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Dainty Figurines Meeting Gruesome Ends
“Breaking” by British artist Jessica Harrison is a series of quaint ceramic figurines who have met gruesome fates, mainly by their own porcelain hands. “Breaking”…
Pale Blue Dot Animation, Narrated by Carl Sagan
For his final thesis project at Sheridan College in Wyoming, Adam Winnik created a wonderful animation based on Carl Sagan reading an excerpt from his…
Shut Up Little Man! The Documentary, An Audio Misadventure
Shut Up Little Man! is a film about Peter and Raymond, two cantankerous San Franciscans who became famous in the early 1990’s thanks to the…
Guns N Gardens, DIY Tips on How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
Guns N Gardens is a video series by Oakland-based Marque Cornblatt featuring handy DIY tips on how to survive a zombie apocalypse. See Also: –…
That’s How! An Illustrated Children’s Book by Christoph Niemann
That’s How! by Christoph Niemann is a wonderfully illustrated children’s book that explains how things work in a most humorous way.
Charlie the Unicorn Art Car Being Built For Burning Man 2011
Ken and friends are building an art car for Burning Man 2011 based on the legendary video “Charlie The Unicorn”. They have setup a Kickstarter…
The World’s Tallest Tree Is In An Undisclosed Location in California
To be fair, the tree in the photo montage above is the World’s Second Tallest Tree at 369 feet. It was the world’s tallest known…
The World’s Most Complicated Rube Goldberg Machine
Engineering students at Purdue University have built a Rube Goldberg-style machine that runs through 244 steps, a world record. The machine was constructed for the…
Behind The Scenes at The Threadless Photo Department
Our friend Grover Sanschagrin, co-founder of professional photography community PhotoShelter, takes a look behind the scenes at the photography department at Threadless, an innovative, community…
Mr. Toots, A Cute Unicorn That Farts Deadly Rainbows
Freddie Wong finds out that winning stuff online is not always worth it when Mr. Toots arrives.