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Kevin Weir’s Flux Machine turns old photographs into crazy, Terry Gilliam-esque gifs.

Josh Kimball’s blog curates those moments when our technology and social media gets unexpectedly existential all of a sudden.

Felix Nadar’s photographs of the great and good of 19th century Paris.

With broadcast and print media largely under state control, the Russian Internet has been a key platform for opposition activism. Parody animations and mashed-up digital images have flourished on social networks.

The street artists of the Egyptian revolution have made the city of Cairo their theater, with Tahrir Square the centre stage. OWNI looks at some of the images and slogans found on the walls of the city.

A look back at 2011, the year in which unprecedented numbers of ordinary citizens took to the streets throughout the world to protest against old systems of power.

In Cédric Delsaux’s strange and wonderful ‘Dark Lens’ series, characters from Star Wars turn up in unsettling, mundane industrial locations devoid of human life.

Geeks pay tribute to Vincent Van Gogh, creating impressionism works of art ranging from Batman to Star Wars.

There is not a blast from the past quite like exploring two centuries of propaganda: The USSR with its workers, North Korea with its glorified communism, and Uncle Sam’s powerful army.

Two different graphism websites aggregated artistic works from the voices that are rising in Spain. OWNI has published 30 of these posters, which call for a more just democracy.

In the past, using racism in advertising was an acceptable marketing strategy. Today, standards have changed yet it’s not too difficult to find traces of racist attitudes in commercials and pictures.

Sometimes invasive and annoying, urban marketing does has the potential to be innovative in how the city’s objects are used to convey a message.