Ugly Renaissance Babies

Ugly Renaissance Babies, the Tumblr.

Star Wars custom action figures

Dayton Allen just posted photos of several sculpted from scratch action figures including Darth Malgus (The Old Republic) and Starkiller/Vader's Apprentice (The Force Unleashed).

Food Will Win This War: WW2 film by Disney

Crop circles

Crop circles (or more accurately circles of crops) caused by center pivot irrigation in Colorado and the Sahara Desert in southeast Libya.

Crashed Ferrari table

Crashed Ferrari table by Charly Molinelli.

Ice worms

Ice Worms:

In 1887, a glacial geologist named George Frederick Wright was hiking across the Muir Glacier in southeast Alaska when something strange caught his eye. Just as the daylight began to fade, the previously uninterrupted expanse of white snow around him began to develop what appeared to be a five o’clock shadow. These wriggling “whiskers” grew rapidly end emerged from the solid ice, leaving the snow crawling with an astonishing number of small black worms. Within approximately an hour there were tens of thousands of them criss-crossing the snow as far as he could see, leaving nary a square inch unwormed. A few hours later they began to slip effortlessly back into the ice, ultimately leaving nothing but pure white snow behind for the morning sun. The ice scientist brought news of these strange ice worms back to polite civilization, yet even over a century later little is known about the intriguing organisms.

Zelda Zine #2 cover

Cover to Zelda Zine #2, going on sale soon.

Memorial pillars in Anthem, Arizona

The Anthem Veterans Memorial was designed by Renee Palmer-Jones, and features five pillars and the seal of the United States:

At precisely 11:11 a.m., each year on 11-11, the sun will align through the elliptical holes in each of the five marble pillars (each representing a branch of the the U.S. military) in order to perfectly illuminate a round mosaic inlaid into the bricks, that of the Great Seal of the United States. The symbolism of the five pillars standing in formation in order to protect the United States and to complete the solar illumination is representative of our military personnel working together, in all regards, in the security and defense of all American citizens.

You can purchase a paver stone at the memorial here.

Ghost pelt

By Jon Klassen for Gallery 1988.

Plush chimera by Travis Lampe

Plush chimera by Travis Lampe for a show opening this weekend at Dragatomi.

"The Rise of the Female Distance Runner"

From an article on women running marathons and ultramarathons:

If seeing athletes later described as "pretty little dedicated things" compete in that race took some getting used to, imagine the reaction a few months earlier in 1966, when, to quote another SI piece, a "shapely blonde housewife" named Roberta "Bobbi" Gibb Bingay snuck onto the course of the venerated Boston Marathon and not only finished the whole damn thing, but did so ahead of nearly 70 percent of the field. Not officially, of course. "Mrs. Bingay did not run in the Boston Marathon," SI quoted the event's organizer as asserting. "She merely covered the same route as the official race while it was in progress."

The next year, a Syracuse student named Kathrine Switzer officially registered for Boston by filling out her entrant form as "K.V. Switzer." When race officials realized what was going on, they tried to tackle her, a move they later defended as a valiant attempt to enforce AAU rules that banned women — for their own good, of course — from competing in any race of more than those 1.5 miles.

Urban Beehive by Philips

Urban Beehive concept by Philips:

The design of the beehive is unconventional, appealing, and respects the natural behavior of the bees. It consists of two parts: entry passage and flower pot outside, and glass vessel containing an array of honeycomb frames, inside. The glass shell filters light to let through the orange wavelength which bees use for sight. The frames are provided with a honeycomb texture for bees to build their wax cells on. Smoke can be released into the hive to calm the bees before it is opened, in keeping with established practice.

Part of the Microbial Home.

Women struggling to drink water

Women struggling to drink water, a Shutterstock collection.

Hoxton Street Monster Supplies now available online

Hoxton Street Monster Supplies now has a webstore.

The architecture of villains

The architecture of villains:

The initial focus of this blog will start off by analyzing real cold war architectural responses, built and un-built utopian schemes and the hypothetical lairs of the James Bond Villain’s.

Lil' Starkiller

Starkiller costume.

Mezcal Manonegra bottle

Mezcal Manonegra bottle by Sociedad Anonima.