awesome
-
Artist Transforms Real People Into 2D Living Paintings
Video Artist and photographer Alexa Meade creates art and optical illusions that let people walk right into her work. She paints portraits onto her subjects’ bodies and transforms their very 3D presence into two-dimensional images.
-
Fascinating View Of Objects’ Guts As They Get Sanded Down Layer By Layer
I want someone to do these stop-motion videos of objects being sanded down one layer at a time, using every solid thing in existence. They are like destructive magnetic resonance scans. So cool.
-
Scientist Discover New Material That Makes Objects Invisible To Touch
You’re looking at a new awesome nano-material invented that does the seemingly impossible: It hides things from touch. Just a thin layer of this amazing polymer will hide anything under it from being perceived by your sense of touch. In this photo you can see how it “absorbs” a metal cylinder.
-
93-Year-Old Vet Recreates His D-Day Parachute Jump Over Normandy
This is just awesome. Jim ‘Pee Wee’ Martin, a 93-year-old WWII veteran paratrooper, just did the same jump out of a plane into Normandy that he did for D-Day 70 years ago when he was 23 years old. But he says this jump was much easier because “there wasn’t anybody shooting at me today”.