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I love Alex Ries’ sci-fi illustrations because they feel more close enough to our current reality to be truly believable, like some lost far-future NASA concept mission designs. Even his alien creatures feel biologically plausible. Alex Ries is a Melbourne-based illustrator and concept artist who has been featured in Cosmos Magazine, Pearson Education Canada, and…
Pirating ebooks is a breeze. Their file sizes are so small that it usually takes all of 60 seconds between a Google search and having the book on your Kindle. Now, publishers have hit upon a solution that they hope will trip up pirates: an invisible, traceable watermark on every ebook sold. HarperColllins and ebook…
2033 is the last single from French musician Leon. The video—directed by Thomas Blanchard—is kaleidoscopic collage of images that drags you into a psychedelic vortex of colors, shapes, and pop music. It may be too early to pop any pills, but coffee and this will have a similar effect. Leon is a French singer and…
Nope, you can’t escape advertising. Flipboard, the gorgeous mobile reading app with over 100 million users, will now start showing you full-page video ads as you try to catch up on your reading. As you browse through Flipboard’s major sections like News and Entertainment today, you’ll see clips from Sony Pictures, Chrysler, Gucci and more.…
Man, Google really is all in on drones. After testing delivery drones as a part of its Project Wing program, the company has now asked the FCC for permission to test drones that could eventually be used to deliver internet access to remote areas of the planet. https://gizmodo.com/google-project-wing-the-secret-drone-delivery-program-1628194268 Back in April, Google bought a high-altitude…
If you head over to your Facebook Apps Settings page, you’ll be shocked to know how many useless apps you’ve got attached to your account. My account, for instance, is hooked up to 448 apps (there’s something called “are u in love?!?!?
Here’s a video that shows the full custom build process for Kindred Snowboards. They plan the design, get the wood, glue parts together, shave it down, add materials, press it together, clean up the edges and do so many things to one board that it may sound boring when you read it but is incredibly…
If you’re a Spotify Premium subscriber in the U.S, you can now access Spotify on your Amazon Fire TV. You can control you music using the Spotify app on a mobile phone or a tablet, so music streams can switch from mobile to the TV seamlessly and leave your phone free for other things without…
ADHD made an animation that plays with the idea that we are some kind of computer simulation. From being monkeys eating fruit turn to landing on the moon to putting dumb videos on YouTube—it’s all a never-ending cycle of video game stages on the hands of an alien or our own future descendants. SPLOID is…
These photographs by Rebecca Bathory make it seem as if the apocalypse has come and gone and the world is in complete ruins. Not quite. They’re actually photographs of countries and places that were a part of the former Soviet Union. The forgotten decay is haunting. The photographs come from Bathory’s book ‘Soviet Ghosts’ which…
We caught up with Terry Gilliam recently to talk about his new film, Zero Theorem, a one size fits all, full gate, semi-vinyl motion picture on searching for the meaning in the face of impotence. He also told us which films left shrapnel in his soul, and why you should be fucking honest and cut…
As they say, sex has consequences, even for male beetles. In their quest to eradicate an invasive beetle, scientists have created “femme fatale” decoys that lure the males in and zap ’em dead—just as the unsuspecting males think they might be getting it on. The fight against the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle that…
No narration, no breakaway interviews, just a world-class chef developing and perfecting a brand new avant-garde menu in his private food laboratory. El Bulli: Cooking in Progress is more Paul Ehrlich than Paul Beard, but you’ll still find yourself drooling. Throughout the film, the viewer is treated to an intimate look at the creative process…
As part of Apple’s ongoing glasnost campaign, Tim Cook was on Charlie Rose last Friday. Part two airs tonight and it looks like it will be a lot meatier, just based on the clip released today: Cook will apparently talk more about the role of privacy at Apple, including their choice not to release or…
Did you know beloved LA radio station KCRW has an all-music broadcast and streaming service called Eclectic24? With Spotify, Pandora, Songza, and tons of other streaming music options readily available, good old-fashioned radio can easily fall by the wayside these days. KCRW is fighting against the dinosaur label and adapting to streaming culture in a…
Earlier today, we got a glimpse inside one of the planes carrying hundreds of thousands of shiny new smartphones all the way across the Pacific, straight into our greedy little fingers. But—can we ever really know what’s hiding beneath those giant tarps? Yep! Because you’re going to tell us. A giant stack of U2 albums?…
Finally, Game of Thrones fans no longer have to worry about when they’ll get their very own plastic incarnation of their absolute favourite character from the series to put on their desk with glee. Why of course, I’m talking about this new Joffrey Baratheon figure from Dark Horse! Like Dark Horse’s previous figures, it’s more…
Wouldn’t we all love to live in a city where floating dirigibles shared the horizon alongside the glass towers of our modern skylines? Such is the wild world featured in the highly complex, geographically accurate illustrations of Icelandic artist Kristjana S. Williams, whose maps are part of an exhibition for the London Design Festival that…
“We’ve lost more Americans on the highways than we’ve lost in all the wars that we’ve ever fought,” says Jim Hall, the former head of the National Transportation Safety Board in a new video from the New York Times. The big push in the 1960s automobile world was about the sexiness and features of the…
