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Products designed for children often portray a happy-go-lucky world filled with sunlight, flowers, smiling animals and friendship. But what happens to this world when jaded, miserable adults with a morbidly dark sense of humor get their hands on it? Well, you get something that looks a lot like Coloring Book Corruptions.

This twisted blog maintains a collection of illustrations from children’s coloring books that have been twisted and corrupted by darkly humorous adults. Two octopuses frolicking and playing under the sea become a pair of predators dragging a diver to his doom, and a playful Martian becomes a murderous heart-eating monstrosity. Most of the art seems to have been done with crayons and colored pencils, just like it should be in a real coloring book. There’s definitely something funny yet unsettling about seeing cute childhood characters in situations like these.

Make sure to pay the blog’s Facebook page a visit – it features guest posts by enthusiasts also looking to destroy the innocence of their children’s coloring books. If you’ve got a dark sense of humor and a knack for coloring with crayons or pencils, give it a try! The blog’s website recently crashed due to the massive surge of visitors it has received since it went viral, but it’s definitely worth keeping an eye on!

Source: coloringbookcorruptions.com | Facebook | Twitter (via: laughingsquid)

Coloring Book Corruptions: See What Happens When Adults Do Coloring Books originally appeared on Bored Panda on April 16, 2014.

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This spring my new book “the Kingdom of Fungi” was published by Princeton University Press.



The 265 pages book is sort of an illustrated textbook – with many illustrations and not so much text :-)

Table of contents:




It has been well received, and I cite from the Princeton website:
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Here are some spreads from the book:









You can read a full review of the book here (scroll down to page 26) and an interview with the author here.

The book is by now out in English (The Kingdom of Fungi), Danish (I svampenes rige), Dutch (Het Leven van Paddenstoelen en Schimmels) and Estonian (Seeneriigi illustreeritud entsüklopeedia), see my photographic website for further updates.



Update:
Some further reviews of the US edition:
The Cornell Mushroom Blog
The flying mullet
Omphalina (down to page 10)

Galactic Poetry

The downfall of living in an urban center, is that all we get to see during the night are blankets of cloud (possibly smog), and if we’re lucky, a few stars. What artist Sanjeev Sivarulrasa is trying to show in his work, Night Light, is what we are missing out on; a magical world, swimming through space, with galaxies and nebulae bejeweling the cosmos.

It is visual poetry.

The artist uses astrophotography to capture the various forms and colours of the stars and planets outside of an observatory setting. According to journalist Becky Rynor, it is as if he is capturing the great masterpieces that our ancestors would see; a natural art. Space does not have to be sacred scientific ground; it can also be merely another aesthetic aspect of our lives, that inspires people to think about the greater world around us. The simple observer plays as big of a role, as the great scientist. When this right to observe is taken away from us, via artificial city lights, we have to make the effort to go to the sources such as countryside’s, forests, lakes, and mountains. We must go to the nature, to connect back to ancient ideas of aesthetic beauty, and renew the senses. Sanjeev’s astrophotographs are to be seen as meditative, bringing awareness to our daily surroundings, and that sometimes, we need to take a step back, and see the bigger picture.

Night Light is currently exhibited at Karsh-Masson Gallery, until the 5^th of May, 2013, and there will be an artist talk on the 24th of March, 2013

-Anna Paluch