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This Immersive Video Makes You Feel Like You’re Floating Upside Down

For a dizzying start to your weekend, grab your headphones and watch Underlapse at full screen. This time-lapse video takes you around an inverted world and screws with your brain in the process. By altering the position of spatial cues, floating the Earth above our heads and suggesting the motion of clouds beneath our feet,…

io9 Lauren Davis

Woman’s body becomes part of canvas in fun stop-motion animation

Here’s some visual fun for you. Elvis Schmoulianoff created this trippy stop-motion animation video showing herself get painted as if she was part of the canvas. It’s delightful to see the art surround her and then become her. Elvis writes: Painted is an experiment in stop motion face & body painting that plays with the…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Is the Future New York City Where I Want to Live

This enormous building looks like a marine invertebrate has devoured the intersection of two major train lines in Queens. It’s part of a futuristic proposal to convert this transit hub into high density housing and live-work spaces. The thing is so crazy it just might work. Over at The Atlantic Cities, Jenny Xie describes the…

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It’s Spring and the Monsters Are Blooming

A great poet once noticed that April is the cruelest month. I’m pretty sure this is what he was talking about. This gorgeous illustration, which you can see in its full glory below, is by Brynn Metheney, an illustrator and concept artist in Oakland, California. You can see more of Metheney’s incredible work on her…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This substance is the secret to drink alcohol without getting drunk

Well, this could change things. Apparently there’s a secret method to drinking alcohol without getting drunk. All you have to do is eat some yeast before you drink. Seriously. Line your stomach with a teaspoon of yeast for every beer you plan to drink and you’ll be able to drink all night without acting like…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Raid: A Bloody Romp through Jakarta’s Deadliest High Rise (NSFW)

While American audiences must endure summer snoozefests starring ’80s action heros rehashing their glory days, a number of East Asian studios are filling the void with a graphic reimagining of the genre. The bloody jewel atop this brutal cinematic crown is Merantu Film’s The Raid: Redemption. It’s Old Boy meets Man from Nowhere times a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

What Are The Nerdiest States In America?

Are you lacking in nerdy friends? It may be time to move. Estately searched Facebook to discover who listed 12 nerdy subjects, like Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter and the like, in their favorites section, identified them by state, and ranked them by their per capita interest. It’s hardly the most scientific of polls,…

io9 Rob Bricken

The Artists Who Made These Masterpieces Are All Gathering In One Place

You’ve admired their artworks on book covers and calendars. You’ve goggled at the beautiful full-size versions in convention art shows. Now admire the work of some of science fiction and fantasy’s greatest artists — and learn how you can meet these masters of speculative art. Top image: Eric Deschamps Many of the greatest artists of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Photos: When Southern California’s Freeways Were New (and Empty)

The Southland’s freeways hardly inspire optimism anymore. Glance at the shoulder of a slow-moving freeway and among the weeds you’ll see shards of plastic and twisted metal—the accumulated detritus of a dozen high-speed crashes. They may (occasionally) be convenient, but whether it’s their shabby appearance, the way they balkanize communities, or simply their soul-crushing traffic,…

Tech News Nathan Masters

The Real Reasons that Parents Have Stopped Vaccinating Their Kids

Scientists have a lot of theories — not a lot of them flattering — about why some people have stopped vaccinating their children. But those are just theories. If we want to save lives, it’s time for us to figure out what’s really causing this outbreak of vaccine hesitancy, and do something about it. That’s…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Real life spiderman does a spinning flip on a wall while climbing it

Some people see a wall in their way and walk around it. That would be me! Other people try to climb it. That would be awesome people! This guy sees a wall and decides it’s best to do a spinning backward flip on the wall while climbing the wall to move up. That would be…

Sploid Casey Chan

Crowdfund The Release Of The Best Scifi Film You Haven’t Seen

One of our favorite unsung science fiction movies is finally getting a digital release, and you can help make it a success. You can also help fund a film based on HP Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle stories, a collaborative storytelling game, and anthology of science fiction stories about ladies and their bikes. Sleep Dealer’s Second Chance…

io9 Lauren Davis

Oh god, this giant fused hornet’s nest looks like it swallowed a human

When you let bugs run wild inside a shed for years, you never know what you’re gonna get. Like this hornet’s nest that fused together with a wooden statue to look like a sand creature swallowing a trapped human head. It’s haunting. The nest is currently abandoned, so I guess the hornets moved on to…

Sploid Casey Chan

Why Were Dinosaurs So Much Bigger Than Animals Today?

Not every dinosaur was gigantic, but the ones that were were absolute behemoths. So, why did they get so much bigger than animals that walk the land today? Image: The sizes of some of Mongolia’s common dinosaurs in comparison to a person, including the adorably petite Velociraptor. / Conty Matthew Carrano, the curator for the…

io9 Ria Misra

Here Are Some Of The Strangest and Most Artistic Rooftops In The World

Lots of cutting-edge buildings look best when viewed from the ground level — but some of the most astonishing buildings really have to be seen from above. These buildings have hidden gems on the roof: gardens, paintings, another buildings, colorful tiles, sculptures and some amazing things. Here are the most creative rooftops on Earth. https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-strangest-and-most-magnificent-gardens-1453572364…

io9 Vincze Miklós

The Machine‘s Director Takes Us Inside The Worst-Case Scenario For A.I.

The Machine, in select theaters today, is a harrowing low-budget movie about what happens when the military tries to develop its own artificial intelligence. We spoke to writer/director Caradog W. James about his research on real-life military experiments, and the worst thing that could possibly happen with A.I. The Machine is a really beautiful film,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Look at These Neat Animated GIFs of Obsolete Technology

Hello, beautiful. No, not you. That animated GIF of a wonderfully curvy Coronet Super 12 typewriter. Oh and that one of TEAC reel-to-reel tapedeck and the Bell & Howe Super 8 projector. Actually, all of the images in Jim Golden’s new project “Relics of Technology” are just great. Golden’s known for strikingly simple and almost…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Space Project Album Uses Real Space Sounds To Make Beautiful Music

Take a listen to the track “Worms” by Youth Lagoon, which uses sounds from the rings of Uranus recorded by NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. This is but one song from The Space Project album, which mixes music with the real sounds of our solar system’s celestial bodies. Brought to you by Lefse Records,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This Week in Time Capsules: Shooting a $30 Million Capsule to Mars

This week we have senior pranks, important lessons in disappointment taught through the magic of time capsule, and a long-shot to Mars. Raising $30 million to send a time capsule to Mars Ever dreamt of sending a time capsule to Mars? No? Well, soon you might be able to do it anyway! Maybe. The idea…

Tech News Matt Novak

This Student Animation Contest Can Get Your Work On Fox’s ADHD

Attention all student animators: here is your chance to have your work reach hundreds of thousands of people through Fox’s Animation Domination High-Def. Adobe and MovieFest have joined together to search for some latent talent in the fields of animation, special effects, character illustration, and musical composition. You can even enter as many pieces as…

Tech News Jason Krell

This Immersive Video Makes You Feel Like You’re Floating Upside Down

Woman’s body becomes part of canvas in fun stop-motion animation

This Is the Future New York City Where I Want to Live

It’s Spring and the Monsters Are Blooming

This substance is the secret to drink alcohol without getting drunk

The Raid: A Bloody Romp through Jakarta’s Deadliest High Rise (NSFW)

What Are The Nerdiest States In America?

The Artists Who Made These Masterpieces Are All Gathering In One Place

Photos: When Southern California’s Freeways Were New (and Empty)

The Real Reasons that Parents Have Stopped Vaccinating Their Kids

Real life spiderman does a spinning flip on a wall while climbing it

Crowdfund The Release Of The Best Scifi Film You Haven’t Seen

Oh god, this giant fused hornet’s nest looks like it swallowed a human

Why Were Dinosaurs So Much Bigger Than Animals Today?

Here Are Some Of The Strangest and Most Artistic Rooftops In The World

The Machine‘s Director Takes Us Inside The Worst-Case Scenario For A.I.

Look at These Neat Animated GIFs of Obsolete Technology

Space Project Album Uses Real Space Sounds To Make Beautiful Music

This Week in Time Capsules: Shooting a $30 Million Capsule to Mars

This Student Animation Contest Can Get Your Work On Fox’s ADHD

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