Ken Marcus Photography

LINK quote [I began with erotic photography, Marcus explains. "I really had no interest in commercial glamour. I was rather shy around women as a young man. It was a girlfriend who introduced me to the artwork of Gustv Klimt, particularly an image he had done of two women together that struck me with unusual force. From that inspiration, I first got interested in doing nude photography with the idea of exploring relationships between people. This was coinciding with the sexual revolution that was going on at the time. As the general community around me was exploring sexuality and eroticism personally, I was interested in exploring and documenting it visually"].
(via Roesje)

A pin-up like you

quote [Gillian Wearing's "Pin-Ups" paintings were made in collaboration with science fiction illustrator and fantasy artist, Jim Burns. Wearing advertised on the Internet for non-professional models who wanted to be pin-ups. Both women and men responded to the ad and provided images and a brief explanation of their aspiration to be depicted in this idealized form. Select respondents were made-over with the help of hair stylists and make-up artists, and photographed in a glamour-style photo shoot. The resulting photos were also digitally retouched to help achieve the desired visual effect. Wearing then had the manipulated photographs transformed into unique—almost nostalgic—painted portraits. The original snapshots and statements from the models can be found behind the paintings to reveal not only the visual transformation, but also the psychology behind the desire to be transformed. On view until August 23 at Regen Projects in Los Angeles].
(via Sex and Blogs)

The Erotic Scale Models of Peter Keresztury

LINK quote [A woman is nature’s greatest creation and I’m trying to capture her beauty in erotic art statues and sculpture. I had the pleasure to have worked with 4 beautiful models to pose for my erotic art project. Of the 75 PHOTO different and exciting poses with 1, 2, and 3 girl combinations, I have carefully selected about 25 to create a new series of sensual, erotic, and explicit female statues and sculptures called “The Erotic Woman”. Each selected pose will be transformed into ½ size statues of the models who posed for them. Some of the erotic art themes will be kissing, fondling, bondage, lesbian, dildo use, 69, and one will be a tentacle sex sculpture].
(via Art of Love)

Mario Bros Installation

LINK quote [Une installation d'art intitulée "Landscape" avec un étonnant et complet paysage de Super Mario Bros. Une décoration pleine de couleurs et d'éléments du célèbre jeu vidéo. Plus d'images dans la suite].
(via Fubiz)

Thomas Buggraf (bommi) Photography

LINK Just few shots and he's yet my favourite photographer... Must see!
(via Roesje)

Ze Frank's YoungMe, NowMe

quote [Inspired by the little me pics you guys sent in a while back (and an email from nader) i started a competition called youngme/nowme you find a pic of young you and then take a pic now recreating that pose. the first results are coming in. View the gallery :: maybe you'd like to play?].

Meg Wachter Photography

LINK quote [i am a vertically challenged, music-savvy photo nerd. my photography is inspired by the humorous, the unusual, and the bold. fine-tuning of photographic skills were honed at ohio university's school of visual communications where she received a bs in commercial photography. i now reside in brooklyn, new york and am available for hire].
(via shape + color)

The Gazelena Project

The Gazelena Project - Story + video quote [New York University students Allistar Peters and Meng Li came up with the "breastcam" as part of a thesis project. Ms Li nips out to the city's streets in a dress fitted with cameras to catch passing oglers in the act, and the double-C TV footage is broadcast over the web. Mr Peters said the idea was not to affront those who fail to keep their eyes above his bosom friend's neckline but to address the issue of public surveillance].
(via Atomic Sex Kitten)

Gargoyles

Photo Gallery quote [In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building (...) Reproductions of statues representing gargoyle-like creatures, available in some retail stores, although sometimes functional, are more often than not grotesques modeled after famous gargoyles].
(via SEXCULTURAS)

Hans Bellmer's Dolls

quote [Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 Katowice, Silesia, – 23 February 1975 Paris, France) was an artist best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer]. Tate Collection - MOMA Collection.
(via Beyond Reason)

Art Project Mjøsa 2008

LINK quote [From the 24th to the 29th of April the Swedish artist Henrik Hedinge and the Norwegian artist Eva Marie Yri Skjøldt will explore the surroundings of lake Mjøsa using various methods from the fields of performance art, video art, photography and land art].

The Hairwash Project

LINK quote [Before and after washing your hair. Why? Hmmm... Because it can be done].
(via The Zen of Steve)

Ichioka Sleep Pix Gallery

LINK quote [If you spend 8 hours a day sleeping, that would mean that one third of your entire life you're asleep. Many of us who are living our lives right spend even more time in the sack. But how well documented is this single activity that we spend more of our lives doing than any other? Not well, until now. Photographer and renowned late-sleeper David Ichioka has concentrated on this important part of everyone's life in his series of Sleep Pictures. These are time-lapse series of pictures which document one whole night's sleep. Each picture is taken 20-30 minutes after the last].
(via dadanoias)

Anarkasis: Erotic Art History

LINK quote [Sex and eroticism in the art history from prehistory to the present day].
[Thumbnail: Rigel Herrera Bracho]

David Oreilly: RGB XYZ for all

LINK quote [I’m having trouble dealing with the requests for this short..I spent most of last week burning dvds of it :/ not many people know it was hiding online all along. So here it is, the award-winning destructive and massively overrated RGB XYZ. This is a slightly cut down version from the original holy ghost prerelease, for anyone who has a copy of that].

Shawn Feeney: BFF Project

LINK quote [I'm drawing 64 facial images of composite friends. Then I'll draw a series of composites from the composites; 32 drawings combining four faces each, 16 drawings combining eight faces each, and so on until finally there is one drawing derived from all 128 faces].

Jan Fabre Performing Arts

LINK Photo from "Quando l'uomo principale è una donna". quote [Jan Fabre (né à Anvers, en 1958) est connu, tant en Belgique qu'à l'étranger, pour être l'un des artistes les plus d'avant-garde et protéiformes de son époque. Depuis 25 ans, il se distingue en tant qu'artiste de performance, forgeron de théâtre et d'opéras, chorégraphe, auteur et artiste plasticien].
(via ponyXpress)

Art You Can Disappear Into

LINK quote [Desiree Palmen is an artist that can really get lost in her work - literally. She creates bizarre artwork of invisible people. To create these interesting illusions, she photographs a specific location or spot, such as a bookshelf, desk scattered with papers, or even somewhere in a park. She then spends a lot of time painting a homemade suit that is made out of cotton. She paints this suit by hand, trying to meticulously match the exact colors of the background photo. Lastly, she puts the finished suit on a model who then poses in the original location and tries to blend in as much as possible into the background].
(via Attu World)

Karin Schwarz's Amazing Girls

LINK A nice Barbie photo-gallery, a neverending inspiration...
quote [I sincerely hope the works series "Amazing Girls" to awaken in all people, consciously or unconsciously, praising worth notions to really important things, such as RESPECT, LOVE, FREEDOM, FONDNESS, to the detriment of individualist, consumerist and false-moralist values, which are prejudice and intolerance generators].

Prehistoric Erotic Art

At Arte Rupestre (Rock Art) there's an interesting page about Prehistoric Erotic Art and Prehistoric Venuses: quote [The fact that numerous examples like that of a female figure. All generally exhibiting the same essential characteristics - large stomachs and breasts, featureless faces, minuscule or missing feet - have been found over a broad geographical area ranging from France to Siberia. That suggests that some system of shared understanding and perception of a particular type of woman existed during the Paleolithic].