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Pioneering San Francisco Psychedelic Light Show Artist Bill Ham is Releasing a Light Painting DVD
Veteran San Francisco light artist Bill Ham, who gained notoriety in the 1960s for his psychedelic “San Francisco rock dance light shows,” is committing one…
Dramatically Back-Lit Paper Dioramas by Hari & Deepti
Art duo Hari & Deepti (Harikrishnan Panicker and Deepti Nair) create dramatically back-lit cut paper dioramas in LED light boxes. The light boxes allow the…
How to Not Draw Characters From ‘Game of Thrones’
“What’s a double D, you ask? A Dope Dragon!” For his ongoing How To Draw (With Detail) parody series, talented and humorous New York City…
Theoretical Physicist Andrei Linde Surprised With Solid Evidence Supporting His Cosmic Inflation Theory
Stanford University professor and theoretical physicist Andrei Linde is surprised by associate professor Chao-Lin Kuo in this short video with findings from the BICEP2 experiment…
An Illustrated History of Twitter
Mashable has created “An Illustrated History of Twitter”, a short video featuring whiteboard illustrations by Bob Al-Greene that quickly goes over the history of the…
New York City’s 29th Annual April Fools’ Day Parade
Veteran prankster Joey Skaggs has announced New York City’s 29th Annual April Fools’ Day Parade, scheduled for April 1, 2014. This year’s theme is “Everybody…
An Incredible 360-Degree Infrared Panorama of the Milky Way Galaxy
NASA has unveiled an amazing 360-degree infrared panorama of the Milky Way Galaxy stitched together from over two million infrared images taken by NASA’s Spitzer…
Spanish ‘Star Wars’ Church Procession Features Dancing Stormtroopers, Darth Vader, and a Millennium Falcon
The “Jedi Church Procession of the Knights of the New Hope” generated quite a crowd during their Star Wars-themed Holy Week celebrations (video #2) in…
Comedian Mark Malkoff Rappels Down The Euromast in Rotterdam, Netherlands Despite His Fear Of Heights
Comedian Mark Malkoff, an admitted acrophobic, bravely rappels down The Euromast, an observation tower in Rotterdam, Netherlands for his newest web series “101 Other Things…
Considering Whether Sleeping Pills Actually Assist With Sleep
Trace Dominguez of DNews discusses the questions that have arisen about the efficacy of sleeping pills. Each of these drugs are great for knocking a…