Looking like prehistoric floating neon, these elaborate floating fossils light up the night with an otherworldly and beautiful glow. Created by Darren Pearson (aka Darius Twin), his “Light Fossils” are some of the best light paintings we’ve seen in a long while. Pearson creates the pieces freehand at night, using just flashlights, a long exposure photograph and a lot of skill (think about drawing dinosaur bones with your eyes closed). [Read more...]
The days of the blood sample routine—arm out, make a fist, find a vein, and tap in—may soon be over, thanks to a new analysis method that requires only a pinprick of blood. A relatively new alternative to drawing blood from veins for analysis uses very small blood samples stored as dried blood spots (DBSs). [Read more...]
Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody‘ might be your favorite song to rock in the car, but what about when you get to your hot date? This fun infographic from the musical folks at Sonos, matches some great audio tracks to life’s varied twists and turns. This graphic is missing plenty of interesting situations… so what’s the perfect accompaniment for an activity in your life? [Read more...]
Paul Rand, a name synonimous with logo design; he created the iconic emblems for companies as familiar as IBM and UPS. In this classic 1993 interview, Steve Jobs, then president of the forward thinking NeXT Computer, talks about his experiences working with Rand in designing the NeXT logo. Filmed three years before Rands death in 1996, it’s an insightful look into two world changing minds. [Read more...]
Whether it’s the wail of Eddie Van Halen or Chuck Berry, this tongue-in-cheek look at rock and roll history hits a lot of high notes. Created by the ever strange crew at Cracked, the graphic takes the rock stereotypes of each generation since the 50′s, showing timelines for that times archetypes, subject matter, volume, thievery, profitability, competition and social impact. What was your favorite era? [Read more...]
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These incredible posters produced by the Soviet Union’s Moscow based news agency, TASS, during the Second World War, show the history of the conflict from a particularly vibrant and often gruesome Soviet perspective. The large prints, reaching between 5 and 10 feet tall, were displayed in shop windows throughout the war, with nearly a poster produced for every day of Russian involvement (1941-1945). Like an artistic journal, the posters (displayed here in chronological order) are especially interesting in the way the they track the progress of the war and the attitudes of their creators as the conflict progressed. [Read more...]
Preserving just 4 percent of the ocean could protect crucial habitat for the vast majority of marine mammal species, according to researchers at Stanford University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico.Of the 129 species of marine mammals on Earth, including seals, dolphins, and polar bears, approximately one-quarter are facing extinction. [Read more...]
Fast food sellers vie for your consumable dollars. Which of these vintage ways of promoting their goods attracted the consumer’s attention most? Check out those equally vintage prices too… it’s a far sight from the dollar menus of today. [Read more...]
Some artists like to be inspired over a nice bottle of wine; artist Scott Gundersen however, lets others enjoy the wine and makes art from the differently dyed corks. For his most recent portrait “Grace”, he used a total of 9,217 corks to create the beautiful and surprisingly detailed image. Be sure to see the video below for a time-lapse of the final 50 hours of the 200 hour project, and for how Gundersen cleverly organizes his corks by shade. For more, check out scottgundersen.tumblr.com. [Read more...]
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