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olive the movie
a feature length movie shot on a smartphone? ‘olive the movie‘ not only fits that bill, the film looks absolutely charming. gena rowlands and newcomer ruby alexander star. congrats to directors hooman...
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water on and off
superhydrophobic droplet logic sounds like the name of an eerie trance music album, but it’s actually a working computing environment based on water droplets. accomplished by finnish researchers at...
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imagination foundation
9yr-old caine built a complex cardboard arcade in his dad’s shop. a short film about his venture suddenly yielded $200k in donations toward a scholarship fund for the budding inventor. but more than...
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fire = electricity
some inventions are just more important than others. a clean-burning wood stove that generates electricity? 3billion people still cook meals over fire, a source of 1billion metric tons of CO2...
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nudie immortalized
nudie cohn married cowboys and rhinestones with a riotous enthusiasm that proved contagious, both in and outside hollywood. collectors’ weekly just published a great overview of nudie’s life and art,...
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giza from above
i’ve been lucky enough to visit 36 countries, but somehow have never made it to egypt. i still hope to, but in the meantime, this aerial panorama of the giza pyramids will have to do. and yes, the...
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Article 13
boxes of solar-powered computers were left unopened in an ethiopian village by the one laptop per child project. enough for one for each child. despite never having seen even an on/off switch, within...
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acid delight
i don’t guess this is technically cheating. the orange slices in this bio battery DID generate this much light, even if it did take 14 hours of exposure. the power source? citric acid interacting with...
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moxie, indeed
‘moxie‘ is a dark animation. nsfw. and yet, oddly mesmerizing. a young bear—a contemplative, pyromaniac young bear—finds life difficult. wagner, strauss and debussy play in the background. all does not...
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landmines be gone
war IS hell. massoud hassani grew up in afghanistan surrounded by desert. and landmines. as a child, he and friends would build wind toys that skittered across the desert floor. today, as a product...
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sierra leone’s young genius
kelvin doe grew up in sierra leone. he loves inventing. as a young child, he would go through trash to build battery-powered lights, generators, and even his own radio station where he broadcasts as dj...
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nudes in motion
japanese photographer shinichi maruyama takes long exposure photos of nudes in motion. the result is other-worldly. more like intersecting discs fresh off a potter’s wheel than human forms. and yet,...
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feather folio
artist chris maynard takes ordinary feathers and makes magic with them. he cuts and twists silhouettes into some of the plumes, shapes others into tableaus full of full-flight whimsy, and turns yet...
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2012 scifi come true
2012 ushered scifi out of theaters and labs and into the day-to-day world. legal self-driving cars! mind-controlled robotic limbs! primate intelligence boosted with chip! cyborg competes in the...
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1gb/sec in every state
1 gigabit/sec broadband in every state by 2015? mandated by the fcc? yes! well, at least as mandated as zero funding can muster. but still, the commission announced the goal in a conference call with...
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malaria, the graphic novel
with so many brilliant animations flooding the net, it’s difficult to stand out, but edson oda’s ‘malaria‘ does just that. and it’s not even – well, not exactly – an animation. it’s more a cinematic...
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corajoso, brazil
once again proving that brazil is among the most civilized countries on earth, their government has just approved a 50-real ($25) monthly stipend to workers for the purchase of art—books, music,...
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camera made from beer can
this beautiful time-lapse image of the sky over the course of 6 months was captured by UK photographer matt bigwood using a homemade pinhole camera made from an empty beer can with a sheet of b&w...
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bacteria as art
microbiologist zachary copfer invented bacteriography, a photographic process that involves radiation and petri dishes with living bacterial emulsions. for his subjects, he has chosen portraits of...
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robobee flight
are drones less scary if tiny? if they look like a harmless insect? developed at harvard, the robobee sports carbon fiber piezoelectric wings that mimic the contraction of muscles, allowing the tiny...
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