Art & Photography

Holy crap. That’s all I can say to myself, over and over, as I flip through Troy Paiva’s unbelievable Lost America photo collection. Paiva is a light painting bad ass who’s been traveling dusty, forgotten back roads across the US since 1989. His phenomenal works span decades and most of the country, illuminating dessicated locales and ruined technology in a brilliant rainbow of eerie hues. If you’re a fan of urban exploration, post apocalyptic landscapes, or innovative long exposure photography, Paiva’s created a Lost America that you’ll find fascinating.

It’s always fun to re-imagine characters from our childhoods as though they grew up alongside us, and we’ve seen a lot of evidence of that with the success of our Disney Princess articles. But what about the movie villains that terrified us and defined our nightmares for years to come? Photographer Federico Chiesa’s Horror Vacui shoot features old horror villains struggling to tough it out decades after they cemented their place in film history.

The video of these cyclists is cool and the work they do is even cooler. A group of cyclists, the Fireflies, are committed to raising money for Leuka, a charity that supports Research and Treatment for Leukemia in London. The group rides the most grueling climbs of the Tour de France every year in an effort to raise funding and awareness.

The video is produced by Chris Cairns and features a number of riders being recorded at 1000 frames per second as they cycle. Sweat, spit, and snot – this video has it all. As disgusting as the

Considering the fascination we’ve seen from our readers with the Levitron, we figured we should get in on the ground floor to show you a few projects experimenting with the levitating light bulb. (We’ve actually found a lot of levitating stuff.) You read that right: there are guys out there who are working on floating your light sources without support and powering them without wires. The possibilities for this technology seem like they could be endless, and how cool would your ultra sleek minimalist man cave look with gently bobbing stainless steel fixtures? This isn’t an optical illusion or a pipe dream. Check after the jump for a couple of super neat videos.

If you had asked me 10 years ago if I thought we would have a program that gave us a gods eye view of the earth – right down to the street level – I would have called you crazy. But Google has given us just that with Google Street View, and though the service has been available for years now, it’s getting better and better, and creative individuals are taking the technology even further.