Impossible art

I would seriously like to know how he did this.

Carl Zimmer's Science Tattoo Emporium

While I cannot in good conscience advocate tattooing, if you are going to get a tattoo, get a nerdy one.

Sweet kaleidoscopography!

Stolen blatantly from MetaFilter: One and Two. Prepare for many lost hours.

Old Disney greeting cards

1948-1956. Gorgeous.

Spam art

Not the meat-style food product, the unsolicited electronic mailing.

Egg city

If you love animals, don't eat their reproductive organs; stack them.

Lies

Benjamin Disraeli once said that there are three kinds of lies: "lies, damn lies, and statistics." He forgot:

• 9/11 forgeries


• Art


• THE TWOTLE!

(Sorry, these have nothing to do with one another and I wanted to post them simultaneously.)

The Human Flipbook

The magic of t-shirts

Crazy origami

Some lunatic Chinese turns a KFC box into a Transformer.

Tattoos and Iraqi death culture

"In such a society, dominated by the culture of blood and death, rehabilitation is almost impossible in the near future as at least one generation has become part of this culture [of violence]."

Here's what you can do with a Sharpie and a dream

Astounding

Sidewalk art

It must be sad when it rains.

How to become both rich and happy quickly (by Bill Watterson)

Okay, maybe not quickly, or rich... but happy.

I read this in Junior High (probably when I was supposed to be reading something else for class) and haven't looked back since. It's not that he's really saying anything original, but he is saying it from experience and conviction.

Graffiti of my hero

The *other* JC - Johnny Cash.

Ask a mathematician

Apparently, they're experts on art forgeries, too.

And if you weren't already addicted . . .

now you can appreciate your coffee as a work of art.

This is what I'm doing instead of finals...

Watching someone MSPaint the Mona Lisa (La Giocanda) and watch someone paint a movie poster for Supersize Me in fries and ketchup. As a side note, if any of you have any 12 to 15 page papers about Cartesian skepticism and dualism in comparison with David J. Chalmers' physicalism, I could use it. (video: 56k okay)

Ambigrams!

They read the same forwards and backwards/upside down.

3-D Paper and Audio Illusions

Comics artist Jim Woodring has created pop-up art with the world's hippest notebooks. If that didn't freak you out, this will.

You got math in my art! You got art in my math!

I would have thought this was the coolest thing in the world when I was 13. It's still pretty cool.