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How Clouds Work
How Clouds Work by Dan Meth via Curiosity Counts
Gulp, Featuring The World’s Largest Stop-Motion Animation Set
Setting the Guinness World Record for the largest stop-motion animation set, the film short Gulp the film was shot entirely using the 12-megapixel camera…
TechStars NYC TV Show, Startups Compete For $5 Million In Funding
Startup incubator TechStars is the subject of a new reality show in which tech entrepreneurs will participate in the incubator’s 3 month mentorship program in…
A Lithuanian Mayor Drives Armored Vehicle Over Illegally Parked Car
Fed up with luxury cars illegally parking in his city’s bike lanes, Mayor Arturas Zuokas of Vilinus, Lithuania drove a 13 ton Russian armored personnel…
Comic Flowchart on How To Deal With Internet Arguments
H. Caldwell Tanner and Rosscott Nover have created So You’re Mad About Something on the Internet…, a comic flowchart about how to deal with Internet…
Mariachi Band Serenades a Beluga Whale
Mariachi band Los Trovadores de America serenaded a Beluga Whale at Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, CT.
An Interview with Al Jaffee, Creator of the Mad Magazine Fold-In
The Upright Citizens Brigade recently conducted a fascinating interview with Al Jaffee, the 90 year old cartoonist responsible for famous satirical fold-ins featured in Mad…
The Power Of Love, 350,000 Post-it Notes Used To Express Love
Brazilian plastic footwear maker Melissa worked with 3M to create an amazing opening exhibit at their São Paulo flagship store, Galeria Melissa, using 350,000…
Quilled Paper Version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night Painting
Susan Myers, a Georgia-based crafter, cleverly recreated the Vincent van Gogh painting Starry Night by using the paper coiling art of quilling, sometimes referred to…
Black Market Goods Brewery, Bomb Style Packaging For Fictional Beer
Los Angeles designer Marco Manansala painstakingly created these high-concept bomb-shaped beer bottles and corresponding packaging for a class project at Cal State Fullerton. His BMG-10…