Artist Creates One-of-a-Kind Shoes Made of Real Flowers and Vegetables
Katerina Shukshina turns garden materials into fleeting footwear sculptures, from sunflower heels to cauliflower boots.
These shoes came from the garden.
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Old-school lens tool lets cine cameras shoot two POVs at once
A two-mirror attachment lets cinematographers combine separate viewpoints in-camera rather than waiting for post-production.
Two viewpoints, one take.
Álvaro Urbano Honors the Lost Specimens of Mexico City’s Iconic Casa Cueva
Álvaro Urbano turns Helen O’Gorman’s botanical illustrations into suspended metal plants that evoke the gardens of Mexico City’s lost Casa Cueva.
These floating flowers are made of metal.
Stuffed Shells Soup.
Jessica Merchant reworks stuffed shells as a tomato-broth soup poured over a three-cheese ricotta mixture.
Stuffed shells, without stuffing the shells.
Non-electric washing machine chalks up big win for low-tech ingenuity
A hand-cranked washing drum shows how repairable, electricity-free design can ease the work of laundry where utilities are unreliable.
Laundry power, without a plug.
In ‘Aeolus,’ DRIFT Suspends Illuminated Glass Rods in a Sculpture of the Wind
DRIFT’s Aeolus turns visitors’ movements into flowing light inside suspended glass rods at London’s Ladbroke Hall.
What if you could see the wind indoors?
Victoria’s Secret? Cashmere Manicures for All
Vogue spotlights Holly Falcone’s softly opaque pink manicures backstage at Victoria’s Secret.
A softer take on glossy pink.
Tiltable e-trike promises natural bike-like agility on and off road
The FlekTrike Pro pairs three wheels with a lockable leaning frame for riders who want a more bicycle-like turn.
Three wheels, with a twist.
From young boxer to big-hitting architect, Tadao Ando’s life packs a punch: here’s his memoir
Tadao Ando’s newly translated memoir connects his boxing youth and self-taught beginnings with a lifetime of architecture shaped by light.
Before the concrete masterpieces came boxing gloves.
380,000 Colorful LEGO Flowers Seem To Spill From an Art Center in Shanghai
Hand-built LEGO flowers become cascading waves outside Shanghai’s former fuel tanks, with botanical artworks continuing inside.
A flower wave made from bricks.
Grounded 2: 100 Reasons to Run in the Rot and Ruin Update
Grounded 2 previews a woodpile full of termites, a rideable potato beetle and new ways to paint a tiny home.
The woodpile is getting crowded.
How Music founded a football identity on lettering found at London's oldest stadium
Music and F37 built Fulham’s flexible visual identity from lettering already embedded in Craven Cottage, carrying its heritage across scarves, signage and digital design.
The new typeface was hiding in the stadium.
PeelingFlesh – 10/17/26 at Empire Live, Albany, NY (Photos by Damon Russo)
Damon Russo’s gallery captures PeelingFlesh’s Albany performance through red-lit portraits of the band onstage.
Three perspectives from the same loud night.
Game Photos | Commanders vs. 49ers: Week 6
The 49ers' Week 6 gallery freezes the passing, rushing and sideline emotion of their matchup with Washington.
Monday night, frame by frame.
Rithika Merchant Summons Ancient Mythology and Mysticism in ‘The Dreaming Realm’
Rithika Merchant fills The Dreaming Realm with bird-headed figures, watchful eyes and elemental landscapes that imagine cooperation amid environmental uncertainty.
Step into a world where trees have eyes.
Turnstile and Boy Harsher Drive Fans Wild at Observatory Festival Grounds Performance
Lilly Duran’s photographs capture an airborne frontman, a jubilant crowd and a darkwave opening set at a Santa Ana show.
A leap, a howl, and a crowd in full motion.
Euclid discovers new comet
A telescope built to map distant galaxies has spotted a previously unknown comet, with a context mosaic, a cleaned-up composite and an annotated motion sequence revealing the find.
A cosmology telescope caught something much closer to home.
Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian on handcrafting a miniature 17th-century theatre in the age of AI
A fragrance campaign turns practical stagecraft into a tiny working world, complete with handmade scenery and puppeteered mechanisms.
The tiny theatre is real, down to its moving machinery.
Chocolate Hazelnut Pinecone Brownies
Brownie, a hazelnut-truffle center and cereal scales become chocolate-dipped pinecones, with process photographs showing the transformation.
These woodland pinecones hide a brownie center.
Atari's 800XL returns with a keyboard, cartridges and BASIC
A new recreation of the Atari 800XL brings back a working keyboard, cartridge play and BASIC programming, with product images showing the machine, controller and game lineup.
Before apps, there was a keyboard and a BASIC prompt.
Casey Roarty digs through Facebook Marketplace listings and transforms his findings into art
Casey Roarty transforms the awkward details of secondhand listings into tactile, unexpectedly tender graphic artworks.
The best part of a resale listing might be its accidental art.
Cat Found Helpless in Backyard Is Almost Unrecognizable After Weeks of Love and Care
An October 19 report describes how foster care helped Arthur regain his strength and reach adoption readiness after a difficult September rescue.
From a backyard to a soft blanket.
Light-powered ePaper screen adds art to your wall without a charger
Inkanva is crowdfunding an ePaper picture frame whose smaller models are designed to harvest indoor light, while the largest model still needs external power.
A digital picture frame that aims to skip the dangling cable.
New book In Clubland documents 35 years of rave culture, from acid house to the superclub era
Mark McNulty’s forthcoming photo book gathers decades of dance-floor life, from improvised parties to exuberant club portraits.
Before every night out became content, he was quietly taking pictures.
Allure’s Fourth Best of Beauty Live Lit Up Lower Manhattan
A photo recap captures beauty fans learning techniques and meeting makers in Manhattan.
Beauty lessons, off-screen.
The X-Files Lego set is a wonderful bit of 90s sci-fi nostalgia
A hands-on look at the 1,478-piece X-Files set moves from a forest encounter to Mulder’s cluttered office, with close-up photographs of its minifigures and tiny investigative details.
The truth is out there, in 1,478 pieces.
A snake nodding to the horizon makes for an unlikely inspiration for this Chilean house
A dark timber retreat uses interlocking volumes and a sweeping roof to negotiate a windy slope above Chile’s Pacific coast.
A coastal house that seems to lift its head toward the sea.
The Perfect Halloween Dinner Party Menu
A spooky dinner-party roundup pairs syringe-garnished spritzes with an eyeball-inspired baked cheese starter and a full seasonal menu.
A Halloween table with edible special effects.
Game Frames | Bills at Raiders | Week 6
The Bills’ official game gallery captures the October 18 visit to Las Vegas through sharp action frames, from a raised-arm celebration to a run behind the blockers and a quarterback scramble.
An NFL afternoon, frozen at full speed.
Step inside this Nigerian beach house, where minimalism is aligned with lagoon living
Tosin Oshinowo’s OA House pairs restrained white volumes with palms, a long pool and carefully framed views toward the Atlantic.
White walls, moving palms and a clear path to the shore.
DIY Cloth Paper Towels: From Worn-Out to Wonderful
An old bath towel and leftover plaid fabric become nine reusable cleaning cloths in a candid, photo-led sewing tutorial.
One worn towel becomes nine useful cloths
Photos: Game Action from Regular Season Week 6 | Chiefs vs. Chargers
Close-up ball carries and an overhead view of the line of scrimmage bring the Chiefs–Chargers divisional matchup into focus in the team’s game-action gallery.
Sunday’s rivalry, from field level to overhead
FGP Apartment: A Warm Setting for Gathering
SUITE brings a São Paulo apartment’s gathering spaces together with a walnut wall, relaxed seating and a newly integrated balcony.
One walnut wall ties the rooms together
She Was “Done Living with Beige,” and This Utterly Dramatic Color Replaced It
Removing a dividing wall and adding deep-blue cabinetry gives a townhouse kitchen and dining area a dramatically different feel.
One wall out, deep blue in
Live – The Mary Wallopers | The Coral at Brighton Centre
Mike Burnell’s gallery captures the performers and backstage technical detail of The Mary Wallopers’ Brighton concert with The Coral.
Folk music, seen from the front row
The Cherry Cola Hair Color Trend Is Bubbling Up Yet Again
Celebrity and street-style portraits show the range of deep burgundy hair.
Burgundy catches the light
See 30+ new murals at Birmingham’s largest mural festival, Oct. 17 [PHOTOS]
Artists turn Birmingham walls into an open-air art project, painting native wildlife, vivid characters and personal stories for Yonder Walls.
Two blocks, more than 30 new murals.
Heat-storing gels regulate building temp to slash energy bills
A new explainer shows how salt-filled polymer gels could store and release heat, while durability and real-building energy savings remain unproven.
A gummy-bear-shaped gel offers a glimpse of heat-storage research.
How This Artist Uses Light and Time To Transform Photographic Paper Into Luminous Art [Interview]
Rachelle Bussières folds and exposes photographic paper to create glowing colors and gradients without a camera.
Photography can begin without a camera.
Soft and Chewy Apple Oatmeal Cookies (Gluten-Free)
Shredded apples and warm spice turn oatmeal cookies into a fall baking project, pictured from mixing bowl to white-chocolate drizzle.
Apple season, in cookie form.
BYD's flagship e-SUV packs insane 9-minute flash charging
BYD’s seven-seat Atto 8 pairs a 115-kWh battery with a claimed nine-minute 10–97% charge on compatible Flash Charging equipment, ahead of planned European sales in early 2027.
A seven-seat EV brings a nine-minute charging claim to Paris.
Bhutanese Artist Uses Intricate Geometry To Blend the Past and Present on the Same Canvas
Yeshi Pelden recombines Thangka-inspired geometry, symbols, and intricate linework into contemporary paintings.
Look closer at these layered painted worlds.
Stamper Skeleton Nails 💀
Silver skull stamps turn a deep-purple manicure into a Halloween look, with the creator candidly noting a little topcoat smudging.
A tiny stamp, a spooky manicure.
Old school-inspired open-world RPG Lair of the Leviathan announced for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC
Lair of the Leviathan’s new announcement shows a handcrafted pixel-art world, player-created adventuring parties and turn-based combat for a planned 2027 release.
An old-school RPG opens its pixel-art world to a new generation.
Previously Uninhabited Island in Seoul Just Hit a Major Milestone and Is Now Open to the Public
Newly accessible waterfront spaces offer a first step toward Heatherwick Studio’s larger Soundscape vision for Seoul’s Nodeul Island.
An island makeover is opening in stages.
PHOTOS: Porchfest 2026
Raincoats, front porches and live bands fill Jeff Kearney’s photo tour of Fredericksburg’s neighborhood music festival.
The neighborhood became the stage.
A dreamy northwoods-inspired home in Minnesota with peaceful woodlands
North Arrow Architecture and Tara Cain Design combine weathered wood, stone, and warm interiors in a wooded Edina home.
This home brings woodland textures indoors.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Dip (Easy Halloween & Fall Party Dessert)
Pumpkin, cream cheese and whipped topping become a no-bake party dip finished with gingersnaps, pecans and caramel.
Pumpkin cheesecake you can dip into.
Tour this barn-inspired prairie home in Minnesota with serene meadow views
PKA Architecture connects dark barn-like volumes with warm wood interiors and expansive meadow views at Prärie Hus.
Four dark gables settle into the prairie.
Shanghai Noodles
Glossy noodles, pork, shiitakes and bok choy come together in a stir-fry with a clear prep-to-wok transformation.
From chopped greens to glossy noodles
Bioinspired robot airdrops into remote waters via morphing wing-sail
A shape-shifting research robot borrows a maple seed’s spinning descent, lands on water, then turns its wings into sails, with aerial-drop and reservoir trials pointing toward a different way to deploy environmental sensors.
A robot that falls like a seed, then sails away
projection mapping and performances make the night come alive at signal festival
Prague’s 2026 Signal Festival turned bridges, historic facades and interiors into a nighttime encounter with light and performance.
Prague becomes the canvas after dark.
Photos: Beabadoobee with Wisp at Gas South Arena 10/14/26
Ryan Fleisher’s concert photographs move from Beabadoobee’s wide-stage performance to an intimate microphone portrait and Wisp on guitar.
One concert, three views of the performance
Fairphone's repairable earbuds get a glow-up in every way
Fairphone’s forest-green Fairbuds 2 give everyday earbuds a repairable twist, letting owners replace batteries and individual components instead of discarding the whole set.
Earbuds designed to outlive their batteries
from laboratory waste to art, discarded research prototypes transform into sculptural objects
Ruben Moutinho assembles abandoned experimental parts into vividly colored sculptures that preserve traces of the research behind them.
An experiment can end with a sculpture.
Photos: Interpol at The Eastern 10/15/26
Radek Novo’s Interpol gallery turns red-lit vocals and blue-lit guitar work into a close study of the band onstage.
Red vocals, blue guitar, one live set
Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World details online content, offline Battle Arena, and Wrangler’s Gauntlet
New Dragon Quest Monsters screenshots introduce cross-platform team battles against giant opponents and a roguelike arena challenge built around changing monster lineups.
Monster collecting meets a fresh-run arena challenge
Stadttempel, the only Viennese synagogue to survive the 1938 Nazi annexation, is restored
A restoration of Vienna’s Stadttempel pairs its starry sanctuary with adaptable gathering spaces and carefully integrated modern comforts.
Two centuries of history, carefully renewed.
Elvis Presley’s Slow Cooker Pot Roast
A tomato-and-onion pot roast moves from flour-dusted chuck to a saucy, shredded finish in a photographed cooking walkthrough.
Follow the roast from raw to fork-tender
Who knew subtitles could sing opera?
At Boston Lyric Opera, MASARY’s flowing projected translations spread across brick walls and follow the live singing, turning a practical audience aid into a visual performance of its own.
When an opera’s captions become part of the set