Taiwanese artist Hank Cheng creates exquisitely detailed miniature dioramas that are featured in an incredible range of scenarios that address both the real and the surreal. In one vignette, a (relatively) giant Unicorn Gundam invades a scale replica of Cheng’s apartment while another features a home with a mossy roof and rusting car in front….
Artist Creates Hyper-Realistic Graffiti of His Name
Street artist Ceser87 from Gran Canaria, Spain creates amazing, hyper-realistic graffiti letters that spell out his name in a variety of different ways. In doing so, he incorporates a wide range of illustrative styles into his art. His name could be spelled out in roses, as a cartoon character, in shrink-wrap bags or in a…
Incredible 3D Digital Renderings Featuring Objects Inserted Into the Facades of Buildings
Digital artist rek0de creates absolutely incredible 3D renderings that interrupt the flow of established urban architecture around the world. Items as human faces, balloons, eggs, lemons, and even cephalopods and sharks are seemingly inserted into a building’s facade, changing it (online) forever.
Playing a Creepy Baby Head Theremin
Musician cubitsocks gave a rather ominous performance on a really creepy theremin made from a baby doll’s head. The baby’s head controls light input and frequency. It also provides a definitive stage presence for the performer. Photocell on the back of Baby’s head controls light input and frequency. Low light = low tone; high light…
How Coconut Octopuses Use Their Namesake Shell
ReefIDFifer used fascinating underwater footage to show how the aptly-named coconut octopus (previously) puts its namesake shell to use. Whether it serves as a mode of transportation, a nice cozy place to sleep or protection from predators, it appears that an octopus and an empty coconut shell make a good match together. The Coconut octopus…
A 1967 Paganini Concerto Played on GE-115 Computer Sounds Like Pac-Man 13 Years Before it Was Released
Experimental music composer Pietro Grossi of Studio Di Fonologia Musicale Di Firenze performed a medley of Paganini concertos through the CPU of a General Electric GE-115 computer. While the concerto sounds like a video arcade from the mid-1980s, this performance took place in 1967 (13 years before the release of Pac-Man) and was pressed into…
Movie Fan Turns His Basement Into a Perfect Replica of a 1980s Video Store for His Giant Video Collection
The person behind the online video store Nostalgia Video transformed his basement into a perfect replica of a 1980s video store. The videos from his immense personal collection are all stacked neatly on display shelves and even feature movie-size boxes of candy on the endcaps. He explains why he decided to do this on his…
‘Home Alone’ Reimagined as an Illustrated Storybook
Illustrator Kim Smith (previously) has quite cleverly reimagined the plot from the iconic holiday film Home Alone as a classic illustrated storybook that can be read aloud to the entire family. The brightly colored book features detailed scenes from the original film that have been interpreted in Smith’s distinctive style. Charming illustrations created in classic…