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Photographer Charles Brooks captures the stunning interiors of rare musical instruments in a series called "Architecture in Music."

Watch clay slicing pro Ellard Devane's trippy horror animation, "Nosferatu Zombie Chainsaw Massacre." My favorite thing about it is that all the special effects are done by hand, not with ...

In the past, we've featured Rhode Island-based artist, photographer, toy designer, and storyteller David M. Bird's wonderful and whimsical "Becorns" creations -- those adorable little people that Bird makes out of acorns and then beautifully ...

If you walk through Tehran's Grand Bazaar, you may find yourself standing in front of this incredible colored pencil shop. The shop is run by Mohammad Rafi, whose passion for it is contagious. In this heartwarming video, we get to see the shop's ...

The gigantic hardcover "gallery edition" of the early issues of Wendy and Richard Pini's ElfQuest is one of my favorite books, and now it's getting a companion volume: the ElfQuest: Hidden Years Gallery Edition. Hidden Years featured astonishing ...

Drew Struzan's gift for accurate likenesses and dazzling impressionistic compositions made his art perfect for Hollywood, and he created hundreds of famous paintings for movies. Struzan's death at 78 was announced on his Instagram page yesterday. "It ...

From the workship of Danish artist Thomas Dambo and his team, a "gentle army" of 170 giant wooden trolls is heading out to forests the world over. Crafted from pallets and other wooden junk, the project began 12 years ago and a new troll, up to 40 ...

I'm fascinated by artist and musician Petr Válek, also known as "the VAPE." Previously, here at Boing Boing, Popkin highlighted one of his musical contraptions created with a spoon, metal bowl, marbles, sticks, rocks, and more. I recently came ...

In this 1987 cartoon by Bulgarian artist Milen Radev, an engineer operates a wireless remote control to command a towering robot-- but the robot's mechanical hands grip puppet strings attached directly to the engineer himself. Who's really in control ...

Long before brain scans and neural networks, two scientists used chemistry and ink to uncover what the brain actually looks like. In the late 1800s, Italian scientist Camillo Golgi developed a staining method he called the "black reaction," a ...