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“Glass Labyrinth” is an outdoor sculpture installation by artist Robert Morris that takes the form of a navigable, glass-walled labyrinth. The installation was recently unveiled at the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.

photo via The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

photo via The Nelson-Atkins Museum

photo via The Nelson-Atkins Museum

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Kangaroo Light is a portable LED light with a flexible form that can be shaped to a wide variety of usages. The light, which is made up of flexible triangular panels, can illuminate everything from a campsite to the interior of a bag. It has a 2.5 hour battery life and can be recharged via USB. Kangaroo Light was designed by architecture studio Kawamura-Ganjavian. They’re raising funds on Kickstarter to bring the light to production. We previously posted about the studio’s delightful Ostrich Pillow.

photos via Kawamura-Ganjavian

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Engineer Prints is a custom photo printing service by Photojojo that uses industrial printers typically associated with architecture and engineering plans to create giant prints. A print measures 4 feet by 3 feet with a white border, is printed in halftone black and white, and printed on extra-light 20 pound bond.

photos via Photojojo

via Photojojo

“The Fire Lab” is a fascinating mini-documentary by The Atlantic about the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, a Montana research facility operated by the United States Forest Service that investigates the science of wildfires. Scientists at the lab use wind tunnels, combustion chambers, and other research equipment to better understand how wildfires work and how they spread. The lab is part of the federal government’s effort to manage wildfires — an endeavor that costs more than three billion dollars a year.

The video is part of The Atlantic article “Fire on the Mountain.”

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Benni and Rafi Fine aka The Fine Brothers recap the first season of the runaway Netflix hit series Orange Is The New Black in 7 minutes, keeping impressive track of all the stories and flashbacks that entangled the story.

Season two of Orange Is The New Black premieres on Friday, June 6, 2014.

UK artists Mariana Fantich and Dominic Young of Fantich and Young have covered the soles of shoes in hundreds of false teeth for their super creepy sculpture series “Apex Predator.”

photos via Fantich and Young

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PBS Idea Channel host Mike Rugnetta takes the “100th-ish” episode to explore the intentions of the show and how he as host attempts to guide it. In short, it is a PBS Idea Channel episode about PBS Idea Channel.

An Idea Channel episode ABOUT Idea Channel? It was inevitable, I guess. Since we’ve reach our one-hundredth(ish) episode, we thought’d we’d turn the microscope on ourselves, and talk about what we hope IC is accomplishing. What ARE we trying to do here? Who is the show inspired by? And through all this exclaiming, dissecting, and over thinking, are we SUCCEEDING?

John Brooker, a 75-year-old retiree in Norfolk, England, has spent the past 10 years patiently sculpting a hedge into a fantastic 100-foot-long dragon.

photos by Damien McFadden

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A baby elephant named Kyan, who lives at the Amersfoort Zoo in the Netherlands, gleefully rolls around in the dirt while remaining very much under his mother’s very watchful eye as shown in this 2013 video posted by elfje999.

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The video “Pluto’s Five Moons Explained” by Munich-based kurzgesagt examines and explains the fives moons of Pluto — Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra.

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Japanese shoe designer Masaya Kushino, known for incredibly creatively extravagant footwear, released his newest collection, “Bird-Witched“, earlier this year. According to Mayasa, the bird-themed collection of stiletto heel shoes was inspired by the art of Jakuchu Ito.

The Bird-Witched collection was inspired by Jakuchu Ito, a legendary painter who flourished during the Edo period in the 18th century. He depicted real life animals such as birds, tigers, and elephants in a really ingenious way, tinged with a bit of insanity. His realist aesthetic encouraged me to put emphasis on the details of the shoes, which resulted in unique collaborations that used historical Nishijin-ori textiles by Hosoo in Kyoto, or exquisite statuesque heels by Japanese sculptor Takashi Nakamura. Three pairs of shoes are covered with feathers, giving them a mysterious, iridescent texture. – Blouin Art Info

The collection will be on display during the “Killer Heels” exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum from September 10, 2014 through February 15, 2015.

images via Masaya Kushino

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Prankster Jack Vale recently creeped out a bunch of his friends and family members by hacking into their computer webcams and spying on them. Once he tapped into their cameras, he would immediately call them on the phone and point out the things that they were doing, such as: biting their nails, applying lip balm, and using a flower pen.

I hacked into my friends and family’s webcam and spied on them to demonstrate how easy it is for Hackers and even the government, to spy on people. Messing with the people I love was awesome!

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tado° Cooling is a gadget by Germany-based tado° that can turn remote-controlled air conditioners into smart devices. Any traditional air conditioning unit — wall-mounted, window-mounted, or otherwise — with a remote control can be controlled via smartphone thanks to the tado° Cooling gadget. The device controls the air conditioner via infrared and the device itself is controlled via smartphone thanks to users’ local Wi-Fi networks. It can automatically turn the air conditioner off, start at a preordained time, and even adjust as users move from room to room.

tado° is currently raising funds via a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

images via tado°

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A Cat 301.7D CR Mini Hydraulic Excavator successfully navigates a crowded china shop in this video from construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar. The operator even manages to lift a single glass and place it at the top of a pyramid of similar glasses at the Caterpillar Testing Facility CS122 in Peoria Heights, Illinois.

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Brothers Antonius and Vijay Nazareth of the YouTube musical group AVbyte have created “Disney Villains The Musical,” a song about evil Disney villains and how they are all just misunderstood. It features devilishly good vocals by Maleficent (Elizabeth Oldak), Ursula (Kim Carpluk), Cruella De Vil (Michelle Cameron) and The Evil Queen (Tiger Darrow). We have previously written about AVbyte and their ongoing series of pop culture musicals.

Maleficent and her fellow Disney Villains have had enough!

A Boeing 737 airliner that will transport the Brazilian national soccer team for the 2014 World Cup was recently spray painted with giant street art mural by twin brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo of Brazilian art duo Os Gêmeos. The jet, which is operated by Brazilian airline GOL, is covered from nose to tail in the Pandolfo brothers’ whimsical characters. The painting process took a week and required 1,200 cans of spray paint. The 737 will keep its Os Gêmeos paint job for two years.

photos by Junior Lago/UOL

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BarkBuddy is an app by Bark & Co for finding local adoptable dogs. Users input some details about their ideal dog and BarkBuddy begins suggesting likely profiles. The more users swipe through, the better the recommendations become, and contacting shelters and rescues through the app is simple. BarkBuddy is currently available on iOS.

BarkBuddy is brought to you by the pup ruvin' peeps at Bark & Co.– a company dedicated to building products that foster the health and happiness of dogs everywhere. BarkBuddy is the actualization of our belief that everyone should have a dog in their life, and every dog should have a human.

images via BarkBuddy

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Las Vegas artist Albert F. Montoya has created a series of illustrations that reimagine pop culture video game, movie, cartoon, and comic book characters as brain-eating zombies. Prints of Albert’s designs are available to purchase online from his Big Cartel store.

images via Albert Montoya

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Australian artist Jessica Ledwich grotesquely re-imagines traditional feminine beauty routines in “Ferocious“, an art series that she labels as “monstrous feminine”.

images via Jessica Ledwich

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“If you can design one thing, you can design everything.”

Massimo Vignelli, the prolific designer whose modernist aesthetic shaped the American Airlines logo and the New York City subway map, died today at age 83. Vignelli was a founding partner of Unimark International, an influential design firm in the 60s and 70s that was known for its minimal, modernist work. In 1971 he founded Vignelli Associates along with his wife Lella–the couple would continue working together for the next four decades. Earlier this month we posted about Vignelli’s last request–he asked fans and friends to write him and let him know how his work had influenced them over the years.

image via Helvetica

via The New York Times