New Fashion

Cat Potter’s wooden shoes

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by Gerry Mak

I’m really not into bound feet or even high heels, for that matter, but I’m loving the extremes to which Cat Potter has pushed the boxiness and impracticality of her wooden shoes.

Runny Nose Soap Shower Gel Dispenser

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by Gerry Mak

Let your inner Pee-Wee Herman shine with this ridiculous and gross ‘runny nose’ soap and shower gel dispenser.

Takashi Murakami

20-foot-tall Inflatable Self-Portrait

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by Gerry Mak

Taking the idea of an ‘inflated ego’ to the next level, Takashi Murakami created this 20-foot-tall inflatable self-portrait for his solo show, Murakami-Ego, in Doha, Qatar.

Fashion

Muscles Leggings

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by Gerry Mak

If you’ve ever wondered what you might look like hanging skinless in Leatherface’s meat locker, these ‘muscles leggings‘ by James Lillis will give you a pretty good idea.

Angelo Musco creates art from thousands of photos of
people

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by Gerry Mak

Angelo Musco creates impossibly intricate and unique organic forms out of thousands of photographs of people so densely packed, they’re hard to discern from a distance.

New Art

Lorenzo Oggiano

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by Gerry Mak

Lorenzo Oggiano 3D generated forms look incredibly real. Real what? Not sure, but the forms are reminiscent of the insides of flowers.

Miranda July

Pop-up store at Partners and Spade

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by Gerry Mak

I’m a huge Miranda July fan, so I’m super stoked for her very own pop-up store at Partners and Spade. Her absurd offerings, little trinkets selected from the artists’ own pile of crap and packaged as little conceptual art pieces, will probably earn you lots of arty points if you giv

e them as gifts this holiday season.

New Photography

Investigation of worn-out frying pans

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by Gerry Mak

Art photographer Christopher Jonassen has a great series called Devour, which consists of photos of the bottoms of worn-out frying pans. They look like planets and moons.

New Fashoion

Iris van Herpen’s Capriole collection

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by Gerry Mak

Really dig the Lovecraft vibe of this Capriole collection by Iris van Herpen. The weird wormy thing looks like a painting I did inspired by by Yog Sathoth.

New Design

Jason Freeny’s anatomical cartoon characters

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If you’ve ever wondered what the insides of your favorite cartoon characters look like, Jason Freeny will show you with his anatomical cutaway toys.

New Design

Zombie Slippers

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by Gerry Mak

If zombies had no teeth, maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to have our body parts in their mouths. These plush zombie slippers simulate that very experience.

New Art

Patricia Piccinini

by Gerry Mak

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I’ve been obsessed with Patricia Piccinini for years now, and sh

e still consistently creeps me out and wows me. I love the ways her grotesquely realistic sculptures push the boundaries between revulsion and love.

New Design

Polar Ice Moulds

by Gerry Mak

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These awesome ice moulds, designed by Atsuhiro Hayashi and available through monos, are also a bit depressing: one creates ice shaped like a

polar bear on a melting ice cap, the other creates two penguins.

New Photography

Emma Parry

by Gerry Mak
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I keep thinking ‘oh, hello!’ when looking at British photographer Emma Parry’s images. Trees peek in through windows, hands rise out of wheat fields, huge store signs look like they’re strutting, and random details take on surprising and wonderful qualities.

SquirrelShaver

Mike DeBalfo aka SquirrelShaver

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by Gerry Mak

When I got into comic books as a pubescent boy in the early ’90s, artists were rendering characters with really exaggerated bodies, and they looked as if they had been dipped into their costumes. I’m sure I’m not the sole 12-year-geek who salivated over Psylocke or Jean Grey as drawn by Jim Lee and Mark Silvestri. Mike DeBalfo, aka SquirrelShaver, specializes in the kind of sexy comic book art I’m talking about. The women he draws may not be anatomically realistic, but they’re effective fap fodder for sexually frustrated nerds.

New Design

Taylor James

by Gerry Mak
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Production studio Taylor James specializes in really mind-blowing print and motion CGI graphics. Though they do a lot commercial work, they also do things that shock and unnerve in a way more appropriate for a gallery than a billboard.

Muha ha ha ha

Bad metal album art


by Gerry Mak
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The genre of heavy metal, particularly its extremes, is not known for good taste. For me, this has always been part of its appeal. Still, there are album covers that make even me cringe. Here are a few of the worst metal album covers I’ve seen lately.

Using his body

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by Gerry Mak

Art made from slices of an executed prisoner.Here’s a series of truly eerie light paintings made with slices of an executed prison inmate who donated his body to science. Joseph Paul Jernigan was executed on August 5, 1993 at exactly 12:31am, hence the name of the project. Using his body to create these images perhaps afford him a bit of post-humous redemption.

Sueshiro Maruo's work

by Gerry Mak
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Check out the work of illustrator/artist Sueshiro Maruo, who upped the gore and violence ante in manga in the ‘80s.

New Art by Ryn Wilson


by Gerry Mak
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New Orleans-based artist Ryn Wilson specializes in highly-composed installations that deal with notions of the body, sexual trauma and objectification, and horror.