Art
February 9, 2016

Clever "Element" Crayons Help Kids Learn the Periodic Table as They Color

There's more than one way to memorize the elements on the Periodic table. You can turn them into a rousing game of Battleship or brighten up the pages of your favorite coloring book with Calcium, Potassium, and Titanium. Etsy shop Que Interesante adds some educational fun to art supplies by selling labels that match a chemical element with a wax crayon, turning your coloring tools into a labeled periodic table.

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Art
February 7, 2016

100-Year-Old Hand-Colored Postcards Offer a Fascinating Glimpse of Pre-War Japan

Postcards can offer a fascinating glimpse into eras that have long since passed. The Digital Collections of the New York Public Library (NYPL) has released a selection of postcards from Japan in the early 20th century. Comprising hand-colored photographs, these landscape snapshots represent the country–specifically the Tokyo and Yokohama regions–and the culture at a time when it was on the cusp of modernity.

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Art
February 5, 2016

Life-Size Animal Sculptures Made Entirely Out of Galvanized Wire

Contemporary animal sculptor Kendra Haste is able to create life out of rolls of galvanized wire. Making use of the material to form contoured pieces that contrast solidity with empty space, Haste breathes a sense of movement into her creature creations.  She has built a complete menagerie of animals, each anatomically correct and powerfully made, as she effortlessly transforms the textured wire into the muscled flanks of a bear and the scraggly mane of a laughing hyena.

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Art
February 3, 2016

NYC Shop’s Rainbow Bagels Are Making Breakfast a Lot More Colorful

The Bagel Store is one eatery that's making a colorful splash in Brooklyn (and all over social media). For the past 20 years, bagel artist Scott Rossillo has been crafting his vanilla-flavored, rainbow bagels, which are created with a detailed, time-consuming process. In the time it normally takes to make 1,000 bagels (5 hours), Rossillo's only able to make 100 because of the dyeing, layering, and twisting that's involved.

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