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What does music look like? “If you plug an audio signal into an oscilloscope, you can see an exact representation of the [sound] waves that reach your ear,” says Jerobeam Fenderson on the project page for Oscilloscope Music. But not all music generates beautiful patterns. With his project, Fenderson wanted to create a collection of tunes that look as great as they sound.

In July 2015, 374 backers helped make Oscilloscope Music a reality. Feast your eyes (and ears) on the wild patterns generated by the album’s fourth track, Spirals, which Fenderson shared with backers in a recent Project Update.

Here’s the album’s fourth track, called Spirals. (If you remember the preliminary track list and are wondering why it’s now fourth instead of third, Offset has been split into two parts, called Dots and Lines.)

Why is it blue? Because it has been rendered from the latest version of Hansi3D’s software oscilloscope, and in green you wouldn’t have noticed. No, seriously, it looks as real as an analog scope now, and cleaner than some of the old ones!

“When you’re creating art, there’s a certain level of abstraction,” says indie game developer Ryan Green in the documentary Thank You for Playing. “It’s not real. So even in the midst of working on a game about my son who’s terminally ill, there’s a certain escape. But you can’t escape forever.”

The award-winning documentary, created by independent filmmakers David Osit and Malika Zouhali-Worrall, follows Green and his wife, Amy, over eighteen months as they create a poetic, emotionally charged video game about their son with terminal cancer — the critically acclaimed That Dragon, Cancer. “I wanted to create a space for me to talk about my son, and for other people to love him and have the joy that I have being his father,” Green says in the film.

But Thank You for Playing is more than a movie about a video game, the filmmakers say — it’s a meditation on how art and technology can be harnessed to document profound human experiences, and on what it means to love “fully and fearlessly.”

This Designer Makes Herself Up to Look Like Models From Defaced Subway Ads - Lydia Cambron’s ‘Makeup Transit Authority’ project

God knows what inspired her to do this, but designer Lydia Cambron has been recreating vandalized subway ads on her own face with makeup and props.