Celebrities Who Passed Away Too Soon: How Would They Look Today?

No one lives forever, not even our favorite celebrities.

Freddie Mercury, John Lennon, Heath Ledger — the whole world knows these names, and they are still the greatest idols for many of us. Their lives were cut short at the peak of fame and youth, leaving behind only photos and all of their creative heritage.

Using Photoshop and AI, photographer Alper Yesiltasch was able to recreate portraits of celebrities who left this mortal coil too soon, allowing us to imagine what they would look like if they were still alive. Alper aptly titled this series of his photos “As if nothing happened.”

1. Princess Diana

Princess Diana was one of the most important and influential women of the twentieth century. A few days before her tragic death, Princess Diana sold 79 ball gowns at an auction. The proceeds were sent to the fund to fight cancer and AIDS. This is what Diana Spencer would have looked like if not for the car accident.

2. John Lennon

John Lennon, British musician and founder of the world-famous band The Beatles, was also lost but not forgotten by the author. The singer’s life was tragically cut short on December 8, 1980, but the memory of him remained in people’s hearts forever.

3. Freddie Mercury

Another British pop star and a good friend of Lady D — Freddie Mercury — did not live to see Queen still popping up in music top charts. Apparently, he would look like a very modest grandpa.

Stunning Street Art Murals in Support of Ukraine

Modern wars are more than just soldiers shooting each other with bullets and missiles. In the current war Russia is waging on Ukraine, there’s already a clear winner. At least the free world has already picked a side — the freedom-loving country of Ukraine, who’s been mercilessly bullied by its angry neighbor.

And as the invasion continues, more and more musicians, writers, and artists are tapping into that creative vein to make the world a better place by calling for peace or just mocking the orcish soldiers and their half-witted leader.  

Being a street artist takes courage as you’re showing off not only your creative side but also your painting skills. These people draw and spraypaint poignant anti-war propaganda on walls and other city structures for everyone to see. Some of the artists stick to the home turf and paint walls of Ukrainian cities, while others are letting everyone know that they #standwithukraine by painting murals all over the globe.

These masterpieces speak for themselves: we need to take a stand and remind the free people of the world that Putin’s war on Ukraine is more than just a tussle in Eastern Europe. Today it’s Ukraine, tomorrow — Warsaw, Paris, Lisabon, etc. There’s no end to the sickening hunger of Russian imperialism.

Let’s look at some of the most amazing murals supporting Ukraine and condemning Russia.

British street artist MyDogSighs: “I do not have influence apart from using my art to make people stop and think”

A mural by Seth Globepainter symbolizes hope and a better tomorrow for our children.

Here’s a humongous peace dove by Justus Becker (@corone_artist) in Frankfurt. 

The artist, GregosArt, knows that his painting won’t help Ukrainians win the war, but it’s important to show solidarity.

Humble Street Artist Fills Potholes With Colorful Mosaics

How many times during your daily walks have you seen a pothole on the road or pavement? In Lyon, France, there are so many of them, to the point that the city has a “pavement surgeon”! The urban artist’s name is Ememem, not to be confused with Eminem – the real Slim Shady, and he loves filling cracks and potholes with colorful tile pieces, creating some beautiful intricate mosaic. This art direction is called Flacking, and according to the artist, it’s supposed to marks new damage on the streets of Lyon and the way it’s covered up with art. The guy often uses ceramics, wood, and bitumen in his masterpieces, turning damaged walls, sidewalks, and asphalt into mosaic panels.

But Ememem’s work wasn’t limited to the streets of Lyon. It has spread far beyond France, appearing in other European countries and cities, such as Paris, Turin, Oslo, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, and even in Scotland. Maybe in a few years, Ememem’s creations will reach the Americas and Asia. At that point, all those cracks and bad roads would slowly start to disappear, and transform into psychedelic works of art.

Either way, let’s all just appreciate this dude’s amazing creations!

1. Even walls need some love from time to time.

2. It’s almost like the mosaic from a different world.

3. A magical dimension is peeking through the cracks.

4. Colorful tile pieces pop out straight from the kitchen floor.

5. A stained window into an alternate reality?

6. Or mast a fantastic art piece?

7. You got to admit these look fancy as heck.

Bizarre Creations of SuckerTom

When it comes to weird stuff, there aren’t many brains as messed up as SuckerTom’s. For his insane pics, he seems to draw inspiration from nature, television, and especially the stupid Internet memes.  

As you may have guessed, SuckerTom is a trash content creator whose works aren’t the most wholesome art projects, but they sure can get surprisingly deep and controversial at times. In one of the interviews, Tom claimed that his content could be viewed as brain trash, satire, or completely meaningless crap, depending on who you ask.

1. Wow! The future of America looks incredibly bleak. I can hardly wait to see JB run for POTUS.

2. Those cosmetics commercials are getting weirder and weirder. What is this, banana-flavored leg shaving cream?

3. It’s either a mutated chill pill or a depressed minion. Probably the latter.

4. It’s the year 3021. Lunar Uber is picking up a Moon worker from a late shift.

5. No clue what the meaning behind this one is, but we’ll give it a big thumbs up! Maybe it’s a new social network?

Thought-Provoking Street Art by JPS

Some folks think graffiti is the only type of street art out there, and they couldn’t be more wrong. Many of those weirdly-shaped words painted on the walls are rightfully considered to be vandalism, but on the other hand, we have tons of talented street artists whose imagination is second only to their artistic prowess. Their works can be found almost everywhere: some good, others quite questionable, but none of them are obnoxious or vulgar.

French Artist Shows Video Game Characters’ Overwhelming Inventory!

Linda Bouderbala is an art director, illustrator, and character designer from Paris, France. Like any modern artist, every time she plays RPGs, she gets inspired to draw her favorite characters or locations. After playing Pokemon Sword for a while, she had noticed that although there are hundreds of items in her character’s backpack, she can still run, bike, and go anywhere, as if by magic. But in real life, everything would be completely different.

So, Linda thought to herself: “Why don’t I illustrate how the game characters would really look carrying their items without any Bags of Holding or magic.” And that’s exactly what she did! She took her favorite games and showed just how much stuff the players are carrying. The attention to detail in her works is just incredible!

Let’s look at some of the coolest video game characters and the semi-realistic depiction of their overstuffed inventories.

1. Breath of the Wild

Here’s the OG simp link, with his neverending slew of weapons, shields, magical tools, bombs, and other useful stuff. Some of it may come in handy one day!

2. Skyrim

The cheese wheels alone should take up like 90% of Dovakin’s inventory space.

3. Resident Evil

Imagine running away from zombies with all this stuff in your backpack!

Mom From Belgium Creates Incredible Food Art

Mothers really don’t get enough credit for all the things they do. They take care of their kids, they make the house feel cosy with their loving touches, and they are generally the ones who create delicious and nutritious meals.

Jolanda Stokkermans is a mom from a little town in Belgium that clearly goes the extra mile when it comes to creating meals for her family.

Initially, Jolanda just wanted to prep food for the week, you know the usual meal prepping that consists of making a few meals in one day, putting them in containers and having them for the rest of the week. It’s a common way of cooking for those who don’t have the time to cook every day but still want to have healthy meals rather than relying on the microwave or freezer-ready meals. It saves time, that’s for sure.

But once Jolanda got going she couldn’t stop just boring meal prep. Pretty soon she found herself making the food into pretty pictures of animals and portraits of people. Honestly, at this point, we’re pretty sure this kind of food presentation is considered to be a work of art. I mean, just look at it.

Realistic Food Embroidery That’ll Make You Salivate

You might think you’ve seen everything at this point and nothing can surprise you anymore, but I’m pretty sure that this embroidery artist will manage to do so. They go by @ipnot on Instagram and their embroidery is so realistic you’ll be blown away. Trust me when I say you’ve legitimately never seen embroidery that looked so cool before.

We’d say it’s out of this world, but the subject matter is actually very common and borderline mundane. The artist creates mostly food based embroidery, but it’s the technique and the realism of it that’s unbelievable.

This Japanese based embroidery artist has been introduced to embroidery from a young age. They’ve seen their grandmother do it and were inspired to try and learn this craft. They tried many techniques of embroidery, but their favorite is the French knot. It’s a way of creating embroidery one knot at a time. They say they use the thread and needle similar to how painters might use a paintbrush, creating their artworks one brushstroke, or in this case, one knot at a time.

Phenomenal Sketch Artist Draws Super-Detailed Buildings

Demi Lang is a self-taught artist from the UK, specializing in drawing architecture. Her Instagram account is filled with drawings so detailed that you’re starting to question the fact that she didn’t even major in arts. Thousands of hours, hundreds of pencils, pens, and gallons of ink – all that and 15 years of hard work made Demi the incredible artist she is today. Let’s look at some of her most prominent masterpieces:

Here’s Demi, surrounded by her awesome sketches.

Don’t you wish you had a house with an attic like this?

She even nailed the palms!

Is this Taj Mahal’s little brother?

Neko Cups – Adorable Sand Molds Are Here!

Fluffy, playful, and sometimes mean and ferocious – cats are friggin’ amazing pets. It’s never a dull moment with the meowsters around. I know, because I have three fur babies myself. They chase feathery toys, catch bugs, eat plastic bags like it’s McDonald’s, and sometimes when they deem their human worthy, they’ll come and cuddle with us, purring like a tractor. And at that moment all is well with the world. You even forget for a second that there’s a pandemic terrorizing the world.

A sleeping cat brings peace and comfort to any house, because what could be cuter than a bunch of kitties curled like loaves of bread? Those napping little furballs are the most aww-worthy critters on the planet, and some crazy company from Japan has found a way to tap into that serene cat energy. And they’re ready to share their brilliant concept with the rest of the world.

We present to you the revolutionary Neko Cups! These “cat cups” are 100% eco-friendly, made from bamboo and seashell plastic. It’s a proprietary technology, don’t ask. We don’t need to know all the details, just that the molds are washable and come in different colors. And luckily, they do have those features.

Restoring Appearances Of People Through Machine Learning Technology

We often wonder what famous historical figures actually looked like. Sure, there are paintings and sometimes statues of those people but how much can we trust them. At the end of the day, those are artworks, they’re subjective. They are depictions of how the artist saw the person, and in many cases, if the person was famous and powerful they were depicted to look better than they actually did.

Benjamin Franklin

Unfortunately, photography didn’t exist back in the day so it’s really hard to know for sure what a person looked like. But a photographer from Amsterdam, Bas Uterwijk, has found a way to create the most realistic looking “photographs” of historical figures.

Rembrandt

Bas uses a special software that can recreate really photographic looking pictures of people based on the information and images you put in. The results are kind of mindblowing. This technology can also create an image of a person based on millions of other photographs.

Vincent van Gogh

Bas says that while he can’t claim his pictures are any kind of scientific proof of what these historical figures looked like, but to him, these look way more realistic than the paintings.

Queen Elizabeth I

Sheila R Giovanni Makes The Most Amazing Hyperrealistic Pencil Drawings

Being a pencil artist isn’t an easy job. We’ve all had to draw things with pencils when growing up, so hardly anyone considers it a unique skill to have. And to be fair, most pencil drawing isn’t a unique skill at all. Hyperrealistic pencil drawings, however, now that’s a skill only a limited few mortals have. Sheila R Giovanni is one of those mortals, and boy does she know how to make a pencil drawing. Seriously, look at this.

Ofcourse, as you can imagine, she has an Instagram page where you can keep tabs on her work. She usually does portraits, and ofcourse does a lot of superhero work. The way she manages to make these drawings look like a 4K picture is just sublime. No detail is lost whatsoever, and you probably wouldn’t believe these were drawings if someone told you. Thankfully, Sheila also posts “work in progress” pictures where you can see how she goes about making these drawings.

Disney As Famous Historical Paintings

If you’re a true fan of Disney you will never get tired of seeing new, reinvented and reimagined versions of your favorite characters. This time, we come to you with a creative idea that Spanish artist Carlos Gromo has come up with. He decided to imagine what Disney characters would look like if they were depicted in historical paintings from the past. Here are some side by sides of his works and the original paintings that served as the base and inspiration for the new drawings. We’re pretty sure you’ll be stunned by these.

1. Beauty and the Beast

Based on John William Waterhouse – The Soul of the Rose.

We can easily imagine this as a scene in the actual Disney animated movie. Belle stopping to smell the roses in the garden.

2. The Little Mermaid

Based on Michael & Inessa Garmash – Precious Moments

This would be such a cute moment between Ariel and her son, who clearly looks like Eric’s mini-me.

3. 101 Dalmatians

Based on Grant Wood – American Gothic

We’ve all seen this painting many times, but we bet none of you thought of Disney while looking at it. Have to admit, it does look way more cheerful with the dogs.

Thomas Kinkade Makes Amazing Disney Paintings

Disney movies have given moments of pure magic to everyone on this planet. They make you laugh, they make you cry, and they always give you a great story to remember forever. And let’s not forget the amazing visuals of them: whether you’re talking about the old movies or the newer ones, everything just looks amazing. But what if there’s a way to make them look even better?

Thomas Kinkade probably wondered the same thing and came with the perfect answer: paint these movies.

Yes, these are paintings. The fact that they almost look like digital illustrations is because Thomas is actually very proficient in a painting technique called chiaroscuro. This technique makes use of big contrasts to give the illusion of depth and volume. It makes these paintings look much more amazing and grand in scale than they really are. It’s like these characters are living in a fully 3D world, despite having been painted on a canvas.

Visual Artist Makes Animal Mosaics Out Of Money

There are many ways to create art. Some people draw paintings from memory, others prefer to observe nature and paint it, some people think of surreal ideas and put them on paper or draw them digitally, and some choose to create their art pieces from already existing materials. Visual designer Charis Tsevis came up with a rather unique idea when his friend asked him to create an art piece for a financial institution. He chose to create big art mosaics of animals from banknotes of various countries. From far away it looks like a colorful animal mosaic, but when you look closer you’ll see that all the animals and even nature in the background is made of pieces of banknotes. Charis Tsevis used current banknotes from various countries and also old banknotes that are no longer being used. The result is absolutely stunning and the details will blow your mind.

1. We often hear that we live in a concrete jungle, and this is an interesting play on that idea. If we live in the concrete jungle, then these are the kind of animals we’re surrounded with.

2. We value money over force these days, this is how we judge the power dynamic. The wealthiest animals would be those that have the most power.

3. We also often see companies choosing powerful animals as their logos, so it would make sense that a financial institution might be interested in having art that displays a powerful animal but made of money.

4. An art mosaic like this would not be out of place at a bank. It would create a distraction that reminds you of nature and be topical because of the materials used in the creation of the artwork.

A Real Mini Art Gallery for 7 Lovely Budgies by Rebecca Keen

To all of you sitting at home chilling with your pets, wouldn’t you love to make their day even better than it is now? Of course, you would!

Rebecca Keen, a resident of Delaware, whom you may know from her famous gerbil art gallery, did not know what else to do in quarantine, so she made a miniature art gallery for her budgies. She’s got seven of them, by the way.

Here’s the overview. As you can see, not much action is happening… yet.

Edvard Munch’s Scream becomes the Squawk, of course.

Michelangelo’s Creation of Man turns into the Creation of Bird. Obviously.

Artist Behind Hilarious 50 Cent Murals Got Attacked

Inspiration is a mysterious thing that can strike in the strangest ways. Some artists find inspiration in nature, others in the art created by other artists, some people have dreams that inspire and some find it in the matters of the heart. The artist we’re going to tell you about today seems to have found a well of inspiration in the famous rapper 50 Cent.

The artist is only known by his Instagram handle Lushsux and his passion lately has been painting murals of 50 Cent looking like other famous people. He’s done murals of 50 Cent looking like Mike Tyson, Post Malone, Donald Trump, Mike Pence and many other famous people.

At first it seemed like 50 Cent was amused by this artist. He would often share his Instagram posts and give this guy semi-sarcastic shoutouts on his account. There was even some praise where he wondered how Lushsux managed to do these murals so quick and make it look so easy. And if you think about it, it is pretty impressive how the artist manages to make these murals so quickly yet so well and the resemblance is uncanny even when he’s mixing celebs.

Ronald Ong Photoshops Animals To Make Them Weird, Because Why Not

It’s getting harder and harder to get some light-heartedness in these seemingly everlasting Corona days. The weather is clearing up and we still have to spend most of our time indoors, avoiding social contact and being locked up with nothing but ourselves. That might sound like a bleak and depressing life, but it does come with perks. For instance, you have more time to become acquainted with lovely Instagram artists, like Ronald Ong!

What Ronald does seems simple enough: he photoshops animals into weird, surrealistic works of art. It usually has to do with food, but he doesn’t stick to just the one theme. He uses all manner of objects and even other animals, as long as it makes sense for the animal he’s trying to photoshop.

Rainbow Grandpa Saves A Village From Demolition

Believe it or not but art is a powerful thing. And while we sometimes think of it as optional, and something we have time for once we’re on vacation or relaxing, art can actually have real consequences and art can save the day. Think about all those times an art piece, a book, a movie or a poem resonated with you so much it brightened your day or even changed your life. Well, today we’ll tell you the story of how art saved a village in Taiwan.

There’s a little village in Nantun District, Taichung that used to house over a thousand families. It was initially built as temporary housing for soldiers. But over the years people moved away but some former soldiers and their families stayed and decided to make this place their permanent home.

Huang Yung-Fu is a 96-year-old ex-soldier is one of those few who stayed. He has lived in this village for almost 40 years. And even though the village was becoming almost abandoned, with only 11 houses occupied, it’s his home. So imagine his shock when he found out that the government was planning to demolish the entire village. The reasoning was that it was only meant to be temporary by design and since most people moved and certain corporations were interested in buying the land – they might as well make a clean slate out of it.

Amsterdam Artist Adds Fun Sparkle To Nature

It’s times like these that make us re-evaluate our views on what’s important. How many of you have been thinking that they really didn’t go on enough walks, picnics in the park and camping trips in the forest or in the mountains? Are you wishing you went to the beach more and enjoyed swimming in the sea or the ocean more often? Year, we’re right there with you. We’re pretty sure that after this we will all appreciate and cherish nature more. But in the meantime let us introduce you to Martijn Schrijver, an artist from Amsterdam who uses photoshop to manipulate animals and landscapes in the most surreal and amusing way.

1. Lazy Puppy Rock. The artist captioned it with “I’m not lazy, I’m just highly motivated to do nothing”. What an adorable artwork.

2. What do you think of this Tiger tree? Martjin has a whole animal tree series on his Instagram that you should definitely check out.

3. Rhino rock with a castle on his head? Yeah, why not? Who’s going to stop you when you’ve got the power of Photoshop on your side?

4. How do you know that mountains aren’t actually just massive turtles? Wasn’t there a theory that the earth is resting on massive turtles?