While Petra Cortright’s irreverent new media work that incorporates animated gifs and tacky web symbols and emoticons is generally amusing, her series Portraits II is particularly amazing, the digitally smeared images becoming beautiful still-lifes and haunting portraits that truly transcend their source photos.

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Open-source digital artist Tom Beddard creates crazy looking images via complicated codes and programs. The 3D Mandelbulb Ray Tracer he’s been using most recently (which you can download and play with yourself) involves a lot of math and programming that’s way over my head, but the resulting 3D fractals look like an electron microscope photograph of God’s colon.

Garrett Miller is a designer and artist living in Washington, DC. His mostly digital work ‘explores ideas of innocence and adventure’. By his own admission, he uses his website as a way to vent his ‘inner immaturities while working a day job as a corporate shill’.