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A Time-Lapse Documenting Artist Guillaume Cornet Drawing a Large-Scale Illustration Over 75 Hours
In this fascinating time-lapse, artist Guillaume Cornet painstakingly creates the intricate large-scale drawing Parisian Neighbourhood–a 75-hour process that is compressed to two minutes. Parisian Neighbourhood…
Israeli Engineering Students Create a Rube Goldberg Machine That Tells the Story of Passover
Students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Mount Carmel near Haifa have created a wonderful Rube Goldberg machine that tells the story of Pesach…
‘Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared 4’, A Bizarre Interactive Lesson From a Self-Involved Computer
“Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared 4” by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling of Blink Industries is a bizarre but humorous short film about an interactive…
NASA Takes an Unprecedented Look at a Week in the Life of Rain and Snow
In a recent video by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the agency takes an unprecedented look at a week in the life of rain and snow.…
Riff, A New Mobile App by Facebook for Creative Collaborative Videos With Friends
Riff is a new mobile app by Facebook Creative Labs for creating collaborative videos with friends. A user can create a short video with a certain…
Clever Skeletal Lamps Created Using Salvaged X-Ray Radiographs
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alex ?? (@kreeturefeature) This clever lamp featuring a skeletal lampshade made of repurposed X-ray radiographs was…
‘Waterballet’, Mesmerizing Otherworldly Videos Created by Dropping Liquids Into a Fishbowl
In his video series Waterballet, Amsterdam-based artist Kamiel Rongen creates striking otherworldly imagery through the simple mechanism of dropping liquids into a fishbowl. He combines…
Recycled Starbucks Coffee Sleeve Sets That Feature Colored Pencil Drawings of All 12 Iterations of ‘Doctor Who’
Set 1 – Doctors 1-4 Indianapolis-based designer Kahahuna has created a wonderful line of hand-drawn recycled Starbucks coffee sleeves sets that feature all 12 iterations…
A Charming Line of Skull-Shaped Artisan Soaps
Artist Eden Gorgós has handcrafted a charming line of skull soaps to remind everyone of “the transient nature of earthly pleasures.” The soaps come in…
‘PBS Game/Show’ Examines How Video Game Speedrunners Get So Fast
PBS Game/Show host Jamin Warren examines how video game speedrunners get so fast in the latest episode of the series. For anyone unfamiliar with the…