German Preschool Has Delightful Cat-Shaped Building
Kindergarten Wolfartsweier, a preschool in Karlruhe, Germany, is housed in a unique cat-shaped building. The building features two giant circular windows for eyes, a fuzzy…
Spine Vodka Has Clever Bottle Containing a Translucent Spine
Spine Vodka features a novel bottle design that incorporates a translucent spine and rib cage inside the bottle. The bottle is a packaging design concept…
BarBot 2013.75, A San Francisco Festival of Cocktail Robotics
BarBot 2013.75, a celebration of cocktail-making robots, takes place October 25 and 26, 2013 at the Odd Fellows Building in San Francisco. Cocktail robot makers…
The Pigeoning, Dark Comedy Puppet Play About a Man Driven Mad by Pigeons
The Pigeoning is a darkly comedic puppet piece about a neat freak who becomes convinced that pigeons are plotting against him. The play was created…
Incredible Macro Photos of Insects by the USGS
The USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab has posted hundreds of incredible high resolution macro photos of bees and other insects to Flickr as part…
Phytopage, Fantastic Cake Zoetrope Animation by Alexandre Dubosc
Artist Alexandre Dubosc created a fantastic cake zoetrope for his stop motion animation “Phytopage.” The zoetrope, which looks like a chocolate cake, is Dubosc’s tribute…
Syncretism, Painting Series Reinterprets Classic Works of Art
In the series “Syncretism,” artist Cesar Santos takes famous works from the history of art and reinterprets them with a modern twist. His paintings often…
Common Food Label Words & Their Surprising FDA Definitions
If you’ve ever wondered what words like “lite” or “fortified” mean on food labels, Mental Floss has posted a list of 11 common food label…
Glitch Image Tool Turns Ordinary JPEGs Into Bizarro Glitch Images
Designer Georg Fischer has created a glitch image tool that lets you corrupt, distort, and otherwise abuse JPEGs to your heart’s content. via Waxy.org
One World Trade Center Construction Time-Lapse, 2004-2013
This time-lapse video shows the construction of One World Trade Center in Manhattan from 2004 to 2013. video via EarthCam via Village Voice