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‘The Waste Management Series’, Remarkably Beautiful Abstract Sculptures Made From Garbage
Artist Vincent Skoglund transformed old computers, car floor mats, broken furniture, and other garbage into remarkably beautiful and evocative sculptures in his 2011 photo project,…
Suspect the Iditarod Sled Dog Swiftly Runs in a Giant Exercise Wheel for Dogs
Iditarod racer Suspect the sled dog excitedly runs in an exercise wheel at the Husky Homestead in Denali Park, Alaska in a video from 2010.…
A Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise Sushi Set With Warp-Trail Chopsticks
ThinkGeek has released a Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise Sushi Set that looks just like the iconic starship U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 from Star Trek: The Original…
‘An Embroidery of Voids’, A Surreal Video That Takes the Viewer Down a Mesmerizing Path of Digitally Spliced Alleys
The experimental video “An Embroidery of Voids” takes the viewer down back alleys and other urban passageways that have been digitally spliced into a continuous…
How NASA Uses the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to Hunt for New Craters on the Moon
A recent video by NASA looks at how the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its three onboard cameras hunt for new craters on the Moon.…
A Magician Blows People’s Minds When He Walks Through a Freestanding Door in a Park and Disappears
Magician Rahat Hussein (previously) recently blew people’s minds when he walked through a freestanding door, which was placed in the middle of a park, and…
StoryCorps Develops a Free App That Lets People Record, Share & Preserve the Stories of Their Lives
StoryCorps (previously), the wonderful oral history project that provides recording booths for people to tell their own life stories and make them available to the…
A Detailed Look at the Video Game Level Design in ‘Super Mario 3D World’
Pocket Gamer editor Mark Brown takes a detailed look at the video game level design in Super Mario 3D World to explain the four-step design…
Beautiful Aerial Footage of San Francisco Recorded With a Camera Drone
Team BlackSheep (previously) used a Discovery Pro camera quadcopter to capture some wonderful aerial footage of San Francisco in this newly released video. The video…
The 11th Annual RoboGames, The World’s Largest Robot Competition in San Mateo, California
The 11th Annual RoboGames (previously), the world’s largest robot competition, takes place April 3 to 5, 2015, at the San Mateo Event Center near San…