Looking for more worthy projects to support this long weekend? We have an interactive story about a whale walking on stilts, a graphic novel following a young vampire who just wants to make comics, a human-powered helicopter looking to break records, and a webseries about aspiring cartoonists. More »
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In Lee Jung's lovely photographs, text messages have escaped the confines of the phone screen and scattered across the real world, illuminating various landscapes with their questions and declarations of love. More »
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A scary bit of news is coming out of Miami this weekend after the city police shot a naked man found eating another man's face. And several circumstances of the story have some people crying zombie. More »
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In the early 1990s, the Voyager Company looked into creating "Expanded Books," digital books that would offer an enhanced onscreen reading experience. Appropriately, one of the titles they converted into an expanded books was a series that revolves around a digital book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Douglas Adams recorded a promo on the history of books, hailing e-readers as the future of reading. More »
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Plenty of folks have a quote from a favorite author or a favorite artist's work tattooed on their skin. But what if you could get your favorite artists to design a tattoo especially for you? One fan asked Neil Gaiman to write a comic for his back tattoo, and Gaiman agreed. More »
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If a million monkeys typing on a million typewriters will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare, what will half a dozen monkeys on a half a dozen synthesizers produce? This ad for Sweden's Volt Festival answers that not-so-age-old question by putting electronic instruments in the hands of long-tailed primates. More »
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Fifty years ago today, a coal seam caught fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania, causing the mines beneath the town to catch fire. While the decades-old fire has caused most residents to abandon the town, a few holdouts remain. More »
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The Doctor may resemble Earth's dominent species (or rather, we resemble the Doctor), but if the Time Lord was traveling in prehistoric times, it would make more sense to blend with the dinosaurs. Dressed in the Doctor's finest fashions, these dinos turned out quite dapper. More »
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Battleship is fun, if fluffy entertainment, and it's hardly the works of Shakespeare. But what if a scene from Battleship was, in fact, penned by the Bard? More »
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Certainly Indiana Jones had far more adventures than could fill four movies and a prequel television series. These shadowy scenes imagine the hazardous moments in Indy's life that never made it to the screen. More »
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The always wonderful DrFaustusAU is back to his Dr. Seussian hijinks, this time giving some of Star Wars' less celebrated character the limelight and a little rhyme. More »
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Mo'ynoq was once a thriving port city on the Aral Sea in western Uzbekistan, famed for its fishing and canning industries. Today, most of Mo'ynoq's visitors come to view its haunting graveyard of ships, lying in the sands where the waters once flowed. More »
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With his moon-based Nazi flick Iron Sky in the can, director Timo Vuorensola is turning his filmmaking eye toward a different breed of science fiction Nazi: time-traveling Hitler. Vuorensola is getting ready to adapt the film adaptation of Jason's graphic novel I Killed Adolf Hitler. More »
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Artist Istvan Laszlo combines the bone structure of famous artists, activists, and politicians with their trademark features and hair lines to create unique portraits of what lies beneath and above their skin. More »
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Do you take your significant other, for better taste or worse, in Doctor Who reruns and marathon Portal sessions? Do you pledge to re-read Harry Potter together and listen to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio plays on long car trips? Then you might want to send out these beautiful save-the-date cards. More »
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Leonardo da Vinci may have been a forward-thinking engineer, but what if he had gotten into the particle physics game? CERN researcher Dr. Sergio Cittolin brought out his (not so) inner Renaissance Man with these illustrations of the Large Hadron Collider in Leonardo's style. More »
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When I was a kid – and who am I kidding; when I was an adult too – I made fun of the science in movies. "That's so fakey!" I would cry out loud when a spaceship roared past, or a slimy alien stalked our heroes. More »
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Detroit's population is shrinking. The city boasts 60% fewer residents today than it did in 1950, and, as we've seen, many of its grand buildings have been left to rot. Now Detroit Mayor Dave Bing wants to concentrate the population in a smaller area by reducing the number of streetlights and leaving nearly half the city in the dark. More »
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What do the creatures from your closet use to add a floral quality to their chocolate souffle? The lavender-scented salts derived the tears of human sorrow. If they want more of a kick to their meat, they may choose the peppery salt from tears of sneezing, or the powerful salt from tears of anger. More »
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There are eight million stories in the Clockwork City; will you write one of them? This week's Concept Art Writing Prompt is all about location, location. Can you come up with a brief story set in this city of endlessly turning gears? More »
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Not content to star merely in Once Upon a Time, Snow White and the Huntsman, and Mirror, Mirror (not to mention all those Fables comics), Snow White brings her songbird-summoning voice and lips as red as blood to the rest of 2012's big movies, from Prometheus to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. More »
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In the first half of 1955, the United States performed more than a dozen tests of atomic weapons in Nevada, studying the destructive power of the country's most powerful weapons. These photos, from the 44th nuclear test explosion ever performed on US soil, capture the varied effects. More »
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Ridley Scott's incredible attention to detail in Blade Runner stretched all the way to the newsstands sitting in the background. He asked concept artist Tom Southwell to create these magazine covers for his dystopian Los Angeles. More »
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A New Moon is rising in the next few days, giving us a chance to bathe in the Earthshine, the light from the Earth that illuminates the Moon. Earth shines bright for the Moon, and the Moon shines for the Earth, but what's the shiniest thing in the solar system? More »
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If people can ride around in lion-shaped mechas, why can't cats cruise in their own bipedal mecha suits? Reddit user Tastybread crafted this bad-ass cat bed for his cardboard-loving kitty. His next project: Krang's human-shaped exo-suit. [reddit via Ian Brooks] More »
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