In 2017, William Plessinger, an enthusiastic Star Wars fan, constructed a 17 foot All-Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT) Imperial Walker that he placed the front yard of his Columbus, Ohio home during Halloween. In the year that passed, Plessinger made some improvements and put it out again in his front yard for Halloween 2018. Plessinger spoke…
A Wonderful Collection of Dungeons and Dragons Art That Provides a Visual History of the Iconic Game
Writers Michael Witwer and Kyle Newman have authored Dungeons and Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History, a wonderful collection of the art associated with the iconic role-playing game. Included within this rich volume of history is original art from modules, rulebooks, characters and locations. An illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the…
An Affable German Shepherd Gently Watches Over a Bevy of Baby Quails Crawling Around on a Shag Rug
A noble German Shepherd named Thorin very gently sniffed out a bevy of baby quails who were chirping away while crawling around on a comfy shag rug. After meeting these little birds, Thorin sat down and stood guard over them, remaining completely affable even when they climbed upon him. It appears that Thorin is quite…
Artist Creates Wonderfully Elaborate Imaginative Scenes Using a Giant Library of Colorful Books
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Elizardbirth (@elizabeth_sagan) on Aug 31, 2018 at 9:19am PDT Artist Elizabeth Sagan has found a unique niche in which to express herself. Sagan creates wonderfully elaborate, imaginative and even whimsical scenes with a giant library of colorful books, which are stacked, fanned and/or arranged around different…
Chorale Members Create a Thunderstorm With Their Fingertips As Prelude to a Beautiful Cover of ‘Africa’
During a 2013 performance, members of the very talented Angel City Chorale amazingly created the sound of a thunderstorm with their fingertips as prelude to a beautiful multi-part cover of the Toto classic “Africa”. This concert took place a bit before “Africa” was declared the internet’s favorite song. The group was formed in 1993 and…
A Psychedelic Video That Reacts to the Changing Beat of the Music From Max Cooper’s Song ‘Platonic’
Filmmaker Páraic McGloughlin has created a psychedelic music video using for the Max Cooper song “Platonic” in which a timelapse of a freeway runs freely while a translucent overlay reacts with varying shapes to the beat, cadence and rhythm of the music. I tried to incorporate and inject a feeling of possibility, the unknown, hidden…
Vector, A Friendly Little Robot That’s Specifically Coded to Use Its Wonderfully Helpful Powers For Good Not Evil
Vector by Anki Home Robotics is a friendly little robot that can do a great many things. Vector can give a fist bump, act as a timer, give the weather, look up anything on the internet and is very, very happy to see you when you get home. Vector has also been specifically coded to…
An Old Irish Script Based Upon Carved Stone Notches and Spaces That Presented a Big Unicode Problem
In a lexemic episode of “Things You Might Not Know” taken on location at the British Museum, host Tom Scott explains how the medieval Irish language of Ogham used notches carved into stones in order to communicate. While the notches did the main communication, the spaces in between also played a significant role. When it…