Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Visualizing Gravity with Generative Artwork
A bottle of sumi ink balanced by a large magnet on a device that rotates and drips inks in an ever diminishing spiral, I love this work called "Magnetic Field Recording" by Kouichi Okamoto of Kyoei Design.
Medieval Gothic-Inspired Heavy Machinery
Artist Wim Delvoye builds large machines out of metal latticework.
See also Church Tanks by Kris Kuksi
Spectacular Origami Animals by Matthieu Georger
A true maestro of origami, Matthieu Georger creates this stunning animals (real and imaginary, including minotaurs and dragons) simply by folding paper.
Wonderlights over Iceland
Enrique Pacheco took 12 trips to Iceland to shoot this stunning video of the Aurora Borealis.
White Whale Sighting - A Rare Albino Humpback Whale
This albino humpback whale along the Queensland coast in Australia named Migaloo (an Aboriginal word meaning "white fella").
Not Moby Dick, but beautiful.
Photo credit: Tom Lancashire
Male, Capital of the Maldives
Photos of the Day - Aerial Shots from Around the World
There is a great set of 39 fantastic aerial shots over at All That's Interesting . Here are some of my favorites.
The tent city in Mecca during the Hajj
Fort Bourtange in the Netherlands
Capetown South Africa
Stunning Black & White Iceberg Photos from Jan Erik Waider
We've see the gorgeous blues, whites and greens of Jan Erik Waider's photos before. This set of shots focus on the form of the giant ice structures, putting them in a nearly abstract light.
See also Waider's Iceberg of Iceland and Greenland
Burning Man By Video Drone
Drones, drones, drones...
A quick 5 minute tour of burning man.
40 Days of Dating - Experiments in Dating and Digital Storytelling
A beautifully crafted 40-day story told by two designer friends who decided to try dating each other.
It is fascinating, excruciating, beautiful, moving, interesting, instructive.
See the whole story »
NASA opens its Instagram Account
Haircut in Reverse - Stop-Motion
I am trying to get my head around the planning and steps needed to pull this off this well...
oh, awesome... the Behind the Scenes video is below...
APP of the Day - Shape Shuffle
With an eye toward the sort of games you are proud being caught playing (Letterpress, Dots, Tall Chess), Shape Shuffle (on iOS for iPhone and iPad, and on Android) brings the same minimal elegance to spatial puzzles.
SlyTrunk, the app creator, is perhaps best known for creating NFL.com’s Fantasy Football.
Hey Jude Lyrics Posters
Italian designer Stefan Agabio has worked out this typographic project illustrating the lyrics of ‘Hey Jude’ by The Beatles with Prismacolor markers.
And those of you who know me, know my son's name is Jude.
Crossing the Alps by Microdrone
"Microdone' sounds ominous. These sights are gorgeous. Such is my ambivalence to technology.
Papercut Nudes from Eiko Ojala
An illustrator, graphic designer and art director, Eiko Ojala lives in Tallinn, Estonia. His series Naked uses the barest of materials to create these stunning, sexy and simple figures.
See also The Form of the Body
Clouds in Timelapse Above Japan
Original Pronunciation of Shakespeare - A Short Documentary
Linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal explain the differences between English pronunciation now and how it was spoken 400 years ago.
Paris Apartment turned into a Camera Obscura
We've seen the work of stenop.es before (here: http://5thin.gs/1ethIDc) but are always thrilled to see new videos displaying the simple gorgeous physics of the pinhole camera and the camera obscure.
Photo of the Day - Blue Ghost Fireflies
Blue Ghost Fireflies, North Carolina
Photograph by Spencer Black