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Artist Creates Detailed Star Wars Mosaics Using Thousands Of Staples
New York-based Artist James Haggerty creates crazy mosaics out of staples. Thousands and thousands of staples. The amount of detail in his series of Star Wars characters is insane! The Darth Vader piece alone was made with 10,496 multi-coloured staples.
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Documentary Chronicles Iranian Farm Girl’s Dreams Of Being An Astronaut
Meet Sepideh Hooshyar, a provincial Iranian teenage girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut. As a young woman in a conservative Muslim culture that disapproves of such pursuits, Sepideh spends her days studying astronomy and her nights watching the stars. This documentary chronicles her quest to dream big.
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Watch A Concrete WWII Bunker Get Cut In Half
In 2010 a Dutch WWII bunker was sliced in half to create one of the most unique war memorials in the world. This video documents the transformation of bunker 599 into a work of art. The sculpture, designed by Dutch studio RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon, recently won the Architectural Review Award in 2013 for…
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Scientists Believe Soap Bubbles Can Predict Typhoons And Hurricanes
Next time you take a bath, ponder this: Scientists believe soap bubbles are capable of predicting “the intensity of deadly hurricanes and typhoons.” According to physicists from the University of Bordeaux, the rotation on the vortices of bubbles (i.e. the fluid that spins on the bubble’s membrane) “acts the same way as huge weather systems”.