Category: Best Of
Best of Mole Empire 2012
Happy New 2013, filled with excellent art features! As the New Year has already started and there are a lot of artists waiting to be featured on Mole Empire, we taught of stopping for a moment and looking at a retrospective of our 15 Best Articles published on Mole Empire in 2012. Here’s a selection [...]
![Julie de Waroquier Questions Reality in her Surreal Conceptual Photography [Interview]](http://molempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Julie-de-Waroquier-Photography-Inner-Worlds-2-150x150.jpg)
Julie de Waroquier Questions Reality in her Surreal Conceptual Photography [Interview]
Julie de Waroquier is a French self-taught photographer who explores surreal and fantasy worlds, questioning the reality through her photographic projects. Reminiscent of Lissy Elle’s photography, but with a more subtle and dreamy approach, Julie’s imagery means fairy tales, illusions and female characters levitating or simply trapped in parallel worlds, all transmitted with a nostalgic [...]
![Mark Powell’s Vivid Biro Pen Portraits on Antique Envelopes [Interview]](http://molempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Mark-Powell-Biro-Pen-Drawings-on-Antique-Envelopes-1-150x150.jpg)
Mark Powell’s Vivid Biro Pen Portraits on Antique Envelopes [Interview]
London based artist Mark Powell has a rather unusual way of practicing the art of drawing. Using antique envelopes as canvases, he draws incredibly vivid portraits of elderly people using only a biro pen. His artistic path is also an unconventional one just as his art, so we got in touch with him for an [...]
Interview with Ulric Collette: Photographer behind the Genetic Portraits Series
Exploring the similarities between two family members, Ulric creates original portraits by joining the faces of the two persons through a common characteristic, like the eyes, the lips or the nose. The result is an intriguing portrait of one harmoniously person or a totally contrasting portrait of two apparently different persons. His Genetic Portraits have [...]
Interview with Markus Reugels: Amazingly Visual Water Drop Photography
German photographer Markus Reugels is a passionate of macro photography who captures unique liquid forms which he generates only with the help of water and colored ink. Using his imagination, and no photo manipulation at all, the artist freezes beautiful images of “liquid art”, images the human eye fails to notice otherwise. Luckily for high [...]
A Tribute to Woody Allen: Movie Posters For True Fans
Giulio Mosca, a 21 year old design student from Italy brings a tribute to Woody Allen by coming up with a creative series of movie posters for the actor and director’s older masterpieces. By picking a significant moment from classics like Annie Hall, Manhattan or Take the money and run, the designer establishes an emotional [...]
![Escape From Reality in Lissy Elle’s Magical Photography [Interview]](http://molempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Lissy-Elle-Photography-35-150x150.jpg)
Escape From Reality in Lissy Elle’s Magical Photography [Interview]
Lissy Elle Laricchia is a young 18 year old photographer based in Canada. Exploring fantasy worlds which most of the times feature female characters or even herself as the main character, her imagery emanates a certain magic filled with a vintage vibe. Childhood fairy tales reinvented, tea parties, tutus, levitating girls, childish adventures with monsters [...]
![Behind the Hollywood Sign Project by Ted VanCleave [Interview]](http://molempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Behind-the-Hollywood-Sign-Project-by-Ted-VanCleave-4-150x150.jpg)
Behind the Hollywood Sign Project by Ted VanCleave [Interview]
Photographer and painter Ted VanCleave recently released a new series titled “Behind the Hollywood Sign”, a fine art photographic collection portraying the famous Hollywood Sign as it has never been seen before. The unique perspective lies in capturing the Sign from behind the letters, offering in this way both an idea of its architecture, but [...]
![Manuel Cafini Beautifully Captures Motion in Photography [Interview]](http://molempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Manuel-Cafini-Motion-Photography-6-150x150.jpg)
Manuel Cafini Beautifully Captures Motion in Photography [Interview]
An engineer turned photographer “by chance”, Italian photographer Manuel Cafini manages to harmoniously combine the technical aspects of photography with the perception and sensitivity of an artist. Entirely self-taught, he has found his visual voice as he’s exploring the art of motion in his works. Here’s our interview with Manuel, in which he tells us [...]
![Cartoon Style Movie Posters by Ïve Bastrash [Interview]](http://molempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Inkjava-Cartoon-Style-Movie-Posters-T-800-150x150.png)
Cartoon Style Movie Posters by Ïve Bastrash [Interview]
Ïve Bastrash‘s movie posters would make any child of the 90s nostalgic about those times when superheroes like “Batman” were our role models and when we used to watch “X-men”, “Pinky and the brain” or “2 Stupid dogs”. With the same cartoon style of the 90s and an eye for monsters, action and sci-fi, Ïve [...]
