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No Globes, A Coal Power Plant Snow Globe
“No Globes” is a snow globe containing a model coal power plant. When shaken, coal dust-like particles cloud the globe. The globe was created in…
Andy Samberg Impersonates Celebrities at Harvard Class Day Speech
Comedian Andy Samberg did impersonations of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and actors Mark Wahlberg and Nicholas Cage in the speech he gave for the 2012…
Adam Savage’s Maker Faire 2012 Talk: Why We Make
At Maker Faire Bay Area 2012, Adam Savage presented a wonderful talk on “Why We Make.” Adam tells a great story about his Indiana Jones…
LiquiGlide, A Super Non-Stick Coating That Lets Ketchup Flow
Ketchup flows out of a bottle with remarkable ease in this demonstration of LiquiGlide, a food safe super non-stick coating by researchers at the MIT…
Amazing Animated Zoetrope Cake Inspired by the Work of Tim Burton
French food artist and filmmaker Alexandre DUBOSC has created an amazing animated zoetrope cake inspired by Tim Burton. It is titled The Caketrope of BURTON’s…
Blake Boston aka Scumbag Steve Adopts His Own Meme to Launch Rap Music Career
photo by Blake Boston’s mother Scumbag Steve is a persona of Blake Boston, a man whose MySpace picture was made into an internet meme in…
Wonder Twin Powers Activate!
In this video clip posted by Fuu66 from a 1981 Super Friends episode called “The Stowaways from Space”, the Wonder Twins (Jayna and Zan) activate…
Pen & Ink, A Blog Featuring Beautifully Illustrated Tattoos & The Stories Behind Them
Pen & Ink is a Tumblr blog by Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald and artist Wendy MacNaughton that tells the stories behind tattoos with the…
Life Backwards, A Video of San Francisco Moving In Reverse
“Life Backwards”, a wonderful video by Ryan Jay and Alexander Shahmiri featuring San Francisco moving in reverse.
Stunningly Life-Like Wooden Figure Sculptures by Bruno Walpoth
Artist Bruno Walpoth creates stunningly life-like figure sculptures out of wood. via Hi-Fructose