Photos of Manhattan’s 42nd Street Taken in the 1980s and 1990s During Its Final Years of Seediness
As a young aspiring artist in the late 1980s and early 1990s, illustrator Mitch O’Connell found himself exploring Manhattan’s 42nd street, camera in hand. The…
Delightful Handmade Ceramic Dishware Shaped Like Slumbering Animals
Warsaw-based artist Marta Turowska crafts ceramic dishware shaped like adorable slumbering animals. Turowska sells the dishware and other handmade ceramic art in her Etsy store.…
How To Become a Fossil, A TED-Ed Animated Lecture
Paleontologist Phoebe A. Cohen explains the steps necessary to be preserved as a fossil in this TED-Ed animated lecture. The lecture is animated by Anton…
MinuteEarth on the History of Our Understanding of Bird Migration
Host Henry Reich of MinuteEarth discusses the history of our understanding of bird migration, from comical early theories to contemporary research, in “Birds that Hibernate…
Visualizations of Famous Movie Scenes as Interpreted by Computational Systems
Computer vision algorithms and artificial intelligence interpret famous movie scenes into intriguing abstract visualizations in the video project “Computers Watching Movies” by artist Benjamin Grosser.…
Crown-Shaped Device Arranges Flowers in a Decorative Free-Standing Structure
The Crown Vase is a circular flower holder that arranges rigid-stemmed flowers into a beautiful free-standing structure. It was created by designer Lambert Rainville last…
Elaborate Elevated Cat Perches and Suspended Walkways
Goldtatze (Gold Paw) is a German company that builds elaborate cat perches, walkways, and scratching posts out of natural materials like wood and rope. The…
Dutch Master Paintings Recreated as Photographic Specimen Art
In 2012 we posted about the photographic specimen portraits of artist Michael Mapes—intricate collages in which photos are cut into pieces and distributed amongst pins,…
Ski Jumping with a Helmet-Mounted GoPro Camera
Ski jumper Anders Jacobsen calmly soars off a ski jump in this video shot with a GoPro camera attached to his helmet. If you’re wondering…
Surplus Candy, A Secret Art Show in an Abandoned Building in the East Village
photo by Aymann Ismail/ANIMAL New York Last Friday an abandoned 3-story building in Manhattan’s East Village was the site of “Surplus Candy,” a secret art…