Just keep swimming.
Made from more than 600 parts, this soothing kinetic sculpture by Derek Hugger mimics a sea turtle's swimming movements. via Colossal
A cold war in London.
A fun short film on turf battles between British ice cream vendors. From an interview with the director: The genesis of the project came when he was shooting a music video at a friend’s workshop in an industrial estate on the outskirts of London. “We started chatting about the
The world's biggest cephalopod gathering.
Scientists recently found the world's largest-ever octopus gathering deep in the seas of California's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The octopuses were found brooding, which is not to say that they were petulant. Rather, most of the creatures had their eight tentacles inverted to protect
Even More Covers
The third edition of animated vintage book graphics. See the first two: Covers and More Covers.
A year’s worth of sexist encounters while carving pumpkins.
In a new spin on classic Halloween cinema, filmmaker Sophy Romvari and a friend share stories of creepy encounters with men.
Performing the Machine
With a set of strings attached to a 3D printer, David McCallum manipulates the printer's sounds, playing it like an instrument. From his description of the project: Six "strings" are stroked to trigger gestures from the printer, and the strength of the stroke affects the expression
The origin of quantam mechanics explained briefly.
The origin of quantam mechanics explained in less than five minutes, with nice drawings. The German government asked the theoretical physicist Max Planck: how can lightbulbs be made more efficient? ... Working backwards from his data in ‘an act of despair’, Planck found that light wasn’t emitted continuously, but rather
This is the world's largest model railway
Inspired by this musing essay on why people love to see human lives in miniature, here's a tour of Hamburg's Miniatur Wunderland, the world's largest model railway, aka the "ultimate small continent."
How to become a great jazz pianist, with Google.
Google’s "Piano Genie" lets you improvise on a piano "by simply bashing away at eight buttons." “When you’re playing it, it’s this really awesome experience where, occasionally, it will feel like it’s sort of reading your mind and play the exact note
The epitome of mountain running.
In case you need some inspiration, some professional female runners going fast on exposed, narrow trails in Chamonix, France.