Histography is a visually stunning interactive online timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015. Taking data from Wikipedia, the site updates automatically and orders events using an algorithm. It’s like Wikipedia just with more engaging and interactive audiovisual specs and beautiful typography. The interface allows for usersContinue reading “Interactive History Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”
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Intricate paper cross sections of human bodies by Lisa Nillson
These true-to-life, anatomical cross-sections are entitled the Tissue Series by artist Lisa Nilsson. She uses a technique called paper ‘quilling’ that turns MRI and CT scans into something altogether more artistic and strangely pleasing to the eye. Nilsson painstakingly quills using narrow pieces of paper that are coiled together to fill up space. Quilling hasContinue reading “Intricate paper cross sections of human bodies by Lisa Nillson”
The Ultimate Soothing Tokyo Lullaby: Book and Bed
This is a novel concept that could only be conceived by the Japanese. A bed and book hostel. This captures the very essence of snuggling comfort- falling asleep while reading a good book! The Book and Bed Hostel is a bookshop that’s also a hostel and allows bibliophiles to hire out a nest-like bunk bedContinue reading “The Ultimate Soothing Tokyo Lullaby: Book and Bed”
Weavesilk Is a Great Way to Spend a Few Pleasurable Hours Making Art
Weavesilk is a unique platform that allows you to use your device as a drawing board for digital experimentation. Choose from a variety of fractal drawing combinations with different anchor points. The combinations are broad and you can combine colours creating a myriad of explosive and creative experiences. From rorschach ink blots, to interstellar explosions, etherealContinue reading “Weavesilk Is a Great Way to Spend a Few Pleasurable Hours Making Art”
Find a randomly useful website!
If you’re in a bind, bored of simply tired of the same old mediocre crap in your regular channels or news feeds, then check out this ingenious little tool. This lookup tool allows you to get acquainted with useful websites that offer helpful skills and solutions that are universally handy for anyone. Click to exploreContinue reading “Find a randomly useful website!”
Seven Curiously Contrarian Words in the English Language
Some words in English inexplicably have a defined meaning and then also mean the exact opposite of that meaning. These are known as contronyms or Janus words – the latter derived from the Roman god of beginnings and endings, often depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions). 1.Sanction To give official permission or approvalContinue reading “Seven Curiously Contrarian Words in the English Language”
Objects With A Story. Object 1: The Tiny Book
I found this tiny old leatherbound book in the home of a woman I was looking after in Wales about six years ago. I liked looking after the woman and living in her ancient thatch-roofed house in the middle of nowhere. The serenity was perfect. And yet precisely because it was so serene, I gotContinue reading “Objects With A Story. Object 1: The Tiny Book”
British Roundabout Porn and The Battle of Hastings
In Britain there is a unique subset of people who are fascinated and obsessed with roundabouts. Not your average concrete roundabouts with some paving or a few weeds in the middle. But rather your fancy, pond or windmill in the centre roundabouts. A few years back, the Time Team revealed that a key point in theContinue reading “British Roundabout Porn and The Battle of Hastings”
Menswear Dog Is Dripping With Badassery
Menswear Dog is very quietly becoming a thing. This dog is sauve as f%&* and a real hit with the ladies. If you’ve become tired of seeing male humans in perfectly coordinated and well tailored outfits, then you’re in for a real treat. See below…I have hijacked the popular Tumblr blog with my own captions.Continue reading “Menswear Dog Is Dripping With Badassery”
Vincent Van Gogh In 3D Occulus Rift
Famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh ‘The Night Cafe’ gets the Occulus Rift treatment with a 3 dimensional view into Van Gogh’s hidden world. Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888 and joked that he planned on painting the Café de la Gare as revenge for husband and wife proprietors Joseph-Michel and MarieContinue reading “Vincent Van Gogh In 3D Occulus Rift”
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