It’s raining on Saturn! Well, kind of. Actually, not really.
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The Flashed Face Effect
Here is some really surprisingly research coming out of the University of Queensland. While working on an unrelated project, researchers aligned a bunch of faces at the eyes. The surprise came when the faces were played back in succession while not looking directly at them. Viewed in the periphery, what you perceive is a procession of horrific, scary, monster-like faces. But stop the video on any one of them, and each turns out to be a pretty, pleasing face.
According to the researchers, Sean Murphy and Matt Thompson, what your brain keys on are all the specific differences between each face. As the center of your brain’s attention, those differences appear magnified and greatly distorted.
Watch this video twice. First do as it says, and keep your eyes on the cross. Note how ugly the faces are that go by. And then play it a second time, looking directly at the faces, and pausing it whenever you like. There is not an ugly one to be found.
Amazing!
by Brian Dunning.
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Splitscreen love story
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Never Mind The Artwork Here’s The LEGO. Classic album covers remade from LEGO by British artist Aaron Savage.
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Wash your hands and fibonaccis.
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This blew my mind as a kid.
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Someone snapped a photo of the Space Shuttle Endeavor from the window of a commercial flight.
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Capture of a page from photographer James Mollison. Worth taking a look to the interactive page to see the details of each one of the faces.
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TweetingSeat by Christopher McNicholl. Bench logs its usage by uploading images of its users and environment to a live Twitter feed.
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Films by sunglasses.
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The Sopranos in nine minutes.
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“I shot a photo roughly every two miles between take-off in San Francisco and landing in Paris CDG to make this airplane time lapse”.
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The Rhythm Project
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MillionYoung and Teen Daze team up to cover Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them”.
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