Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ

Card Tricks Are Even More Impressive When Slowed Down

How do you know when a card trick is impressive? The answer is when it can be slowed right down and still boggle your mind, just like this cardistry from thevirts. Slowing the tricks down gives us a little more time to process exactly what’s going on but that still doesn’t make the seamless shuffling of the cards any less cool to watch.

10 Life Lessons Kids Can Teach Us

What do children know that adults seem to have forgotten? Children are more confident, more courageous and enjoy life far more intensely than adults. Sometimes it feels that we spend our entire lives trying to return to who we were as children. Here’s what we can learn from our younger selves to bring more clarity and joy into adulthood.

Surrealism Playing with Stereotypes

The art of collage plays since a long time with clichés, stereotypes, diverting them in a humorous way. The Belgian artist Sammy Slabbinck creates digital works and others handmade, cunningly and cleverly making fun of our society. Collages that sometimes hide an ideological message or simply come from an amusing inspiration.

Enchanting Storybook GIFs Animated by ‘Sparrows’

An illustrator who goes by the name Sparrows has been sharing a lovely series of imaginative GIFs that frequently spread like wildfire across Tumblr. Each storybook animation features some form of magical realism where pelicans play scrabble, tattoos bloom from skin, or breakfasts appear to cook themselves.

8 Sound Sculptures That Lets Nature Be The Musician

While most sculptures are intended to be viewed, there are some that strive to stimulate our other senses as well. These eight large scale sculptures are installed at various locations around the world, and interact with natural forces like the wind and the rain to create soothing music. Let’s hear them.

Singing Ringing Tree, Burnley

The Singing Ringing Tree in Burnley, in Lancashire, England, is 3-meter tall and comprises of galvanised steel pipes of differing lengths and with holes punctured into the underside. When the wind blows, the sculptures produces an eerie sound in several octaves. Completed in 2006, the Singing Ringing Tree is part of the series of four sculptures within the Panopticons arts and regeneration project created by the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network (ELEAN).

Happiness

Three young children play in the Congo River

A Public Fountain, Santiago, Chile

Playing With Food Plates