Although there are differing schools of thought and even controversy about whether it is a liquid or a solid, glass can make a unique artistic medium. Blown glass pieces are always one of a kind, ...
There’s something sort of magical about miniatures, especially when they’re strikingly lifelike. The artists who create these tiny wonders look at life from a different scale than the rest of ...
Where is the line between art and design? If "function" is the word that comes to mind then there are many works which fall somewhere in the gray area between extremes. Perhaps the most engaging ...
Long before the Internet was a glimmer in Al Gore's eye, a different series of tubes helped shuttle messages from one place to another, seemingly by magic. These pneumatic tube systems, many of ...
From vintage to retro, these movie posters pulled people to the theaters. Some are mysterious, others provocative, but they all served their purpose of putting eyes on the silver screen. As ...
Mostly harmless? I think not! Any aliens who receive our old TV and radio transmissions will be raising their tentacles in submission once they get a glimpse of sci-fi's greatest hitmen and their ...
The pip-squeak of peripherals has come a long way since 1964 when the first mouse - made of wood - crawled across our desktops and into our hearts. From those humble beginnings, mice have bred ...
The world began its love affair with infrared photography when the Royal Photographic Society Journal first published these unique types of images in its October 1910 issue. Robert W. Wood ...
Concrete as a building material has been used at least as far back as the Roman Empire. In the modern age, the overuse of concrete in Soviet-style blockhouse construction - Brutalism - has ...
They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but sometimes it can be unavoidable. The cover of a book can often make a strong first impression that is hard to ignore. Those who have had a ...
