Book Sculptures That Bring Stories to Life
Artist Jodi Harvey-Brown transforms classic stories into sculptures using the very books in which the stories are found. Most of the sculptures are fairy tales…
Illustrations Made Using Layered Packing Tape
Artist Mark Khaisman creates illustrations by layering pieces of packing tape on acrylic panels. The illustrations—primarily portraits and movie stills—are backlit, allowing the varying translucency…
The Top Gear Test Track Is Now on Google Street View
The Top Gear test track, the automotive proving ground of the BBC automotive TV series, was recently added to Google Street View. In this Top…
Blogging Pioneer Justin Hall Is Making a Short Documentary About His 20 Years of Online Sharing
Blogging pioneer Justin Hall began his web-based diary, Justin’s Links from the Underground, an incredible 20 years ago in 1994. To mark the anniversary, Hall…
Make Your Thing, A Conference for Independent Creators Organized by Jesse Thorn of Maximum Fun
Make Your Thing, a conference for independent creators, takes place October 17 to 19, 2014 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. Organized by…
Long Lost Video of Steve Jobs Unveiling the Macintosh to the Public for the First Time
The Computer History Museum recently released a never-before-seen video of Steve Jobs unveiling the Macintosh to the public in 1984. The January 30 presentation at…
Blub, A Clock That Displays Time Using Nixie Tubes
Blub is a clock that displays time with Nixie tubes—cold cathode tubes that were used to display numbers in early electronics. Thanks to modern electronic…
Armless 10-Year-Old Boy Plays the Trumpet With His Foot
Ten-year-old Jahmir Wallace was born without arms, but that hasn’t stopped him from playing the trumpet with his foot in the school band at Green…
Stunning Time-Lapse of a 2013 Ice Storm in Toronto
In the stunning time-lapse video “ICELIGHT TORONTO,” filmmaker Gavin Heffernan documented a beautiful but destructive ice storm that coated Toronto in ice over the holidays.…
16th Century German Book Opens in 6 Ways to Reveal 6 Books
This 16th century German book opens in 6 different ways to reveal 6 books in one binding. It is a variation of a dos-à-dos (“back-to-back”)…