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Screenstagram, A Screensaver For Instagram Photos
Screenstagram by the Barbarian Group is a clever Mac screensaver for those deliciously retro-hip Instagram photos. Screenstagram will display Instagram photos by you and…
Animated Anatomies, An Exhibition of Antique Medical Pop-Up Books
Animated Anatomies is an exhibition of anatomical flap books, scholarly predecessors to the children’s pop-up book that were used for medical education as far back…
Biblion, iPad App That Showcases Archive of the New York Public Library
Biblion: World’s Fair is a free iPad app from the New York Public Library that showcases the library’s vast archive of materials from the 1939…
Floppy Disc Pillow
Floppy Disc Pillow by My Mimi, available from Shana Logic. via Geeks are Sexy
Camel Thorn Trees Photo Looks Like Photoshop But Is A Real Photo
National Geographic’s Photo of Day on May 17th by Frans Lanting, featuring Camel Thorn Trees in Namibia, looks like a Photoshop job, but is actually…
The Apocamix, Eclectic Method Remixes The End of The World
Just in time for the Rapture, Eclectic Method remixes the End of the World with The Apocamix. Realizing end times were approaching fast we decided…
A Group of Hipsters Discussing Today’s Most Exclusive Music
Hipster Playlist by Harvard Sailing Team Sketch Comedy via BuzzFeed
The Meanwhile Series, Comics About San Francisco Micro Communities
San Francisco artist Wendy MacNaughton has been documenting San Francisco micro communities through a series of wonderfully illustrated narrative comics entitled “Meanwhile.” MacNaughton has visited…
Casualties of War, Toy Soldiers That Show Plight of American Veterans
“Casualties of War” by the UK-based Dorothy Collective is a disturbing series of plastic toy soldier figurines that shows some of the troubles that await…
Giant Tower of Babel Sculpture Made of 30,000 Books
“Tower of Babel” by Argentinian artist Marta Minujin is a seven story tall sculptural structure covered in 30,000 books from all over the world. The…