Apollo Surface Panoramas houses the photographic panoramas taken by the Apollo astronauts while hanging out on the Moon. The imagess are stitched together from individual 70mm Hasselblad frames, which you can also find in the Lunar and Planetary Institute’s online catalog. To explore the 32-megapixel images, just use the pan and zoom controls at the […]
This is another contribution to the SUPER iam8bit show up now through September 10 in Los Angeles. Aled Lewis cleverly recreated historically significant paintings in 8-bit game mash-ups. (Our favorite is Leisure Suit Larry plus Nighthawks.) [Aled Lewis via Flavorwire]
Comics get a bad rap. Say the words “comic book” to anyone who’s unfamiliar with the breadth of the medium and all the many forms it takes, and an image of Action Comics or Archie or X-Men comes to mind. But some of you know that comics are as varied as their non-illustrated counterparts (that is, books), […]
This almost-entirely edible Death Star was created by Rachel Linhart for a friend’s 7-year-old son, a project that took several days and about 24 hours of baking and artistry. So naturally something horrible happened to it, right? This Death Star was destroyed not by Luke and Han but a New York City taxi ride. It’s […]
Not too long in the future, on a tiny island, far far away, Star Wars fans will be able to purchase limited mint copies of silver-plated coins featuring Luke and Leia and R2D2 and C3PO. The Pacific Island known as Niue is issuing the coins as collector’s items — a collection of four silver $2 coins […]
Oh, be still my geeky heart. His Judeness–aka The Jude, El Juderino and Jude Buffum–drew Magna Arbor Vita Deku, this “sprawling exploration of the evolutionary biology of the 200 most important species from the Legend of Zelda video game series” for the SUPER iam8bit art show. The Deku Tree of Life even lists the binomial nomenclature of […]
Colossus, built by Zachary Coffin for the Maker Faire Bay Area (previously at Burning Man 2005), is a 70-foot tall structure that let kids move 40,000 lb of boulders. Scott Beale of Laughing Squid took the video clip below of Colossus in action. [YouTube]
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo asks, “Why are boys struggling?” He shares some stats (lower graduation rates, greater worries about intimacy and relationships) and suggests a few reasons — and he asks for your help! Watch his talk, then take his short 10-question survey. [Youtube]
[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Poster @ The NeatoShop] You know what’s sexier than a geek? A well-read geek! Deck your walls with the Postertext literary posters from the NeatoShop. These illustrations are created from the text from your favorite tomes (the one above is from Jules Verne’s nautical adventure classic), with the negative […]
A step by step guide to the creation of the original Stormtrooper by Andrew Ainsworth. [Via]