Progress Eagle, A Solar-Powered Airliner Concept for the Year 2030
Barcelona-based designer Oscar Viñals imagines the future of air travel with his concept airliner AWWA·QG. The so-called “Progress Eagle” is powered by electrical turbo fans…
Artist KATSU Uses a Spray Paint Drone to Vandalize a Huge Calvin Klein Billboard in New York City
On Wednesday artist and hacker KATSU used a modified drone to deface a giant Calvin Klein billboard in SoHo. Armed with red spray paint, KATSU’s…
A Singer’s Face Undergoes Surreal Distortions in the CGI Music Video for ‘Animation’ by Young Juvenile Youth
In the bizarre CGI music video for “Animation” by Japanese band Young Juvenile Youth, the face of Yuki, the band’s singer, undergoes a series of…
A Suspenseful Chase Scene Teaser From ‘Extropy’, A Proposed Feature Length Sci-Fi Film
A mysterious motorcyclist evades aerial attackers in the climactic sci-fi short “EXTROPY – Speedhack” by filmmaker Dylan J. Nathan. Nathan created the short entirely on…
The Bowling Alley at McMurdo Station in Antarctica
photo by Raymond/National Science Foundation Back in 1961, the U.S. Navy built a bowling alley at McMurdo Station, a United States research center in Antarctica.…
A Sculptural Pipe Organ Shaped Like a Hand
photo by Peter Atkinson The late 1960s modernist church Notre-Dame des Neiges (“Our Lady of the Snow”) in the French alpine town of Alpe d’Huez…
Hyper-Detailed Cardboard Sculptures
Nashville artist Devin Drake uses cardboard, glue, and newsprint to create wonderfully detailed sculptures. His subjects range from horses (down to their cardboard horseshoes) and…
The Outings Project, A Global Project That Transforms Classic Portrait Art Into Street Art
Figures from classical portrait paintings have begun appearing on city streets around the world thanks to a participatory art project entitled “The Outings Project”. Created…
A 1962 Film of a Man Getting a Beard and Mustache Wig at a London Wigmaker
In this curious 1962 film clip from British Pathé, a man gets a custom beard and mustache wig from a London wigmaker. The film’s narrator…
Delightfully Unsettling Portrait Photos Inspired by Renaissance Portraiture
In his 2010 photo series 1503, photographer Christian Tagliavini recreates 16th century Renaissance portraits in eerie stylized images. Tagliavini spent six months painstakingly handcrafting all…