The Rise Of Islamo-Erotica

(Image: “God Is Great” by Makan Emadi) Betwa Shermer has a really interesting piece about Muslim artists in America who incorporate nudes into their art.  Defenses of nudity in art as permissible by Islamic standards: The Lebanese-born artist, who now lives in New York, insists that the taboo stems from a conservative society and not [...]

A Year Of Photos By Helen Sotiriadis

Regular readers of the blog toomanytribbles (which some of you, like I, may follow on Planet Atheism) are likely familiar with Helen Sotiriadis’s daily project of taking and blogging a photograph a day in 2009.  When the year was over she provided a video retrospective of the entire year in photos: Since so many gorgeous [...]

Beautiful Art From Toxic Chemicals

Tree Hugger explains and showcases some of the imaginative work of Algis Kemezys: Your Thoughts?

Frog Lit Up By Christmas Light

Photo by James Snyder.  Many more gorgeous shots from National Geographic (here this came from). Found on Neatorama.

Turn That Smile Upside Down…

These and a whole bunch more can be found here.

Joshua Hoffine Explores Childhood Fears

Happy Halloween everybody!  Enjoy the stunningly gorgeous and horrifying photography of Joshua Hoffine which brings alive childhood fears: Even more collected here and explore the artist’s blog and order prints here. Your Fears?

Heads Up

See bigger, in greater detail.

Photos In Honor Of World Animal Day (October 16)

See 40 more extraordinarily beautiful animal photos like this one. Photo: Reuters/Ina Fassbender.

Dead Fly Art

Thirteen more neat poses here. (via) Your Thoughts?

Growth

Passion Looking Up by *In-the-picture on deviantART By Gerard De Nerval who insists no cropping or tweaking were involved in the production of this picture (besides watermarking). Your Thoughts?

Gorgeous Wave Photography By Clark Little

Click here for more stunningly beautiful photographs like these:   Here’s Clark’s website and information about his new book, The Shorebreak Art of Clark Little.

Profiling Afghanistan’s Child Brides

Makes the heart just sink. Your Thoughts?

Airbrushed To Death

Airbrushed to Death by ~spoonbard on deviantART Your Thoughts?

The Day’s Cycle In 5 Distinct Locations

A really neat photographic presentation of all the phases of a day in each of 5 different locations.

Chris Jordan’s Cans Seurat

Chris Jordan’s “Can’s Seurat” (2007) is 60×92″ and it “depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.” And closer up: And even closer up: Click here for more examples of Chris Jordan’s amazing photographic artwork chronicling American consumerism.  His book Running the Numbers: An American Self-portrait is out in hardcover. [...]

Martian Crater

See more stunning photos here. Your Thoughts?

Bursting Your Bubble

Photo by Richard Heeks.

The Scariest Doll

From “Tekitos”:

Clark Little’s Wave Photography

Click here for more stunningly beautiful photographs like this one: Here’s Clark’s website and information about his forthcoming book, The Shorebreak Art of Clark Little.

Vlad Artazov Nails The Human Experience

Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the heads up to these and a few dozen more cool photographs like them from photographer Vlad Artazov.