Painting Light and Shadow
Artist Rashad Alakbarov creates paintings – but not in the traditional way. Instead, he creates sculptural works, which cast painterly images onto the wall when hit with a light.
Artist Rashad Alakbarov creates paintings – but not in the traditional way. Instead, he creates sculptural works, which cast painterly images onto the wall when hit with a light.
Petzl’s innovative headlamp uses sensors which automatically adjust its beam width and intensity based on what you’re looking at, varying from 7 to 355 lumens and wide to spot beams. Out this July.
Never leave your bike out overnight in the big city. Despite that, Red Peak and Hudson Urban Bicycles wanted to see what would happen if they left a bike locked up for 365 days in NYC’s Soho district.
You have to hand it to YouTuber 87mcmahan87 for having the cojones to go riding his dirt bike on these skinny, snow-covered ridges. It might not be as high up as it looks, but we still couldn’t do it.
Like its big brother, the HD 700’s open ear cups flaunt its 40 mm Duofol transducers, mounted on steel gauze and angled for natural sound. A comfy headband and ear cushions round out the package.
A dark comedy by Felix Massie about the mundane, absurd and random cruelties of life. Don’t let the primitive animation fool you – this is still a great and superbly written short film.
Just like the Mimobot flash drives, Mimomicro microSD card readers will also be available in different character designs, starting with DC and Star Wars characters. Available this March for $13.
The spirit of drifting is all over this video of the Bloodmasters and their beat up Nissans. Triumphantly directed by Andrew Laputka. The song is Drenched in Blood by Turbonegro.
We love these tiny replicas of mounted deer and bear heads by David Cole, mostly because bricks can’t be endangered. As for the LEGO taxidermy fox… isn’t that just a LEGO fox?
Simple yet striking, the Gauge wristwatch by Helson has a titanium case, a bronze bezel and a domed sapphire crystal. Available in one- and three-hand versions, each limited to 25 units.
In the midst of a live performance of Mordecai, bluegrass singer Josh Williams is joined by a flying friend who decides his guitar would make a pretty nice birdhouse. At least it wasn’t this guy.
We can’t think of anything more boring in the art world than a still life painting of fruit. But digital artist Scott Garner livens things up a bit with his interactive version and its motion sensing frame.
Mario and Fafa were looking at their stats and are concerned that their numbers skew heavily to a male demo, and decide to do something about it. Romance and salad for all the ladies!
If the crackpots out there are right, there are just over 300 days before the world ends, so you might as well enjoy some cool art before it’s over? The calendar also lists mankind’s great achievements.
Special makeup effects artist Kevin Kirkpatrick made prosthetic models of the legendary Beavis and Butt-Head to show what they’d look like in real life; we wouldn’t want to meet them in a dark alley.
We’re not sure why these roofers were being filmed, but a good reason came up when they stumbled on a colony of bats tucked under a client’s roof. Was their client’s last name Wayne?
Crude jokes about Uranus aside, we think these beautifully crafted chocolate planets from L’eclat would be astoundingly fun to eat. Not in Japan? You can get them through this service. (Thanks, Gary!)
A slacker ventures out of his basement at the behest of his mom and ends up helping his brother as the latter snoops on his wife. Starring Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon and Judy Greer.
We’re not sure how BBC’s Earthflight managed to get so close to these cranes as they flew over Venice, Italy, but the footage captured is incredible – not just of the birds, but of their surroundings.
Art will always be remixed, but as we move to a digital age works of art lose their rarity in the process. Case in point, these hand assembled one-off comic book collages by Mike Alcantara.
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