Fight the Dark Side with this Tiffany-style R2-D2 head dome table lamp.

My jaw literally fell open when I first saw a clip of Fredrik Tjærandsen BA presentation for Central Saint Martins, the London art college. The Norwegian fashion designer and visual… Read the rest of the article: Fashion arts student stuns the crowd with his latex balloon creations that transform into dresses

I love when YouTube food maker Alexis Gabriel Ainouz (better known as French Guy Cooking) launches into a series of videos exploring some food obsession of his. He's done it… Read the rest of the article: Alex of "French Guy Cooking" goes in search of the perfect Italian meatball

My God, it's full of stars! To create this unprecedented view of the Milky Way, ESO combined thousands of individual images from VISTA, taken through three different infrared filters, into… Read the rest of the article: You are looking at 84 million stars in the heart of the Milky Way — how small do you feel now?

It's been a while since we've looked in on John Plant, the Primitive Technology guy. Here are some of his recent videos. It's always good to stay current on your… Read the rest of the article: Catching up with the Primitive Technology channel

On the highly-recommended Brick Experiment Channel, "BEC" (the unidentified, silent LEGO engineer you never see or hear) tries his hand at building a quad drone using LEGO bricks and other… Read the rest of the article: Building and testing a drone made almost entirely from LEGO parts

In this video, amateur mad scientist and maker Peter Sripol turns an unmodified leaf blower and some foam board into an R/C-controlled plane. This is part of a series of… Read the rest of the article: Turning a leaf blower into an R/C plane

I just happened upon this McSweeny's post, Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell, Reimagined for Linguistic Transgressions, by poet and software engineer, John Rauschenberg, that they published a few years ago.… Read the rest of the article: Dante's Hell re-imagined as linguistic sins

Bull in a China shop? How about an elephant in a South Asian hotel? woke up to a text from my mom about how a wild elephant went into a… Read the rest of the article: Wild elephant found gingerly walking through Sri Lankan hotel exploring things with its trunk

As an antidote to the madness and mayhem I subjected you all to with my idiots with chainsaws post, here is ten minutes of controlled demolition of decommissioned water towers.… Read the rest of the article: Ten minutes of collapsing water towers

Yesterday, Sherry Huss, former Maker-in-Chief of Maker Media, did a Facebook post about a new magazine, Reinvented, which has just released its second issue. The magazine, available in both print… Read the rest of the article: Reinvented, a new magazine about women in STEM written by women in STEM

Over the holidays, I had the pleasure of getting to play a new game that quickly became my son's and my favorite over the holiday break (when we try to… Read the rest of the article: My favorite new game, KnifeTank: The Shüffling, is now on Kickstarter

Today is the birthday (1941) of the late Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, one of then most fascinating, confounding, and creative artists and musicians of the 20th century. Let's… Read the rest of the article: Celebrating Captain Beefheart's birthday with a look at his masterpiece, Trout Mask Replica

As these videos so dramatically demonstrate, there is a reason why lumberjacking is one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet — and why an amateur tree-feller with a… Read the rest of the article: Darwin Award nominees: idiots with chainsaws

Fifty one years ago today, the first incarnation of the prog rock band, King Crimson, gathered in a cramped basement space below the Fulham Palace Cafe in London. One of… Read the rest of the article: Touring the inner workings of the Mellotron on King Crimson's anniversary

BFI, the British film organization, has posted a list of ten "acid westerns." The term ‘acid western’ is an elusive one. First coined by Pauline Kael in her New Yorker… Read the rest of the article: A 10-film trip through the "acid western"

After Boing Boing and other sites wrote about the Squidmar Miniatures video where Emil challenged painters on Fivver to paint a mini for him, the video went viral. Others painters… Read the rest of the article: Squidmar issues another miniature painting challenge on Fivver

The night before David Bowie died, I was listening to the newly released tracks from Blackstar on YouTube, in honor of his birthday the day before. I saw the Hammersmith… Read the rest of the article: "Whatever lies behind the door" The night before Bowie died

The Dragonfly-like Meganeuropsis was a giant insect that plied the skies from the Late Carboniferous to the Late Permian, some 317 to 247 million years ago. It had a wingspan… Read the rest of the article: The largest insect that ever lived, the Dragonfly-like Meganeuropsis, had a wingspan of 28"

Slice of Life is a crowdfunded fan film that takes place in a Blade Runner-like universe and is presented as a "love letter" to 80s sci-fi films in general. Years… Read the rest of the article: The magic of movie miniatures via the Slice of Life fan film