Apr 14

Mind-blowing video shows how humans are basically bad copies of amoebas

Posted in: Today's Chili

Mind-blowing video shows how humans are basically bad copies of amoebas

Vsauce, the master answerer of life’s toughest questions and professional blower of minds, tackles something so philosophical in his latest video that you’ll start to wonder what in the hell our purpose is on this Earth. And if it’s any different than a purpose of a rock. It starts with the discussion of art and then fakes and forgeries of art and what forgeries really mean and what it means to be original and eventually leads into a discussion on how we’re pretty much all just forgeries too. What is real! Who is real! Nothing is. Damn. Sauce.

Read more…




No Comments | Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Apr 14

How paying people to be parents has created a baby boom in Finland.

Posted in: Today's Chili

How paying people to be parents has created a baby boom in Finland. Decoding the maybe-too-flashy urban renewal of once-dangerous Medellín, Colombia. And why a long-standing rivalry between Boston and New York led to the first American subways. Here are today’s Urban Reads.

Read more…




No Comments | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Apr 14

This was the view that some lucky campers woke up to this past weekend at Coachella, the music and a

Posted in: Today's Chili

This was the view that some lucky campers woke up to this past weekend at Coachella, the music and art festival that continues next weekend in Indio, California. Over 100 teepees were hand-painted by local artists and rented as luxury accommodations starting at $2200. [Coachella]

Read more…




No Comments | Tags: , , , , ,
Apr 14

Banksy’s Latest Depicts Spying, Right Outside the UK Intelligence HQ

Posted in: Today's Chili

Banksy's Latest Depicts Spying, Right Outside the UK Intelligence HQ

What’s alleged to be Banksy’s latest piece of artwork has popped up on the side of a house in Cheltenham, and it depicts security agents spying on a public phone—right round the corner from the UK’s intelligence center, GCHQ.

Read more…




No Comments | Tags: , , , ,
Apr 13

Spray-Painting Graffiti Drone Not Nearly as Effective as You’d Think

Posted in: Today's Chili

Robots may be taking our jobs throughout agriculture and industry, but the the duty of defacing architecture is likely to remain in the hands of humans for the immediate future if this semi-autonomous spray-paint drone is any evidence.

Read more…




No Comments | Tags: , , , , ,
Apr 12

The Gritty Cityscapes of Jeremy Mann

Posted in: Today's Chili

The Gritty Cityscapes of Jeremy Mann

I love the coarse large format paintings of cities by Jeremy Mann. I like to get lost in his everyday scenes and admire the gritty brushstrokes that reveal a perfect command of light, texture, and color.

Read more…




No Comments | Tags: , , ,
Apr 11

Walk on a Magic Carpet of Light in this Moroccan Cathedral

Posted in: Today's Chili

Walk on a Magic Carpet of Light in this Moroccan Cathedral

Watch out, the ground will change beneath your feet at the Sacré Coeur in Casablanca. As part of the installation Magic Carpet 2014, an interactive light show swirls, swarms, and shimmers under the cathedral’s vaunted arches. It’s even more thrilling to watch the lights in action in the video below.

Read more…




No Comments | Tags: , , ,
Apr 11

French Artist Is Living Inside a Bear for 13 Days, Grins, Bears It

Posted in: Today's Chili

Performance artists. What won’t they do for attention? One guy, French artist Abraham Poincheval, is spending 13 days inside a taxidermy bear. That’s right. He is camping out inside of a dead bear.
living in a bear 620x467magnify

He is doing this for his performance art piece “Dans La Peau de l’Ours” (“Inside the Skin of the Bear”) at the Hunting and Wildlife Museum in Paris through April 13, 2014. And also for attention. It’s just how artists are. Poincheval will remain enclosed in a cramped compartment inside of the bear. Kind of like a bear baby in the womb.

living in a bear1 620x344magnify

The “performance” is being streamed live via two cameras if you’re into that kind of thing. Watch man and bear co-exist in a truly weird way.

living in a bear2 620x467magnify

Whooah, we’re half way there
Livin’ in a bear
Take my hand and we’ll make it – I swear
Livin’ in a bear

[via BBC News via Laughing Squid]

No Comments | Tags: , , , , , ,
Apr 11

Behold the Ultimate Dalek

Posted in: Today's Chili

Daleks are pretty ominous creatures to begin with, but this cool ultimate Dalek design is kinda terrifying. To be honest, I’m not sure that the Doctor can take on this thing, let alone an army of them. How are you going to stop it? THIS is how the Daleks should come back. It will surely kill the universe.

ultimate dalek 1magnify

This amazing creation comes from DeviantArtist wako88 who really should be working for Doctor Who.

This thing looks like it’s part Iron Man, part Dalek, with a little Cyberman thrown in. It probably assimilated some Samus Aran too. This is the ultimate Dalek weapon. A Dalek Death Star if you will. Basically…run!

[via Dorkly]

No Comments | Tags: , , , , , ,
Apr 11

Is Math Art?

Posted in: Today's Chili

Sometimes the results of math are sure beautiful—pretty charts, say, or wonderful visualizations. But can maths itself, those long complex equations, be art too?

Read more…




No Comments | Tags: , ,