Photo from snooowflake on tumblr 2012 has been an interesting year for Mole Empire. Thanks to some brilliant artists out there our platform has grown and extended to contain a mixture of photography, art installations, painting, drawing, graphic design, styling, or even artistic creations that are hard to be defined but definitely worth mentioning. We…
Post-rock is pretty hip these days, but many people think only at Sigur Rós or God Is An Astronaut when they hear “post-rock”. So lets see a bunch of other post-rock bands that are not that famous, but that cool! 1. Maybeshewill (United Kingdom) This is the main reason that made me write this post….
Tiny figures, meticulously detailed appear as taken from a movie scene in Christopher Boffoli‘s “Big Appetites” series. The humorous scene is humorous unveils itself in surroundings made out of real food environments. Here a strawberry, there some bananas or some pasta, and little people casually fit in the surroundings having a conversation. Each image has…
A self-taught photographer with a background in painting, Greg Holland‘s art is an interesting combination of the two forms of art. Continuously exploring the relation between people and their environments, he focuses on portraiture in which faces emerge or recede from the background. In his day time job, Greg is teaching full time, but recently…
Every day household items come to life in the mechanical sculptures of Andrea Petrachi aka Himatic. Simple things that are thrown away every day are collected by Andrea and assembled in the most ingenious forms, giving birth to original robots that looks as if taken from a sci-fi movie. Toy parts, electronic pieces, or different…
Pauline Darley, fashion photographer based in France has put up a fun and realistic photo series about the morbid cartoons “The Addams Family“. Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday, Cousin Itt and even The Thing are brought to life in a modern fashionable portrayal through a black and white photographic series. The series brings up some childhood thoughts…
Percussive folk and street art combine in the new music video for the song “Urban Nature” by French artist Charly et sa Drôle de Dame. We’re used to street art being associated with hip hop or electronic music, but this time the music video combines portraits of street artists with an original approach to folk…
The key to creativity… is a hurricane of inspiration. That is how Giada Laiso, 21 year old art student and photographer imagined Mole Empire, as part of the “Mole Empire imagined by others” series we just launched. Giada explains the idea behind the two thematic photos dedicated to our website. I thought about how Molempire…
Tata Christiane is a fashion label based in Berlin who redefines the idea of beauty. Tata and Hanrigabriel, the artists behind the name of the label experiment with extremes, mixing the grotesque, the absurd with the extravagant in colorful and bold collections. Playing with the borders of elegance and bad taste, they produce unique pieces…
It’s been more than two years since we’ve been gathering and presenting all kinds of art here on Mole Empire. From simple observations, to inspiring stories or to tops that entertain you, we’ve made our best to be a platform where unconventional artists and underground art meet. Later on this year we’ve started our interview…
Alexander Khokhlov, the photographer behind the Weird Beauty photo series exclusively sent us his latest fashion look for Halloween. In this little experiment the author created a bold beauty look with a self made pumpkin hat. As simple as it may seem, this summer Moscow was running out of big orange pumpkins because of the…
There are lots of young artists out there trying to be discovered and to show their creations to the public. Giada Laiso, a 21 year art student from Italy is just one of them. Studying photography in Milan and with an inclination towards surrealism, Giada’s imagery features characters as captured from a dream, a dream…