YouTube description: Watch a time-lapse video of the installation and deinstallation (rotation) of large carpets and mounted textiles in The Met's galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 weeks 5 days ago • 328 views • 1:21

The White Horse, in Uffington, is one of the oldest surviving works of art in Britain: carved into a hillside in Oxfordshire 3,000 years ago. Every year, it's rechalked by volunteers co-ordinated through... continue reading

posted by nanrod 1 month 1 week ago • 618 views • 2:50

YouTube description: For the past 30 years, Paul Francis has been crafting the perfect sound, honing his skills at a company that has been in the business of making cymbals for 400 years. Making cymbals... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 month 3 weeks ago • 823 views • 2:41

YouTube description: A look at the colorful history of sci-fi book covers

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 months 1 week ago • 468 views • 6:29

YouTube description: Chi-Tien Lui is an electrical engineer and technician whose craft has evolved to the realm of high art. Born in China, he trained as a technician in Taiwan before moving to the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 months ago • 1,037 views • 4:22

YouTube description: Researchers from NVIDIA, led by Guilin Liu, introduced a state-of-the-art deep learning method that can edit images or reconstruct a corrupted image, one that has holes or is missing... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 months ago • 899 views • 2:15

Powerhouse Museum – Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Australia has created an incredible interactive area for kids, including giant wall screens that display scanned drawings made by the children... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 5 months 2 weeks ago • 342 views • 1:36

Tiffany Haddish tells the story of Rose Valland, an assistant curator in Paris who helped recover thousands of works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

posted by newtboy 8 months ago • 248 views • 5:40

"... Ever since Macauley Culkin smashed his hands against his face and screamed, audiences have loved the film HOME ALONE. It has become a Christmas classic; played along side other holiday pictures that... continue reading

posted by ant 9 months 3 weeks ago • 11 views • 14:01

Robert Downey Jr. and wife Susan Downey turned a converted windmill into a stylish and charming Hamptons home. In this funny, full-access tour, the Downeys show off their favorite art, let you into their... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 10 months 3 weeks ago • 213 views • 4:59

YouTube description: Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, these pictures can tell us a whole lot about just... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months 4 weeks ago • 1,249 views • 12:21

YouTube description: Frances Glessner Lee created dollhouses with dead dolls. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explains why. Frances Glessner Lee's "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months 4 weeks ago • 708 views • 8:16

YouTube description: Near Slab City, California, a man painted a hill. It was outsider art: Leonard Knight had no training and no great masters to imitate. But somehow, he created something that resonates... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months 4 weeks ago • 545 views • 4:25

A game based on Rock Paper Scissors, using new elements.

YouTube description: The fade out is underrated. It should come back. The fade out in music is one of those necessary tools in a record producers arsenal. But if you listen to today's hits it's much... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 3 weeks ago • 485 views • 7:42

Good news, aspiring artists! The world of fine art is manipulated financially AND extremely exclusive!

posted by Mordhaus 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,136 views • 5:16

This guy wanted to learn how to make nixie Tues and now is quite good at it. Every step is noted.

posted by bobknight33 1 year 2 months ago • 678 views • 37:50

‘I was stunned when the pieces started falling into place,’ recalls specialist Howard Dixon of the moment an unassuming folio of photographs was presented to him in a restaurant in Texas earlier this year. ... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,160 views • 3:34

YouTube description: It's an omnipresent image that has inspired music, tattoos, and even an emoji on your phone. But Hokusai's Great Wave is a woodblock print that was made to be reproduced. What's... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 4 months 1 week ago • 629 views • 8:35