Kalem Berntsen takes us through his entire process of planting seed potatoes and tomatoes before combining the two separate plants into one plant with a gardening technique known as grafting, after which he harvests both the tomatoes and potatoes and cooks them up to make home-grown, home-cooked chips ‘n sauce; the New Zealanders’ name for […]
Stewie is a Scottish terrier who lives with his dad Ian in the beautiful state of California, USA. As a pup, Stewie was so freakishly clever that Ian started reading up about animal intelligence and his curiosity led him to try teaching Stewie math games. The handsome Scottie dog is now five years old and […]
Xanda Bach and friends have found a way to make use of all those empty bottles after a party – fill each bottle with a specific amount of water and then make music with them. For this video, the team blew into the top of each bottle in sequence and very slowly. The video was […]
Daniel Mackie is an ex-Photoshop junkie who turned away from digital art software in 2010. He says, “Photoshop was making me cut corners and it was driving me crazy with its flat colours. Once I started using watercolour it became instantly clear to me that one of the reasons I was becoming so frustrated with […]
When musician and artist Jarbas Agnelli saw a photograph of birds sitting on electric wires, he decided to make a song. The melody for the song was created by using the birds’ positions on the wires as music notes. The result was a beautiful, emotive melody that seemed to express the essence of the photograph. He […]
James Trosh makes a music video in space by strapping a toy robot called Edgar to a weather balloon and then sending it into space. Edgar reached a height of over 95,000 feet (around 30,000 metres) before the pressure burst the weather balloon and Edgar was sent plummeting to Earth in a dizzy free-fall. Edgar and […]
Born in Japan, Chino Otsuka spent her childhood travelling around the world and has the photographs to prove it. As an art project, Otsuka photoshopped her adult self into those childhood photos, often returning to the place where the original photograph was taken in order to give the resulting art work a genuine feel. Otsuka’s […]
Optical illusions are art works, photographs and designs that trick the mind into seeing something that isn’t actually there, or into not seeing something that is right in front of you. Some illusions rely on the brain’s tendency to jump to conclusions, while others reveal how different people think. It’s always interesting to look at […]
Ravi Fernando disproves the theory that men can’t multi-task by solving a Rubix cube while juggling.
This clever graphic animation, created by Ji Lee, shows simple animations that explain the meanings of the words. The challenge was to create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself without adding outside parts.