Carl Sagan's Blue Dot

Carl Sagan is another saint in my yet to be created new religion.

Have Beary Good New Year!

2011 Had better have some more of this.

The City Museum

A Perennial Favorite of Many, Half-Art, Half-Playground, Half-Museum
(I Realize thats too many halfs

Effing Ridiculously Good Work

You Win Kanye. Why make art ever again?

P.S. - Story and Direction by Mr. West

Exploring the Cosmos

EL GUINCHO | Bombay from MGdM | Marc Gómez del Moral on Vimeo.

Amazing Video.  Definitely NSFW, and Potentially Problematic Sexism, but there are so many great images in this for what amounts to a music video it makes me want to quit art.

Stereoscopic Baby Eating

        -If you don't click the image, your not getting the experience.

I found this a few months ago, but it keeps coming up in conversation.

Artist/Title unknown.

Working in the Woods

Spanish architecture firm SelgasCano has designed their own office in the middle of the forest.

Via Cousin Liz

Scary Pretty

And A Happy New Year!

I have no idea whats going on, but I already like it.

Edit: the video got taken down.

here's a link to the official trailer site

Post-A sock puppets battle spickey mechanical horrors in the shatter remains of humanity? All I know is I don't wanna have to wait that long.

Thanks fo pointing this out Michael, it took a bit to find it, but it was well worth it.

Separation of Church and State, Was Never So Literal

This is about as surreal as it gets. An incredible video about the moving of a huge church on a huge truck, set to over the top choral music specifically written for the event. I'm honestly flabbergasted.

It's really strange, the truck is so small comparatively it looks like the church is moving on its own.

separation

Crank That.

computers are supid, lets go back to gears.

It's Like an Ark Built to Save Two of Every Style of Architecture From The Great Flood of Cookie Cutter Homes, and McMansions

Wooden Skyscraper - Arkhangelsk, Russia

I've had the pictures on my hardrive for over a year I think not knowing anything about them other than they're of an awesome building, and probably Russian. Today I randomly found this article.

"Nikolai Sutyagin, a former gangster, began building this ‘wooden skyscraper’ in Arkhangelsk, Russia with the intention of it being only a two-story building. But, a trip to see wooden houses in Japan and Norway convinced him that he hadn’t used roof space efficiently enough, so he kept building. “First I added three floors but then the house looked ungainly, like a mushroom,” he said. “So I added another and it still didn’t look right so I kept going. What you see today is a happy accident.” The multimillionaire became a pauper after his possessions were destroyed during a stint in prison, and the house is now decaying around him, but he still lives in the bottom floor with his wife."

Prop 8 The Musical

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

It's an Obamanation!

They got alot of big actors and actresses for this.

Fueled By Concentrated Awesome

this is my ride after the apocalypse, don't be too jealous.

Charting The Difference

My Dad pointed this out to me. Again, I must reiterate my love of strange graphs and charts.

It's a Delicate Mechanism

This is pretty incredible already, before you find out that the whole thing is made of paper. My mind boggles at the level or precision this would require.

Via BoingBoing

Who So Ever Shall Be Found, With Out Soul For Getting Down...

I blogged this too late for Halloween, but it's only a day past the 25th Anniversery of the Original Thriller music video, and this is a pretty awesome remix/remake.

Best. Song. Ever.

It's not quite as good as the original, but if you don't like this song, I don't want to like you.

This Was A Triumph.

I just finished the game Portal, which is just about the cleverest thing ever. It's a first-person shooter engine reimagined as a puzzle game with a truely unique twist. It's pretty short but definately well crafted. Oh, and it also has about the best closing song possible.

Look at me, still talking when there's Science to do.
When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you.
I've experiments to run.
There is research to be done,
On the people who are
Still Alive.