From up North’s inspiration galleries. Amazing high quality artworks in various categories from great designers all over the globe.
This is all kinds of awesome, rolled into a big dough of cool and deep fried. Why do I suddenly feel like eating doughnuts?
Stop-motion animation featuring skateboarding images from magazines. Clever stuff. via Quipsologies
This Thing Looks Like That Thing of the Day: Smoke helmets worn by German and French firefighters in the mid-1800s. Remind you of anyone? (Hint: Darth Vader and C-3PO.)
From Collectors Weekly:
The buzz among collectors is that George Lucas’s designers must have found inspiration in these smoke helmets and other like them. In fact, one well-known 19th-century manufacturer was named Vajen-Bader—you could easily get the name Vader from that.
via thedailywhat
(Source: thedailywhat)
reblogged from justinrampage
Note From Artist: “I’m doing a series of face portraits of old action figures.
Of course I had to start off with him! It’s a Trap! | oil on canvas | 2010”
via: allaninnman
(via geek-art)





