Bunker.jordan

It would look A LOT like this.

Read more...

For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a pair of supermassive black holes at the center of an inactive galaxy. The unique objects were discovered because they ripped apart a star when the ESA's observatory just happened to be looking in the right direction.

Read more...

Prior to her death at the tender age of 115, Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper was the world's oldest woman. Recently, scientists had the opportunity to study her blood — and what they discovered could have serious implications to the future of rejuvenation therapies.

Read more...

When the massive collections of stars known as galaxies collide, the results are spectacular. Here's a gallery of galaxies that are interacting — sometimes to the point of completely changing each other's shapes in the most dramatic ways imaginable.

Read more...

Winter may be over, but Lake Superior is unexpectedly still covered in ice, which is up to 18-inches thick in some spots.

Read more...

We had assumed that Rob Letterman's (Gulliver's Travels) Goosebumps movie would contain a few monsters. Instead, it will feature ALL of the classic Goosebumps monsters. We also did not expect horror author R.L. Stine to play a major character in the movie!

Read more...

nnmprv:

House K by Yoshichika Takagi + Associates.

You can find me: Instagram | Pinterest | Behance

noooooo

what if we took this PBF comic and made it longwinded and less funny and added a memeface

danielmackeyy:

Illustration I did yesterday of BMO

fashionaryhand:

Creative Fashionary sketches by Grace Ciao

Grace is a fashion illustrator from Singapore. She draws inspiration from everything around her. Her favourite materials are watercolours and flowers. Here are her amazing Fashionary sketches inspired by flowers!

via Corey Reppond

Worbla is a surprisingly easy material to use. When DeviantArt user Electricalivia used Worbla for the first time, she was able to create bracers, a chest plate, and a tiara for a Wonder Woman costume. As she created the pieces, she developed a picture tutorial that illustrates the basics you need to get started with Worbla.

Begin by cutting all your pieces out of construction paper first and then trace them onto craft foam. You want to be sure to measure several times before you trace the pattern onto Worbla. Then, basically, you shape it with a heat gun.

See the entire tutorial over at DeviantArt.

Cool How it’s Made video about dress forms! via eTextile Lounge

In Final Fantasy XIII-2, Lightning is a skilled knight. Cosplayer Lyz Brickley has done a fantastic job at re-creating the character from her long pink hair to her armor. She looks like she walked out of the game! She made her armor from craft foam, and it looks so much like metal it’s hard to believe it’s another material. Lyz helps the foam become sturdier by using cheesecloth:

I use cheesecloth on the backside of the foam to make it sturdy. You basically glue the cloth down and then do a layer of glue over it (like how you would fiberglass something :D) Then I coat the front side with several layers of watered down mod podge, but that is more for sealing the foam. I use spray primer before I paint it too. I don’t advise fighting a battle in it, but it looks sturdy enough.

Read more and see several in-progress photos at Lyz’s Facebook page.

via Geek x Girls, photo by Elite Cosplay

Patient and dedicated cosplayers often give up hours to the cause, and Steven K Smith Props spent 300 hours over about three months to make this Isaac Clarke from Dead Space costume. The armor is detailed both in construction and paint, and Smith had to apply several light layers of spray paint and washes. He also installed LEDs to make the face light up. He explained the process:

Moving on to the face lights. Very thin plexi glass purchased from Hobby Lobby was cut to fit in between the plates. The back side of each piece was sanded to diffuse the glow of the LEDs. To light the plates I wired 24 5mm leds to 2 AA battery packs. Because I couldn’t find the correct color I had to first sand then hand paint each LED aqua to match Isaac’s signature glow. I cut 24 little brackets out of sheet metal to hold the LEDs in place and to make sure that they were pointing up at the plexi glass. A very small gap was left in the 2nd Plexi glass plate this is where I will be able to see out of the helmet.

Read more at Instructables.

Maya from Borderlands 2 has a very specific hairstyle and color. Her tresses are an icy blue, and it’s tricky to match to any existing style. Cosplayer Nebulaluben bought a wig that was close to Maya’s style, but she decided to cut and dye it to make it a better match. She only used 70% rubbing alcohol and permanent markers to achieve the desire look. She describes the process:

I bought a pair of Edding markers, one dark blue and one turquoise. On the other hand, I filled a bottle with diffuser alcohol.
I opened my pen, I took the sponge inside them and filled it with ink, I cut a couple of pieces and immersed in alcohol.
Depending on the intensity of color you want, we can dissolve more or less ink on alcohol. I was throwing bits of sponge until I saw that the wig was dyed acceptably.
I was spreading the mixture with the diffuser on the wig. The difference is small, but I think I got a more vibrant tone.

Read more at Nebulaluben’s blog, top photo by AOJ.

Bikers, hikers, campers and anyone else interested in the potential of carrying around lightweight, powdered alcohol that only needs a little water to become a cocktail now have reason to be excited about a new product called Palcohol – so long as it manages to make it through the final regulatory hurdles in the United States. .. Continue Reading Palcohol powdered alcohol could be available this year

Section: Health and Wellbeing

Tags: Alcohol, Drink, Liquor

Related Articles:

• Air - new beverage billed as "water with alcohol"
• Would you like some powdered beer to wash down that canned cheeseburger?
• The LG Breathalyzer Phone
• Increased risk of injury even after one glass of alcohol
• Buzzed Buzzer: a build-your-own alcohol-detecting party horn
• The Alcowatch wristwatch alcohol tester

Finding ancient bugs trapped in amber is hardly new, but this Cretaceous-era assassin fly may be the most pristine three-dimensional preservation of an insect we've ever seen.

Read more...

Anime-style figure sculptures have become something of a trend these days, and Ruby Rose by Mike Dung is exemplary among them.  The key to good figure sculpting in this scale is to balance creating details with merely evoking them. Ruby’s face, for instance, is nearly as simplistic as possible, while the bodice is quite intricate; both, however, meld to create a fantastic sculpture.

Mike’s not a one-hit wonder, though. Check out his other sculptures, such as Snow Miku.

Blue world

This amazing image is part of a series of maps in a manuscript from the 1460s. What is striking is not just that we can so clearly recognize Europe, Asia and Africa, but that these continents are depicted so incredibly beautifully, in deep blue and gold. The map seems to float in space and above it various winds are blowing, produced by men with toy trumpets. Clouds are quietly drifting by. Who can resist jumping in and becoming part of this intoxicating blue world?

Pic: New York, Public Library, MS 87 (15th century). More blue maps from this book here.

Thankfully Tyler Richards and Jonathan Thompson (18), two high school seniors from Liberty, Mo. has come up with a solution to watery Ketchup: a new cap created using CAD software and a 3D printer.

This article High school kids solve wet ketchup problem with 3D-printed cap is first published at 3ders.org.

Even though I look at tons of cosplay stuff, I sometimes forget that anything can be fashioned from PVC foam (Sintra is one option). Instructables user Goombah Squad used the material to make some cool Battlestar Galactica guns to go with his costume. After he purchased blueprints from another builder, he used the foam to piece together the gun. After that it was all abut the shaping. Here’s the steps he took to get the gun just right:

I use a Dremel with a sanding bit for 80% of the work. The remaining 20% is a variety of needle files, various grits of sandpaper, or the occasional grinding and engraving bit. I started by shaping and gluing the main frame of the gun. Once everything was how it needed to be, other pieces were added: grips, various rails along the side of the barrel. The two halves of the slide action were each crafted separately. So was the grenade launcher attachment.

Once everything’s shaped, break out your Bondo. Bondo is an automotive filler typically used to fill in car dents and dings but as you’ll find, it’s widely used in propmaking. Anywhere you see unsightly seems or low areas, mix up some Bondo. Wait about 20 mins for it to cure when it becomes unworkable.

Read more at Instructables.

Lost Astronauts