Can you name the original painting just from looking at these ‘pixelated’ LEGO versions? In a campaign for LEGO by art director Marco Sodano, famous paintings are recreated using the world-famous brick. The recent campaign was done by Geometry Global, Hong Kong. A fellow artist by the name of Geoffroy Amelot seems to have…
At the time of its opening in 1976, Randall Park Mall was the “world’s largest shopping center” boasting 2 million square feet of retail space. Developer Edward De Bartolo built the mall on the site of the Randall Race Track in the village of North Randall, Ohio. At the time of its opening, North…
The Basehunters are a storm chasing team founded by Colt Forney, Kevin Rolfs, Scott Peake, and Isaac Pato. On 18 May 2014 they captured the formation of an incredible supercell thunderstorm between Wright and Newcastle, Wyoming. The timelapse footage is absolutely phenomenal. Be sure to check them out on Facebook and YouTube for more…
Photograph by NASA Pre-Winter Storm, Southwestern Australia (NASA, International Space Station, 03/29/14) One of the Expedition 39 crew members aboard the International Space Station on March 29 used a 14mm lens on a digital still camera to photograph this pre-winter storm located just off the coast of southwestern Australia. A solar array panel on…
“Mazzo di Fiori” is an incredible 3D printed flower bouquet by artist and inventor Joshua Harker. The 3D printed floral sculpture is made from 1,918,416 triangles and you can explore the complex 3D model here. For the last 18 months Harker has been developing a new 3D printing technology to usher in the next…
Magnetic Thinking Putty is like normal silly putty, only it’s embedded with millions of tiny micron-sized magnets. This gives the material some strange and fascinating properties. Watch what happens when the team at Vat19 answer burning questions from customers using 100 pounds of the magnetic substance.
In an ongoing series of handmade miniature books, artist Evan Lorenzen recently released his latest entitled, The Mini Book of Major Events. The 7 page, miniature bound book is a follow-up to his first tiny book, The Little Book of Big Ideas. You can find more of Evan’s artwork at the online links below,…
UKRAINIAN EASTER EGGS Photograph by Luba Petrusha A pysanka (plural: pysanky) is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs using a wax-resist (batik) method. The word pysanka comes from the verb pysaty, “to write”, as the designs are not painted on, but written with beeswax. Many other eastern European…
Three strangers on the street got together for an impromptu jam session and it was amazing. Music has the power to connect people and touch souls, this is the beauty of music in its simplest form. Sometimes I just don’t know 🙂
It doesn’t get much better than this. If you’re ever in Ann Arbor, Michigan, you might just run into this guy and his custom-built transformer costume. According to the Detroit Free Press the man behind the costume is 28-year-old Joslyn Paige who says he made the suit himself in about five weeks at a…
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