Art student Andrew Ognibene bravely documented and shared his truly frightening struggle with sleep paralysis and associated hallucinations in a haunting animation that he created as a final project for an art school class. The animation provides a visual representation to the animator’s fears, yet in that visualization also provided for Ognibene a bit of…
An Amazing 1977 Television Documentary About the Making of ‘Star Wars’ Hosted by C-3PO and R2-D2
On September 16, 1977, the ABC television network aired “The Making of Star Wars”, a wonderful one-hour documentary that went behind the scenes of the blockbuster new film Star Wars IV: A New Hope, which had been released in May of that year. The characters C-3PO and R2-D2 played host to the special and actor…
New Exquisitely Detailed Balloon Animal Sculptures by Japanese Artist Masayoshi Matsumoto
In 2015, we wrote about the amazingly detailed colorful balloon animals by Japanese artist Masayoshi Matsumoto. Since that time Matsumoto has created quite a few more of these exquisitely detailed inflatable creatures of all shapes, sizes, and forms, originating from land, air, and sea. I create animals, plant life and insects using only balloons. The…
An Amazing One Minute Timelapse of a Self-Tweeting Plant Slowly Growing Over the Course of Three Years
In 2016, Brooklyn game designer Nicole He set up a meditative experiment in which a webcam would take a picture of a fiddle-leaf fig plant she named Grow Slow. The camera then automatically tweeted the photo from the same day at 10:17 AM every day for three years. it’s @grow_slow’s third birthday on tuesday ?…
The Science Behind a Hummingbird’s Hover
Nat Geo WILD takes a look at how tiny hummingbirds are able to hover in midair for so long while feeding in place. As it turns out these petite aviators have an extremely high metabolism, a specific ability to flap their wings at very high speed and constant hunger that gives them so much endurance…
A Visual MIDI Remix of the Game of Thrones Theme
Musician GBH has created a Synthesia keyboard remix of the Game of Thrones theme (previously) with a colorful interface that visually tracks the progress of the song with falling notes. Main Theme of Game of Thrones, remixed by me. via Digg
Moon Shining, A Brilliant Mashup That Reimagines the Iconic Apollo 11 Landing as Directed by Stanley Kubrick
French filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu, who makes brilliant mashups with clever titles, has combined footage from the Apollo 11 mission (previously) with several Stanley Kubrick interviews to create the brilliant “Moon Shining”. In making these connections, Mathieu has made it appear as if Kubrick directed the iconic 1969 moon landing itself. Behind the scenes of the…
Jaime Lannister Joins the ‘Full House’ Family
Now that Game of Thrones has ended, the talk of spinoff series is reaching fever pitch. One such idea, as envisioned by Jimmy Kimmel Live, has Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) joining the family of Danny Tanner (Bob Saget) and Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier) in a Full House reboot. Jaime tries his best to fit in…