Brazilian artist Fernando Volken Togni created this series of illustrations for Oryx Magazine depicting 24 hours in various cities like New York, Moscow, Melbourne, Phuket and Shanghai. On his website Fernando also shows the cities of Barcelona, Madrid, Zurich, Casablanca, and Beirut.
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The average lifespan of a $1 bill is 22 months, before it is destroyed and replaced. The average lifespan of a $5 bill is 16 months. A $100 bill lasts the longest at 89 months, or nearly 8 years.
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The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate, and enhance the world’s visual language. Our goal is to collect and organize all the symbols that form our language into one easy-to-use online library that can be accessed by anyone. The Noun Project.
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A British team of archaeologists on expedition in the Peruvian Andes has hailed as ‘sensational’ the discovery of some of the most sacred objects in the Inca civilisation – three ‘ancestor stones,’ which were once believed to form a precious link between the heavens and the underworld.
The find, which was made on an isolated Andean mountainside, provoked joy among local specialists and the experts present from, among others, the British Museum, Reading University and Royal Holloway, University of London. No examples of the ancestor stones were thought to have survived until now.
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Salt. We use it almost everyday without even thinking about it, sprinkling it on fries, eggs, adding a pinch here an there to whatever we find to be a little bland. It is nearly ubiquitious and totally unrearkable. However, salt is a substance with both a rich history and a deep hidden beauty.
Beyond its gustatory and historical influence, salt has another important property: it can be absolutly beautiful. Occupying huge parts of our earth – both above and below ground – salt forms and creates some of the most beautiful landscapes on the planet.
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Watch Natalie change from birth to the age of 10.
Barcode Yourself is a complete, interactive experience in the series of barcode art, created using the personalized data of participants. Enter an individual’s gender, weight, height, age and location, and the barcode is formed using real-world data. The individualized barcode can then be printed, mapped, scanned, even depicted on a t-shirt or coffee mug. Uber-geeks can even test out their barcodes on their next grocery run. Barcode Yourself.
Here’s my barcode.
Using millions of images from sites like Flickr and a single computer, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues at the the Swiss university ETH-Zurich can create 3-D models of landmarks, like the Roman Coliseum, in less than 24 hours.
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While there are apocalyptic zombie films that are produced rather often by Hollywood, almost to the point of being cliche, there aren’t any celebrities who are actually zombies. But what would the world look like if celebrities were zombies?
Warning: those aren’t pretty pictures.
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For hygiene reasons we are taught not to play with our food when we eat – but that’s not to say that we can’t prepare meals in more creative ways. As colorful and hand-made communication exploded in the early 2000s we have seen food as an art resource used more and more. Play With Your Food. Meer verstrooiing bij The Presurfer, @presurfer.
Jellyfish have always drawn gasps at their beauty – and at times their venom, which range from mild to enough to kill a man. Found in every ocean and in some freshwater lakes and rivers, the jellyfish is one of the wonders of marine life.
Behind closed doors could lie the answer to safe renewable energy of the future. At the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, USA, scientists are aiming to build the world’s first sustainable fusion reactor by ‘creating a miniature star on Earth’.
The $3.5 billion project has inched a little closer to its goal of igniting a workable fusion reaction by 2012. On November 2 they fired up the 192 lasers beams at the centre of the reactor and aimed them at a glass target containing tritium and deuterium gas. The resulting release of energy was of a magnitude of 1.3 million mega joules, which was a world record and the peak radiation temperature measure at the core was approximately six million degrees Fahrenheit.
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