Awesome Sphere

At first we weren’t sure what we were watching, but we were immediately transfixed by this video. The footage shows someone taking a knife to a sphere made of countless layers of tape. As they cut deeper into the tape, a rainbow of colors emerges. Go figure that there are a bunch of tape-cutting videos on YouTube.

We’ve witnessed filmmaker Jay Christensen’s drone photography skills before. In this amazing FPV clip, he takes us on a journey through the now-iconic Las Vegas Sphere, starting from outside the facility, flying through its massive lobby, and into its immersive arena. Once inside, we find that Phish is playing on stage. Now try on your backstage pass.

We know that the Las Vegas Sphere is covered with millions of LEDs outside and has an immersive screen that surrounds its audience. Illustrator Jared Owen takes us much deeper inside the 18,600-seat entertainment venue to look at its architecture, construction, and technology.

Woodworker Andy Phillip shows off a cool art piece he created using a number of sharpened colored pencils arranged inside block of resin he polished into a sphere. It’s a wonderfully satisfying video, and we’re particularly impressed that he didn’t accidentally shave down any of the pencil tips on his lathe.

This mind-bending creation is a full color, 3D-printed spherical object that’s been layered with a full-color 360° panoramic image. If you don’t have a full color 3D printer handy, there are a couple of options for these on the market including Scandy Spheres and the less expensive Snapspheres.

This beautifully-crafted desktop sculpture features a precision laser-etched map of the Milky Way, using data captured by the ESA’s Gaia mission. Its 5068 stars look particularly stellar when set on the LED-illuminated base, which projects its light into the heart of our galaxy. Measures 3″ in diameter, and runs on AAA batteries.