Presenting "Gothic Seraph" — a newly finished original stoneware... sculpture. 🏛️✨ Exploring the deep contrast of fine underglaze line work, custom skull iconography on the wings, and hand-painted liquid gold tattoos. Available directly in the art shop.🤫💀🖤show more

Dita Von Teese, the unrivalled glambassador of burlesque and... showgirl fantasy, invites you to embrace the luxurious charm of the Art Deco era with the DECO DAME Velvet and Gold Pasties—a stunning fusion of vintage elegance and modern seduction. Soft velvet, gilded gold accents, and removable hand-beaded tassels evoke the opulence of the Roaring Twenties. Crafted to captivate with every sway, these pasties keep all eyes locked on you—whether commanding the stage or creating your own intimate magic See the full Dita Von Teese x Appeeling pasties line - now available! Dita Von Teese ❤️ #beappeeling #beappeelingpastiesshow more

Darling, you’re a masterpiece—now dress like one. ✨ Introducing... the DECO DAME Pasties by Dita Von Teese - plush velvet, gilded gold, and hand-beaded tassels that shimmer with every sway. Finished in Dita’s signature red for a kiss of classic seduction. 💋 Inspired by the glamour of the Roaring Twenties, made for modern-day muses. Whether you're on stage or in the boudoir, this is your moment to shine. #DitaVonTeese #DecoDame #BurlesqueBeauty #SignatureRed #ArtDecoDream #AppeelingPasties #GlamourReborn #VelvetAndGoldshow more

I genuinely don't understand how people are still defending... Kate. These aren't edited clips. They aren't "taken out of context." They're Kate's own words, from her own public accounts, over a year apart. In May 2025, she explained the timeline herself. She said she got FOUR tattoos in one sitting: the 4, LP, and the "Peace" and "Happiness" finger tattoos. She literally said she thought that was it for tattoos. Then she said that a couple of days later she had a vivid dream about angel wings, woke up thinking she already had them, and because the dream felt so real, she decided to get the angel wings afterwards. That was a very specific timeline. Now fast forward to July 2026. Suddenly it's, "Which is the number 4 and the angel wings, about two months after Liam passed away. I got them kind of off a whim, I had a couple glasses of wine, I was like, I'm just gonna do it, found a random tattoo shop my friend recommended, and I just literally got these three tattoos." So... what happened to the original story? Before, the angel wings were a completely separate tattoo that happened days later because of a dream. Now she's talking about getting three tattoos in one spontaneous night after drinking. Referring to the 4 and the angel wings together, that doesn't match the timeline she originally gave. Those are two different versions of the same story. This is exactly why people compare old videos with new ones. Not because people are "obsessed," but because when you tell the same story differently over time, people are going to notice. Nobody had to twist her words. Nobody had to edit anything. These comparisons come directly from what she chose to say publicly. People can defend every inconsistency if they want, but acting like there aren't any when the clips are right there doesn't make them disappear. The reason these videos keep resurfacing is because the public explanations don't line up, and that's something anyone can see by watching the clips side by side. #JusticeForLiamshow more

Timothy Hogan offers an anatomical explanation for one of... the most recognisable gestures in Christian iconography - the raised hand of Jesus with two fingers and the thumb extended, seen consistently across two thousand years of sacred art. The explanation is neurological rather than purely symbolic. Timothy identifies a ganglia in the spinal column where nerve pathways connect to two distinct destinations simultaneously - the pineal gland, referred to in esoteric tradition as the third eye, and the radial nerve, which runs down the arm to innervate precisely the two fingers and thumb that the gesture raises. The connection between these two endpoints through a shared spinal junction means that stimulating or activating one pathway has a corresponding effect on the other. For Timothy, this reframes the gesture entirely. Jesus is not simply offering a blessing in a conventional religious sense. The hand position is designed to activate a specific neurological pathway - to awaken, in the person receiving the gesture, the connection between the physical extremity and the seat of higher perception in the brain. What has been transmitted across millennia as a devotional image is, in Timothy's reading, the visual record of a precise and intentional technique for stimulating the pineal gland through the nervous system. ✨🙌🏾💫show more

… nicki … nicki minaj wears custom thom browne... for the 2025 met gala. nicki wears an asymmetrical cocoon jacket in navy double duchess satin, embroidered with a running stitch pinstripe using silk thread… a deconstructed take on the dandy pinstripe suit… … cascading off her shoulders, appliquéd hand-cut florals in mixed fabrics, and golden spools handcrafted in new york by the twin sisters of l’enchanteur, unraveling to showcase a work in progress… undone but complete… the look is grounded by a pencil skirt with mermaid train in navy and white pinstripe wool crepe and a corset in white silk moiré with binding in tonal silk duchess satin. Nicki Minaj The Metropolitan Museum of Art #thombrowne #nickiminaj #metgalashow more

I will never forget the first time I walked... into St Peter's Basilica... None of it is painted. Everything overhead that appears to be a fresco is a mosaic: millions of small glass tiles, cut and set into place by hand. Michelangelo pierced the drum with sixteen windows, and beneath them runs a band of text, black on gold: TU ES PETRUS ET SUPER HANC PETRAM AEDIFICABO ECCLESIAM MEAM. "You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church." From the floor it reads like an ordinary inscription but each of those letters is two metres tall... Above the windows the dome divides into sixteen segments, and within them six tiers of figures rise in rings: the popes buried in the basilica, then Christ, the Virgin Mary, St John the Baptist and the Apostles, then angels carrying the instruments of the Passion, then the faces of cherubim and seraphim. Above all of them, a blue sky scattered with gold stars, and at the summit, in the lantern, God the Father. The man who designed it, Giuseppe Cesari, was a painter. Between 1603 and 1612 he produced sixty-five life-size cartoons setting out the whole scheme, and every one of them was then translated into glass by mosaicists. The reason is actually pretty unglamorous. The basilica was damp, and candle smoke and incense from centuries of liturgy were eating the pictures alive. So the Vatican began converting the building into glass, dome by dome, and from the end of the 1600s the painted altarpieces too, one at a time. By the basilica's own reckoning, around ten thousand square metres of mosaic. The workshop that did all of this is still open: twelve artists work in the Vatican Mosaic Studio today, cutting tesserae by hand in nearly 28,000 shades and fixing them with a linseed-oil stucco whose recipe has been in use for four centuries. Earlier this year its director, Paolo Di Buono, described the work: "We have the idea that we are working for something that is almost eternal."show more

This is the worst art restoration in history. An... 81-year-old woman with no training did it. In broad daylight. With the priest's permission. And nobody stopped her. The original was called Ecce Homo, a small fresco of Christ crowned with thorns, painted around 1930 by the Spanish artist Elías García Martínez straight onto the wall of a church in Borja, in northeastern Spain. After eighty years the damp in the walls had begun to eat the paint away, so in 2012 a parishioner named Cecilia Giménez decided to save it. She was 81, she had loved painting all her life, but she had no training whatsoever. What she left on the wall was a blurred and wide-eyed face staring out of the plaster. When the town saw it, officials assumed the church had been vandalised, and reportedly considered taking legal action. Then they found out it was Cecilia. She could not understand the fuss. "The priest knew it," she told Spanish television. "I've never tried to do anything hidden." She also insisted she had not even finished. She had left the paint to dry and gone away for two weeks, intending to come back and complete the job. She never got the chance... Within days the image had crossed the planet. The internet named it Ecce Mono, and Monkey Jesus, and Potato Jesus, and turned it into thousands of memes. Not everyone was laughing. For the people who prayed in that church, it was not a joke at all. Some of them called it a desecration, and some called it blasphemy. Whatever the world saw in the image, they had lost the face they had knelt in front of all their lives. And people now travel across the world to see the thing that replaced it. In the year after the "restoration", around 57,000 visitors came to Borja, a town most of them could not have found on a map. But the point is this: the beautiful face that Elías García Martínez painted is gone... Nobody ever thinks about him. He was a trained artist and a teacher at the fine arts school in Zaragoza, and around 1930 he stood in front of that wall and painted the face of Christ onto it by hand. The whole world knows what happened to his painting. Almost nobody knows his name.show more

The Magic Whip 10th Anniversary. To celebrate, a special... vinyl edition of the album featuring brand new artwork and a five-piece capsule collection are being released on 25th April 2025. Includes, a green bomber jacket, red t-shirt, tote bag, ice cream pin badge and a Mr Ok umbrella. Visual artist Tony Hung has reimagined the album’s original artwork to create a special new red and gold album cover. With added foil embossed details, the new artwork edition vinyl is available as a half-speed mastered, single gold disc for the first time. "My reworking for the anniversary edition was inspired by a deep dive into the album’s lyrics. Here, I found more intensity, anxiety and a dystopian edge, all of which I wanted to convey in the new edition. Upturned, the now spoilt ice cream brought a heavier tone, whilst the cone suggested a tower-like structure. The idea of an active broadcast tower, soaring above the clouds felt oppressive and menacing, suitably setting the scene. The final cover art was achieved by juxtaposing the above with the vibrant aesthetic and colours associated with ‘lai see' (lucky money) envelopes; a traditional Chinese gesture, where said envelopes are gifted to loved ones during special occasions such as the lunar new year, birthdays, anniversaries etc. Perfectly befitting The Magic Whip's 10th anniversary, wherein our package contains the gift of music.” - Tony Hung On 12th April, a limited-edition, zoetrope picture disc edition of The Magic Whip will be exclusively available in independent record stores for Record Store Day 2025. Explore the full range and pre-order now via the blur official shop.show more

🌀 #Live3D #Live2D #Live2DWIP 🌀 Today, I’d like to... share two of the three methods I use to create joint twisting in my Live2D-based 2D Pseudo-3D concept. On the right is the Glue Joint： The basic idea is to use Glue to connect two pseudo-3D ArtMeshes. By taking advantage of Glue’s weight settings, it can create an effect similar to a 3D joint. Once the weights are set up, it can move very freely with a relatively low amount of work. However, it also shares the same weakness as 3D joints: when rotated at large angles, it can produce unpleasant twisting and distortion. On the left is the Hand-Bent Joint： The basic idea is to add bending Keyforms directly to a Warp Deformer, then manually sculpt the ideal deformation. This method can create the most detailed and refined joints, depending entirely on how the rigger designs them. The downside is that it requires much more work. Every additional degree of freedom requires a significant amount of manual adjustment. These two joint methods have almost opposite characteristics, so in actual Live3D work, I choose the most suitable method depending on the situation. For example, in this hand model, I used Hand-Bent Joints for the arm twisting and fingers, while the wrist uses a Glue Joint.✨show more

there are a few things i am laser focused... on for 2026 and beyond. here is a brief summary for you, should you be interested in reading more. #1. The Starry Nights; - a 1/1/X series i am curating/creating which is a themed series and follow up to my edition work "la nuit étoilée". For this series, we will be offering exquisite print options with a custom and beautiful Muse Facktory unboxing experience. These will be our debut Muse Facktory prints open to the public and the moment we plant our flag as a true contender in the high caliber Fine Art world of prints. For the digital only collectors, the ultra high resolution artworks will stand on their own within your wallet, waiting for the day we have the means to exhibit our digital art properly and at scale. Each work is 12k pixels, for which we are building a custom viewport for them to be experienced properly, even on mobile. Printing, however, is something I truly enjoy, and the ChromaSculpt technique captures my layering process precisely and beautifully. Offering both is a must for this series, especially since all new works will be still jpgs. The exact quantity will be determined once i feel the series is complete, but not to exceed 1/1/111. It will be a ranked auction with settlement. This is all i can say for now. #2. curation of the servants of the Muse; As you know, i have the “servants of the Muse” collection of 69. When i began this series as a thank you token for 1/1 holders, i created as ERC721 for a reason. To one day bring about the 69 servants of the Muse, all in their true forms. 69 true 1 of 1s. DoomScroller, for example, is but one of the 69. There will be no 2 alike. All will be animated. All will serve at Her pleasure. These will of course only be available to 'servants of the Muse', who will have to pay a toll in order to reveal their servant. Toll price currently undetermined but i am no extractor so it will be reasonable. Some of these beasts and creatures and machines will be ungodly, some will be just, many will be grotesque, but all will serve. #3. Commissioned large scale aluminum sculpture Can’t speak to it beyond that at the moment. #4. Potential Installs and performances for Grand Skull Piano. #5. PROTO I - mounted digital art canvases specific for my animated works. #6. Whatever else the Muse commands. dyorshow more

It was a Friday night in October when I... received an email with the subject line… “Custom Golf Bag | Sammy Spieth” I remember it vividly. We had a horrible day in sales and I was a little down in the dumps. But I told my wife that this could be huge. We spent months working and finalizing the design. Below are some of the early drawings ⬇️ After getting the bags finished, I knew these could be really special. I had no clue if the bags were going to show up to the Par 3 course yesterday. Honestly, I was nervous. But after seeing Jordan’s wife with the bag in her hand, I had such a sense of relief. We made it. Yesterday will be a day that we will always look back on in the history of Charlie Golf. Really, really cool stuff. A legit pinch me moment.show more

In the Louvre Museum in Paris, there is a... marble sculpture whose wings are carved so thinly that when sunlight passes through them, the stone glows gold... The sculpture is called Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss and it was carved by Antonio Canova between 1787 and 1793. The story comes from Lucius Apuleius's Latin novel Metamorphoses, written in the 2nd century AD. Psyche is a mortal princess so beautiful that the goddess Venus grows jealous of her and orders her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with the most hideous creature on earth. Cupid disobeys his mother and falls in love with Psyche himself. Their love is discovered. Venus, in fury, sets Psyche a series of impossible tasks. The final one is to descend into the underworld and bring back a flask containing a portion of the beauty of Proserpina, queen of the dead. Psyche is forbidden to open it. She opens it. Inside is not beauty but the Sleep of the Underworld, and it falls upon her like a black cloud. She collapses on the road, lifeless. Cupid finds her there. He bends down. He kisses her. Canova chose to carve the exact moment her body wakes... Psyche lies on a low rock, her body slack, her arms rising slowly toward Cupid as life returns to her. Cupid kneels above her, one hand cradling her head, the other against her breast. Their lips have not quite met. They are millimeters apart, and they have been for more than 200 years. Behind Cupid, his wings rise into the air. Canova carved them so thinly that when light strikes them at the right angle, the stone turns translucent and warm as honey... If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of history. You can join us here: One story like this in your inbox every week.show more

Created with Seedance 2.0 Prompt: A luxury beauty commercial... for a hydrating hair oil, shot with a DSLR 85mm lens at f/1.4 for a deep bokeh effect and smooth slow-motion. The video features a young woman with a cinematic, high-end editorial look. It begins with a close-up of hands opening a sage-green bathroom drawer with gold handles under warm morning light. Cut to an extreme close-up of the woman smiling in profile, followed by a medium shot of her looking in a bathroom mirror at her frizzy, messy bedhead hair. Close-up of a hand spraying a fine, shimmering gold mist of hair oil into a palm. Tracking shot of hands running through long brown hair, instantly smoothing it into a glossy shine. In a playful twist, a Bengal cat leaps onto the marble vanity, walks past a matte gold bottle, and taps it over with its paw. The scene shifts to a dramatic transformation: the woman turns to the camera, smiling confidently with perfectly sleek, silky hair blowing in a warm backlit breeze. The final shot focuses on the premium matte gold bottle labeled 'YOUR BRAND - Hydrating Hair Oil' on the marble counter, with soft pink flower petals gently falling around it, while the woman is softly blurred in the background running her fingers through her hair. Mood: low-key luxury lighting mixed with bright, dramatic volumetric sunbeams and warm cinematic color grading.show more

grok imagine is a god-tier model. dragon prompt: A... massive dark dragon emerging from a digital void, rendered in a hyper-realistic cyberpunk glitch art style. The dragon's scales are obsidian black with a metallic sheen, its muscular form partially dissolving into cascading digital corruption artifacts, horizontal scan lines, pixelated data streams, and RGB channel-split glitches bleeding across the composition. The creature breathes an explosive torrent of electric cyan and cobalt blue plasma fire, the flames rendered with volumetric fluid simulation detail, turbulent, churning wisps of superheated energy with bright neon cores fading to deep royal blue at the edges. The fire drips downward like liquid neon, pooling into glitching blue data waterfalls that fragment into binary corruption at the bottom of the frame. The background is pure black void layered with faint grid lines, corrupted HUD interface elements, and barely-visible monospace text data suggesting a collapsing virtual environment. Dramatic high-contrast chiaroscuro lighting with the only illumination sourced entirely from the bioluminescent blue flames, casting cold electric reflections across the dragon's dark scales. Rendered in the style of concept art meets real-time VFX, 8K resolution, cinematic composition, shallow depth of field on the background corruption elements.show more

SquiggleDAO has placed Squiggle #8434 at the MACBA Museum... in Argentina where it will be permanently displayed using the Squiggle Display Station! 🎉🎉🎉 MACBA Buenos Aires (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires) is a leading institution in Argentina’s contemporary art scene, widely recognized for its deep focus on geometric and abstract art. Its collection emphasizes form, color, structure, and systems, creating a strong dialogue between historical geometric movements and contemporary practices. This curatorial focus makes MACBA an important platform for works rooted in logic, repetition, and visual rhythm. The museum’s holdings include significant works by key figures in geometric and kinetic art, most notably Julio Le Parc, whose practice explores perception, movement, and viewer participation. Alongside Le Parc, MACBA’s collection reflects a broader lineage of Latin American and international geometric abstraction, reinforcing its role as a steward of systematic and perceptual art traditions. Within this context, the Chromie Squiggle is a natural and compelling fit. MACBA has recently added a Squiggle to their permanent collection and will become the first museum to permanently display a Squiggle, a major achievement given how rare permanent displays are compared to temporary exhibitions! The museum is also the first to present the work using the Display Station, creating an interactive experience that allows visitors to engage directly with generative digital art and marking an important milestone in its institutional adoption. The Display Station will also be permanently installed at the front of the museum in order to maximize exposure and usage. The glass storefront allows anyone walking by to experience the Squiggle, maximizing exposure to foot traffic.show more

This guy built a visual scanner that reads 468... points on his face and 42 points on his hands from a regular webcam and turns them into a cloud of thousands of particles right between his palms. Inside, MediaPipe and TouchDesigner are linked: the first captures hands and face from the webcam with high accuracy, the second turns those coordinates into a live plane and feeds it into a POP system that instantly generates a swarm of particles in the shape of a head. No studio, no render farmer, no VR headset. Just a laptop, a webcam, and 1 TouchDesigner session. And traditional VJ studios keep teams of 5 people on a setup with lighting, custom hardware, and commercial plugins, while his expenses are only a TouchDesigner subscription and a regular USB camera. One laptop runs MediaPipe and TouchDesigner simultaneously, holds the camera stream at 60 FPS without drops, and in parallel processes 468 face points + 21 points on each hand. The camera captures frame after frame, MediaPipe in real time sends TouchDesigner the finger coordinates and face geometry, and the POP operator inside the engine translates those numbers into thousands of particle points with colors from bright pink to gold. This setup immediately defines the role of the tool and the limits of its autonomy. It knows where the fingertips are at every moment of the frame. It knows how to read the face geometry at any angle to the camera. It knows how to draw a swarm of particles between them with the right color and contour. → MediaPipe pulls 468 points from the face and 21 points from each hand, 60 times per second → TouchDesigner receives those coordinates, builds a virtual rectangle between the fingertips, and feeds it into the POP system → POP generates thousands of particle points in the shape of a head, coloring them in a gradient from bright pink to gold → The HUD layer adds green corners and a blue neon frame, styling the image like an AR interface → All layers assemble into 1 real-time frame that projects back onto the video in the camera window → The final image is recorded to a file or broadcast to a projector for a live installation And only when the guy spreads his hands wider does the plane between the palms stretch; brings them together, it narrows. Otherwise the system runs on its own. And when he moves from his home room to a concert hall, the same laptop with the same webcam launches the same TouchDesigner session in just 5 minutes, without reconfiguration, without a new team, and without a single line of new code. In his work setup there is no studio of his own and no team for assembly. On the desk sits a laptop with a webcam, on top run MediaPipe and TouchDesigner with POP operators, and the same setup through a USB camera moves to any concert without a new configuration. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the cleanest Creative Coding setup on 1 laptop: 0 render farms, 0 studio lighting, and between them 3 libraries, thousands of particle points, and 1 webcam.show more

Woof Woof ! ✨🐶✨ In October 2024, some scammers... saw a photo of my Shibu Doge Puppet on top of Neiro's head (Photo made by かぼすママ) and decided to steal my name and art to create $Shibu Doge Mascot on Solana. I had 2 choices that night: either do nothing and let thieves make money from my art, or fight to regain control of my work ✊ I chose the 2nd option, fought many battles against crypto scammers and finally got to control the image of my own art. Do I regret my choice ? Absolutely not, that was the right decision 🩵💛🩵 Since then, many things have happened ☺️ 🎠We have donated children's books to kids each week 🎠 Auctioned a Shibu Doge Puppet for 2500 Dogecoin 🐶🪙, I then donated 1000€ on Christmas Eve to my local animal shelter 🎠 I won boba competition, a 10 000€ worth of supplies donation to the animal shelter of my choice. The delivery will happen around January 21th 🥰 $Shibu token is what people call an IP coin = The original artist fully endorses the token, which makes it completely legal, and makes all the other ones illegal. I own the IP rights of Shibu, I'm the original creator of the cartoon and the physical puppet. Fantoumi is a real company created in 2018 in France, making children's books and puppets. Shibu is one of the characters from the Fantoumi collection. 🩵 Shibu is a cute ghost dog, created to honor Kabosu, the adorable dog adopted by Kabosu Mama 🩵 Shibu puppet is happy to live with Kabosu, Neiro and all Kabosumama's lovable family. Please give them a lot of love and respect, they deserve it ! 🙏 💛 Of course, if you decide to join the $Shibu Family, do not buy more than you can afford to lose. 💛 The more $Shibu succeed, the more we can donate to kids and animals in need 👧😺 💛 Enjoy the daily Shibu Art that I'm posting on 𝕏 and share if you like it ! ⛩️🐶⛩️ Shibu's Philosophy is following the DOGE philosophy: Transparency, Kindness and Fun Doge Love, Fantoumi.show more

It’s time! Let’s support independent bookstores with this year’s... indie bookstore campaign for THE FOURTH OPTION! I’ve been doing something special only available through indies since 2020 and this year it’s four custom-designed signed bookplates with original art by Sara Westman commissioned to depict aspects of THE FOURTH OPTION along with a corresponding sticker. Order your favorite or collect them all! Depicted in the video is Bookplate 1 – STAY ON TARGET. Each design is signed and available only through participating independent bookstores – free with your preorder of THE FOURTH OPTION while supplies last. One design per store. Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever. First Edition ✔️ Limited Edition Bookplate ✔️ Signed ✔️ Limited Edition Sticker ✔️ Support A Local Indie Bookstore ✔️ Let’s go!show more