Patrick James 
Roman Ondák's "Measuring the Universe" is what Design Boom describes as a "living infographic." During its four months at the Taking Place show at the Temporary Stedelijk, visitors will plot their heights by writing directly onto the walls; over time the mean height will become increasingly clear.
Photo (cc) by Flickr user Fabio Bruna
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"Arrrgmented Reality" is David Schwen's submission to a recent Threadless contest, and it's incredible.
House of Contamination turns all varieties of trash into a walkable indoor city.
Capture, by artist Christian Kerrigan: a frozen ecology of 1,000 seeds and flowers from Kingley Vale, England's last remaining ancient yew forest.
The artist Michael Neff uses chalk to trace the shadows cast by the artificially illuminated city, and photographs the fleeting results.
Wilson A. Bentley was the first person to photograph a single snowflake and the image is stunning—though it may be atypical.
Lighting designer Benoit Deseille and artist Benedetto Bufalino transformed this phone booth into an aquarium, as part of Lyon's Festival of Light.
Joseph Griffiths's Bicycle Drawing Machine is basically a Spirograph you can ride.
Here's a look at a bike shop from nearly a century ago.n
If the world existed only as defined by Facebook friendships, this is what it would look like
Ozkar Gorgias's new artwork shows you what it's like to walk in a street artist's shoes.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory captures an image of an enormous prominence around the sun. Check out this accompanying video.
Jim Kazanjian takes many different digital photographs and turns them into these grand composites of surreal architectural madness.
The artist Lori Nix's series Unnatural History imagines a confusing world of mixed up science, facts, and animals at a museum.
The artist and former fishery student Iro Tomita injects sea creatures with colorful dyes that reveal their complex skeletal systems.
This colorful crocheted sweater adorning a Wall Street bull statue was installed by the street artist Olek last week in New York City.
Lori Nix's "Map Room" is a remarkable interior study of direction and space.
The artist Collin Chillag takes portraiture to a disconcertingly pretty place.
Photographer Phil Hart captures the stunning ecological side-effects of Victoria's 2006 bush fires.
For nearly seven decades, this roll of film sat idle in an old Brownie camera. Just kidding. But the photos are still great.
As part of the war effort, an aircraft worker checks electrical assemblies at the Vega Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California, in June, 1942.
