This levitating indoor cloud actually has its own lightning
If your home needs more atmosphere, try a music-making cloud. The Making Weather is a floating audiovisual, interactive sculpture disguised as a cumulus cloud. It lights up in time with the music, and...
View ArticleA British artist makes intricate landscape pictures using only food
Photographer Carl Warner uses food to create incredible landscape pictures which he calls 'foodscapes.' His designs cover cities, landscapes, and seascapes.All the food used by the artist is in its raw...
View ArticleA teen makeup artist just became the first male CoverGirl
17-year-old makeup artist James Charles just joined the ranks of Pink, Sofia Vergara, and Katy Perry. In an Instagram post October 11, Perry announced that Charles will be the first male...
View Article11 photos of urban coincidences that will make you look twice
Eight people walking with lattes in hand; an intersection full of people carrying balloons; eight people yawning at once. These scenes lie somewhere between fantasy and reality, says photographer Peter...
View Article17 beautiful pictures of roadkill and other dead things
Artist Bobby Neel Adams became famous for his clever photos of aging. His latest series focuses on death."In a strange way I think that it is a natural progression of my world view and my place in it,"...
View ArticleWatch rocket fuel morph with magnets to make this stunning piece of artwork
This interactive sculpture is called a Rize Spinning Ferrofluid display and is made using rocket fuel.A magnet creates a field and the nanoparticles in the fuel stick together, making formations spin...
View ArticleThese clever photos show how much people look like their parents
Photographer Bobby Neel Adams always thought he looked like his mother from nose down and his father from nose up.He explored this question — the ways people look like their parents — in a photo series...
View ArticleAnimation software gives the illusion these drawings have come to life
These drawings have been animated by a "morphing" program which gives the illusion they are moving. They are part of a series of animated paintings called "Illusions" by artists James R. Eads and Chris...
View ArticleAn artist whose work is getting snatched up by celebrities is tearing up the...
The INSIDER Summary:• Celebrities like Amar'e Stoudemire, Seth McFarlane, and Kylie Jenner collect Jojo Anavim's artwork.• Anavim gets his business mainly through word-of-mouth.• His style is Andy...
View ArticleSee if you can spot what's wrong in these photos of crowds
You can look at a Pelle Cass photo for several moments before realizing it doesn’t make sense.See if you can spot what's going on in this picture of people walking down the stairs:Figured it out? "Each...
View ArticleThese 11 brilliant visualizations show the insides of complex things
Cutaway illustrations are an art form of their own. So much so, in fact, that there's now a coffee table book of them: "Look Inside" from publisher Gestalten.The book includes a sports car "exploded"...
View ArticleFacebook's campus is filled with gorgeous artwork — take a look (FB)
Facebook's Menlo Park, California campus is anything but ordinary.From the nine-acre rooftop garden where employees sip free avocado berry smoothies to the vast, open-office floor plan designed by...
View ArticleThese photos show everything people touch in a day
How much can you tell about a person by looking at their things?Paula Zuccotti started investigating this question a few years ago by photographing everything people around the world touch in a day....
View ArticleThese digital frames are like Netflix for artwork
For $9.99 per month — less than one museum ticket — New York startup Electric Objects wants to beam art from galleries and museums into your living room.The company announced its newest product, a...
View ArticleThis beautiful coffee table has raised over $1.7 million on Kickstarter
Sisyphus is a kinetic art coffee table that uses a marble that automatically rolls to draw intricate designs on a layer of sand. The artist behind this ingenious table is Bruce Shapiro and has raised...
View ArticleHere’s what a computer is thinking when it plays chess against you
A co-lead at Google's Big Picture data visualization group has created an online version of chess called the Thinking Machine 6, which lets you play against a computer and visualize all of its possible...
View ArticleA Swiss billionaire was fined $4 million over undeclared artwork
Geneva (AFP) - Swiss customs authorities have slapped a billionaire with a $4 million fine for failing to properly declare some 200 artworks imported into Switzerland, according to media reports...
View ArticleHere's what couples look like when they sleep—in surreal time-lapse photos
Paul Maria Schneggenburger has always been fascinated with sleep."It’s an unconscious state of mind where scientists still haven’t really figured out yet what’s going on," he says.Early in his career,...
View ArticleThis rejected design for a futuristic new Guggenheim museum would have been...
Over the weekend, the Association of Licensed Architects announced the winners of its prestigious design competition. A variety of buildings types — from homes to sportsplexes to museums — won gold and...
View ArticleA photographer exploded a bunch of supercars to show what’s inside
Fabian Oefner thought about becoming a car designer. But he decided he was better suited for art."I found out there are too many other things that I like better, so I chose a different path," Oefner...
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