Brian McCarty is an internationally exhibited artist and toy industry veteran based in West Hollywood, California. McCarty’s postmodern integration of concept and character has earned his photography a prominent position in the Art-Toy and Pop Surrealist movements. However, McCarty’s work is often more akin to reportage than photo-illustration. His approach is grounded in documenting actual – albeit manufactured – moments of time from a uniquely personal perspective.

” I am a visual artist currently living and working in Houston, TX. Through my art, I am interested in creating visual constructs based around the social anthropology and psychoanalysis of pretense. False presentations are deeply rooted in social behavior, especially in connection with self-representation, collective identity and the techniques through which they are constructed. These ideas are swayed according to a variety of sources within one’s society. For this reason, I focus on the semblances encountered within my particular gender, culture and class. I maintain an artistic style akin to Southern Gothic literature, focusing on the irony and disconcertion of various personal interactions and observations of people.” – Britt Ragsdale

Pup Crawl Illuminated Dog Leash ‘can be seen from up to a quarter-mile in the dark. It’s made of reinforced nylon, so it’s strong and lightweight’. Click here to buy.

Sam Pratt is a 24 year-old New York-based artist who graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010 with a BFA in illustration. He immediately began work as Gawker Media’s first-ever staffed illustrator where, over the course of 9 months, he created hundreds of on-demand illustrations and editorial packages that brought art to the world of tech-journalism and the media giant. Since then, celebrities and corporations from every corner of the world now come to Sam for their every creative need. The versatility of his work isn’t just evident in his portfolio, but also through his clients with magazine covers for Game Informer, editorial illustrations for MSNBC, promotional and advertising imagery for Rovio and the Angry Birds franchise, conceptual art for the game industry, merchandise for Warner Bros., cover art and branding for the music industry with labels and artists like EMI and Miike Snow, as well as personally commissioned artwork and covers for Actor/Comedian/Musician, Donald Glover (Childish Gambino), private portraiture for Fortune 500 CEOs, medical illustrations for The American Association of Cancer Research, illustrations for some of the world’s most renowned photographers—even including a 55 foot long painting on a tour bus, with book covers, websites, logos, and so much more in between.

The work of Paris based Ludo, often called Nature’s Revenge, connects the world of plants and animals with our technological universe and “quest for modernism”. It speaks about what surrounds us, what affects us and tries to highlight some kind of humility.Drawn with the precision of botanical illustrations, Ludo’s new order of hybrid organisms is both elegant and fierce. Armoured vehicles spawn stag beetle horns; carnivorous plants bare rows of hunting-knife teeth; bees hover, hidden behind gas masks and goggles; automatic weapons crown the head of sunflowers; human skulls cluster together like grapes.Ludo’s work aspires to jolt us out of a longstanding collective denial: despite repeated natural disasters, we refuse to acknowledge our own fragile state. Humanity’s reign on this planet is a dangerous and fleeting illusion.

Bizarre paintings from Oakland, CA-based artist Scott Greenwalt. Link here.

‘These Thumb Tacks were designed by the team at Handy Thumbs to look just like the product name would suggest. As oppose to having little colorful pins, these tacks are shaped just like tiny fingertips, complete with finger nails and all. The thumb tacks operate just like any ordinary push pins, and come in a pack of 5.’

“Silvia Cordedda was born on the 11th of May in 1991 in Carrara, Italy. She has been fractalist since January 2012. Cordedda attended Chemical Engineering in University of Pisa and took Japanese lessons in her free time.” Check out more of Silvia Cordedda’s beautiful digital artwork on her Deviant page here.

Cool metal root sculptures created by South Korean artist Sun-Hyuk Kim.

Allow me to introduce you to the outstanding work of Giuseppe Velardo. I am enjoying his work a lot.