As a part of her ongoing “Horror Film” series, Serbian bodypainting artist Mirjana Kika Milosevic turned her face and body into a surprisingly adorable big-eared gremlin using makeup, contact lenses and other prosthetics. This particular session was done at the request of a fan and with the approval of Milosevic’s little dog. Milosevic stated that…
Classic Works of Art Recreated With Paper Clips, Tic Tacs, Peanut Butter and Other Unusual Mediums
Object arranging artist Adam Hillman, who previously arranged brightly hued candy, produce and other items into into color-ordered, visually pleasing geometric shapes, has brilliantly recreated several classic works of art with unusual mediums. Included in this series are the “The Scream” by Edvard Munch with colored paperclips, Katsushika Hokusai‘s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” by…
Enthusiastic Father Teaches His Three and a Half Year Old Daughter How to Play Dungeons and Dragons
Benjamin Jabe, a rather enthusiastic father has been documenting his journey of trying to teach his absolutely adorable three and a half year old daughter Izzy how to play his favorite game, Dungeons and Dragons. To get Izzy engaged, Jabe set up a campaign with a simple premise, but the potential for a great deal…
Mario and Fafa of ‘Glove and Boots’ Engage in Hilarious Improvisational Word Games on ‘No Script Day’
On a day with no script, Mario and Fafa the Groundhog of Glove and Boots hilariously engaged in a couple of improvised word games. Fafa started first with “The Word Game”, which required them both to say a word at the same time, figure out what the two words have in common and then yell…
Changes in Musician’s Generated Brain Activity Visualized In Real Time While He’s Performing Onstage
Director Ouchhh partnered with a classical music trio and to create “Say Superstrings”, a brilliantly immersive experimental performance for the Ars Electronica Festival. The cellist wore an EEG headset that read his brain activity as he played onstage. The information was then sorted into Delta, Theta, Beta and Gamma waves and sent back to the…
Drink Better Beer, A Well Crafted Book Explaining How to Tap Into the Art of Enjoying a Perfectly Poured Beer
Brooklyn writer and beer expert Joshua M. Bernstein, who previously wrote Homebrew World: Discover the Secrets of the World’s Leading Homebrewers, has written Drink Better Beer: Discover the Secrets of the Brewing Experts, a definitive how-to book about enjoying well-crafted beer. For this new book Bernstein spoke with a variety of experts in the field…
Turning an Old Rusted Shovel Into a Functioning Guitar
Burl of Burl’s Art (previously) found himself an old shovel and decided to turn it into a working guitar. As with previous projects, Burl shared each step of the process. At the end, he acknowledged that while others had come before him, it was a pretty simple straight-forward build. It sounds really good too. I…
How Ongoing Stereotypes About Women Led to Severe Underfunding of Research for Chronic Migraine Disease
In a really fascinating video essay for Quartz, narrator and producer Molly Rubin digs deep into the chronic illness of migraine disease. Rubin looks into what the disease is, what it is not (not a headache), how it has been treated in the past and how it can be treated going forward, despite limited NIH…