Zoetrope Animation Set by ~smakeupfx

There’s something beautiful and exciting about this. — whisperinglion

“As the discs spin the figures around the edges, hanging from the bottoms and suspended on rods line up so everything animates just like an actual Zoetrope. The camera flies around showing closeups and following a pseudo- storyline thanks to motion control (since we have multiple discs that have to be switched out to extend the movements past the 18 frames each disc is set up for. I wait with baited breath to see the finished footage.” — smakeupfx

clouds-n-stuff:

My money box I got for christmas. <3

(Source: mephyy)

The Wyvern Hunter - Fantasy map by *Djekspek

ocarinaofthyme:

bluejeanswhiteshirt:

glowstone mixed with gravel for a driveway; product from Jinan Chenghao Technology Co., Ltd.

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scinerd:

Urban Beehive

The Urban Beehive was developed as part of Philips’ new Microbial Home project, a self-sufficient closed-loop home concept that also features items like a methane digester and a plant-based effluent (read: toilet) filtration system. It’s a design concept, so it’s not exactly coming to a Home Depot near you. But it could, and maybe it should.

The Urban Beehive has two parts that attach to your apartment window: A white frontispiece with a flower pot and a small hole for bee entry, and an orange-hued glass inverted teardrop mounted inside your house. This way you can see the bees at work, and access their honey via a small spigot.

The glass teardrop has an array of honeycomb frames for bees to build their wax cells, like existing honeybee colony kits do. The shell is orange to help the bees navigate, and there’s a small hole for the urban beekeeper to release smoke inside, should the hive ever need to be opened (smoke chills out the bees). The city benefits from the bees’ pollination work, and your apartment benefits from fresh honey and the pleasing effect of watching bees, Philips says.

Article: Sleek Urban Hive Lets You Keep Bees in the Comfort of Your Apartment