Ambigrams are words or symbols styled so they still have meaning when viewed from another perspective. This video is a great overview of some of the best artists and books… Read the rest of the article: Watch this great intro to the ambigram, a typographical treat
Want to take your modelmaking to the next level? here's a cool way to make dynamic bases with lit-up explosions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lvcGGOcqE&feature=youtu.be For at least a couple of years, Twitter has allowed one porn spam bot to clog up search results for common women's names, as well as for names of… Read the rest of the article: Twitter's NSFW porn spam nightmare for women with common names
Bicyclists who also own motorcycles and motorscooters have come up with some clever ways to mount their human-powered two-wheeler on their motor-powered vehicles.
Extracting earth's natural resources created some of the world's greatest fortunes. Many believe that trend will continue in space, as mining three types of asteroids leads to enormous material yields.
Ben Avlis makes surprising and sometimes slightly disturbing folded cartoons that reveal something surprising when unfolded.
Artificial intelligence has nearly unimaginable potential to shape the world, but it poses a number of significant ethical questions that need to be carefully examined at every step to reduce… Read the rest of the article: Several experts explain key ethical issues about AI
Shape of Life is a classic series produced by Sea Studios Foundation. Here, they show how sponges feed by placing harmless dye around the outside of a sponge.
This remarkable footage of wingsuit pilots hurtling through a cloud cave may leave you wondering how they got the shot. It's with a technique called overcapture, where 360 video is… Read the rest of the article: Watch wingsuiters fly through a cloud cave
Need to relax for a couple of minutes? Don those headphones and head over to Sand Tagious for some very satisfying slicing and smooshing of kinetic sand.
The Chinese slang term jingfen means "spiritually Finnish." It was coined thanks to the popularity of an online comic called Finnish Nightmares. Liang Chenyu speculates why so many Chinese millennials… Read the rest of the article: How a quirky Finnish comic came to resonate with Chinese millennials
The fine folks who created the world's blackest black now have a sprayable version that adheres to most stable surfaces. To demonstrate, they sprayed two bronze masks, one on the… Read the rest of the article: Bronze masks coated in Vantablack produce trippy illusions
Ross Edgley is swimming all the way around Britain, which is being followed both above and below the ocean's surface. A large minke whale visited him the other day.
Big Toast is an anthropomorphic slice of toast who like to slather himself with butter and pines for his ex-girlfriend, a fried egg.
German photographer Stefan Eisele and Markus Weber spend most of their time doing commercial shoots of high-end cars, but they have also created a remarkable series of street shots that… Read the rest of the article: Photographers capture the beauty of LA car culture
M.N. Projects got a lot of questions about how he etches his initials onto his metalworking projects, so he did a quick HOWTO for those who want to try it… Read the rest of the article: Here's an easy way to etch something on steel
Based on their 2018 Global Slavery Index, the Walk Free Foundation estimates there are about 403,000 humans living in the United States under conditions that meet the definition of slavery.
Lala Abaddon takes her lovely photos and cuts them into long strips, then weaves them with another set of strips to create striking geometric patterns.
A new twist on an old email scam making the rounds addresses its recipients by name and uses an actual password (hopefully deprecated). They attempt to blackmail victims, and it's… Read the rest of the article: New sextortion phishing scam uses target's harvested password
Godzilla 2: King of the Monsters continues the trend of making classical music EPIC by turning Claude Debussy's "Clair de Lune" into a spine-tingling blast of EPICness. Here's just the… Read the rest of the article: Debussy, but EPIC for the new Godzilla trailer
