https://youtu.be/iEk7qXbYDf0 No, they aren't wearing any harnesses. But some of them are sporting rather dashing chapeaus. From Speed Graphic Film and Video: New York's Chrysler Building, one of the city's… Read the rest of the article: Watch this impressive c.1929 footage of construction workers atop NYC's Chrysler Building
https://youtu.be/DPYnwqCOwUA Over the weekend, the Luchon-Superbagnères ski resort in the French Pyrenees used a helicopter to bring in fresh snow to the slopes from higher elevations. The chopper dumped 50… Read the rest of the article: Ski resort uses helicopter to bring in more snow
Legendary musical force Andrew Weatherhall — who produced Primal Scream's seminal album Screamadelica, famously remixed the likes of My Bloody Valentine and Meat Beat Manifesto, and as a DJ helped… Read the rest of the article: Andrew Weatherall, Primal Scream producer, acid house legend, RIP
MIT researchers outfitted a baby diaper with an RFID tag that emits a wireless signal when the surrounding material gets wet. The wetness "sensor" is actually a type of hydrogel… Read the rest of the article: MIT's "Smart Diaper" alerts caregiver when it's wet
Hacking my arm prosthesis to output CV so that it plugs into my synth: Thought-controlled music!Watch this video on YouTube Bertolt Meyer wears a myoelectric prosthetic arm and hand controlled… Read the rest of the article: Man hacks his prosthetic arm to control music synthesizer with his thoughts
Expandards "Nature Boy" Official Music Video [HD]Watch this video on YouTube For the last couple years, my dear friend Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco, Quindar) and Isaac Koren (The Kin, Bråves) have… Read the rest of the article: Smoking video for Wilco's Mikael Jorgensen and The Kin's Isaac Koren's sexy, simmering, and brilliant Nat King Cole cover
The Temple of Ilissos (Artemis Agrotera) – 3D reconstructionWatch this video on YouTube Starting in 2007, photographer and visual effects artist Dimitris Tsalkanis has been building a digital 3D model… Read the rest of the article: For 13 years, this photographer has been building an incredible 3D digital model of Athens
Thirty years ago today, the Voyager 1 spaceprobe had completed its ncounters with the outer planets and was careening out of our solar system. The time came to shut off… Read the rest of the article: Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot image is 30 years old today
While scientists have studied Moon rocks for 50 years, researchers have for the first time conducted deep analysis on a single grain of lunar dust, atom by atom. Using a… Read the rest of the article: The scientific secrets inside a single grain of moon dust
Stranger Things 4 | From Russia with love… | NetflixWatch this video on YouTube "From Russia with love…"
Billie Eilish Gets Interviewed By a Robot | VogueWatch this video on YouTube Creative technologist Nicole He modified OpenAI's GPT-2 language model to generate questions for happy mutant pop star… Read the rest of the article: Watch Billie Eilish interviewed by an A.I.
Robert Pattinson is The Batman in director Matt Reeves's take on the dark knight. Pattinson is best known from the Twilight series while Reeves was behind the lens on Cloverfield… Read the rest of the article: First look: Robert Pattinson is… The Batman
The IRS removed language from their Web site that listed Fortnite V-Bucks and Roblox Robux as examples of convertible virtual currencies, like Bitcoin. They were included on a page about… Read the rest of the article: IRS erroneously considered Fortnite V-Bucks and Roblox Robux "virtual currencies" subject to taxation
NBC5 Dallas/Fort Worth reporter Katy Blakey posted impressive video from a road in Southlake, Texas where thieves picked a Chevrolet Silverado clean, leaving not much more than the shell of… Read the rest of the article: Impressive video of truck picked clean by thieves
Three female mountain gorillas — one pregnant — and one male infant were killed by lightning in Uganda's Mgahinga National Park. With just 1,000 or so left in the world,… Read the rest of the article: Four endangered mountain gorillas killed by lightning
My old friend and favorite DJ, DF Tram, pulls threads from from far-out jazz, psych, experimental ambient, spoken word, downtempo EDM, and avant-garde classical to create transgenre ambient mixes. A… Read the rest of the article: Marvelous mix of chill-out, ambient, and experimental sounds from DF Tram
Yesterday, I posted Sam Rowley's fantastic photo of two brawling mice on a subway platform that won the London Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year LUMIX People's Choice… Read the rest of the article: Photo of boxing orangutan wins wildlife photography award
As the world gets weirder, so do the faux passengers that unscrupulous drivers employ to gain access the HOV lane. Washington State Patrol officer Rick Johnson pulled over a speeding… Read the rest of the article: Pet dinosaur does not count as passenger in the HOV lane
Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones who died last month was also a scholar of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, having penned two books about the great English poet. Before Jones's… Read the rest of the article: Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones's last major project was this Canterbury Tales app
On May 2, 2020, Carson, California will be host to an incredible 1980s music revival. The Cruel World Festival lineup includes Bauhaus, Blondie, Devo, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Psychedelic… Read the rest of the article: Stellar lineup for 1980s music festival: Bauhaus, Blondie, Devo, Echo & The Bunnymen…
