Being creative is great, but those in the business of creating often go the extra mile to produce work that...
Within Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s indie-powered art universe, you may be familiar with Dr. Samuel Peralta’s name since Issue 38 of...
“Death is everywhere,” Dave Gahan crooned in Depeche Mode’s 1985 hit song Fly on the Windscreen, “the more I look…the more I see…the more I feel a sense of urgency.” As dispiriting as their chief songwriter Martin Gore’s lyrical observation may seem, the then 37 year old designed it as...
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” ~Lyman Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Before we ponder...
So many silly artist tropes persist despite how little they reflect the truth. The notion that – in order to...
It’s life, but not as we know it. From forest glades to mountain vistas, lonely seascapes to snowy hillsides, Josh Pierce is a world-building digital artist, able to manifest parallel universes at the click of a mouse. There’s flora and fauna similar to those in our own world, but it’s...
Reading just a few lines of thoughtfully composed poetry can touch a deeper part of our soul, as can being...
When you’ve met someone for the very first time and you learn that they’re an artist, what preconceived notions instantly...
Noodles – affordable, adaptable, and universally appealing to all palates. We tend to experience a ‘comfort food buzz’ merely just thinking about indulging in carby strands of deliciousness, and when we’re suffering through a keto diet, perhaps even more so. None of us are fans of the ‘starving artist’ trope,...
Being exposed to diverse forms of visual and intellectual inspiration is what empowers any creative to achieve the necessary ah-ha...
Micah Ofstedahl’s sun-drenched fields, botanically-kissed mountain sides, wind-swept valleys and zen-inducing plains – all of which are featured in his...
Petite in scale yet grand in nostalgic vision, Thomas Ascott’s latest solo exhibition of pop surrealistic oil paintings and graphite drawings at Arch Enemy Arts – entitled “Small Dreams” – features utterly endearing, youthfully unencumbered vignettes steeped in the beautiful simplicity of life’s little pleasures. His origami-folding rhino-salamanders and contentedly...
