Paper Spaceships

In the near-decade city leaders have spent deciding what to do with Christchurch's red zone, it has found its own path.

Paper engineer Matthew Shlian (previously here and here) combines intricate geometric tessellations with exact folds and creases to form bas-relief sculptures. Shlian has been crafting his paper artworks for several years. In recent sculptures the artist has introduced a vibrant color palette that s

Jessica Wynne has been taking photos of mathematicians' blackboards for the past year or so, some of which were featured recently

I Have Your Heart is a four-minute stop-motion animation film that took illustrator Molly Crabapple, animator Jim Batt, and musician Kim Boekbinder nearly two years to produce. Boekbinder and Crabapple had the idea for the film, which they scored to the former's song "The Organ Donor's March," and together they found Batt (on Twitter, natch). The story follows a young woman who needs a heart transplant, and receives a donor heart form a bad-boy would-be suitor (who is also, somehow, a cat). With her new heart, the woman escapes from her stifling, bourgeois family and runs away with a dashing sea captain (who is also, somehow, a cat). Boekbinder tells Boing Boing that the song was inspired by an old This American Life story about a girl who received a donor heart from a boy who had been shot and killed by gang members who mistook him for his older brother. "I was struck by how this young girl felt so much pressure to have a really good life," says Boekbinder. "That in order to deserve another person's heart, she had to be good enough for two people."

This video was created with over 12,000 pieces of construction paper, shown as it was shot, with no effects added in post. "Love Is Making Its Way Back Home"…

Overcrowding, poor sanitation and limited health care in the Rohingya refugee areas of Bangladesh is a “recipe for disaster”.

This is one of several alphabets assembled by Belgian type designer Clotilde Olyff from stones collected at the beach. Here are

The logical reaction to learning about climate change is terminal despair. I realized this when I first learned enough of the basic physics of climate change to start including it in my physics cla…

This University of Michigan Art Librarian purchased an artist’s book made of 20 slices of American cheese.