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Colored Clay Strips Strategically Rolled Together to Reveal Stunning Designs When Sliced Crosswise
Clay artist Dean McRaine of Lightwave Pottery creates absolutely beautiful, psychedelic millefiori ceramic art. McRaine achieves this gorgeous effect by strategically rolling together different colors…
Artist Jeremy Mayer Shares How He Makes Such Remarkable Sculptures Out of Vintage Typewriters
Artist Jeremy Meyer, whose amazing recycled typewriter sculptures we’ve posted about previously, was featured on the 17th episode of the Wired series Obsessed. During the…
The Invisible Dramatic Convention That Runs Throughout the Unconventional Film ‘Before Sunset’
Filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay takes a look at the 2004 film Before Sunset, the second film in the Richard Linklater “Before”…
Deep Scrolling Project Encourages Social Media Users to Unfollow Negativity and Follow Creativity Instead
Deep Scrolling is a digital project that encourages social media users and consumers to unfollow those things and people who post negative ideas designed to…
Freequencies, A Musically Themed Spinning Chocolate Cake Zoëtrope by Alexandre Dubosc
Artist Alexandre Dubosc (previously) has created a brilliant chocolate cake zoëtrope entitled “Freequencies”. This incredible spinning optical illusion features the theme of music with floating…
A Mischievous Little Bird Gleefully Tosses Grapes From the Refrigerator Onto the Kitchen Floor
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jalapeno Pancake (@jalapenopancake) When his human stepped out of the room to take a phone call,…
Dr. Edith Widder Explains How Her Bioluminescent Camera Captured Rare Footage of a Giant Squid
In June 2019, we posted about incredible footage of the rare sight of a giant squid just 100 miles south of New Orleans that was…
Japanese Man Challenges International Tourists to Find Public Trash Cans in Shibuya, Tokyo
That Japanese Man Yuta, a vlogger in Tokyo who teaches Japanese, challenged several pairs of international tourists to go off in search of a public…
Sleek Watches That Incorporate the Ticking Hands of Time Into Mesmerizing Kinetic Art
Artist David Sze of Humism creates stunningly sleek wristwatches and timepieces that use the moving minutes and hours of a ticking clock to create mesmerizing…
An Incredible Ska Cover of ‘Pure Imagination’ From ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’
The incredibly talented multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Hunter of Ska Tune Network performed an absolutely amazing ska cover of the classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory…