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Woah! Look at this photo of Pluto, taken today by NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft. The probe sped past Pluto at 14km per second and is set to fly past Pluto’s five moons: Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra.
Creative and clever illustrations of a man living in Fukushima, before and after the nuclear disaster.
Today’s the day. The day you help save the internet from being ruined.
Ready?
Yes, you are, and we’re ready to help you.
(Long story short: The FCC is about to make a critical decision as to whether or not internet service providers have to treat all traffic equally. If they choose wrong, then the internet where anyone can start a website for any reason at all, the internet that’s been so momentous, funny, weird, and surprising—that internet could cease to exist. Here’s your chance to preserve a beautiful thing.)
Banksy might have created a Twitter account, for one day, to express his views on his most recent work Spy Booth, in Cheltenham. The property owners of the piece plan on removing it and selling it.
Lomography is introducing its first instant camera, which features customizable retro bodies and uses Fuji Instax Mini Film. Already reaching its goal on Kickstarter, the camera should be released in November 2014.
Photographer Randy Scott Slavin uses a GoPro and a drone to show us New York City from up top.
Just The Two Of Us, installation by Katharina Grosse. You can check out these technicolor sculptures at the MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, on display till September 2014.
A new piece by Banksy appeared in London! And then it disappeared shortly after.
For its design issue, T Magazine travels to Tangier to speak with several influential designers and their personally curated homes.
Art, in its ever evolving history, has added a new genre to its timeline: robot art. Created by Dr. Woohoo, this robot can paint natural looking smoke and water images with specially designed software.
There is now a 24-hour Cupcake ATM in New York City, courtesy of Sprinkles Cupcakes. It’s located on the Upper East Side and each cupcake sells for $4.25-the same price as Crumbs.
One small step for cupcakes, one giant leap for cupcake lovers.
The Oregon Manifest Bike Design Project challenges teams to design a better bike for the urban rider. It kicked off on March 24th and will showcase on July 25th.
Check out the New York team, Horse Cycles (pictures above), handcrafted in Brooklyn.
Submergence, a huge installation done by a group of designers called Squidsoup, is currently on display in Oslo, Norway. Submergence is made up of thousands of suspended lights, which have motion sensors that respond and illuminate as you move through it.
Incredibly detailed props for The Grand Budapest Hotel, hand created by Annie Atkins. No detail was spared in the making.
Painting Must Die-Painting Must Live, Loren Munk, 2013.
Art history made easy with this flow chart!
You can now take a drift down the Colorado River via Google Maps.
These are two screen shots from my computer and you can read more about it at laboratoryequipment.com.
Hooray!
Bristol street artist Jody Thomas is set to have an exhibit in New York City. You can check him out at the Affordable Art Fair on April 2th - April 6th.
President Barack Obama on Zach Galifianakis’ Between Two Ferns.
Hilarious!
