Art & Photography

I started learning French about 4 months ago after having moved to a French speaking city, and I finally, finally feel like I’m getting some good use out of the language. You see, Clement Briend – the artist responsible for these incredibly illuminating 3D projections – is French, and his entire website happens to be in French as well. What does that mean? Well, it means that I could now get the gist of what he wrote on his about page without using a translation service. Amazing!

Now, these photographs themselves require absolutely no translation. You don’t need to understand French to appreciate how incredibly awesome these projections are. Clement projected these graphics onto various trees around

Artist Robert The started making book pieces in 1991; by 2011, he now has an amazing catalog of unique art that is the perfect fit for a man cave. Why settle for wimpy coffee table books when you can have awesome, re-constructable book art that looks like stuff that can kill you? As a guy, you should know that after reading a book and instantly absorbing all useful knowledge, you should do something manly with it, like clubbing a panther to death or propping up the Ferrari you’re working on. Check out a selection of The’s amazing works, or browse his site BookDust, for other less deadly pieces ; click through the jump for more manly adaptations to the simple hardcover novel.

Who didn’t want to be an astronaut when they were a kid? We dreamed of aliens in bubble helmets and laser guns in rockets, but as we get older we see the strange dichotomy of heightened public and professional interest and waning monetary support for space exploration. Regardless, most of us will never get up there, and what we see is filtered down to us with less chest bursters and moon civilizations, but infinitely more wonder and beauty than we could have ever imagined. This video, carefully crafted by Michael Konig, is a stunning skim over the incredible views we never imagined as children.