Somewhere

For the past fifteen years, Stéphane Mahé has been conducting an intimate and pictorial photographic work that reveals an interior journey that is both timeless and free.
His series Somewhere unfolds a powerful dreamlike and cinematic universe where wandering becomes a photographic quest.

“Doug’s Cabin” by Karianne Bueno

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Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than it was in the 1990s.

 The assessment comes from an international team of polar scientists who've reviewed all the satellite observations over a 26-year period. They say Greenland's contribution to sea-level rise is currently tracking what had been regarded as a pessimistic projection of the future.
 It means an additional 7cm of ocean rise could now be expected by the end of the century from Greenland alone.
 This threatens to put many millions more people in low-lying coastal regions at risk of flooding.
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The Real Owners of the Planet, Björn Persson

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Imperfect is Perfect

Artist Ted Pim is putting a contemporary spin on classical Baroque painting. 

Dark, eerie backgrounds and decadently rich florals are just two of Pim’s techniques that evoke works of great masters like Caravaggio and Rubens. Unlike his predecessors, however, this gifted artist doesn’t leave his carefully rendered figures unblemished. It is his seemingly random and chaotic abstract touches that conjure immediate dynamism—ultimately making his paintings unforgettable.
 After over two years in the making, the Belfast-born artist is debuting a 25-piece solo exhibition at The Salon—a gallery owned by acclaimed casting director John Papsidera and producer Valoree Papsidera—in the heart of LA’s art district. The show, entitled Empire Lines, is a series of complementary paintings that express Pim’s love of classical art and illustrate his take on their iconic imagery.

 

Word on the Street

Dont Fret

 

Banksy in Birmingham

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Urban Mutations

Musgor, an angular green monster, roams a futuristic paper world in “Urban Mutations.”

 

Holiday Reading

Incidental Comics

 

Jean Paul Langlois

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The first snow, Aron Wiesenfeld

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Zagreb Advent Run 2019

Photos by Damjan Tadic / Cropix

 

The waiting is the hardest part.

Photograph by  Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

 

Boy, five, brings his entire kindergarten class to witness his adoption hearing.

An entire kindergarten class filed into a courthouse to show support for their classmate during the boy's adoption hearing. Kent County officials said there was not a dry eye in the courtroom as Michigan kindergartner Michael Clark Jr. was adopted on Kent County's annual Adoption Day.
 The hearing finalized the adoption of the five-year-old boy by foster parents Andrea Melvin and Dave Eaton.
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Walk Beside Me

"Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.

 Just walk beside me and be my friend."

 — Albert Camus 

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Fantastical Worlds by Illustrator James R. Eads

The Los Angeles-based artist builds imagined worlds with vibrant, short brush strokes, often featuring exotic birds, half-sunken boats, and swirling star-filled skies.
Eads shares with Colossal that he is deeply connected to music, which consistently influences his work.