2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami

A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean nearby Northeastern Japan at around 2:46pm on March 11 (JST) causing damage with blackouts, fire and tsunami. God bless Japan, praying for its people… A member of the Japan Self-Defence Forces carries a man in Natori city, in Miyagi prefecture.

STRAND ARCADE AUTUMNWINTER 2011

The Autumn/Winter 2011 campaign theme was influenced by Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and took place in a rundown Victorian-style home. The house was filled with quirky decorations which evoked a 1920’s vibe. Model Tiah Eckdardt was made up to look like an interpretation of Alice in Wonderland with her curly red […]

Illustrations by Gianluca Mattia

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Gianluca is an Italian graphic Artist and illustrator. His illustrations are vivid, Gothic, erotic, illustrations, part-punk, between realistic and surreal. They operate in some of the same realms of beauty, utilizing details like tattoos, blood, tears, piercings, band-aids, skulls, odd creatures, hot rods and scars

Illustrations by Tara McPherson

Tara McPherson born in San Francisco in 1976 and raised in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from Art Center in Pasadena, CA in August 2001 with honors in Illustration and a minor in Fine Art. Creating art about people and their odd ways, her characters seem to exude an idealized innocence with a glimpse […]

Paintings by Frank Morrison

Born in Massachusetts then brought by his family to live in New Jersey at an early age, Frank Morrison was reared and spent his formative years there, an affable, precocious and inquisitive youngster whose curiosity about everything around him seemed limitless. Then, as an energetic pre-teen, he was interested and enthused by the youthful fads, […]