The Cheap Cosplay Guy

Lowcost Cosplay is the project of three friends from Thailand. Anucha Sangchat models the costumes while Satjapong Thongchiasri and Purint Huangsamut moderate the project's Facebook page.

Funny Street Art by Michael Pederson

Humorous interventions by Sydney-based street artist Michael Pederson.

Four Chambers by Vex Ashley

Four Chambers by Vex Ashley is a fledgling pornography project, making short films with sex and cinema. Part art project, part erotica cinemascope. The aim is to make interesting, aesthetic content that subverts an established archetype of what videos featuring sexuality should be.
Patreon Four Chambers - Four Chambers @ Tumblr.



quote [ From a background in art photography and alt-porn, Four Chambers works to make aesthetic, creative shorts about sex through the mechanics of cinema. All existing in the age of screens and their intrinsic relationship with modern sexuality. Independent, DIY, Erotica Cinema. Based on the idea of an artist's co-operative. We aim to make our content as accessible as possible. We work with friends and people we find interesting. If you want to get involved let us know].

[Previously: Crucible by Four Chambers - Crucible by Four Chambers - Exchange: Kim & Vex]

Hand-drawn animations by Jake Fried

quote [Jake Fried (1984) began his artistic career as a painter, but as he went through the process of layering and modifying images, he realized what truly interested him was the way the images metamorphosed in the course of making a painting and he changed tracks to become an animator. In recent years his films have been widely shown internationally, including at the Tate Modern, Sundance Film Festival and on Adult Swim. Fried works with ink and white-out, sometimes adding gouache, collage and even coffee to generate hallucinatory vistas, modifying and shooting the images over and over to create mind-bending animations that evolve at a frenzied pace. He currently teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Art Prints available at society6.com/jakefried]. More video work.

No more nudes for Playboy

Playboy announced that starting with their March 2016 issue, the magazine will no longer feature full nudity.
quote [Playboy CEO Scott Flanders acknowledged the magazine's inability to compete with freely available Internet pornography and nudity; according to him, "You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it’s just passé at this juncture". Hefner agreed with the decision. The redesigned Playboy, however, will still feature a Playmate of the Month and pictures of women, but they will be rated as not appropriate for children under 13. The move will not affect PlayboyPlus.com, but it is currently unknown what will happen to the "special" issues. Josh Horwitz of Quartz argues that the motivation for the decision to remove nudity from the magazine is to give Playboy Licensing a less deviant image in India and China, where the brand is a popular item on apparel and thus generates significant revenue].
[Previously on... Playboy at Unscathed Corpse]
[Thumbnail: Heather Kozar]

Heaven is a Wet Hole by Tara Sinn

Tara Sinn is a NYC-based GIF artist, web designer and illustrator living in a black hole...

How to Make Me Come

Enter How to Make Me Come, a blog collecting women's essays about their experience with or frustration over orgasms — or lack thereof.
“How to Make Me Come” is now also a podcast! Hosted by Sylvia, the founder of HTMMC, it picks up where the blog leaves off, exploring issues linked to and inspired by the female orgasm.

...the next guy fucked around with my emotions and took sex from me. I mistook this for empowerment, but all it did was ruin my confidence. No orgasms for me. He would go down on me for 5 minutes with the sloppiest tongue and no direction and then would come up and say, "Did you come?” As if I were going to say, “Yes, I just did!! You’re amazing!!”

"Se abrirán las grandes Alamedas" by Elizabeth Neira

"Se abrirán las grandes Alamedas" is a performance by chilean artist and poet Elizabeth Neira.
The words are Salvador Allende’s Last Words to the Nation, a speech delivered at 9:10 am on September 11, 1973 in the midst on an ultimately successful US-sponsored coup d’etat against the democratically-elected government. Barricaded inside La Moneda, the presidential palace, President Allende gave his life defending Chilean democracy.

Domenico Barra a (Dirty) New Media Artist

Domenico Barra is a (Dirty) New Media Artist based in Napoli (Italy) working with digital media with a major focus on internet culture.Tumblr and Support @ Patreon!

Dirty New Media (DNM) is a term first used by the artist Jon Cates. J. Cates, who is also the Chair of the Film, Video, New Media & Animation department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, says Dirty New Media’s mission is “to express a contrast with the kind of cleanliness that is [associated] with more commercial or corporate styles of digital art and design. It refers to a menagerie of alternative practices and subcultures spanning from punk and digital sampling to piracy and pornography”.

quote [I am interested in subcultures and tabood human acts, their consumption in privacy and distribution in society. Porn is not a mere representation of sexual fantasies. Porn is the ultimate argument to address history, politics, art, or economy. I use copies of copyright protected contents to discuss industries and lobbies, production, distribution and appropriation and also, roles of sexes, money, porn as a proper expression of capitalistic society.



I produce “partial” (dirty) record of the wide and wild range of pornographic material available online, selected, remixed and contextualized in various projects such as Pirate Porno Material, Pirate Porno Material 2, Wrecked, Red Link District, Head(Her)Less and A picture is never private (anymore) and Dirty Screens. The works were produced using the technique of databending that consists of using softwares not designed for the image editing task such as text editing and music softwares. Through these process I manage to corrupt/glitch digital format such as .jpg, .gif, .avi, .bmp, .raw, .tif, .iff, .png and so on.



I have been working with many media, focusing my practice and research on topics related to politics and human behaviors. Corrupted governments, mafias, corporations, an art form and production as a sort of rebellion, sabotage, activism, I always tried to create works that would shock people and create debates. When a subject is too complex, I realized that people would tend to get bored or disturbed and ignore the crucial part of it, I needed to find something that could help me in analyzing and represent those topics, or at least some of them, that wouldn't bother people, or bore them, so I thought about sex.  I believe that one of the most complete subject, a subject that touches many of the aspects of our lives as part of a society is sex, its depiction in mass media, from the internet to advertisement, politics related to gender, sexism, the economy of sex, copyright, and so on].

More: Prinsexxx Jasmine and H34D(|-|3R)L3SS.

X-Ray Photography by Roy Livingston

Roy Livingston is an x-ray artist who has been working x-ray photography for almost a decade. He use X-ray radiography along with photography and anything else he can scrounge up to create his art. He refers to his aesthetic approach as an artistic joy ride as it is always organically evolving as he discovers and develops new techniques. These postings will actually be going back in time as He’s done way more creating than posting, So these posting will be almost an archeological dig as they go back in time revealing layers of his evolution as an artist.

Insomnia remix

Amateur cuts by Leonid Plotnikov.

Hearing Colors

Produced as a part of The Connected Series, Hearing Colors, is a short film that explores the life of Neil Harbisson, a man who was born with achromatopsia, a rare condition that leaves 1 in 30,000 people completely colorblind. But Neil isn’t colorblind, far from it. After convincing his doctors to implant an antenna into the back of his head, Neil now possesses a new sense – the ability to hear colors. In this short film by Greg Brunkalla, Neil takes you through a day in his life and into an entirely new world.

Photographer's saliva on family album archive

Photographer Federica Landi adorns old family photos with saliva into her Daimones serie.

quote [The inclusion of saliva (a fluid certifying identity) on the photographic surface, creates a layer of contingent “presence”, intimate re-appropriation of the family archive, attempting to 'cure' the fallacious nature of memory and to 'fecundate' its connection with our current time. Saliva is thus the glue that keeps together two dimensions: the motionless time of photography and the contingency of identity].

Teletubbies mashup + Joy Division

A mashup video editing by Christopher G. Brown who stripped and replaced the original Teletubbies music with Joy Division's "Atmosphere". The results are horrifying - and hysterical at the same time. Enjoy if you can!

The Periodic Table of Kink

quote [Brilliant! Hilarious! Unless you’re in the UK… I’m so sorry, UK. Certain people in your government appear to defy Darwinism. Still, UberKinky’s [UK] Government Approved Periodic Table of Kink (large image) is really fun.
(via Violet Blue)

UberKinky explains it best:

On Tuesday 1 December, the Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014 introduced a series of restrictions on the pornography produced and sold in the UK. Now video on demand must adhere to the same strict criteria as DVDs, movies and TV shows. As a result, a number of sexual acts have been deemed too ‘harmful’ or ‘dangerous’ for us to watch, and have thus been banned from our screens altogether (if produced/provided in the UK). The UK is now subject to some of the most severe content restrictions in Europe. 

(…) Now, with the new pornographic laws in place, we decided to update our UberKinky Periodic Table of Kink to reflect this. So Check out our all new Government Approved Periodic Table of Kink today and find out which of your favourite fetishes have been outlawed! 

Remember; it’s better to educate than regulate… 

“Pornography is the canary in the coalmine of free speech: it is the first freedom to die. If this assault on liberty is allowed to go unchallenged, other freedoms will fall as a consequence.” - Myles Jackman, legal adviser for Backlash.

Lonely Sculpture by Tully Arnot

Lonely Sculpture by Tully Arnot is a concise comment on the current condition of "social" networks.
quote [Lonely Sculpture is a piece of technology that reflects the way we interact. Dating apps like Tinder are an aspect of socialization that allows for isolation: it reduces identity and demands judgement. The work heightens an absence or disconnect that already exists with this form of interaction. However, Lonely Sculpture does not reserve judgement. The artist’s mechanized silicone index finger taps yes to every dating profile that appears on the screen, even when the screen is loading new profiles the finger keeps unconsciously tapping, anticipating, longing].

8-Bit Watercolor Paintings by Adam Lister

quote [Artist Adam Lister continues his examination of pop culture and art history through these unusual watercolor paintings inspired by his love for 8-bit graphics found in old Nintendo and Atari video games.
(via Colossal)

Webdriver Torso: YouTube mystery

quote [On 23 September 2013 at 14:45, YouTube user Webdriver Torso quietly uploaded a video.
The mysterious 11-second sequence of red and blue rectangles could easily have been lost, unexplained and unappreciated among YouTube's plethora of kittens and music videos. But 28 minutes later Webdriver uploaded an almost identical video, and another an hour after that, and another, until eight months later - apparently happy with nearly 80,000 clips - they fell silent, with 236 hours of video to their name.
Almost all of the uploads follow the same pattern - 10 slides, each with a red rectangle, a blue rectangle and a computer-generated tone.
The shapes change size and the notes change pitch. Each video appears to be unique, but the format stays the same].

Spy messages?

CamGirls Project by Vanessa Omoregie

CamGirls Project by Vanessa Omoregie is an investigative project that explored the female image within the online space.
The project throughout its course looked at themes of questioning “beauty” standards, ideas of censorship, and representation in art. It was an interactive piece starting with the instruction “copy this pose”, allowing people across the internet to re-create women portrayed in famous paintings.

quote [The project asked questions about why the internet in regards to art isn’t taken as seriously and why important cultural phenomena like selfies are kind of mocked by the media, especially when they involves women. I wanted to look at who the “online girl” is and how her image is perceived through the lens of cyber-space].

Selfiecity

Selfiecity investigates selfies using a mix of theoretic, artistic and quantitative methods:

• We present our findings about the demographics of people taking selfies, their poses and expressions.
• Rich media visualizations (imageplots) assemble thousands of photos to reveal interesting patterns. 
• The interactive selfiexploratory allows you to navigate the whole set of 3200 photos. 
• Finally, theoretical essays discuss selfies in the history of photography, the functions of images in social media, and methods and dataset.