Barbie is often seen as the female ideal in proportions and looks. There has been a lot of conversation about that, but this infographic by Rehabs tries to put things in perspective. Spoiler alert: her neck can’t hold her head, her feet can’t support her body, her wrists can’t lift anything, and there just isn’t enough room for organs in her torso.
NASA’s Opportunity rover has been on Mars since 2003, and it seems to have completed its “true” mission after a decade on the red planet. The robot has beamed back a picture of a giant dick it drew on the surface of Mars, probably as a message to someone about all the fun the rover’s been having.
Via Gizmodo
Redditor Chicosley says they left their cat with the room mate for one week, only to return and find these images of the curious Kiki cat putting her head through cardboard holes and unwittingly becoming a part of an illustration.
Skiers in Quebec have done a group backflip while skiing. A backflip is difficult as it is, but doing it simultaneously with 30 people gets way more challenging. The group practiced together for two hours at Mont St Sauveur before finally deciding to do the flip.
Via Telegraph, WeInterrupt
Switzerland based artists Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs have created a set of cameras that go way beyond the ordinary. The set features working cameras sculpted out of turtle shells, armadillos, horns and even books. Except that last one, the others do remind us of The Flintstones. Inspiration behind this is a simple one, as long as you can point and shoot, it is a camera, even if it be in the shape and housed in the most unlikeliest of units.
Tumblr blog Des Hommes et des Chatons exists for the very laudable purpose of putting male models together with their cat-like counterparts. It’s like the old Game of Thrones characters as cats we saw earlier, and apparently as fun.
Tetris bricks can build the world. Just stack them up well, and they’d probably build anything like those magical Legos. Artist Stephen Gowland created this world map by placing Tetris bricks to form the geography while managing to keep the character of the bricks intact. Of course, the edges could have been smoother with the Tetris bricks going more towards the pixel, but then the entire point of the map would be lost. Available on Etsy where the artist has numerous other iterations of the world map from different sets.
Artist Paul Davies paints pictures of mid-century modern architecture given a psychedelic twist. Linear styling and large windows of these structures makes an appearance, so does a painting style that makes the images appear saturated in a style that reminds one of a later time period which was awash with drug experimentation. The artist makes liberal use of stencils so he can create an image with elements and colors to his liking, even if it means repeating the process over and over.
Gentlemen, where would you take the lady on a first date? Of course there are plenty of variables that might be put to use in making this choice, but painting the scene with broad strokes, designer Alex Cornell has created a little chart. It may be called an infographic, and it details some haunts for a first date, “arranged in order of difficulty.”
Simulating moving water and the physics behind it has always posed a challenge to video game engines and animation. A good model for such animation does seem near though, as the video above displays. It makes use of a technique called Position Based Dynamics.
This video shows three years of the sun in a time lapse that goes three minutes. Apparently, there’s a lot of beautiful looking stuff going on in the sun. The video shows two photographs for every day, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The idea was to document the Solar Maximum, a time during an 11 year solar cycle where the solar activity is at its peak.
Via PetaPixel
What do cute faces have to do with usability of matches? Absolutely nothing. They do however, possess the power to make the user smile by going just a little way out of the ordinary. Now that’s the sort of creative design we can love. Kokeshi Matches started purely as a creative exercise when Kumi Hirasaka drew faces Japanese Kokeshi dolls on matches in 1994.
Graphics by Toby Ng imagine what the world would be like if it were to be suddenly shrunk to just 100 people, while keeping the composition intact. Let’s just call it an infographic of the state of our world, but that sounds so much less interesting than The World of 100, a village where only 100 people live and represent the composition of the entire world.
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