Things Made of Cardboard, who previously built a harmonograph with a robotic arm that draws Lissajous curves with an attached pen, created a simple, but ingenious cardboard sculpture that demonstrates the principle of tensegrity (floating compression) through an optical illusion. I made a sculpture out of cardboard based on the…
A Tiny Orphaned Baby Wombat Adorably Falls Asleep While Her Human Caretaker Rubs Her Pudgy Belly
A tiny orphaned baby wombat named Elsie adorably fell asleep as her adopted human Lindy gave her a nice little rub on her pudgy belly. In March 2020, Elsie was brought to ACT Wildlife in Canberra, Australia after being rescued from her dead mother’s pouch. She was extremely underweight, unable…
Three Nigerian Boys Meticulously Recreate Big Budget Film Scenes Using Household Items
The Ikorudu Bois, a group of three “future filmmakers” in Lagos, Nigeria quite hilariously and meticulously recreate incredibly big budget scenes from films and music videos using low budget household items. Each mimicked scene is performed to near perfection. In fact, Extraction directors the Russo Brothers loved their recreation so…
A Robotic Spy Sea Turtle Crawls Up Costa Rican Beach to Lay Camera Eggs For Vultures to Steal
In a terrapine clip narrated by David Tennant from the PBS/BBC series ‘The Tropics: Spy in the Wild 2’, an incredibly realistic robotic spy sea turtle joins thousands of other olive ridley sea turtles to climb the sandy beach of Ostional, Costa Rica in order to lay their eggs. This…
Original Episodes of ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ on Disney+
Schoolhouse Rock! was an incredible series of educational animated shorts that were shown during television breaks between 1973 and 1984 and then from 1993 to 1996, addressing such issues as history, government, multiplication, grammar, and current events, each with a catchy song. The idea originally came to advertising executive David…
The Stunning Natural Beauty of Iceland Captured in a Short High Definition Documentary Film
Filmmaker Devin Graham (previously) captured the stunning natural beauty of Iceland in a super high-definition documentary film. Graham and crew traveled to different geographical areas within the country, finding glaciers, waterfalls, and the otherworldly sights that make Iceland so unique. Filmed on the Red Dragon in 6K with all drone…
Exquisitely Detailed Miniature Origami Masks
Swedish artist Fynn Jackson makes absolutely gorgeous miniature origami masks using free-folding techniques and a little paint to capture exquisite details within each face. Jackson also offers folding tutorials through his YouTube channel and sells folding patterns through his Etsy store. I’ve been enjoying the art of paper folding for…
Tiny Insects Freely Express Themselves Within a World of Dangerous Predators in the Animated Short ‘Bugged’
“Bugged” by filmmaker Doug Alberts is a wonderful clay stop-motion animated short about tiny insects that are free to express themselves however they wish. Unfortunately, their dangerous predators also have that very same freedom. A newly explored place where bugs can be bugs. This animation was Alberts’ senior thesis for…