Plants growing timelapse compilation / Boing Boing
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The YouTube channel Boxlapse exists primarily to show timelapses of plants growing (it’s like ASMR for your eyes). Here’s a compilation of their “best of” videos — 190 days of growth crunched into three minutes.
screengrab via Boxlapse/YouTube
Anamorphosis, or variable geometry, it the art of creating a work that must be viewed from specific vantage points to see an intended form. Georges Rousse is one of the major practitioners of the form. Here’s are nice overviews of some of his finished works: Image: YouTube / Musée de l’Homme
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“In Girls We Trust” is a Bic pen artwork by Helena Hauss. She depicts a $20 bill that replaces Andrew Jackson with feminist icon Princess Leia. Watch her complete the 400-hour project in about a minute: She also has a YouTube channel worth checking out: Image: Instagram / helenahauss
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Is it hot in here…? Watch ten years of the Sun doing its thing in this 61-minute-long high-def timelapse video. The footage comes from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) which captured an image of the Sun every 0.75 seconds from June 1, 2010 to June 1, 2020,. Impressive! From its orbit in space around the […]
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Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Homer decided to get grossly overweight so he could claim a disability and work from home? Once he’d achieved his dream, the largely immobile Homer’s tool of choice was his “reaching broom,” a normal broom Homer would use to tap the keys of his computer while he sat […]
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While we don’t have the stats in front of us, you know the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has seen a whole lot of earbuds and earbud manufacturers make their way through the show over the years. Dozens? For sure. Hundreds? Likely. Yet after all those buds, the CES Innovation Awards still saw […]
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We regularly alert you all to deals on professional skills training or new tech talents you can add to either bolster your resume or help you fill your time. But this time, we’re gonna suggest a different route entirely. This time, we want you to put the laptop or game controller down — and go […]
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