Drone to the French Alps
Romano FPV takes his drone on an epic flight from Chamonix (1030m) to Aiguille du midi (3842m) in the French Alps.
Illoominated II
This projection mapping installation by Todd Moyer Designs was inspired by the machinery of a fabric loom. Projections create the illusion of rolling spools of yarn and woven textiles, while colorful laser beams emulate thread. Illoominated II was on display at the Portland Winter Light Festival 2025.
Uniq Volumetric puzzles
Uniq volumetric puzzles are made from soft PVC and molded into sculptural pieces. The first set of puzzles feature curvy, organic shapes and 30 to 70 pieces each
Shadow art
João Paulo Gonçalves creates art by precisely cutting and placing blocks to produce the shadow of an entirely different image when illuminated from the center using a reflector bulb.
Welding class
When I was on a 8 week sabbatical a number of years ago, I took an artistic welding class. It was a ton of fun. Sugar Metal Customs does custom ironwork, but also teaches some classes from making metal roses to giant metal flails for your medieval fantasies.
Maybe pick up a skill that AI can’t replace?
VR bathrooms
Jake Welch has been capturing 3D scans of unique bathrooms (largely around the New York area).
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ASCII art game: Effulgence
What an interesting rendering style
Worst Volume control
In 2017, there was a contest to design the worst possible volume control. It goes to show you that just because you make something look cool – it could be the worst design ever.
Even more can be found here.
Architectural installations in Burning Man 2024
Dezeen did a good report on 10 different architectural installations at Burning man 2024
They also did one for Burning Man 2025
Imphobia demoscene magazine
The 90’s were an amazing time to learn to code. Especially in Europe, hundreds and even thousands of people would gather for weekend-long, round-the-clock caffeine fueled coding sessions to flex their latest graphics programming tricks on Amigas, Commodores, PC’s, and other hardware.
Imphobia was the leading PC demoscene diskmag of the first half of the 1990s. Founded in 1992, it issued until 1996. In that period, 12 issues were released.
Early issues of Imphobia run in DOSBox except issues 6 and beyond where the graphics are not displayed correctly, probably because of the use of an obscure video mode. Nevertheless it’s possible to read the articles. All Imphobia issues are available at scene.org and can be seen at Demozoo.