Artist Tee Ken Ng created awesome zoetrope automata. This sculpture becomes animated when rotated, making a little wooden person look like they're walking around. Atlas Obscura: "By using a Geneva… Read the rest of the article: Artist Tee Ken Ng's awesome zoetrope automata
The Wheel of Features is a retro toy that can make over 10,000 silly faces. In the days before kids were glued to screens, mixing and matching facial features on… Read the rest of the article: The Wheel of Features is a retro toy that can make over 10,000 silly faces
The Plum Island Museum of Lost Toys & Curiosities is in Amesbury, Massachusetts. This charming museum is filled with doodads, trinkets, and toys that have wound up on the shores… Read the rest of the article: The Plum Island Museum of Lost Toys & Curiosities
Lose the Very is a very useful, i mean "imperative", website that will help both your vocabulary and writing skills. To use the site, type in the word "very" plus… Read the rest of the article: Website that helps you find a better word than "very"
All 4 books of Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree, originally published here at Boing Boing, will soon be released as a collection with 140 brand new pages. It's been… Read the rest of the article: Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree 10th anniversary celebration: the Omnibus Collection
Urban Isolation is a video of someone skateboarding through an empty Los Angeles. Seeing a typically bustling city in this light is fascinating. It feels post-apocalyptic, yet so peaceful to… Read the rest of the article: Skating through an empty Los Angeles
The Heart of Space meteorite is a 4.5 billion year old heart-shaped chunk of iron. This beauty fell to earth during a meteorite shower on February 12th, 1947. What makes… Read the rest of the article: You'll never guess what the "Heart of Space" meteorite is shaped like
This clown-themed tooth ad from 1887 claims dentist will remove up to 28 teeth in one minute. To entice the reader further, the advertisement features an image of a sinister… Read the rest of the article: Clown themed tooth advertisement from 1887 claims dentist can remove up to 28 teeth in one minute
Artist Youmeng Liu has an extreme talent for punch-needling realistic 3D foods. The precision and realisticness of Liu's embroidery is simply mind-blowing. If I saw someone wearing one of Liu's… Read the rest of the article: Artist has extreme talent for punch-needling realistic 3D foods
The music video for Private Life by Virginia Wing is an abstract journey through a colorful dream. If it were possible to jump into an abstract watercolor painting, Mary Poppins… Read the rest of the article: Private Life by Virginia Wing is an abstract journey through a colorful dream
Marie Paccou makes hypnotizing parasols that show little movies when spun around. Her inventions use technology similar to that of a Zoetrope, a pre-film animation device. She also makes awesome… Read the rest of the article: Marie Paccou makes hypnotizing parasols that show little movies when spun around
Still Life is a creative video featuring over 1000 engravings from the 19th century. The engravings range from animals, to human body parts, to tools, and beyond. What happens when… Read the rest of the article: Over 1000 engravings from the 19th century interact in this peice of video art
Francois Robert has the best collection of pareidolia-inducing objects I've ever seen. Pareidolia, for those of you who don't know, is "the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image… Read the rest of the article: Francois Roberts amazing collection of objects that induce Pareidolia
The strange beauty of rotting food is depicted in this timelapse video. After each food item decomposes into a pile of ick, we see the process in reverse. When one… Read the rest of the article: The strange beauty of rotting food
The Puppets of Barnaby Dixon move through space in an incredibly realistic way. Not only are Dixon's puppets beautifully constructed, but the way he's able to maneuver them is perfectly… Read the rest of the article: The Puppets of Barnaby Dixon move through space in an incredibly realistic way
Nature Portals is an immersive trip through a neural network of alien-like plants. Each plant has a "portal" in the center, which acts as a hypnotic focal point for each… Read the rest of the article: Nature Portals is an immersive trip through a neural network of alien-like plants
Scott Hildebrandt makes visually stunning dioramas inside of repurposed vintage items. I let out a loud squeal of excitement upon seeing them for the first time. There are tiny universes… Read the rest of the article: Scott Hildebrandt makes visually stunning dioramas inside of repurposed vintage items
The incident of the Doritos spill in Hatteras, North Carolina took place in November of 2006 when a shipment container of Doritos went overboard, and washed up onto the shore.… Read the rest of the article: The shipwreck that covered an entire beach in bags of Doritos
Don't you hate when you're about to hit the slopes, and suddenly, a big green space alien takes control of your board and holds you hostage in the air as… Read the rest of the article: Video of a space alien kidnapping a helpless snowboarder
Here's a series of photos where people have found clever ways to interact with statues around the world. The funniest photo is this series has got to be photo #2,… Read the rest of the article: People interacting with statues in clever ways
