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Artists Build Playable Organ out of Pringles Cans
New York City art collective Fall On Your Sword recently created a playable organ out of Pringles cans. The organ has ten keys that trigger…
Game of Thrones’ Tormund Giantsbane Shows How to Properly Grow and Shave a Beard
Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju), leader of a group of wildlings on HBO‘s Game of Thrones, takes some time out of his busy schedule to show…
Sergio Garcia’s Delightfully Deformed Object Sculptures at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco
Artist Sergio Garcia has unveiled new delightfully distorted tricycles, figures, and other objects in “Infinite Chapters,” his solo show at White Walls gallery in San…
Flickr Launches Redesigned Mobile App Featuring Live Filters for Video Recording and Better Photo Organization
Photo hosting service Flickr has launched Flickr 3.0, a redesigned mobile app with a series of new features like live filters for recording video, a…
Beautiful Japanese Whiskey Campaign Uses 3D Milled Ice Sculptures Created Using a Precision Drill
“3D on the Rocks” is a beautiful ad campaign created by Japanese ad house TBWA/Hakuhodo for Suntory Whiskey using 3D milled ice sculptures created using…
A 1968 Newsreel Reporting on the Opening of the first Legoland in Billund, Denmark
This 1968 film from British Pathé reports on the opening of the original Legoland amusement park, Legoland Billund.
Breeze, An Activity Tracker App by RunKeeper That Automatically Monitors Steps and Movement
Breeze is a simple activity tracker app by RunKeeper that automatically monitors a user’s steps and movement to provide progress updates and real-time coaching on…
Escape Velocity, A Giant Animatronic Astronaut at Coachella
photo via My Modern Metropolis For the 2014 Coachella festival, art studio Poetic Kinetics has built a massive kinetic sculpture of an astronaut entitled “Escape…
Newsreel Archive British Pathé Uploads Their Entire Collection of 85,000 Historic Films to YouTube
Newsreel archive British Pathé has announced that it has uploaded its entire collection of historic newsreels and films—85,000 in total— to their YouTube account. The…
Trained Mice Prepare an Easter Egg Hunt For a Dog Whose Job It Is To Find the Hidden Eggs
Marina from MouseAgility has posted this wonderful video of her amazingly trained mice Shaitani, Amrie and Krüger preparing an Easter Egg Hunt for their buddy…