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"Up at the dead of night, sweat stained sheets, heart beating a trillion a times a minute...sound all too familiar?" Belly Kids' The Magic Book of Nightmares is a peek into the nightmares of 16 illustrators. Encouraging these artists to explore their most disturbing of dreams, The Magic Book of Nightmares brings us the creepy, the cosmic and definitely the crazy!

Psychedelic and spooky, Russian illustrator Anton Semenov's creepy art conjures up all kinds of nightmares for me, but I can't turn my eyes away from it.  I'd be interested to see how he'd handle a comic book cover; something mainstream like Batman perhaps?  Check out more of his work here.  

After stumbling across San Francisco-based illustrator Kim Herbst's work last week, I've been consistently motivated to keep returning to her site and blog to see more.  There's a romantic decisiveness about her style--whimsical, yet dark--and often rooted in a pretty nifty understanding of geek culture.

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale brings in PlayStation's most loved & iconic characters into the same game. The characters are there to beat each other down. That's all there is to it. No holds barred, anything goes, show no mercy until there is one winner. Lets get this party started!

Jeremy Kalgreen of Amorphia Apparel has created an awesome series of fake sports teams t-shirts. Called "The History League", the teams represent actual historical events or people. Jeremy has even designed t-shirts for historical team matches such as "The 14th Century Humans vs. The Bubonic Plague". The bright, vibrant designs certainly look like they could represent a college basketball or football team or an NHL team! 

These psychedelic Russian Star Wars posters were created in 1977 before the world really knew what Star Wars was all about. As far as Communist Eastern Europe was concerned it was a sci-fi western that took place on space ships. The posters have more of a polished 2001: A Space Odyssey look about them rather then the grittier Star Wars aesthetic. The Cat-Vader with the light saber hair is awesome! In addition to Cat-Vader & the Space Cowboy pictured above, there is a poster of Greedo some of the Cantina characters & a poster of an emotional Jabba! 

The photo decoration app Mr. Chiizu will be free for a limited time in honor of the new theme by Japanese illustrator Junko Mizuno created for the app. "Junko's Special Blend" is the name of the new theme and it's comprised of an assortment of Junko's favorite characters she created especially for the Mr. Chiizu iphone app. Mr.

Award winning graphic artist and illustrator Ghica Popa is best known for his collaborations with brands and companies like Windows, Yahoo, Ikea, Nouvelles & Nikita Clothing. Popa's installations and exhibitions have been featured in Romania and around Europe.

M.I.A. has released an unusual autobiography through publishing house Rizzoli. Simply titled "M.I.A.", the hardcover book is a 192 page visual documentation of M.I.A.'s story. "M.I.A." starts from her days in art school and continues on through her three albums, live performances (including those at MoMA and Cochella), art exhibitions and video shoots. M.I.A.

On October 28th Brooklyn Bowl will exhibit concert posters for the blue grass band Moonalice. The band has commissioned over 20 artists to create over 450 posters that are given to fans at their gigs. While the posters tend to be psychedelic, there are some pop & surreal aspects as well. These posters are as diverse as the artists who create them.