Wanna Live Forever? Become a Noun
“Wanna Live Forever? Become a Noun” is a music video on the subject of eponyms: words like sandwich, shrapnel, and boycott that came from…
Opposites Posters
These wonderful “Opposites” posters are by design students at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The posters were an assignment for a…
Wine Stain Portraits by Amelia Harnas
Artist Amelia Harnas creates beautiful embroidered wine stain portraits. We recently wrote about another example of gorgeous embroidery portraiture by artist Cayce Zavaglia. My process…
Time-Lapses of Night Sky Over ALMA Observatory on Chilean Plateau
The night sky is incredibly clear in these beautiful time-lapses by José Francisco Salgado of the ALMA observatory on the 5000 meter Chajnantor Plateau in…
The Earthscraper, A 65 Story Inverted Skyscraper Concept
The Earthscraper by BNKR Arquitectura is an architectural proposal for a massive inverted pyramid that would be built beneath Mexico City’s Zocalo square and would…
History Of Lyrics That Aren’t Lyrics, A Medley of Nonsense Song Lyrics
“History Of Lyrics That Aren’t Lyrics” is a humorous medley of nonsense song lyrics from 26 famous songs (for example the recurring line from Manfred…
AlphaDog, A Four-Legged All Terrain Robot by Boston Dynamics
The AlphaDog is a four-legged all terrain robot under development by Boston Dynamics. The prototype robot can run, roll over, and even recover its balance…
The Deleted City, An Interactive 640 Gigabyte Archive of GeoCities
“The Deleted City” by information designer Richard Vijgen is an interactive visualization of the massive and now defunct GeoCities web hosting site (see a video…
Rude Hand Gestures of the World
Rude Hand Gestures of the World by Romana Lefevre is a photographic guide to the many ways of using hand gestures to offend people in…
All About Polymorphics, A 1959 Animation on Polymorphic Computing
“All About Polymorphics” by Simon Ramo is a charming and surprisingly understandable 1959 stop motion animation about the concept of polymorphic computing, an adaptable processor…