Charles Gadeken’s Interactive LED Willow Tree Sculpture ‘Aurora’ is Coming to Palo Alto
“Aurora” is an interactive LED sculpture of a willow tree by artist Charles Gadeken. Originally displayed at the Burning Man festival, the 40,000-LED sculpture is…
Conan O’Brien Investigates the Creepy Doll Collection of Conan Show Designer Pierre Bernard
On a recent episode of Conan, host Conan O’Brien hilariously confronted Pierre Bernard, a graphic designer on the show, about his creepy collection of curvaceous…
Give it 100, A Website For Learning a New Skill Every Day & Recording Your Progress With Ten-Second Videos
Give it 100 is a new website created by designer Karen X. Cheng, the woman who learned to dance in one year and chronicled her…
Spinning CD Animated Music Video for ‘Life is Music’ by SOUR
CDs were used to create phenakistoscope-style radial animations in the music video for “Life is Music” by Japanese band SOUR. The phenakistoscope CDs—189 in total—are…
Buddy the Corgi Rides the Twisty Slide Again and Again
Buddy the Corgi moved away from his favorite twisty slide, but goes back to visit and excitedly rides it over and over again in this…
Twitter Introduces Custom Timelines For Curating Lists of Tweets
Music Superstars Today Twitter announced custom timelines, a way for users to create curated, embeddable lists of tweets. Similar to the third-party service Storify, users…
Video of The Bay Lights on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge
Visiting San Francisco in September I shot a short video of The Bay Lights, the beautiful LED light installation created by Leo Villareal on the…
Stylized Illustration Featuring the Faces of X-Men Superheroes & Villains
(larger) Argentinean graphic designer, illustrator, and teacher Patricio Oliver has created ‘X-men and more X-men,’ a stylized illustration featuring the faces of popular X-Men superheroes…
Man Struggles with Password Security Questions in Upright Citizens Brigade Sketch
A man can’t come up with a single answer for those standard password security questions in this sketch video by Upright Citizens Brigade.
The Full ‘Minecraft: The Story of Mojang’ Documentary Is Now Available to Watch Online
Minecraft: The Story of Mojang is a feature-length documentary made by 2 Player Productions about the creation of the immensely popular video game Minecraft. Previously,…