Photographer Paul Clifton of Goldaming, United Kingdom, took a series of gorgeous photos of Pre-War motorcycles you can peruse over at Behance. Fantastic!

I particularly love this 1915 Indian Big Twin motorcycle.

via Inspiration Grid

This is simply marvelous: as the Sun set, Hawaiian artist Christy Lee Rogers submerged her models in water and photographed them using the last rays of light.

The billowing cloth in the water made the heavenly photos in the series titled "Muses," look like Baroque paintings.

Photos: Christy Lee Rogers - via Ignant

According to the origin of birds scientific hypothesis, birds are modern-day dinosaurs - and this photo by JJJFrank shows how a baby Great Blue Heron looks just like an Archaeopetryx.

via Geyser of Awesome

This sure beats flying a red eye!

The 360c is Volvo's new concept car that basically combines a bedroom with a self-driving electric car. The idea is to offer an alternative to a short-hop flight to a neighboring city for that morning business meeting. Instead, you can sleep on your way to your destination in a moving bed!

You'd be forgiven if you thought that the photos here are of a high end boutique store.

It's actually Starbucks' first location in Italy (opening inside the historic Poste building in Piazza Cordusio in Milan).

Hungarian photographer Balint Alovits scoured the city of Budapest for amazing spiraling staircases for his photo series "Time Machine."

"The inspiration came from my addiction to architecture and abstract forms," explained Alovits to Dezeen. "I've always been fascinated by modern architecture, and also loved the geometrical shapes of art deco and Bauhaus buildings."

Alovits plays with the common representation of time as a never-ending spiral and for this reason named the collection Time Machine.

After forest wildfires in the Maule Region of central Chile had stripped much of the land of vegetation, the task of re-seeding the land fell on a brave trio of border collies.

The dogs were outfitted with special backpacks filled with seeds. When they run around, the backpacks released native seed.

Photo: Martin Bernetti

Heinz (yes, the ketchup company) once ventured into the beverage market in the 1970s. They decided to make a fruit drink and called it "Concentrated Help Fruit Drink."

Don't ask me why.

American artist Lee Downey carved a 46.5-pound skull out of an iron Gibeon meteorite that fell to earth in Namibia, Africa.

Downey said:

Of any material I could think of to fashion an accurate human skull out of, this Gibeon meteorite best embodies the "mystery" most acutely. I call him The Traveler... a true time traveler. Coming in from the asteroid belt, 4 billion years old and counting...crossing over and crystallizing in the pure vacuum of space...then crashing onto the face of earth...collected by tribesmen in Africa, making its way to America, continuing on to Asia...to be meticulously cared for, worked over, lavishly transformed by human hands....into a thing of exquisitely rare beauty.... the architecturally "perfect" form of the brain vessel.

A symbol of death, of eternity, of immortality, of demise and rebirth. This guy has made an amazing journey and it's composed of pure natural symmetry. Nothing neutral about this artifact, it carries huge gravity and spending time with it is oddly humbling."

Photographer Darren Whiteside/Reuters went to the Indonesian island of Java to document a three-day festival where extreme Vespa modders show off their latest creations. Many of them look like they belong in a Mad Max movie!

The Guardians has the story - via Kottke

Smart (and very eco-conscious): picking up trash in the canals of Amsterdam

Smarter: Get someone else to do it for you.

GENIUS: ... and make them pay to do it!

PlasticWhale of The Netherlands organizes "plastic fishing trips" where paying tourists get to collect plastic trash from the canals.

This video clip is 26 years in the making.

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) compiled 26 years of astronomy data from ESO's telescopes to create this amazing video clip.

This zoom video sequence starts with a broad view of the Milky Way. We then dive into the dusty central region to take a much closer look. There lurks a 4-million solar mass black hole, surrounded by a swarm of stars orbiting rapidly. We first see the stars in motion, thanks to 26 years of data from ESO's telescopes. We then see an even closer view of one of the stars, known as S2, passing very close to the black hole in May 2018. The final part shows a simulation of the motions of the stars.

Every year, students from the Musashino Art University in Tokyo and the city of Niigata have collaborated to create fantastic large sculptures made from rice straw. Check out the fantastic photos over at the Wara Art Facebook page. Don't miss the build photos.

Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked an old knitting machine to knit a giant star map out of wool:

Spencer unveiled the fruits of her labors — "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry." The piece features all 88 constellations as seen from Earth, as well as the equatorial line with the zodiac constellations running along it, stars scaled according to their real-life brightness, the Milky Way galaxy, the sun, Earth's moon and all of the planets within our solar system. Spencer made sure to put the planets, sun and moon in specific, strategic positions so that the heavenly bodies indicate a specific date in time.