Actor Jason Momoa has played a number of very well known bearded men. This list includes Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones, Declan Harp in Frontier, Phillip Kopus in The Red Road, Baba Voss in See, and of course Aquaman. Now that he’s completed these projects, Momoa decided it was time to shave off his…
Ubisoft is Giving Away ‘Assassin’s Creed Unity’ So Gamers Can Experience the Beauty of Notre Dame
We wrote about the devastating fire at Notre Dame de Paris and the number of ways in which modern technology has led to a number of models that could help with the restoration. One such suggestion was the Ubisoft game Assassin’s Creed Unity, which prominently features the cathedral. In response to this request, Ubisoft is…
How Human Consciousness Can Exist While a Body Is Unconscious Explained in a Beautiful Animation
Animator Diana Gradinaru of the Royal Institution quite elegantly illustrated a lecture on consciousness by mathematician Marcus du Sautoy. du Sautoy explains a dream he had, then examined how it could so real even though his body wasn’t conscious. This led to a further examination of how consciousness can be now measured and quantified, although…
Musical Horse Plays a Mean Piano With His Mouth
In January 2016, a beautiful rescued horse named Murphy gave into his musical urges, sidled up to the electric piano and plunked out a few high notes with his mouth before sweeping his magnificent nose across the keyboard. Murphy wound up playing an unintentional but rather funky eclectic jazz tune. Murphy was rescued from the…
Why a Butt-Trumpet Playing Man and Other Unusual Images Appeared in Margins of Medieval Manuscripts
In an enlightening TED-Ed lesson written by Michelle Brown and animated by Wow-How Studios, narrator Adrian Dannatt explains how unusual illustrations, such as a man playing a butt-trumpet, came to be so prevalent in so many of the illuminated manuscripts of medieval times. As it turns out, these deliberately obtuse drawings were meant to be…
A Bright Red Fiat Coupe Cut Horizontally in Half Is Transformed Into a Working Mobile Chip Shop
Artist Benedetto Bufalino, who is known for his incredible transformative installations, took a bright red Fiat Coupe and cut it horizontally into two pieces. The artist then, quite remarkably, put a working chip shop in between the two halves of the car. The vehicle, cut red Fiat, is literally chiseled in 2 in the horizontal…
CarLens, A Smartphone App That Uses AI Machine Learning to Instantly Identify Different Cars on the Street
CarLens is a very clever app that connects with a smartphone camera that uses AI machine learning and augmented reality to instantly identify the different cars. This is particularly handy for those who enjoy figuring out the make and model of autos they see on the street. As Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover points out,…
The Unassuming Alabama Artist Who Hand Forges Authentic Swords and Props For Film and Television
Great Big Story visited with the very talented yet unassuming Kenneth Spivey of Fire and Brimstone Forge in Vestavia Hills, Alabama who learned how to forge swords and all of the closely related crafts associated with blacksmithing so that he could realize his dream of being a propmaster for film and television. The idea dawned…