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Homestead Starlight: A Desert Time-lapse

Homestead Starlight: A Desert Time-lapse

As part of the SKYGLOW project, filmmaker Gavin Heffernan captured this time-lapse footage in and around California’s Joshua Tree National Park. As the sun set over the desert, clouds rolled in, and the stars peeped out, creating an awe-inspiring light show during the recent Wolf Moon.

NIDUS (Gameplay Trailer)

NIDUS (Gameplay Trailer)

This fast-paced arcade game asks players to control a flower and a wasp to fight off various enemies in their otherworldly ecosystem. Caleb Wood, one of the concept artists behind the exceptional sci-fi series Scavenger’s Reign, created the game. It’s out now on Steam for Windows and supports single-player and local co-op modes.

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3D Artist Challenge: Eternal Ascent

3D Artist Challenge: Eternal Ascent

For his latest 3D challenge, Clinton Jones, aka Pwnisher, asked CG artists to create scenes based on a template of a character climbing a curved staircase. After receiving 2800 entries from around the world, here are the top 100 renders edited together to create a seemingly endless climb, set to music by Feverkin. It’s hard to choose a favorite interpretation.

GLORB Color-Changing Light Fixture

GLORB Color-Changing Light Fixture

This LED accent lamp features color-changing facets you control with your phone. The GLORB is 9.8″ across, or about as big as a basketball, and includes a tabletop stand and a ceiling hook. It’s got a USB-C port, so it can run on a wall charger or a battery pack, can react to music, and can sync multiple units together. Sign up to be notified when it launches.

Awekeys Copper Eagle Full Metal Keycaps

Awekeys Copper Eagle Full Metal Keycaps

Beautify any mechanical keyboard with these lovely real metal keycaps from Awekeys. They’re made from recycled aluminum with copper plating. The keycaps produce an extra-clicky sound and are cool to the touch. They fit a variety of MX key switches and come in a base 116-key set, with add-ons like etched eagle-themed keys by artist Daniel Mitchell.

Berlin Tower 360º Hyperlapse

Berlin Tower 360º Hyperlapse

Felix from BerlinLapse captured this wild 360º hyperlapse video of the Fernsehturm, one of Europe’s tallest free-standing structures. To shoot the footage, he mapped out a walking route around the tower and snapped photos along the way. He then color-graded the photos in Lightroom and used After Effects to track the tower’s position, size, and rotation.

How Comics Were Made

How Comics Were Made

Tech journalist and print historian Glenn Fleischman teamed up with other experts to create How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page. The book takes readers through 130 years of newspaper cartoons with the help of high-resolution original art, newspaper reproductions, and interviews with cartoonists.

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ColorWare Apple Number 2 Pencil

ColorWare Apple Number 2 Pencil
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Are skins or DIY paint jobs not good enough for your already pricey Apple Pencil? Well, the madmen at ColorWare would be all too happy to take your money. Their take on the obvious color scheme for the second-generation iPad stylus is, as expected, completely overkill in terms of both quality and price.

The Creative Act: A Way of Being Book

The Creative Act: A Way of Being Book
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For over 40 years, legendary music producer Rick Rubin has been helping a diverse array of artists create their seminal and most significant works. The Creative Act: A Way of Being sees Rubin share his observations on creativity and how being creative isn’t about what you make but how you see the world.

Making a Wood Bowl with a Miter Saw

Making a Wood Bowl with a Miter Saw

Handmade wood bowls are typically created by turning a block of wood on a lathe. But in this video from Taku Woodcraft, he shows how a miter saw can cut a perfectly smooth bowl shape. Working with a loose piece of wood under a power saw is dangerous, but it appears he had a short dowel under the board to keep it centered. Still, don’t try this at home.

Behind the Scenes of Resident Alien

Behind the Scenes of Resident Alien

Resident Alien is one of our current must-watch TV series. The science fiction comedy features wonderful performances, lots of laughs, and some great visual effects. This behind-the-scenes footage from season three gives us a look at the costumes, makeup, props, and digital VFX that help bring the show to life.

Making Microscopic Flipbook Animations

Making Microscopic Flipbook Animations

Andymation is known for his creative flipbook animations. He once created a flipbook smaller than a penny, but that wasn’t good enough for Andy, so he made an even smaller one. It took some work to get the camera and lens setup right; then, he got to work drawing each tiny frame with a sharp pencil. After that came the challenge of stacking them.

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Carved EDC Wood+Resin Pocket Knives

Carved EDC Wood+Resin Pocket Knives
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Carved handcrafts one-of-a-kind accessories using wood and resin. In addition to their wonderful live-edge phone cases, they make artful pocket knives. They feature a lightweight titanium frame with a 3-inch damascus steel blade and handle scales made from wood burl and pools of colorful resin. These knives make great gifts for that special person on your list.

Sculpting a Bear with a Minigun

Sculpting a Bear with a Minigun

How do you stop a bear from attacking? Take away his right to bear arms. Adam from North of the Border imagines a way to make a grizzly bear more deadly: by arming it with a high-capacity, rapid-fire weapon. After sculpting the bear’s body, head, feet, and hands, he imparted a fur texture before building a mini minigun and ammo pack.

Making a Viking Shield

Making a Viking Shield

The Vikings made many interesting weapons, armor, and other battle gear. In this video from metalsmith Freerk Wieringa, he handcrafts a replica of an ancient Viking shield. He starts by hammering its iron center and forging nails. He then cuts wooden planks into a circle and adds canvas, paint, and a rawhide edge before attaching the metal dome.

How to Shoot Long-exposure Light Paintings

How to Shoot Long-exposure Light Paintings

Photographer Darius Twin is an expert at creating long-exposure images and animations like this one. In this 2-minute tutorial, he shows how to make your own light paintings using manual exposures, a shutter remote, and a focused light source. Be sure to check out his YouTube channel for more of his work.

Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs

Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs
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Stanley Kubrick created cinematic masterpieces like 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange. Before his work in motion pictures, he was a staff photographer for Look magazine. Taschen’s coffee table book Through a Different Lens showcases nearly 300 of his black-and-white stills, which he started shooting in New York City at age 17.

Gruff

Gruff

“Some things don’t have words. So we have to be close enough to feel them.” A mother explains to her daughter how she came to understand the way her father expresses his love and support. Julian Curi aka Righteous Robot spent almost three years creating this paper stop-motion short film as a way of coping with his father’s passing.

We Are All Connected Arcade Belt

We Are All Connected Arcade Belt
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We love the style and message of this pants-keeper-upper from Arcade Belts. Designed by artist Hanna Eddy, the We Are All Connected belt is illustrated with an abstract landscape in shades of green, blue, brown, and white. Like other Arcade Belts, it’s made from stretchy recycled webbing, and its TSA-friendly buckle glides smoothly through belt loops.

Turning a Dune 2 Popcorn Bucket Into a Diorama

Turning a Dune 2 Popcorn Bucket Into a Diorama

AMC’s promotional Dune 2 popcorn bucket is the subject of many memes. While most of us can’t get our minds out of the gutter, Adam Savage saw the cursed bucket top as an opportunity to build a geeky diorama, turning the bucket back into a proper sandworm by building a foam and resin sand dune and adding a tiny Paul Atreides and a 3D-printed ornithopter.

Wand Dice

Wand Dice

Here’s an unconventional way to generate random numbers for board games. This unique gaming accessory packs a complete polyhedral dice set onto a zinc alloy wand. Instead of rolling these dice, you spin them, and the number is indicated by a blue pointer. In addition to the six dice on the wand, its spinning base functions as a D20.

Gus Mushroom Planter

Gus Mushroom Planter

Developed by Good Growing, Gus is a ceramic mushroom planter. It houses the fruiting block that contains the root but lets the rest of the mushroom grow freely outside of the container, either on top or at the side. You can stack up to three units to grow multiples shrooms.

Making a Gummy Bear Axe Handle

Making a Gummy Bear Axe Handle

A few years back, maker Peter Brown attempted to build an axe with a handle made from gummy bears and resin. Unfortunately, it turned into a sticky mess after sanding. Now he’s back to try it again, but this time he molded his own faux gummies from resin so they’d hold up better to the process.

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