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I have a feeling that Hedgehog art Though the Ages might not be entirely legitimate from a classical historiological standpoint; I suspect photoshop may even have been involved. But this is, it seems, an entire book of hedgehog art that doesn't involve the blue one, which makes it unique in the annals of modern hedgehog-related ekphrasis.Hedgehog Art Though the Ages is a humorous and lovely book. This amusing work of fictional art history features various inspiring works of art with hedgehogs as the key theme. The book includes over forty amazing, adorable, and delightful works from the Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Romantic and Modern periods, as well as sections on Americana and Japanese art.Let me tell you, this has been tearing up Hedgehog internet.

Disney, through the Jim Henson Company, is the owner of the domain name muppetfucker.net. There is nothing at the address, but... why? io9's Beth Elderkin investigates and finds the answer to be the obvious one: a guy registered the domain long ago and the muppet people made him give it up on pain of expensive legal action.https://twitter.com/noahphex/status/797289825984462848Austin resident Noah Lee started going by the DJ name Muppetfucker in 1995, after he and a friend of his came up with it and thought it was funny. He used the name for six years, and owned several MuppetFucker domain names, including MuppetFucker.net. Lee told io9 the Jim Henson Company likely found out about Muppetfucker after he performed at SXSW in March 2001 and got a review in a local weekly magazine. A few days after the review came out, Lee got a cease-and-desist letter from the Jim Henson Company, which demanded he stop using the name Muppetfucker and hand over all domain rights.“The day the letter showed up, I walked to my mailbox and opened it up, and when I pulled out that Kermit letterhead I knew right then it was over,” Lee told io9. Whatever trademark registrations surround the word "muppet" must be quite shopworn by now: in the UK, the word is a common euphemism for "idiot". Good news, though! Fragglebugger.com is still available.UPDATE: After my writing about this and posting it to twitter, someone purchased fragglebugger.com and redirected it here. Thank you, internet hero! May Disney's lawyers be as stupid as Jim Henson's.

The scientists commenting on the E/V Nautilus live stream just can’t contain themselves when it comes to this adorable Flapjack Octopus.[via The Dodo]

The American Museum of Natural History's hockey stick graph of explosive human population growth in the last 200 years is projected to increase in the short term, tapering off around 11 billion, give or take several billion depending on a few variables. (more…)

Three cows were spotted huddled on a column of earth this weekend after a 7.5-magnitude quake struck New Zealand. Two people and many animals were killed in the disaster and its aftershocks.

My friend Tyler Feder (whose Hamilton tribute I recently celebrated), decided to turn her post-election sadness into something productive. So she posted this simple message on Instagram on Wednesday: https://www.instagram.com/p/BMl6b4cAaSD/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enAs the hashtag began to fill-up, Feder set to work drawing free portraits and uploading them on her Instagram and Tumblr.https://www.instagram.com/p/BMvCoPwAndm/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMqAT3TgnfQ/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enFeder explained to me:"When I woke up on Wednesday, I knew I needed an outlet for all the heartbreak I was feeling. As an illustrator, drawing portraits of marginalized people felt like the best way to extend kindness to those feeling the same heartbreak. I want everyone I'm drawing to know that they are valuable and seen."She initially envisioned #DrawMeTyler as a one-day project, but she found that she didn't want to stop when the day was over. She told me the portraits are therapeutic for her and she's hoping to keep the project up for as long as it will fit into her freelance schedule. Here are just some of the dozens of portraits she's uploaded over the past few days:https://www.instagram.com/p/BMqafIvAz_Z/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMsu97FgARO/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMujYw-ApTe/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMm3IH2AEof/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMu1ZWMghwM/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMmhGAtgaNJ/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMm6aYTgvLp/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMpWIQggRZy/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMmFjmyAclz/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMpE5VOA2NE/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMmm8_3As_Z/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMmtOVLAK3k/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMnZdwWAaaI/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMnSR-qAi0S/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BMvUNVejjtV/?taken-by=tylerfeder&hl=enOther artists have since joined in on the project too. Danielle Veit (#drawmebubbsy) is drawing portraits in her own style while Raye Glass is crocheting hats and sending them to people for free.If you want to be a part of the project, you can upload your Instagram selfie under the hashtag #DrawMeTyler—Feder selects photos at random to draw. You can also purchase her work in her Etsy shop and follow her on Twitter.

Researchers at UT Austin have analyzed a deep depression on Mars that differs from a typical crater. The Hellas depression may in fact be an ancient ice cauldron, where a glacier forms over an active volcano, creating a chemical-rich environment that could support life forms. (more…)

"Keming" is a nickname for bad kerning, and the fine folks at F**kYeahKeming have gathered some of the world's finest examples. Lots of "flick" and "click" kerning disasters, but some novel ones, too. The veracity and provenance of these have not been verified, but as long as we want to believe they're real, that's all that matters online. (more…)

Doubling as a tribute to both Leonard Cohen and Hillary Clinton, Kate McKinnon’s somber Saturday Night Live cold open perfectly encapsulates what so many have been feeling this week.

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Laurie Penny says we've done enough listening to "real people" -- that the working-class whites who deplore racism and were not duped by Trump are done no favors by lumping them in with their neighbors who voted for a confessed rapist and white supremacist who believes in torture and mass deportations. (more…)

Ontario Judge Bernd Zabel displayed contempt for his position and its political impartiality by showing up for work the day after the US election in a Donald Trump "Make America Great Again" hat, which he wore, and then perched on his bench. (more…)

Adultfriendfinder, "the world's largest sex & swinger community," has suffered a major breach, leaking 300,000,000 accounts' worth of personal information, namely email addresses, passwords, usernames, IP addresses and browser information. (more…)

Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee and the face of the party's insider establishment, is Donald Trump's pick as chief of staff.Live footage from the White House:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8mduTEvnU0Trump campaign mastermind and Breitbart chief Steve Bannon was also tipped for the position; he is named as a "Chief Strategist" instead, and gets top billing in the press release. The pairing is presumably contrived to please both the GOP establishment and Trump's "base," which is to say people who agree with Bannon when it comes to "renegade Jews" and the like.https://twitter.com/RyanLizza/status/797915846844837888

AdultFriendFinder was hacked (again) in October 2016. According to LeakedSource, which acquired a copy of the dataset, this amounts to more than 400m accounts, many with plaintext passwords, from AdultFriendFinder and associated websites. The site was compromised with a local file inclusion exploit, which means the website's code allowed access to files on the server that aren't supposed to be public.Nearly a million accounts have the password "123456". More than 100,000 have the password "password". The non-plaintext passwords were easily cracked anyway, apparently due to some roll-your-own encryption that involved lowercasing everything, SHA1ing it and going back to bed. The longest passwords were "pussy.passwordLimitExceeded:07/1" and "gladiatoreetjaimelesexetjaimefum", with a Blackadder fan in #3 with "antidisestablishmentarianism" and a sybarite who reads XKCD in #4 with "pussypussymoneymoneyweedweed."Hotmail was the most common email provider, followed by Yahoo and gmail. These three accounted for the vast majority of registered addresses, with AOL and Live an order of magnitude down. Leaked Source isn't making the data set publicly available; but if they have it, others might too.

Chili's advertised free Veterans Day meals for service members. But not for black U.S. Army veteran Ernest Walker, who shot video of a confrontation with a manager who refused to honor the deal. The man came up to his table and took his food from him.I ordered the waitress was wonderful. It took about 35 mins for meal to come. So when it attived I gave her a Tip as asjed for a take out. She said sure, at that point a old white guy wearing a Trump flag shirt walked buy me on hi way to the bath room. He came back and aked me what unit did i serve in the 24th. I said no the 25th. He said he was in world war 2 in Germany and we did not see people like you over there. They would no allow blacks. I just listened he left then came back to bathroom again and pet my dog. So waitress put foid in container. Then the managers comes and says a somes guest at the restaurant say that your not a real Soldier. I reply what are you serious what guest. The manager Wesly Patrick said can I see military ID. I felt that was reasonable I most people ask for that so I shoed him my ID it checked out. At that point all he should have said was 'Sir I am sorry Thank you for your service and I would have left. But instead ge says ' tbe guest also says that your service dog is not a service dog. Now that's when igot upset and started Recording so see for yourself what happened:https://www.facebook.com/100012925955468/videos/209710646136466/He elaborated in a follow-up post:I was approached by an old white guy, maybe in his 70s, with a Trump Shirt, at Chili's on Veteran's Day yesterday. He asked if I was in the 24th unit, and I said "no the 25th". TRICK QUESTION. He said he was in Germany, and that they did not let Blacks serve over there. He left to the back, and came back and rubbed my dog Barack, who is a service dog. I was seated and eating my food. The waitress packed the rest of my food in a to go box because I had to go pick up my wife. I got my food and tipped the waitress. Then the Manager, MR. Wesley Patrick, comes from the same area in the back, walked up, and rudly informs me that a guest said that I was not a real soldier because I had my hat on indoors. Other guests heard him. He asked for my military ID, I was calm, and provided it to him. I also provided him with my DD214 which is my discharge paperwork. At that point he should have just said "I am sorry Sir, thank you for your service' Instead he followed up with "the guest also said your dog is not a service dog." Barack had his Red Service Vest on, and his Certified Service Tags. I was sitting for 35 minutes prior with Barack beforehand. At this point I was grossly offended embarrassed dehumanized and started Recording...Mr. Wesley snatched my food away, made body contact"Emboldened" is the word they're using.On his Facebook page, Walker posted Chili's reply, which came after the video went viral.According to Fox 4, a local news affiliate, Chili's apologized in a public statement and a meeting is planned with Walker and his attorney.A company spokesperson released this statement: "Our goal is to make every guest feel special and, unfortunately, we fell short on a day where we serve free meals as a small token to honor our Veterans...We are taking this very seriously and the leaders in our company are actively involved with the goal of making it right."Walker's attorney, Kim Cole, says she is meeting with Chili's general counsel Monday, and one of the company's attorneys has apologized."She felt really bad that Mr. Walker had this experience," said Cole.Rob Beschizza is on Twitter at @beschizza

Never let it be said that the crapgadget factories of the Pearl River Delta don't know how to recycle surplus/rejected material. (more…)

The Obama administration asserted the power to raid the massive databases of peoples' private, sensitive information that ad-based tech companies have assembled; the Trump administration has promised to use Obama's powers to effect the surveillance and deportation of 11 millions undocumented migrants, and the ongoing, continuous surveillance of people of Muslim heritage. (more…)

Leave it to the Boing Boing Store to always keep us guessing. This week's roundup ranges from a beer mitt to a travel organizer.#1 Rolo Travel BagThe Rolo Travel Bag is by far the best way I've found to stay organized while traveling. This New York Times-endorsed bag has four mesh pockets, and actually rolls and unrolls into a portable closet. When you get to your destination, unroll the bag, hook it, and easily access all your belongings. The Rolo Travel Bag is just $42.99 in the Boing Boing Store and well worth it for all the socks you won't lose.#2 Premium Knit Beer MittThe Premium Knit Beer Mitt is definitely the accessory I never knew I needed. To use: slip on this knitted mitt, place your beer in the opening, and drink up without even the smallest chill to your fingers. It comes in green and blue, fits on the right and left hands, and is one-size-fits-all. It may just be my go-to holiday gift this season, and it's 68% off retail, just $15.99. #3 Gemini DroneThe Gemini Drone comes packing 6-axis flight control, meaning it has stable flight patterns while still going super fast. This makes it pretty easy to fly for beginners, but still super fun as your improve. You can even record your flights with the built-in HD camera. For a limited time, the Gemini Drone is just $69.99.

During Canada's nightmarish Stephen Harper years -- when an Arctic country with two oceanic coastlines and major freshwater reserves was ruled by a ruthless climate-denier -- science librarian John Dupuis did yeoman service documenting and rounding up the assault on science that was an essential part of Harper's payback to the oil interests he represented. (more…)

Calvin Seibert makes modernist sandscastles on Coney Island. At Little Atoms, Caroline Christie interviewed him about his remarkable creations.I like making things and tend to work with whatever is at hand. Building sandcastles at a beach to me is a very natural thing to be doing. As a child, I saw photographs of the French ski resort of Flaine. I was very taken by the brutalist buildings, designed by Marcel Breuer. Since then I have always gone out of my way to see brutalist architecture and when I build sandcastles I have them in mind. Technique:A five-gallon paint bucket is essential. Paint buckets are particularly rigid and have a nice sharp edge for digging with. Then it is used for carrying water. Lots and lots of water. The tools are all made of plastic. I have a couple that are nothing more than a small rectangle of 1/8-inch plastic with a beveled edge and then a couple of trowels of different sizes.

ButcherBox is a unique subscription service that is offering an alternative to buying meat at the market. There's no shortage of subscription boxes out there, but ButcherBox is the first I've found that speaks to health-conscious carnivores in this way.Sign up for ButcherBox and they'll send a box of hand-picked meats straight to your door each month. All of the meats are raised on small, family-run farms and picked by experts. Most importantly, the meat is 100% grass-fed and humanely treated, meaning you get all the nutrients you need without any of the toxins.My immediate worry with this business model was freshness, but ButcherBox flash freezes their meat at the peak of freshness and delivers their boxes packed with dry ice. It's incredibly fresh and delicious.If you're looking to try out the service without committing, you can get a great deal on your first box for a limited time. There are several combinations of meat you can pick from like chicken and pork, steak and pork, etc. Each box is stocked with a hefty amount of meat that I use for multiple meals.If you love meat, I highly suggest you try it out for yourself or give it as a gift this holiday season.Also explore the Best-Sellers on our network right now:CodingLearn to Code 2016 Bundle (Pay What You Want)DronesCode Black Drone with HD Camera (82% off)SmartwatchesMartian Notifier Smartwatch (76% off)PythonPython Programming Bootcamp ($39) Cord-CuttingGhost Indoor HDTV Antenna (57% off)

Our guest on the Cool Tools Podcast this week is our own David Pescovitz, co-editor and managing partner of Boing Boing and a research director at Institute for the Future. (Image: Ransom and Mitchell)Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show on iTunes | RSS | Transcript | Download MP3 | See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single pageShow notes:Okki Nokki Record Cleaning Machine ($499)"It's built like a tank. It looks like a big, heavy record player without a tone arm. You put a record on it and squirt some cleaning solution on it. Then you turn it on and the record spins. You scrub it gently with a goat hair brush. Then, you turn on the vacuum feature and it sucks up all the fluid and dirt in a couple revolutions. It's amazing, really, how clean it makes the record."Polylined paper sleeves ($25)"My son and I always joke that we can take a record that he's dug out of the dollar or five dollar bin, give it a good cleaning, put a new inner sleeve to replace whatever moldy thing is in there ... and it would be for sale at one of the hipster record stores in San Francisco Mission District for $25. … I buy these in bulk."Zerodust Onzow stylus cleaner ($35)"This is a luxury, admittedly, because they're like $35 and it comes from Japan … It's this little square plastic container with this lump of solidified gel. It feels kind of like Jello, but a little firmer ... you basically dip the stylus into the gel and lift it back up, and whatever was on the needle is then held in suspension in the gel. ... I've had mine for three years and it's basically as good as new."Waring Kettle Popcorn maker ($80)"We got this because my daughter, who's seven, really digs popcorn. She would eat it all day long if she could. My wife actually came up with this idea as a Christmas gift for her. The way it works is you put in the kernels, and then you put in the oil. We use peanut oil, it tastes really good with it. You turn it on and it just starts popping. The popped corn pushes the lid of the kettle and falls into the hopper. It tastes good. And it's super easy to clean. There's this little tray at the bottom of the hopper and you just brush all of the unpopped kernels into that and take it out and dump it. Then you pour like a half a cup of water into the kettle and turn it on and it boils very quickly. It just gets rid of all the burned on stuff, if there's any, then you wipe it out with a cloth."Celestron NextStar 5SE Telescope ($599)"It's got a computer and motors so you don't even have to program anything. You turn it on, and use a handheld device, that looks like a phone handset, to steer the telescope to objects in the sky. You can pick an object out of the database and it'll move the telescope to point at that object. You can point the telescope yourself and it'll tell you what it is that you're looking at. It gives you a whole new relationship to the night sky."

I drew this bOING bOING T-shirt design in 1991, when I was living in Boulder, Colorado. I gave one of the shirts to Evan Ravitz, a wonderfully talented tightrope walker, juggler, activist, and founder of the Voting By Phone Foundation in 1989 (if his idea would have been adopted and people could vote over the internet via their phone or gaming console, Hillary would have won).Anyway, Evan has managed to hang onto his T-shirt for 25 years, and it looks better than new! He posted this photo of it to Facebook. If you want to do some long-term planning and have a T-shirt in 2041 that looks this good, you can get started by buying a new one here.

This new Fab Four themed Moleskine is really gear. Each one is individually numbered (I have 8379 out of 9999 made). It's part of a series of Moleskine Beatles' themed notebooks.

If you wait another six weeks until Jack Skellington gets kicked out of The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland you’ll be able to see the original Mansion in all its lunatic glory. To tantalize you until then, watch this amazing video by VoicePlay, an a capella singing group based in Orlando, Florida (where Jack Skellington never intrudes on The Haunted Mansion at Walt Disney World). Just voices, no musical instruments, and it’s hard to believe when you watch this video.

If there's anyone qualified to recognize a genocidal strongman when they see one, it's the far-right Serbian and Macedonian ultra-nationalists who celebrate the Milosevic legacy of rape-camps, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and those guys love Donald Trump. (more…)

Machinist/sculptor Chris Bathgate (previously) teamed up with Richard Stadler, who machines beautiful spinning tops, to create "sculpture TP53335144462," a gorgeous piece of work. (more…)

Here's another great bar trick from Brian Brushwood of Scam School. Here's the setup - balance a nickel on its edge. Then, put section of a wooden matchstick on the nickel. Cover the nickel and matchstick with a glass. The challenge: remove the matchstick from the nickel without touching the glass or shaking the table. The solution: watch the video!

Donald Trump's inaugural presidential tweet moaned that "Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!" was posted even as he was deleting his 2012 post-Obama election tweets repeatedly calling for a "revolution." (more…)

This guy stopped his car on a snowy road to take a quick bio-break, when he noticed his car was rolling away from him. He tried his best to catch up with it as it went backwards down a hill. The whole thing was caught on the car's dashcam.

In 2002, a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology claimed that men named "Dennis" were more likely to become dentists; people named "George" or "Georgina" were apt to become geologists; and people with surnames like "Diamond" and "Ricci" were more likely to become bankers. (more…)

Anil Dash says that once we finish grieving, we need to organize. Start by figuring out who's already fighting for racial justice, against climate change, and for civil rights (including LBGTQ rights and women's rights) in your community and commit to helping them. (more…)

Daniel Crooks' latest experimental work, The Subtle Knife, continues his exploration of urban spaces overlaid with windows of other spaces. The result is a slow, smooth, hypnotic meditation on time and space. (more…)

The Democratic Party establishment's insistence on fronting a more-of-the-same establishment candidate cost them the election and cost America its sanity: now it's time to start planning for the 2018 midterms and a Congress that can roadblock Trump's mass deportations, torture, spying and censorship. (more…)

A GoPro Karma drops from the sky and lands at a surprised and confused bystander's feet. As this was not an isolated incident, GoPro recalled the Karma.

The Mac/Win/Lin versions of Spotify wrote hundreds of gigabytes of bad data per day to their 40,000,000 users, thrashing their drives. (more…)

Following Brexit and the subsequent wave of racist abuses, Britons began to wear safety pins in public as an anti-racist statement. "This is meant to be more than just a symbolic gesture or a way for like-minded people to pat each other on the back.If people wear the pin and support the campaign they are saying they are prepared to be part of the solution. It could be by confronting racist behaviour, or if that is not possible at least documenting it.More generally it is about reaching out to people and letting them know they are safe and welcome," she says.Following "Trumpit" in the United States, racists are already feeling empowered, with many reports of abusive graffiti and plans afoot for a major Ku Klux Klan march. Yes, wearing a pin is cheap and easy--as easy as changing an avatar, and just as potentially facile. But the outside world carries risks that the internet doesn't. To signal one's intent to shield people from violence, as far as one is capable, has consequences. It's meaningful and, hopefully, reassuring. Instead of a tiny normal safety pin, though, I'm going to wear a jumbo-ass five-inch safety pin like the one above, because I'm American now and we do things big. 5" safety pins can be ordered by the box on Amazon for a few dollars, as can 2" ones. You can even get them in tactical black: perfect for a shirt collar or lab coat.

Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has published a heartfelt and defiant statement about the EFF's plans for the coming four years under a president who has demanded back-doors in crypto, promised mass surveillance and roundups of millions of people, and threatened the freedom of the press. (more…)

If you're a Hamilton fan, you know that the Burr-Jefferson race of 1800 was such a shitshow that it ended up with the Vice President-elect murdering his most vocal critic after assuming office. (more…)

The stars of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and Legends Of Tomorrow celebrated their upcoming multi-episode crossover with an Entertainment Weekly spread. And this behind-the-scenes video shows off the insane amount of charisma contained in the “Berlanti-verse.” You can see more photos from the shoot over on Entertainment Weekly. The crossover bonanza starts November 28 on Supergirl and continues on the other shows throughout the week.

Nadia Eghbal's Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure is a long, detailed report on the structural impediments to maintaining key pieces of free/open software that underpin the internet -- it reveals the startling fragility of tools that protect the integrity, safety, privacy and finances of billions of people, which are often maintained by tiny numbers of people (sometimes just one person). (more…)

Jordan Bolton makes cool posters comprised of objects seen in famous movies, like this one for Amelie. (more…)

At the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, we’ve been holding heads of state accountable for human rights violations for a quarter century. And now we're prepared to do the same in the United States.Our work is cut out for us: we’re showing how data is misused to reinforce racial discrimination in policing, in criminal justice determinations-—work that is more relevant and necessary than ever.We’ve provided critical evidence in the prosecution of dictators like Slobodan Milosevic for ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, Efrían Ríos Mott for genocide in Guatemala, Hissène Habré for crimes against humanity in Chad. And we are providing the most accurate counts of killings in Colombia and Syria, and homicides by police in the US. This evidence will be ready when these societies come to terms with their past.Facts do matter. And leaders need to be held to account. We need you to help us get this message out and support our work. Will you consider us in your end-of-year giving?

Artist Maeril made this illustrated guide a few months ago, but it’s now more relevant than ever. You can find more of Maeril’s work on her Tumblr and Twitter.

Here’s the monologue from Full Frontal’s post-election special. As Samantha Bee puts it:I guess ruining Brooklyn was just a dry run. Caucasian nation showed up in droves to vote for Trump. So I don't want to hear a goddamn word about black voter turnout—how many times do we expect black people to build our country for us?Bee also adds:Don’t try to distance yourself from the bad apples and say, “It’s not my fault, I didn’t vote for him. Hashtag not all white people.” Shush. If Muslims have to take responsibility for every member of their community, so do we.She goes on to celebrate nasty women as well as the good things left in America like, “Shonda Rhimes shows and peanut butter and Beyoncé and Lin Manuel-Miranda rap-weeping at award shows.”

UK-based artist Billy Bogiatzoglou creates intricate images of engraved insects and skulls. The Engraved Entomology series has especially detailed beetles, dragonflies, and arachnids. (more…)

SOFTlab creates handmade mesh sculptures that appear to melt and flow from ceilings, down stairwells, and from vaulted lobbies. Their most recent, Ventricle, evokes the human heart. (more…)

Known for his uplifting, energetic personality, former tennis pro Matsuoka Shuzo stars in a video reminding you to never to give up. Sounds like something we could all use right about now.