Last week we introduced to you the totally awesome Exosuit
These extremely rare, previously unseen travel posters make me want to travel back in time and visit a Japan of another era. These beautiful graphics were recently rediscovered, and they’ll auctioned off at the Vintage Movie Posters Signature Auction this month.
Art and architecture collide in this playful new series of paintings by Federico Babina. What if Andy Warhol designed a mod apartment complex? Or Joan Miró a museum? Babina has taken 27 artists and reimagined their work as places where people can live and work.
Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings—solid, tangible structures. These images, however, depict views of spaces that have only ever existed in silico—and they’re breathtaking.
Humans are far from the only creatures with the ability to shape the environment in their favor. From insects and arachnids to marine invertebrates and mammals, the animal kingdom is rife with members who all construct their own habitats. Here are the most prolific builders in Animalia.
We’ve probably all made a few pancakes in amusingly shaped blobs, but Nathan Shields takes pancake to a whole new level of art. The illustrator, former math teacher, and stay-at-home dad makes pancakes with his kids that range from Star Wars tributes to portraits of Isaac Newton to animals painted in stunning species-level detail.
Rocket hardware
Humans can only see visible light—the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. That’s why so hard to study celestial objects hidden behind cosmic dust. But radio astronomy reveals those parts of the Universe that can’t be seen in visible light—and the secrets of dust-shrouded galaxies like our lovely Milky Way.
Cross section, cutaway, or x-ray illustrations, call it whatever you want, but they’re the best way to understand how things work. They are fascinating. In this new Sploid series we will present some of the best cutaway drawings from around the world. The first collection includes 32 awesome spacecrafts.
After several years of financial difficulties, the Amusement Park of Budapest, the largest amusement park in Hungary was closed on 30 September, 2013. Today I had a chance to take a walk among its remains.