Grotesque Illusionist Sculpture

His work combines the vision of the author’s psychological, religious, ideological and aesthetic problems. American Chris Cooksey  pursues the idea of ​​exposing the illusions created by us as a result of the fear that lives in our minds.

Chris Cooksey  – recognized as a contemporary artist, whose art belongs to the fantastic realism. He works in the technology mix of media, creating a grotesque collage and installation, telling that person lives in a cruel world in which he is only a small part of the huge Whole. The whole picture is created by first built by the author in his head, but in most of the artist can improvise and add some necessary details. Chris Cooksey (Kris Kuksi) was born March 2, 1973 in Springfield, Missouri and grew up in nearby Kansas City. Chris spent his childhood in a rustic solitude and isolation, living with an alcoholic stepfather, older brother and mother who worked all the time. All this is probably deposited in the minds of youth. His interest in all the unaccustomed later reflected in his dark arts. All that is ugly, roused in him admiration. The art of the artist as a young man – a kind of breakthrough personal freedom from the negative influence of the environment on his mind.

Top 10 World Most Famous Photos Ever

01. Afghan Girl [1984]
Photographer: Steve McCurry

And of course the afghan girl, picture shot by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. Sharbat Gula was one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp; McCurry, rarely given the opportunity to photograph Afghan women, seized the opportunity and captured her image. She was approximately 12 years old at the time. She made it on the cover of National Geographic next year, and her identity was discovered in 1992.

02. Omayra Sánchez [1985]
Photographer: Frank Fournier

Omayra Sánchez was one of the 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia) volcano which erupted on November 14, 1985. The 13-year old had been trapped in water and concrete for 3 days. The picture was taken shortly before she died and it caused controversy due to the photographer’s work and the Colombian government’s inaction in the midst of the tragedy, when it was published worldwide after the young girl’s death.





03. Portrait of Winston Churchill [1941]
Photograph from: Yousuf Karsh

This photograph was taken by Yousuf Karsh, a Canadian photographer, when Winston Churchill came to Ottawa. The portrait of Churchill brought Karsh international fame. It is claimed to be the most reproduced photographic portrait in history. It also appeared on the cover of Life magazine.





04. The plight of Kosovo refugees [1999]
Photographer: Carol Guzy

The photo is part of The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning entry (2000) showing how a Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania. The members of the Shala family were reunited here after fleeing the conflict in Kosovo.

05. Stricken child crawling towards a food camp [1994]

Photographer: Kevin Carter

The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine.

The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.

Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.

06. Segregated Water Fountains [1950]

Photographer: Elliott Erwitt, Magnum Photos

Picture of segregated water fountains in North Carolina taken by Elliott Erwitt.


07. Burning Monk – The Self-Immolation [1963]
Photographer: Malcolm Browne

June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon to bring attention to the repressive policies of the Catholic Diem regime that controlled the South Vietnamese government at the time. Buddhist monks asked the regime to lift its ban on flying the traditional Buddhist flag, to grant Buddhism the same rights as Catholicism, to stop detaining Buddhists and to give Buddhist monks and nuns the right to practice and spread their religion.
While burning Thich Quang Duc never moved a muscle.




08. Bliss [~2000]

Photographer: Charles O’Rear
Bliss is the name of a photograph of a landscape in Napa County, California, east of Sonoma Valley. It contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with stratocumulus and cirrus clouds. The image is used as the default computer wallpaper for the “Luna” theme in Windows XP.
The photograph was taken by the professional photographer Charles O’Rear, a resident of St. Helena in Napa County, for digital-design company HighTurn. O’Rear has also taken photographs of Napa Valley for the May 1979 National Geographic Magazine article Napa, Valley of the Vine.
O’Rear’s photograph inspired Windows XP’s US$ 200 million advertising campaign Yes you can.







09. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire [1911]
Photographer: International Ladies Garmet workers Union

Picture of bodies at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Company rules were to keep doors closed to the factory so workers (mostly immigrant women) couldn’t leave or steal. When a fire ignited, disaster struck. 146 people died that day.





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Finally, a question for you……… ….. Who is this famous guy?

Hiroshima, 64 Years After The Atomic Bomb Was Dropped

Hiroshima; “Atomic Blast” is the first thing that comes in mind whenever one hears about this city of Japan. It was a fine morning and 8:15 am on August 6, 1945, when an American bomber aircraft B-29, the “Enola Gay” dropped an atomic bomb codenamed “Little Boy” on her. More than eighty thousand people were wiped out as a result of this nuclear strike but the story doesn’t ends here; the Radioactive Hazards of the bomb remains to the  present day making a total death toll to well over one hundred thousands.

August 6, 1945 8:20 am

65 Years Later


Neat and clean, hi-tech buildings and attractive roads, Hiroshima is now a gorgeous city full of colors and life. Seeing the city in the present day, one cannot imagine that it’s the same place that was almost wiped out of the surface half a century ago. Today, Hiroshima welcomes you all with its colors, beauty and culture.

Methods of Dental Treatment from the Past

All these tools are used by dental doctor in the old days. Even afraid to imagine what they were doing…Take a look at these unusual dental treatment from the ancient times. Enjoy.

Terrible Hurricane In The Philippines

December 16th tropical storm “Washi” struck the Philippine island of Mindanao, with a population of 500 thousand inhabitants. 10-hour rainfall caused some flooding and landslides. Over the banks of the river swept on its way cars and homes.

Already confirmed the death of more than 1000 people of the Philippines, 50 000 are still in evacuation centers. This makes it a tropical storm the deadliest storm Washi 2011.

The consequences of Tropical Storm Washi Philippine Islands are comparable, at least, a powerful earthquake.