Cool Hunting Video: Barry X Ball

Using tools of the digital revolution, the artist recreates and re-imagines Renaissance era masterpieces

In an unassuming residential building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, lies the studio space of sculptor Barry X Ball. His stunning re-imagined and modified versions of Renaissance era masterpieces begin with meticulous 3D-scanning. Ball and his team then digitally sculpt the scans into incredibly detailed files, which are then 3D-printed from stone before being finished by hand. The artist spoke with us about his fascinating process, digital …

John Knuth’s Fly Paintings

We speak with the LA-based artist about his unique technique on utilizing common houseflies

To create the paintings for his “Master Plan” series (on show now at Chicago’s Andrew Rafacz Gallery), LA-based artist John Knuth feeds a mixture of sugar and watercolor paint to hundreds of thousands of common houseflies. As the flies eat, they digest externally, and over time they regurgitate millions of colored specks onto the canvas. To control this process, the artist builds boxes that limit …

Real Fake Nudes: Custom Illustrations by Ben Hammond

Commission your very own naked portrait from this talented and hilarious British artist

Berlin-based British portraitist Ben Hammond is a freelance illustrator whose portfolio includes expert works for various clients, but we have totally fallen for his Real Fake Nudes. Essentially creating pseudo-portraits, Hammond can be commissioned by anybody willing to send him a picture of their face (and £25) and the result is an original, custom, imagined illustration. Hammond came up with the comical and clever concept …