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Famous Museums Incredibly Recreated in Gingerbread and Candy

Sweet gingerbread cottages have nothing on these sugary architectural marvels. Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves recreate iconic museums and art galleries in gingerbread, licorice, cotton candy, and chocolate. The pair created these morsel models for a Dylan’s Candy Bar display at Art Basel Miami. In addition to the Guggenheim Museum above and the Karuizawa Gallery…

Bang your head to this Star Wars/Bohemian Rhapsody music video mashup

What happens when you mix Star Wars cosplayers with Queen’s classic opus and add in a brand new set of lyrics? Anyway the Force flows… The Students and Faculty of the Digital Video Program at University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona, produced this video with the help of their cosplayer performers. Stephen Panagiotis, Jamall…

Check out an alternate reality Avengers and a Potterish My Little Pony

This weekend in the world of cartoons we have an interesting selection for your viewing pleasure. Earlier in this week we were greeted by a visit from Root Beer Guy on Adventure Time, while this weekend an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic airs that I’m sure many of you will identify with.…

This majestic nature time lapse will make you want to go outdoors more

It’s the colors that get you when you’re out in nature. If you live in a city, you’re mostly dealing with drabs of gray speckled with Instagrams of exposed red bricks. If you live in the suburbs, you’ll see manicured lawns, potted trees, stucco and tile roofs until you’re myopic. But if you’re outside, like…

Life After Nintendo

There are several dozen tracks thus far in the “sound diary” credited on SoundCloud to Corruption, who gives as a residence Funabashi, Japan. Many are noisy escapades, tagged simply as “sound diary,” while the one dated “2013.11.19″ and given the subtitle “like a moth to a candle” bears a second tag: Nanoloop. That’s the name…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Jim Morricone

Phil RetroSpector mashes up the Doors and Ennio Morricone to create a haunting home movie reel fit for a Lizard King.

What kind of sorcery illusion lets these two blocks be the same color?

One is dark, one is light. One is gray, one is white. These are obviously two different blocks with two different colors right? Wrong. The two blocks are the same color. Seriously, they’re the same shade of gray. Just place your finger across the seam (where the blocks meet in the middle) to reveal the…

Car avoids getting crushed by a semi-trailer that was tipping over

Some days you get incredibly lucky. This guy who managed to record a video of a semi-trailer truck almost tipping over and crushing his car just had one of those days. The road was wet, the winds were strong and the truck was about to lose control and fall over. You don’t want any of…

FBI can secretly turn on laptop cameras without the indicator light

Scary. Insane. Ridiculous. Invasive. Wrong. The Washington Post reports that the FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer’s camera “without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording” for years now. What in the hell is going on? What kind of world do we live in? Marcus Thomas, the former…

Lorde Discovers Ruin Porn with Pleasing Results

You know you feel it—that mix of envy and amazement when your hear Lorde’s music. The lyrics feel moody, wise and even fanciful at times. The beats are sturdy. And Lorde herself, she’s only 17 years old! What were you doing when you were 17? Looks like Lorde, in her young years, has discovered ruin…

OMG it’s the Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark trailer!

Possibly the greatest epic in Syfy Movie of the Week history is coming soon — and we’ve got the trailer! This time, there is a GIANT SHARK ROBOT. Also, it turns out that the real solution just may be love. All that mega shark really wants is a date.

We secret our vessels here, in the lee of the magnetic field

In the most remote crags of the ice-buried mountains of the southern ice cap, the pirate crew had a safe house. This icy scene was created by Jae Cheol Park, a concept artist in Korea who worked on the movie Snowpiercer among other things. You can see more of his work on his Facebook page.

Watch a real life Human Torch create fire with his bare hands

Who knew that one of the easiest superhero powers to get (at least on a neutered, pathetic human scale) is the Human Torch’s Flame On power? If you’re Russian and/or drink a lot of vodka, you can use a hot wire and a debauched sense of pain to create fire with your bare hands. Just…

Most Beautiful Items: November 29 – December 6, 2013

There is some truly incredible stuff in this round of the most beautiful items of the week. Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms? You’ll be dying to check them out. Museums that are actually made of gingerbread? You’re mouth will be watering over them. Besides those, there are plenty of other wonders of art architecture and design…

Watch This Intelligent Quadcopter Recover After Losing a Prop In Flight

It will be years before Amazon’s dream of same day package deliveries via drone will ever become a reality. But you can forget about trying to shoot one down for some free electronics thanks to new software that allows a quadcopter to stay aloft—and on course—even after losing one or more of its propellers. As…

10 Desk Accessories Designed From A Single Slab Of Wood

Desktop accessories might be a bit of a dying breed, but, dammit, it’s still nice to have a place to keep your phone, change, pencils, and pocket ephemera organized. As part of the new Design Made in France Expo, ten young designers were tasked with resurrecting the form; each was given a single slab of…

Magic Highway USA: The highways of tomorrow will stretch from the tallest mountains to the bottom of the ocean, as this publicity illustration from the May 14, 1958 episode of Disneyland TV made clear.

These genetically-modified bees make concrete instead of honey

Imagine a world where 3D printers aren’t just machines, but are part of our natural environment.

Smog, Suburbs and Stereotypes: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Choking pollution sweeps through China, new development could eradicate Mexico’s emerging wine industry, and Yahoo can tell you everything that’s wrong with where you live (congratulations, Memphis, you’re apparently a hellhole). All this and more is What’s Ruining Our Cities. Smog is ruining Shanghai I know, a smog alert in China is nothing new. However,…

Largest true-color image of the sky ever is made of 37,000 photos

SkyGuide’s creator Nick Risinger had to travel more than 60,000 miles by airplane and car to collect 37,000 individual photos to create this single image, the largest true-color image of the entire sky ever made: 100,000 by 50,000 pixels. He is using this image in the new version of SkyGuide, which will be released for…