Explore Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring - 108 Gigapixel
The digital microscope company Hirox is showing off its product by creating a 108 billion pixel scan (1.3 microns per pixel!) of Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer. Go ahead and examine every single paint crack.
The Tokyo-based architect and designer combines her passion for travel with architectural survey drawings in watercolor. Her meticulousness makes you really appreciate the tiny details.
The use of AI on dating platforms is not a new phenomenon, but the fact that people are increasingly outsourcing the intimate and emotional communication to AI is pretty scary.
This reminds me of the good old days of the Internet. A brilliant collage of film clips to recreate Eminem's best song of his career from 2002 (I felt very old writing that).
A long, historic list of "Oh someone fucked up". My favorite is 1952 Summer Olympics when the band had to improvise the national anthem after a Luxembourgian unexpectedly won a gold medal.
The Coolest People Online Are Barely Posting at All
A bit of a self-own since this is a weekly post. That said, I quite like how more and more people are talking about boundary-setting and making conscious decisions about their online life.
Back in 1970s, a legendary artist/designer Tibor Helényi took A LOT of liberty to create movie posters for the original Star Wars trilogy. And these go very hard.
24 Hours of Lemons - Wheel to Wheel Racing for $500 Cars
I don't drive, but I'd be THRILLED to compete in this one day. 24 Hours of Lemons is a community-run, Le Mans-like endurance car racing series with very shitty cars (bought and track-prepped for under $500).
Ok Go has consistently created truly unique and technologically complex music videos, and the latest one is no exception. This time, it features 29 robotic arms and 60 mirrors moving in precise synchronization, all shot in a single take.
Storytelling through a purpose-built website is a pretty rare thing these days. Director Suyin Looui went against that trend and created this microsite, featuring her journey to explore the immigrant stories that contribute to Canada's cultural mosaic.
One of the best interactive data journalism outfits did it again, this time investigating the correlation between the price, quality, and what kind of animal is on wine labels.
Marta Saraiva (@annehail) • Instagram photos and videos
The Lisbon-based illustrator/designer sharply critiques our social norms and habits by combining everyday subjects and sarcastic one-liners. My kind of art.
The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project focusing on highlighting art, audio, and literature that live in the public domain. Their archive page (the "infinity view" version) of 10,000+ items should replace your daily doom-scrolling.