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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.


How One Artist Makes Hypnotic GIFs From Cloned Video Loops

Sometimes we use GIFs for reactions, sometimes they’re a punchline, and sometimes they’re art. The latter is certainly true of the ones made by Istanbul-based artist Erdal Inci, who masterfully creates mesmerising GIFs using cloned pieces of videos.


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 Stark Reminder That Drones Are Filling Our Skies

It’s hard to avoid the increasing prevalence of drones. In case you were in any doubt, this artwork — Under the Shadow of the Drone — serves as a stark reminder that they’re increasingly filling our skies.


Are These The Most Intimate Self Portraits Ever?

Photography often produces incredibly intimate results, but these self portraits by Erno-Erik Raitanen offer a different take — showing off his bacteria in fine detail. The pictures weren’t created using a camera, but his own bacteria, cultivated on the gelatin surface of film negatives.


10 Of The Year’s Most Beautiful Science Images

Who knew an artificial neural network could be so pretty? The winners of Princeton’s annual science photography contest, Art of Science, were announced a few days ago. And boy are some of these images beautiful.


Bacteria Never Looked So Beautiful

Think of bacteria, and you probably think of illness, infection,and other unpleasantries. But this picture shows that they have a beautiful side after all.


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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