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Street Artist JerkFace Creates Ren and Stimpy Mural in Brooklyn
New York City-based street artist JerkFace has recently created a large mural featuring Ren Höek and Stimpson J. “Stimpy” Cat, the main animated characters from…
Harvard Develops a Swarm of 1,024 Autonomous ‘Kilobots’ That Assemble Themselves Into Elaborate Shapes
Computer scientists and engineers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a swarm of 1,024 autonomous…
Architect Turns Basement Into an Amazing Lounge With Organized Storage for His 250,000 LEGO Bricks & Accessories
Jeffrey Pelletier, a Seattle-based architect and owner of Board & Vellum, renovated an old home built in 1902 and turned a portion of the basement…
An Amusing Animation That Shows What a Trip to the Park Looks Like from a Dog’s Perspective
Man and Dog" is an amusing animation by Psyop and Duncan Studios for that shows what a trip to the park looks like from a dog's perspective.
A Scratch-Off World Map That Lets Travelers Keep Track of Which Countries They Have Visited
Art. Lebedev Studio has created the I Was Here map, a scratch-off world map that lets travelers keep track of their adventures, one country at…
Drawing Shit Every Day, A Typography Project by Designer Sarah Lawrence
In her art-a-day project “Drawing Shit Every Day”, designer Sarah Lawrence is drawing “shit” (the word, not the thing, thankfully) in a different format each…
An Online Guide to 21 Privately Owned Public Open Space Parks in San Francisco
100 First Street Designer and writer Matthew Lew has created an online guide to 21 privately owned public open spaces (POPOS), the hard-to-find but open-to-the-public…
An Adorable Cat Bed Shaped Like a Chain Chomp From ‘Super Mario Bros.’
The Chain Chomp Cat Bed serves as a splendid reproduction of one of the most adorable enemies in the Super Mario Bros. universe.
Ryan Gosling Eats Cereal in Honor of ‘Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal’ Meme Creator Ryan McHenry
Back in 2013 we first posted about “Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal,” Scottish artist Ryan McHenry‘s whimsical Vine meme depicting Gosling rejecting spoonfuls of…
Empire State Building Light Show Honors Famous Artworks From the Whitney Museum Collection
As part of the May 1, 2015 opening celebration for the new Whitney Museum building in Manhattan, the Empire State Building was illuminated in a…