
One of my personal favorite photographers in the whole wide world, Peter Beste’s photographs are, primarily centered around music (however, there are a few exceptions.) His photographs of the Norwegian Black Metal scene have received quite a bit of praise (even a monograph published by Vice, available here) You’ll find some of those below the cut. Check out the rest of his phenomenal work at his site, peterbeste.com.

HTML5 is slowly becoming the development tool of choice for all types of web, graphic, and interactive designers and will likely dominate the Internet in the next 3 – 5 years. If you have some time, check out the interactive HTML5 playground of interactive designer Hakim El Hattab who, in his spare time, manages to has out some pretty amazing game-like HTML5 experiments.
While a few of them are actual games, the rest are very nifty experiments with this like generative music and particle play. See some more shots after the cut or jump to all 9 or so by clicking right here. Happy Friday!

Jacob Livengood draws these cute little things from his studio in San Diego, CA. Aren’t they just cute as hell?
Also – I’ve moved the categories over to the left hand column and am considering bringing on another contributor to help grow the site. If you’re interested in contributing to unstage on a weekly (or more often) basis (big plus if you’re interested in fashion!) let me know via the tip page up top.

Sorry for the lack of posts the last few days! I’ve been super busy but now things are calming down a bit..much like this awesome set of Waterscapes from Hungarian photographer Akos Major. You can see the rest of the series after the cut.

An 8-bit portrait of Gustavo Dudamel? CareBear and Strawberry Shortcake fatalities ala Mortal Kombat? Insanity? Nope. Just the badass work of Jude Buffum. You can see more of his portfolio here (he also has a pretty nice web store right here.)

Kim Asendorf is an amazingly talented conceptual and digital artist. This series of pixel sorted images take digitize landscape photographs and, I’m assuming using specialized software, sorts the pixels. The final image is taken by the artist at some point during (maybe in the middle of) the process. To see how this works, you can check out an animated GIF of the process here. See 9 more of these after the cut.

Bovey Lee is a full-time artist, living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Originally from Hong Kong, Lee creates these highly intricate papercuts on rice paper by hand (no laser cutting machines involved!) and then backs them with silk. Color me stunned. You can more of her amazing work below the cut (har har) and at her site right here.