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You are looking at a most exquisite pairing of lit city grids photographed from the International Space Station and neural networks imaged with fluorescence microscopy. The colossal, the minuscule the electric, the organic. They are the same. Something about fractals? Mind… blown. The duos assembled by Infinity Imagined should give you feelings, deep feelings of being one of a whole and […]
Not much to say with this one: the good people of Thrash Lab (who previously made this gorgeous document of pumpkin carnage) went to Tahoe to show you the 10 most brutal ways to destroy a snowman. Naturally, everything is filmed in gorgeous slow motion, and with the eerily warm winter we’re having, all this […]
In 1993, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin were convicted of grizzly torture, mutilation and murder of three prepubescent boys. There was no DNA evidence. The case was muddled with legal misconduct and overshadowed by the Evangelical Christian town’s Salem-style panic. They called them “Satanists.” The West Memphis Three were released from prison in 2011. […]
File this under “things I must have immediately”: the Oxford Pocket Dictionary, translated into Internet–that is to say, with every word’s definition replaced with the first Google Images search result. Each entry is presented without context or commentary; what results is a free-associative, kaleidoscopic tour through the consciousness of the web, all wrapped in a beautifully bound […]
For entrepreneur Troy Dayton, providing basic services like insurance and capital management amounts to revolutionary business. The support his firm ArcView supplies might sound standard, but the businesses it works with are anything but: ArcView coordinates investment for the booming number of legal, cannabis-focused companies taking root across the United States. “I always thought that […]
In an effort to curb New York’s out-of-control prescription drug market, Ray Kelly and the NYPD are considering a radical new plan: embedding “bait bottles” with GPS tracking devices, then hiding them among regular stock at pharmacies. If a pill thief lifts the bait bottle, the thinking goes, cops will be able to track it […]
When you fantasize about a globally-devastating event, isn’t one of the highlights… this? The silhouettes of Rio, Tokyo, San Francisco, New York submerged in utter dead darkness? And those stars. Suddenly visible, all of them. Mmm… End of the World, yeah, that’s the stuff. Photographer Thierry Cohen’s Darkened Cities travelled to remote areas to captured the unmolested night sky and digitally transplanted them […]
Digital artist Andy Willis creates the above beautiful collages by analyzing each second of a film for its most prominent hue, then displaying those colors on a 60-wide grid–turning iconic movies into abstract streams of color. His works, called “Spotmaps” are as functional as they are aesthetic: scanning the maps of the first three Die Hard films, […]
For the past five months, an anonymous group called “Racism Still Exists” has been posting powerful billboards in bus shelters around Bed-Stuy, with the stated aim of “[illuminating] some of the ways in which racism operates in this country.” Their latest, spotted by photographer Stephanie Keith, is a poster that takes refreshingly direct aim at the […]
In response to the recent spat of subway-related deaths, the train operators union has called for drivers to drastically reduce their speed when entering a station. A memo distributed by the union urges operators to “enter every station as if there is a pair of yellow lanterns at the entrance,” a sign which calls for […]
