Benjamin Kanarek "BK"

Vogue Brazil "Ulan Bator"

Read more here about the inspiration of this collection.

Magnificent work! The clothes, make up.. the amazing way Benjamin Kanarek did shoot those pictures! The models almost look like if they were perfect wax dolls in a perfect imaginary world!

BK has also a blog, read it here "BK blog" or watch the making of this art here

Benjamin Kanarek talkes a little bit about how he began with photography here. He started at the beginning to study architecture and suddenly how he literally fell into this trade. You never know where you are going to be! But you can affect where you would want to be now!

Laura Laine

Watch more illustrations by Laura Laine here.

I don´t know where to begin, I totally adore this artist! How could anybody draw like that? I´ve seen those a lot, but yet it´s like if it was for the first time. I enjoy the colors, try to learn and understand her techniques.. Wow this is one of many reasons to love life! "Art is the way"!!

Or here on Trendland

This illustration was made for H&M

Those were made for ZARA

For PLAZA

Yvsl

Chanel

Art And The City

Banksy

Banksy is a British graffiti artist, political activist and painter, whose identity is unconfirmed. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.

Banksy art on the security wall in Bethlehem.

Unknown art, so cute! There is no limit for our imagination!

Street art on a buildingwall that I shoot in Stavanger city, Norway. It really captured my eyes! Beautiful!

Me in front of a cool graffiti wall made by "Ollio" at the street Första Långgatan in Gothenburg.

Red-blooded art..

..stunning, spirited, magnificient! Just the colors of this short movie by Kanye West is art per se! And the story is pure and distinctive poetri! Please click on the pictures to watch the movie. It was really beautiful, and I thought it was interesting that Vanessa Beecroft was the art director of the movie.

Karim Rashid

Click here to watch the designer talk about his work.

Finally somebody thought about designing comfortable high heeled shoes! Click on this to watch Karim Rashid talk about this design on Vouge.

Kenzo Amour

Sawsan Tawfik

I visited this artists vernissage a few months ago, she was very happy to show her paintings that are reflections of her internal and deepest thoughts.

This is her biggest hobby and she is self-taught, she is very humble and don´t approve herself as an artist. - "This is just a way to find internal peace, I´m not an artist" I didn´t agree, because art is a way to express a feeling or thought! I don´t believe people need degrees in everything! People can show feelings in different ways!

It was interesting to hear about what she wanted to express through the paintings.. and some things she said moved me and made me think about how many important things we take for granted in life, and that we should take care of and appreciate more!

In this artwork the artist want to raise the question about why women often hide and don´t value themselves. They are mostly in the background of many issues in the world! Women should´nt be ashamed of their thoughts and don´t be afraid to talk about them.. last but not least to appreciate their beauty and be proud of it!

Women are always beautiful. ~Ville Valo

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. ~Oliver Goldsmith

Cassandra Rhodin

Exhibition animal planet.

These illustrations are "shivery" gorgeous!!

If I Had A Time Machine..

..I would have said: your look, clothes, environment inspire me, but I´m also very curious of who you are.. I would have been enriched by listening to your storys..

Central Russia, this is a collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912 by the photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) he took pictures of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters. The great quality of the images, with the bright colors, make it difficult to believe that they are 100 years when the photographer captured them, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. The collection are a few of the hundreds of color images that the LIbrary of Congress made available.

Emir Seyyid Mir Mohammed Alim Khan, the Emir of Bukhara, seated holding a sword in Bukhara, (present-day Uzbekistan), ca. 1910.

Pinkhus Karlinskii, eighty-four years old with sixty-six years of service. Supervisor of Chernigov floodgate, part of the Mariinskii Canal system. Photo taken in 1909.

A group of women in Dagestan, ca. 1910

A Georgian woman poses for a photograph, ca. 1910.

Isfandiyar Jurji Bahadur, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm (Khiva, now a part of modern Uzbekistan), full-length portrait, seated outdoors, ca. 1910

A group of Jewish children with a teacher in Samarkand, (in modern Uzbekistan), ca. 1910.

An Armenian woman in national costume poses for Prokudin-Gorskii on a hillside near Artvin (in present day Turkey), circa 1910.

Laying concrete for the dam's sluice, 1912. Workers and supervisors pose for a photograph amid preparations for pouring cement for sluice dam foundation across the Oka River near Beloomut.

Youth has no age.

- Pablo Picasso

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?

- Satchel Paige