David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the...

Four month exhausting hard work in an abonded area, no sun just artificial light. The final result, a stop motion movie with no digital effects at all, everything is handmade. About 5000 pictures are processed with an average by 15 pictures per second.Turn the speakers on and watch the movie in HD Quality. Watch...

A baby otter at a zoo in Tokyo experiences its first swimming lesson with its loving mother. All together now, “Wowwwwww.” [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26EknNKxy8s[/youtube]

A Time-lapse video that shows the beauty of the Perseid meteor shower as seen over the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California.

Watch below as this impressive artist creates a neat painting in only thirty-nine seconds.

This is the PEN Story in stop motion. made out of  60000 pictures, 9600 prints and 1.800 pictures again. And apparently without any post production! Stunning, right?

Ever wonder how even mediocre-tasting pizza can look mouth-watering in commercials? From the perfect cheese pull to tweezing the mozzarella, discover what crazy things are done at pizza photo shoots, and why Domino’s has made a promise about how they shoot their inspired pizzas [youtube width="525"...

An extreme slow motion shot, just for fun! [vimeo width="500" height="400"]http://vimeo.com/12612129[/vimeo] Via Vimeo.

The Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 engine is an interesting software developed by Thiago Costa, who currently works as Lead Technical Director at Ubisoft Digital Arts in Montreal. Video demo after the cut - High friction granular materials - Incompressible fluids - Elastic structures - Plastic deformations...

Rabi Mehta, an Aerospace engineer at NASA Ames in Mountain View said:“It’s quite obvious. You’re seeing a knuckle-ball effect,” - [Mehta said in a statement released by NASA]. He explained that when a relatively smooth ball with seams flies through the air without much spin,...