Happy Mutant Dave Blair built a device to make gorgeous recursive video patterns. He says: This contraption uses two HD monitors, a Nikon DSLR camera and a sheet of beam… Read the rest of the article: Amazing in-camera patterns with a video feedback kinetic sculpture

"Library Takeout" is not only a fun little synthy treat about how to get library materials from Duke University during the pandemic, but the low-tech animation is also a perfect… Read the rest of the article: The catchiest song ever written about library COVID-19 policies

Seeing this 1949 Wilton 9400 vise go from trash to treasure is a wonderful thing. Chicago-based Wilton has a cult following among makers, who swear their vises are flawless in… Read the rest of the article: Impressive restorations of vintage Wilton bullet vises

A metal ball, a plate of sand, and a little math is all it takes for a Sisyphus table to create hours of automated patterns. Here's a clip from the… Read the rest of the article: Sisyphus tables create shifting mathematical sand patterns

Kevin Yagher made the muscle suits and fat suits for Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in the third Bill & Ted movie. Check out the impressive airbrush work he does… Read the rest of the article: Here's how movies make actors look jacked with prosthetic bodysuits

Githubber rvizz shows off a few nifty examples of some code he wrote to rotate images recursively. As the recursion reaches the one-square pixel point, it then appears to reassemble… Read the rest of the article: Trippy demonstration of recursively rotating images

Like the optical shimmer on a DVD, iridescent plants have structures in their leaves that naturally produce an electric blue-green optical effect. Many will grow in a typical garden or… Read the rest of the article: Plants with gorgeous iridescent leaves

Kyle Burgess was jogging in a Utah canyon when he spotted four adorable cougar cubs. Their mom was not too happy about his photoshoot, leading to a tense six-minute standoff.… Read the rest of the article: Jogger filming cougar cubs barely escapes mauling by mom

The silver-breasted montle is on the brink of extinction in this pitch-perfect parody of self-important nature shows. Narrated by Sir Adam Sandler. Image: YouTube / Kevin James

Wear A Mask: MTM Edition is a loving shot-for-shot remake of the opening credits of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but for the age of COVID-19. Who can turn the… Read the rest of the article: Fun mask PSA remakes 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' credits

If you have ever used Source Filmmaker on Steam, you will appreciate how much time and skill it took CoreyLaddo to recreate "Once in a Lifetime" using the mysterious G-man… Read the rest of the article: G-man from 'Half-Life' does Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime"

The Codex Zouche-Nuttall is a 14th-century Mixtec illuminated manuscript created on 47 pieces of animal skin. It's one of the most important artifacts of indigenous Mesoamerican culture before the arrival of… Read the rest of the article: Leaf through this gorgeous pre-Columbian indigenous manuscript

The Grateful Dead Movie is not just a great concert film of the band's 1974 gigs at Winterland in San Francisco. It's also a watershed moment for Deadhead culture, as… Read the rest of the article: Watch iconic concert film 'The Grateful Dead Movie'

Lewis Carroll's famed nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There gets an appropriately bizarre animation courtesy of Sjaad Rood. Narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott. Image: YouTube… Read the rest of the article: Lovely animated rendition of the poem "Jabberwocky"

Ariana Flute does terrific covers of popular songs, like her energetic version of the theme from The Simpsons. Below, she does the guitar solo from "Bohemian Rhapsody": While we are… Read the rest of the article: Epic flute cover of 'The Simpsons' theme

After a lot of trial and error Ian Davis shows off his latest prosthesis. He has been learning a lot throughout the process. For instance, the index and pinkie finger… Read the rest of the article: Maker shows off his newest homemade aluminum prosthetic hand

Example #69 of why the Internet of Shit is a bad idea: Penetration testers found that the Cellmate brand chastity cage can be remotely hacked and permanently locked onto the… Read the rest of the article: Hackers could lock your junk in this web-connected chastity cage

Sometimes a B-side becomes an unexpected hit that surpasses the A-side. Here are some classic examples. B-sides were typically considered throwaways, but the bigger question is: would they have become… Read the rest of the article: B-sides that were more popular than their A-sides

Entertainment is getting reassessed in terms of copaganda, or how uncritically shows portray policing, as part of 2020's racial reckoning over police brutality and misconduct. YouTuber Skip Intro has a… Read the rest of the article: What is "copanganda," and how did these shows emerge?

World Science Festival held a 90-minute panel titled Revealing the Mind: The Promise of Psychedelics. It's a great survey of where things stand in research after nearly half a century… Read the rest of the article: Watch World Science Festival's psychedelics panel