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El Mac has been on fire lately. The piece was completed for theAvant-Garde Urbanofestival in Tudela, Spain. El Mac’s websitePhotos credit:Ana Alvarez-Errecaldevia [Unurth]

I’m still mesmerized by his ability to paint the human hand with such detail. Most artists say the hand is the hardest thing to recreate. Clearly it’s not a problem for Ortiz!

In over a nine year period, Dawe completed over 300 portraits. There’s an art to head swapping, I’ve seen so many awful attempts. The most important things to consider are anatomy, perspective and lighting. If you’re able to get those things right, you’re more than halfway there. My artistic ability serves me well with this stuff, I can just tell if something looks wrong. Here are twelve of our favorites.

Not sinceSamuel Bradleyhave I been this excited about beautifully offbeat photography. Robert Moses Joyce is the person behind these dream-like photos. Let him be your guide as he takes you into some magical and mystical places. Read that interview below. There’s definitely a surreal feeling to your work. Are you purposely striving to create dream-like photography?Well, the images draw a long path. I think deeper than what you and everyone else sees in the photos lies my actual being....

(Tip: Next time you’re there look underneath the chair for a wonderful surprise.) If I could have a second place in San Francisco, it would be at the Clift. The place is lovely through and through.

Ready for some explosive art? Let San Diego-based artist Kelsey Brookes amaze you with his beautifully complicated pieces. What a treat for the eyes!

Writer and director Mike Mills based the story on his own life. By the way, did we mention that Ewan plays a graphic designer in the movie? For this film, the questions get awfully personal really fast like, Was your mother really happy? and I’m like, If I only knew that woman I could maybe give you an answer. But even that is weird. and I cried for like a second....

For avid moviegoers, a film festival is a momentous event. For filmmakers, it’s their time to captivate viewers with their creative vision. Nowhere was this more true than at the Castro Theatre on Thursday night. (He wouldn’t see it that night either, more on that below.) You see,Beginnerswas inspired by his personal life story. Though we’d love to give you a full review of the film, it will have to wait....

Ben Cort doesn’t need to go outside to find adventure. Like a mad scientist, he brings his vividDreamsto life right on top of his dinner table at home. Cort recently graduated with a BFA in Profession Photographic Illustration at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Ben Cort’s websitevia [PDN]

The UK-based painter will be headlining his first solo exhibition at the prestigious Joshua Liner Gallery in New York. The show will run from March 3 to April 2, 2011. Love the descriptive titles he includes with each piece.

Highly trained acrobats precariously hang in mid-air. While this may sounds like a description for a circus act, it’s actually far from it. Balancing Sculptures by JOTKA amuse and attract, but above all, they balance, says Kinetica Art Fair. The sculptures are not classically beautiful: they are interesting, grotesque and true like circus actors. Their greatest strength lies in this ambiguity.

Gemma uses pens for drawing and then scans her images into Photoshop to adjust the color levels. Love how she makes being an outcast surprisingly cool. Update:We got in touch with the talented illustrator after writing this post. Read that interview below. How do you come up with your hilarious illustrations? What is your creative process like?Most of my work starts off in a sketchbook. I enjoy the process of coming up with ideas....

It’s impossible not to be blown away byKirsty MitchellsWonderlandseries. Picking locations that are genuinely real, Kirsty produces incredibly vivid, colorful, and beautiful fairytale-like configs. We reached out to Kirsty to ask her a few questions about the set. The answers she gave us were not only extremely thorough but also surprisingly candid. It’s near London, but it feels a million miles away sometimes, which suits me very well. I have spent my life being involved in the creative industry, and have studied many aspects....