Everybody Wants to go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die series by Reuben Cox, a photographer based in Highlands, North Carolina.

Rogz Grinz Ball Dog Toy created by South Africa based Porky Hefer Design. ‘The Grinz ballcan be stuffed full of your dog’s favorite treats, ensuring even the laziest of dogs will go after the toy. When Fido comes running back to you, he will have a huge smile on his face.’ Link here.

Paintings by Carina Crenshaw , artist, illustrator, graphic designer works and lives in Hamburg, Germany. Some of my clients and projects include Beauty and Style Magazin (coop), Basel; Tatoot Bags, NYC USA; Juice Magazine, München; Generation Digitale, Hamburg, the list goes on.

Jonathan Borofsky‘s Walking to the Sky (2006) is a 100 feet tall stainless steel installation with 10 realistically painted life-size figures at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Link here.

These fantastic nebula prints by Starstuff are incredible, magical, and bold.

” I paint figures underwater, immersing my subjects in their surroundings. A person’s reflection in water is a constantly changing self, a distorted image with many sides. Near the surface, the familiar blends into the unknown. Color and shape break down. Things that seem separate become entwined. ” – Erika Craig

French multidisciplinary artist Cédric Verdure creates beautiful wire sculptures. ‘Cedric recycles the fence that is often neglected as it might seem unsuitable for anything. The sculptures are hanging from trees, integrating with nature, they arise and face everywhere. Folding, mending and evolving, the Cedric sculptures give a hand to the eternal fence, another life in art.’

Striking and bold, many of Cynthia Poole’s paintings take as their subject food packaging, sweet wrappers and chocolate bars; often with a warm nostalgia for confectionary of the ’70s and ’80s . Liking their vivid colour and strident competitiveness, she explores the ways in which they complete and clash, and complement one another. Each one has been designed to draw attention to itself, but together they make a glorious, confused landscape. The mixed responses of nostalgia, hunger, and maybe guilt, that can arise from these objects, are transformed on the canvas into the carnival aspect of consumer culture.

We dare you to be a part of something incredible in your life for once, while doing something good for the art community at the same time. ‘The HOPE Campaign & Empty Kingdom have joined forces to bring artists from around the globe together during SXSW in Austin, TX for an ALL DAY ART EVENT titled “ReCREATE: ATX” to support one of the largest outdoor art galleries in the United States, the HOPE Outdoor Gallery (HOG).’ What’s in it for you for supporting this awesome campaign? You get cool stuff from contributing a S1 all the way up to $1000. I bet you got at least a dollar don’t you? Then give it up, you won’t be disappointed. Trust me, you’ll feel so much better knowing it’s going to an awesome cause. And remember that it’s not about how much money you give, it’s about being part of this community that helps artists altogether. The HOPE campaign matters to all of us whether you’re an artist or not. Help make it happen for ReCREATE ATX!

” My work explores moments when we willingly and unwillingly dive into the next phase of our life. Whether it’s moving to a new city, starting or ending a relationship, having a baby, or quitting a job, these moments of endings and beginnings are alternately terrifying and exhilarating. Ready or not, we jump, fall or are pushed, and our lives change.” – Michelle Jader