This beautiful music video should be turned into a video game asap

This beautiful music video should be turned into a video game asap

I didn’t know French band Equateur until I saw their Another-World-ish video for their EP Lava, which should be turned in to a video game ASAP. The video was created by Kadavre Exquis. Beautiful.

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Sydney looks like paradise city in this beautiful miniature video

Sydney looks like paradise city in this beautiful miniature video

I have to confess I know little about Sydney but—judging by this tilt-shift time-lapse short by Filippo Rivetti—it looks like a perfect city with nice architecture and beautiful beaches. I wish I were there right now.

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Watching flowers blooming is never not beautiful

Watching flowers blooming is never not beautiful

Unless you’re living it up in California right now—full disclosure: I am—this winter has been particularly relentless. Is there hope beyond the cold and snow and slush? Yes indeedy. But it might take a minute, so in the meantime here are some beautiful GIFs of flowers blooming.

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You can see the Olympic Flame from space

You can see the Olympic Flame from space

Astronauts on board the International Space Station have been able to photograph Sochi at night, completely free of clouds. The result is this 600mm straight-down image that shows the Fisht Stadium—the bright white circle. That yellow dot is the Olympic Flame.

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Snowblower turns Fifth Avenue Apple Store glass into beautiful painting

Snowblower turns Fifth Avenue Apple Store glass into beautiful painting

The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan? You know the one—it cost $6.7 million to build. Yesterday, a snowblower smashed one of its 15 seamless glass panels, which created this beautiful cracked vignette of New York City. It looks like a painting.

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Dancing on paper

Artist Heather Hansen thought it would be neat to cover her hands and feet on charcoal and transfer her body moves directly into paper, like a human plotter. She called it Emptied Gestures, an "experiment in kinetic drawing."

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These beautiful natural landscapes are actually aquariums

These beautiful natural landscapes are actually aquariums

According to Colossal, aquascaping is an incredibly competitive art. I didn’t even know aquascaping existed, but I have to admit that some of these winners from the Planted Aquarium Design Contest 2013 are beautiful and—when you see fish flying over mountains, deserts, and forests—they feel quite surreal.

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Who Needs Fireworks When You’ve Got a Psychedelic LED Rave Plane?

Who Needs Fireworks When You've Got a Psychedelic LED Rave Plane?

Sure, light painting is awesome when you’re doing long exposure shots with a PixelStick or something, but that’s only one way to cover your world in glowing graffiti. Take, for instance, this LED-powered rainbow plane.

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Believe it or not, this was Michelangelo’s grocery shopping list

Believe it or not, this was Michelangelo's grocery shopping list

Michelangelo Buonarroti was too busy to buy food, so he used to send his illiterate servant with grocery shopping lists like the one above, illustrated in 1518.

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