Rebecca Escamilla
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Weapon of Mass Instruction, A Mobile Library in the Form of a Tank That Distributes Books Around Argentina
Buenos Aires artist Raul Lemesoff built the Arma de Instruccion Masiva (Weapon of Mass Instruction), a tank-library hybrid mobile sculpture that is used to distribute…
German Activists Coat Walls With a Superhydrophobic Substance to Splash Pee Back on Public Urinators
Residents of the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg, Germany took matters into their own hands by declaring “peeback time” after the frequent urination on walls…
A Simple Way to Create Elaborate Braids for Bread, Hairstyles, and Crafts
The folks at The Bread Kitchen give a demonstration showing how to create elaborate-looking braids of bread dough with three strands, then more examples up…
‘The Pedal Powered Talk Show’, A Portland, Oregon Talk Show Recorded From a Desk Mounted to a Cargo Bike
The Pedal Powered Talk Show is a Portland, Oregon-based talk show in which host Boaz Frankel interviews guests from a desk fashioned onto the front…
Russian Man Feeds Meat to a Hungry Bear Through a Window
A Russian man feeds meat to a bear through a window in a video posted by FAV News. While the bear’s entire body can’t be…
Hilariously Cheeky Wine Suggestions and Pairings Snuck Onto Liquor Store Shelves
Jeff Wysaski of Obvious Plant (previously) hilariously added some cheeky wine recommendations and suggested pairings to the shelves of a liquor store near his home.…
Vibrant Watercolor Maps of States in the American Midwest
Levi Mills creates beautiful watercolor maps of states in the American Midwest. Prints of maps of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are available at…
Artist Turns Old Books and Atlases Into Beautiful Works of Art With Intricate Papercutting
Vertebrate Morphology Library of the Infinitesimally Small and Unimaginably Large is an ongoing project by Barbara Wildenboer in which she alters atlases and old books…
A Comic Illustrating the Creative Process and How to Take It One Step Further
“The Creative Processor,” the latest from Grant Snider of Incidental Comics (previously), illustrates his own creative process and how to take it one step further.…
First-Ever Baby Woolly Rhinoceros Carcass Discovered in Siberian Permafrost
Last fall, hunter Alexander “Sasha” Banderov in Russia’s Sakha Republic came across a the carcass of a baby woolly rhinoceros–a species of rhinoceros that went…