Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Blind Forest is an action platformer featuring beautiful hand-drawn artwork, challenging gameplay and a compelling story about an orphan trying to save his forest home. Available on Xbox One and Windows.
Ori and the Blind Forest is an action platformer featuring beautiful hand-drawn artwork, challenging gameplay and a compelling story about an orphan trying to save his forest home. Available on Xbox One and Windows.
Nikolas Baumgarten’s Zoomquilt is a website with an infinitely zooming image made of fantasy illustrations. The loop closes in on itself after a few minutes, but it’s still a nice effect. Also available as an Android live wallpaper.
(NSFW) Watch the first episode of the PlayStation exclusive series Powers for free. It’s promising, but the camera cuts way too often for our taste. To see the rest, get a PlayStation Plus subscription then watch on PS3 and PS4.
Ofer Rozenman took a trip across eastern Europe with his wife and friends, and along the way he managed to snap 8,000+ beautifully composed photos to create this far above average time-lapse of their journey. The track is Big Jet Plane.
“You could go to jail real easy in this car.” Jay Leno’s Garage gives us a closer look at the British-made street-legal race car before taking it out for a test drive. We hope it comes with ear plugs.
Temporarily on display at London’s Trafalgar Square, Hans Haacke’s Gift Horse is a 2:1 bronze horse skeleton. The ribbon on its front leg is actually an LED display that shows a live ticker of the London Stock Exchange. More here.
Coming to the Xbox One fighting game Killer Instinct, Hisako was inspired by Japanese horror films. She’s a ghost that moves slowly and has bizarre attacks built around counter-attacking, which should scare opponents in real life.
(NSFW: Language) “…it allows you to communicate with unrivaled accuracy that you have $10,000.” When you create a gadget that’s easy to lose and destined to be obsolete yet costs up to $17,000, you deserve to be mocked.
Milwaukee garage trio Violent Femmes’ first new original song in 15 years. We’re bummed original drummer Victor DeLorenzo is gone, but singer Gordon Gano’s distinctive voice has always been the hook for us. From the EP Happy New Year.
This fun little plaything lets you create simple animations by posing ten bendy rubber figures in front of a mirrored background, then spinning it. It’s a simple way to learn the basics of animation and also just a neat desk toy.
We’ve always been fascinated by these color-changing creatures. But did you know they don’t do it to blend in? These lizards just wear their emotions on the outside. Veritasium explores the extraordinary biology behind their strange ability.
Editor Rishi Kaneria explores the effective use of color in the work of Wes Anderson, and the use of monochromatic color schemes to create painterly settings. Kaneria previously looked at the use of color in Pixar films in ROYGBIV.
Wild animals raised by a man threaten him and his family in ROAR. Noel Marshall and Tippi Hedren made the film from 1970 to 1981, starring in it along with their children. All of them and the crew were hurt numerous times in the process.
High fashion met low IQ when Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson surprised attendees of Maison Valentino’s Paris Fashion Week show, walking on the runway as Derek Zoolander and Hansel McDonald to announce Zoolander 2.
A duo of daredevils race each other to the top of a 27-story abandoned building, only to jump out when they reach the top floor. We’re just glad they didn’t snag their chutes on any of the debris on the way up.
A legend among fellow model makers, Pere Tarragó builds highly realistic 1:5 and 1:6 scale motorcycle models. He always brings the actual motorcycle to his workshop as reference and then recreates it part by part.
Vocalist Robyn Adele Anderson and Postmodern Jukebox crank out a jazzy rendition of Coolio’s classic Gangsta’s Paradise, set in the heart of the prohibition era. We kept expecting Nucky Thompson to make an appearance.
This brilliantly offbeat music video from animator Felix Colgrave (the guy behind Man Spaghetti) is the perfect complement to the sonically rich neo-psychedelic rock landscapes of Fever the Ghost. (Thanks Matt!)
By using prefab modules, a Chinese construction company completed a 57-story skyscraper in just 19 days, sometimes at a rate of three floors per day. Their reduced use of concrete means it’s more eco-friendly as well. Time-lapse at 1:53.
Under the Dome: Investigating China’s Haze looks at China’s severe air pollution problems. Former Chinese news anchor Chai Jing made the report after her daughter was born with a lung tumor. Turn captions on.
F the police coming straight from the playground. Part Katamari Damacy, part V for Vendetta, Anarcute is about amassing masked rioters, who get more destructive as they grow in number. Coming to Xbox One, Windows, Mac and Linux.
For his latest edit, sample-master Eclectic Method took sound bites from the Terminator universe, and mashed them up into an edgy electronic track loaded with the sounds of weaponry and futuristic killing machines.
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