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What Life On Earth Would Look Like If Earth Had Rings Like Saturn
Every so often, when the moon is especially ginormous, or we can see Venus or Mars from Earth, humans collectively freak out. And it’s warranted! Seeing things that don’t belong in the sky pop up, well, in the sky is fun. So could you imagine if one day Earth developed rings like Saturn? It would be insane.
This Is What Each Season Looks Like In A Million Pixels
If you think you’re looking at colour palettes of different shades of brownish grey, you’re not exactly wrong. I’m sure people would love to paint their bathroom Roman Rotunda Slate or some made-up name like that. But it’s not that simple. You’re actually looking at the seasons — spring, summer, autumn and winter — and you just don’t know it.
These Video Game Background GIFs Are Mesmerising Works Of Art
Did you ever realise how silly 2D video game backgrounds are? Especially those in fighting games such as Street Fighter 2 or Samurai Showdown. Random people watching you fight with random objects like planes and dogs around them in random places of the world. Let’s fight in an aquarium! Or an airport hangar! Or a gym filled with beefcakes!
Good, Bad And Evil Things: Cataloguing Crimes Against Taste
The nebulous territory of “good” and “bad” taste have always confused me. Who are you to tell me what completely unaffordable couch I should or shouldn’t buy, well-meaning Architectural Digest editor? Well, back in 1909, a German art historian named Gustav E. Pazaurek devised a system to help us all out. Let’s call it a bad-design-o-meter.
A Cruise Ship… In The Desert?
Zaha Hadid Architects’ proposal for a new intermodal transit station for the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, at first glance looks something like a cruise ship with a sharp prow cutting through the desert. This was part of the inspiration, in fact, as the sine waves that roll across the façade and organise the interior are derived from complex wind-generated waves of sand.
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