Spinning a hard boiled egg in milk
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
A forest as seen through a laser tree scanning system
An 1881 “isochronic” map representing travel time to various regions. (more)
Great Sherlock Holmes charts by Adam Frost and Jim Kynvin for The Guardian
Plutonium radiation exciting a cloud chamber
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Radar image of Antarctica’s glacier-covered Gamburtsev mountains
Still from “Il Capo,” following the boss of a marble quarry and his gestures
Original patent for Katamari Damacy
“A game performing method for executing a game by arranging a plurality of objects comprising a plurality of objects to be stuck and an operation object, in a virtual space, controlling rolling and movement of the operation object according to a player’s input, and rolling and moving the operation object while sticking the objects which the operation object comes in contact with”
Marion Balac – Anonymous Gods, statues with faces blurred automatically by Google
Al Capone’s FBI fingerprint file – saved from shredding
Free catalog (Mail Order Apocrypha)
Waves of Grain – Keith Skretch (Music: Ennio Morricone’s “The Big Gundown”)
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
The camera in the mirror (Google Street view at museums)
First of its kind prototype microchip by TI’s Jack Kilby – 1958 (Christie’s)
Peter Rosen – Geometer Moth Silk Diffraction (more)
Happy 30th, Tetris
Traditional honey-hunting by Gurung tribesman in Nepal (photo: Andrew Newey)