of surrealism is manifested in the viewer’s instinctive emotional response to images that...
The Fine Line Between Imitation and Flattery
Yohji Yamamoto once said, “Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find the self.” In other words, until you figure your shit out, you’re going t...
What’s Your Type? New Study Reveals 12 Fundamental Types of People
Not to put you in a box or anything, but according to a recent study helmed by Exponential (a digital advertising network) if you were born anytime after 1980 you likely fall into one or more of the s...
Pinterest Poison: Insanely Popular Quotes We Need To Stop Repinning Stat
When you hang around Pinterest long enough, you start to realize that it is like a microcosm of the things we most value as human beings, it contains all our hopes, wants and our biases. You’ll ...
The Sinister Sexuality of Guy Bourdin, a Deeply Troubled Genius
If greatness is defined by the mark you leave on the world, Guy Bourdin was the greatest fashion photographer to ever live. Period. Irving Penn was great, Helmut Newton was pretty solid too, and Richa...
Interview Magazine’s ‘Pretty Wasted’ Editorial is Pretty Disturbing
How far would you go to get your work noticed? Here photographer Fabien Baron shoots a controversial editorial for Interview Magazine’s November 2014 issue, with a line-up of recognizable faces,...
The Shortlist: 13 “Emerging” Fashion Photographers You Should Know
We all know that Steven Meisel, Mario Testino and Terry Richardson are the world’s go-to campaign photographers, and most fashion lovers will be familiar with the editorial fingerprint of photog...
Girls on Film: 3 Must See Films and Shows Written and Directed by Women (Part One)
You can always tell when something has been written by a woman. The female characters have a certain authenticity that is otherwise lacking. In the movie industry, male-made fantasies often trump fema...
Moscow’s Fashion Revolution
Amidst anti-war protesters, LGBT activists and Pussy Riot, Moscow’s youth is getting louder and louder about the things they care about, and they’re doing it with art, music and, of course, fash...
The Only Way to Know Bombay, a story by Sanjyot Telang
Have you ever been to Mumbai? Even though I (photographer Sanjyot Telang) was born and raised there, I somehow always felt like an outsider. Now having lived away for 8 years, simply calling the city ...
10 Things All Future Boss Ladies Need to Know
Do you know what it takes to be a powerful and confident boss lady? Well, have a seat, make yourself a stiff drink and let’s get right into it. We’re going to tell you the top 10 things al...
Embroidery Art and The Wonderful World of Aaron Rinas
Embroidery is finally having its moment in the spotlight. Historically it has rarely been taken seriously as a craft, let alone an art form. Traditionally it was disregarded as a silly pastime for wom...
The Tragic Life and Death of Mata Hari
Somewhere between fact and fiction lies the mysterious and captivating Dutch woman the world has obsessed over for more than a century: Margaretha Zelle, more commonly known as Mata Hari. Almost a hun...
Entitlement and Apathy, The Case of Women Against Feminism
A few weeks ago, evidence that feminism had done it’s job came in the unlikeliest of forms, paradoxically when news of an antifeminist Facebook page called Women Against Feminism (with it’...
What Your Handwriting Says About You
Graphology has always been a debatable science, but according to a recent study by the National Pen Company your handwriting can reveal over 500 distinct personality traits, and can even indicate pote...
Feminist Fairy Tales: Why Disney’s Maleficent Deserves all the Pro-Women Awards
In the same vein as the ever-popular Frozen, Disney has taken another turn in the feminist direction. This time with Maleficent. The story of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ has always been a familiar one. Yet with...
To Bey or Not to Bey That is the Question: Politicizing Beyonce
Multimillionaire and megastar Beyoncé has become the subject of academic study. If you ever doubted her influence, now might be the time to cross over to the Bey side. Rutgers University created a cou...
What Your Worst Thoughts Say About You
They say we’re our own worst enemies, and for good reason. Just think back to all those times you called yourself stupid, or told yourself to lose weight, or even when you were suddenly overcome...