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Is it possible for a game to be carried entirely by its art direction? A few examples come to mind -- Bungie's Marathon, most recently -- but if any upcoming game is going to put this theory to the test, it's Hieronymus. -- Read the rest The post ...

In René Magritte's 1937 painting La Reproduction Interdite -- roughly "depiction prohibited," or "depiction impossible" -- a man stands before a mirror and sees the back of his own head. Artists have been putting trick mirrors into paintings for ...

Ryan Bateman, a Berlin-based technologist who tinkers with oddball web projects at boat.horse, built a working clock that tells time by spelling every possible moment in English and sorting the list A to Z. He calls it The Accursèd Alphabetical ...

An unidentified French businessman has been storing a 9-foot section of the Eiffel Tower's original spiral staircase for more than four decades. In May, auction house Artcurial will sell the 14-step piece, which dates to the tower's construction for ...

Artist Aris Moore draws quiet, moody faces on stones, and each one uses the rock's own texture, shape, and indentations as part of the face. A crack becomes a nose. A worn edge becomes a jawline. A dimple becomes a half-closed eye. -- Read the rest ...

The annual Floating Bosch Parade celebrates the fantastical painter Hieronymus Bosch. People make incredible, surreal, floating displays and send them down a stream. You can see last year's marvelous creations in a video here. One of the displays is ...

If the lack of a native port of Adobe Creative Suite (or The GIMP's peculiarities) is a problem for you on Linux, check out Fog Panther, which describes itself as "a professional image editor" built natively for the open-source operating system. --

For 35 years, Jim Woodring's character Frank has wandered the hallucinatory landscape of the Unifactor without saying a word. Readers interpreted the allegories on their own. Now Frank has a voice. Quacky, out August 11 from Fantagraphics, is a prose ...

In 1995 or 1996, British musician Cylob -- real name Chris Jeffs -- picked up a free booklet from a stack near the entrance of a London bookshop. A staffer said someone mysterious kept leaving them there. The booklet has 20 pages, no letters, no ...

This trippy video shows what someone's face looks like through thousands of plastic straws. At first glance, it's not easy to tell what you're even looking at. It looks like a filter, or some kind of special effect. The man's face looks distorted, as ...