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A Jaw-Dropping Time-Lapse Video of Optical Illusions in Abandoned Houses
Multimedia artist Jeff Frost’s Flawed Symmetry of Prediction isn’t your average time-lapse study of the Milky Way. Frost paints massive geometric shapes on walls so that they function as optical illusions, blurring the line between 2D and 3D when captured on video.The experimental piece unfolds to reveal a haunting, post-apocalyptic world where flickering wildfires and industrial plants illuminate desert vistas. Frost’s sci-fi vibe is inspired in part by actual science — one painting draws on a NASA diagram of evidence for the Big Bang and the soundtrack uses clips recorded by Voyager 1. Be sure to watch it full screen in HD to appreciate the crisp visual detail.
Your afternoon art break. Wow, just wow.
What if Adele was Mrs. Doubtfire is the best tumblr of 2012.
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“Eight solid light-years of lead…is the thickness of that metal in which you would need to encase yourself if you wanted to keep from being touched by neutrinos. I guess the little fuckers are everywhere.” -Micheal Chabon, Wonder Boys
Maybe my last Chabon nod for a bit. But no promises.
"I just filmed a video “Destructor!” on #viddy
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NASA Scientists Select Random Rock on Mars to Shoot With Laser
Meet the most boring rock in the world. It’s probably basalt, an igneous rock, which makes it like many, many other rocks and pebbles all over the world.
What makes it interesting is that the world in question is Mars, and this random little piece of stone happens to be sitting near the Mars Curiosity rover on the floor of the Gale crater. And, N165, as it is being temporarily called, also happens to have a nice, flat face that happens to be in the range of the rover’s laser.
That all makes this poor little guy a perfect test rock for everyone’s favorite Martian robot to fire upon.
Read more. [Image: NASA]
“You rock, rock.” - Jason Schwartzman, “I <3 Huckabees”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8x3yneJiD1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
NASA Scientists Select Random Rock on Mars to Shoot With Laser
Meet the most boring rock in the world. It’s probably basalt, an igneous rock, which makes it like many, many other rocks and pebbles all over the world.
What makes it interesting is that the world in question is Mars, and this random little piece of stone happens to be sitting near the Mars Curiosity rover on the floor of the Gale crater. And, N165, as it is being temporarily called, also happens to have a nice, flat face that happens to be in the range of the rover’s laser.
That all makes this poor little guy a perfect test rock for everyone’s favorite Martian robot to fire upon.
Read more. [Image: NASA]
“You rock, rock.” - Jason Schwartzman, “I <3 Huckabees”
