October 23, 2014 at 6:35 pm

Geometric 3D Paper Masks by Steve Wintercroft

Geometric 3D Paper Masks by Steve Wintercroft

Builder and designer Steve Wintercroft has created an awesome series of geometric 3D paper masks that you can build yourself. Steve says it all began a few years ago when he was invited to a Halloween party and was struggling for costume ideas: “I sat down with a pile of old cardboard, some parcel…

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October 23, 2014 at 3:59 pm

This is Where Your Marble Comes From

This is Where Your Marble Comes From

I had no idea what the extraction process at a marble quarry was like and certainly didn’t imagine it was like this. Watch Il Capo aka The Chief, guide his men using a silent language of gesture and sign as they extract gigantic slabs of marble. Italian artist and filmmaker Yuri Ancarani captures the…

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October 23, 2014 at 12:25 pm

If Springfield Became a Deadbeat Town [7 Photos]

If Springfield Became a Deadbeat Town [7 Photos]

Artwork by TIM DOYLE Website | Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr | Online shop Artist Tim Doyle imagines what Springfield would look like if it became a desolate and derelict town. The images are part of a larger, ongoing series entitled Unreal Estate, and includes recognizable buildings and backdrops from other television shows such…

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October 23, 2014 at 10:17 am

Just Hundreds of CGI People Running Into a Swinging Metal Fence

Just Hundreds of CGI People Running Into a Swinging Metal Fence

VFX artist Dave Fothergill used CGI to simulate what hundreds of people running into a rotating metal fence would look like. In the video description Fothergill provides some additional technical information: Crowd dynamics test using Miarmy for Maya. Shows the new servo force feature which allows struggling animation once the agent has become dynamic.…

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October 22, 2014 at 6:38 pm

Picture of the Day: Cape Town from Above

Picture of the Day: Cape Town from Above

Photograph by Michael Jung In this breathtaking aerial taken from a helicopter, we see the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa. Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa after Johannesburg and one of the most multicultural cities in the world. The city was named the World Design Capital for 2014…

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October 22, 2014 at 6:03 pm

Cosplayers Reveal Their Day Jobs [15 photos]

Cosplayers Reveal Their Day Jobs [15 photos]

BuzzFeed sent staffer Ryan Broderick to New York Comic Con (which took place Oct. 9 – 12) to ask Cosplayers in attendance what their day jobs were. As expected, cosplayers come from all walks of life! You can see the complete 29-picture gallery at BuzzFeed. 1. Photograph by Ryan Broderick/BuzzFeed 2. Photograph…

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October 22, 2014 at 3:01 pm

The Winners of the 50th Annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year

The Winners of the 50th Annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year

The top awards for the 50th Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were announced earlier this week at a ceremony held at London’s Natural History Museum. The winners received their awards from the Museum Patron, The Duchess of Cambridge, Sir David Attenborough, wildlife presenter Liz Bonnin and renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting. American photographer…

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October 22, 2014 at 11:43 am

World’s First Camera Calculator App Instantly Solves Math Problems

World's First Camera Calculator App Instantly Solves Math Problems

PhotoMath is the world’s first ‘camera calculator’. Point your smartphone’s camera towards a mathematical expression and PhotoMath instantly displays a correct result, also showing the step by step process it used to arrive at the answer. The free app currently supports arithmetic expressions; fractions and decimals; powers and roots; and simple linear equations with…

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October 22, 2014 at 10:37 am

You Know It’s Windy When Waterfalls are Being Blown Upwards

You Know It's Windy When Waterfalls are Being Blown Upwards

On 21 October 2014, storm force winds battered northern England’s Derbyshire Peak District, near Hayfield. The River Kinder is observed being stopped in its tracks as it is blown back up onto Kinder Scout Plateau at the point where it would normally cascade 80 ft down the Kinder Downfall.

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October 21, 2014 at 7:30 pm

Picture of the Day: Calvin and Hobbes Street Art in Portland

Picture of the Day: Calvin and Hobbes Street Art in Portland

Photograph by Mike Vogel (@mikev on Twitter) Writer and Portland resident Mike Vogel spotted this wheatpaste poster of an older Calvin daydreaming about his childhood and the good times he had with his pal Hobbes. The street artwork was spotted at the corner of 7th Avenue and Salmon Street in southeast Portland. I was…

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