Looking to create an entrant for this year's LA Design Challenge, Mercedes-Benz came up with the Ener-G-Force to fit the theme of Highway Patrol Vehicle 2025. Mercedes-Benz says that the styling of the Ener-G-Force builds on many cues from the Mercedes-Benz G-Class... [...]

Self thought digital artist from Japan - Kazuhiko Nakamura has been creating intricate cyber/steampunk artwork since 1996. His artwork looks as if created by mad genius obsessed with mechanizing anatomy of the living beings. Attention to the detail is mindboggling, and you can spend hours analyzing details of anatomically correct mechanical gadgetry in each of his works. More of his art can be found at Mechanical Mirage. Artwork by Kazuhiko Nakamura [...]

Self-taught sculptor from France Patrice Hubert has been creating elaborate moving sculptures reminiscent of the insect world. Kinetic "Neo Art Nouveau" installations made by bending metal in to intricate shapes, the geometry inspired by nature, adding a dimension of movement, light and shadow. Photos: Patrice Hubert [...]

The opus forms a kind of constellation - each one obeying a strict geometric order, repeating circles, to eventually represent mandalas - a patterning that embodies spiritual significance in hinduism and buddhism. [...]

This november, the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York city presents 'all', the first retrospective of italian-born artist Maurizio Cattelan, whose works treat-- often provocatively-- aspects of popular culture, religion, and society. [...]

No stranger to the controversy Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier done it again. Long before his latest movie Nymphomaniac is scheduled to be released on December 25, 2013, publicity is gaining momentum by release of movie posters depicting main characters in orgasmic facial expressions so natural it makes you wish you were present in their photo-shoot. Naturally remarks from actor Shia LaBeouf that he had real sex during the filming doesn't hurt. Whether your favorite or not, Lars Von Trier definitely is one of the most innovative filmmakers having this gift at creating moods (some of them disturbing) that sucks you in but are never dull or indifferent. On our favorite movie list is Europa, Breaking the Waves, Antichrist and Melancholia. From the actors in these posters we think Uma shall be a frontrunner in depiction of big O. More can be found on Zentropa [...]

We've all seen painted on body bikinis, ornaments, illustrations and all kinds of tattoo's but Japanese artist Choo San took art of body painting to completely different level. 3D photo-realistic body artwork is so real and "surreal" at the same time that somehow adds new dimension to the body and for a moment get's you thinking "that zipper must feel painful"... What started as doodling eyeballs on back of her hand developed in to inspiring body art that catches our imagination. Body art by Choo San [...]

French photographer Laurent Seroussi fused female form with insect bodies in enchantingly realistic series "Insectes". The results nothing short of an amazing - in surreal sort of way. Softness of feminine lines contrasts sharply with spiky edges of insect bodies, showing other, more dangerous side hiding behind seductive beauty. Photography by Laurent Seroussi [...]