Meet the Underground Boys of Tana, a troupe of young boys who sing on the streets Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. They entertain passers-by so they can earn a living and support their family.
The boys - Jimmy (age 16), Francois (14), Tojo (14), Rija (13), Njato (12), Rivo (12), Andria (10), and Thierry (10) - was discovered when a video clip of them singing harmonies went viral. They've since been invited to sing professionally (as "Zaza Kanto") - and best of all, their newfound fame and success had allowed the young singers to go back to school.
French sculptor Matthieu Robert-Ortis create mind-blowing optical illusion sculptures that look like two completely different images when viewed from different perspectives.
I used to make small pieces, some are my own face. My mother saw one of it and she went, “Oh that’s my son” and asked me to give it to her. So I gave it to her. She displayed it at home so when a friend saw the sculpture, she told me that I could have an exhibition of my sculptures. So I listened to her and she helped arrange an exhibition of my work. That was three years ago. Here I am today.
I have now created about 42 wire sculptures of 30 anamorphose and 12 metamorphose. I have made the man-crab, elephant-giraffe, octopus-kangaroo and drone-eagles. I started making the metaphorphose only about nine months ago, some are larger pieces and some are smaller pieces. Each piece will have a number on the pedestal. I usually make a small prototype first and if I like the piece, I can create a big piece. From drawing, creation to finishing, it takes about one month or two months to create a big piece. It will take between two to three weeks to create a small piece but it also depends on what sculpture it is.
Street artist Megx (Martin Heuwold) painted the underside of the Schwesterstrasse bridge in Wuppertal, Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, to look like it's made of giant LEGO bricks!
Like many of us, designer and artist Dani Donovan often has trouble writing good emails. "I have a bad habit of overusing exclamation points, emojis, and qualifiers like "just" and "possibly" to sound extra-friendly and non-threatening in emails," she wrote in an Instagram post.
After a Twitter thread about how to write better email phrases went viral, Donovan decided to compile her best tips in this one Instagram post.
The perptual diamond: The diamond remains fixed in one place but appears to move up, down, left, or, right. See how far away you can be from your screen before the effect goes away. From https://t.co/XRFKTtjOfmpic.twitter.com/af7BOUCvfC
Before the soccer match between the US Women Naational Team and Mexico on May 26, 2019, the national anthem was performed by a 96-year-old World War II veteran Pete DuPré on a harmonica.
You've got to watch DuPré's performance - it'll give you chills.
We are completely mesmerized by this mind-boggling clip from Pasha of podarokneotdarok, who makes jewelries that are out-of-this-world gorgeous. How'd he do that?
In his "cultural mashups and midcentury madness" work, artist Todd Alcott reimagines pop songs as marvelous covers of 1950s pulp novels, comic books, retro posters, and more.
In the dawn of time, there were no video games. Then, in 1958, a nuclear scientist took an oscilloscope, and created the first video game. Before this time there was only OXO by A. S. Douglas , but, that was just Tic-Tac-Toe, and not counted by most as the world’s first video game. The creation of Tennis for Two was different. Now you could play tennis on a screen! The world and people at the Brookhaven National Laboratory were amazed. Over sixty years later, the video game world has exploded, to everything from a Russian group of falling blocks to an agile Italian plumber. Where this fantastic world of video games will take us next no one knows.
Can you imagine, kids in the fifties never had video games. The only thing even close to modern video games were locked inside giant computers the size of rooms. Mere mortals couldn’t play with those computers. These computers were used for important calculations, like nuclear testing and the first mission to the moon. In fact, the first video game was made as an insignificant side project.
The game Tennis for Two was created by William Higinbotham in 1958 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York. Most people call this the first video game even though it used an oscilloscope and not a traditional screen. The reason this is considered the first video game and not OXO, is that OXO was created purely for academic purposes. Tennis for Two was created for fun. What makes a video game a video game is that it is a controllable game, made for entertainment, that runs on a computer, and is projected on a display screen. Therefore, following this definition, the first video game intended for entertainment was Tennis for Two.
Our friends over at Geeks Are Sexy have been covering pop culture conventions for many years, and this May the 4th, they've got a tribute to Star Wars. Take a look at some of the neatest Star Wars cosplayers who have been featured on their site over the past nine years.
