video Watch beautiful timelapse cityscapes as evening lights come on Andrea James

fireworks LA cityscape with fireworks goes full Blade Runner Gareth Branwyn

art Watch Iranian artist Ali Akbar Beigi apply finishing touches to a hyper-realistic oil painting Xeni Jardin

maps World's largest train set Rob Beschizza

b-side Infinitown is a procedurally generated city that seems to go on forever Mark Frauenfelder

Virtual reality The making of first hand-drawn VR cartoon Michael Lipman

happy mutants "Hole Roll": blackout curtains with trompe l'oeil cityscapes cut into them Cory Doctorow

video Cityscapes created inside toilet paper rolls Andrea James

Gadgets The secret skylines of high-magnification computer chips Cory Doctorow

computer science Generative, collaging architecture system designs impossible, Inception-like cities Cory Doctorow

Business "Water Bar" celebrates the wonder and fragility of tap water Cory Doctorow

gift guide Wink 2015 Holiday Gift Guide: Cheapies but goodies under $20 Carla Sinclair

coloring books A quirky coloring book with images of a typewriter and a giraffe with an overbite Wink

pencils Spend a summer afternoon with a Fantastic Cities coloring book and Tutti Frutti rainbow-colored pencils Carla Sinclair

Games The Dwarven Lord of Kickstarter Ethan Gilsdorf

For sale: the largest, most expensive home in US history David Pescovitz

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow