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Month: July 2017

A Whole Latte Art: Masterpieces Rendered in Coffee and Milk

Most baristas who go the extra mile to make a cute design in the foam on top of your latte or mocha manage to illustrate a heart, a swan, a cat or maybe an owl, not an entire Vincent van Gogh ...

Mattest & Flattest: Blackest Paint You Can Buy Turns Solids into Voids

In a weird ongoing war over the blackest black and pinkest pink in the world, a new contender has hit the market -- and unlike Vantablack, anyone can purchase some to make really dark artwork ...

Palaces of Self-Discovery: Photos Document the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries

Symmetrical photographs reveal the elegant geometries present in the architecture of some of the world’s most beautiful libraries, captured by Thibaud Poirier. The Paris-based photographer has ...

Bold Boats: 15 Wild, Fantastical & Futuristic Nautical Designs

File these awesome boat and watercraft designs under 'things you'll wish you had access to this summer.' Who wouldn't want their very own personal submarine, or a house boat shaped like a UFO? ...

Flat-Pack Mobile Architecture: This Building Will Self-Construct in 8 Minutes

Requiring a single tool and very little power, these self-deploying structures are ready for use in minutes, expanding themselves to multiple times their compact travel size. Based in ...

The Apprehension Engine: Machine Makes Disturbing Horror Movie Music

Is this the most terrifying musical instrument ever made? If you just take a quick glance at it, you’ll likely say no - it’s an unassuming (albeit rather strange) jumble of strings, rods, ...

Acclaim for the Reclaimed: 14 Cool Upcycled Architecture Projects

Going beyond simple stacks of shipping crates and ripped-apart pallets, these creative upcycled architecture projects reclaim stuff like corrugated iron, 5-gallon water bottles, old doors and ...

Russia Hour Traffic: Andrey Tkachenko’s Soviet Car Concepts

Russian freelance artist Andrey Tkachenko reveals the figurative swans hidden deep within the notoriously ugly ducklings of the Soviet automobile industry. “General Motors is not in ...

Water You Can Eat: Edible Drink Bubbles Aim to Eliminate Plastic Bottle Waste

So far so good: the creators of these edible water balls have begun deploying them at large-scale festivals, the kinds of places where hundreds of disposable plastic bottles are used and trashed. ...

Defiant Democracy: Parthenon Replica Made of 100,000 Banned Books

Standing on the site where Nazis burned 2,000 books by Jewish and Marxist writers, this Parthenon is not made of marble, but of 100,000 books that have been or remain banned by various ...

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