So At Work I Was Going Through This Bag Of Fossiliferous Nodules (mostly Gumball-sized Pebbles) That

so at work I was going through this bag of fossiliferous nodules (mostly gumball-sized pebbles) that were collected last summer

and came across a dried-out piece of dung that had accidentally got shoveled into the bag with the nodules

and at first I was a bit grossed out because y’know, unexpected poop

but I realized that since some of the nodules are probably coprolitic

what I was really grossed out by was not “ew, there’s a piece of poop in this bag"

but, “ew, this poop is not nearly old enough to belong in this bag"

A roll of paper towels

Voted “The Most Brilliant Artist of the Netherlands” in 2009, Dutch artist Diet Wiegman is a master of his craft. But of all the amazing creations he has to his name, his work with light and shadow is most breathtaking. Using garbage, pieces of glass and other rubble, he creates a sculpture that, with the help of a light source, projects a beautiful image onto a wall.

You can stare at the photos for a very long time (trust us, we have) and it still won’t make sense that a carefully arranged pile of recycled items can produce Michelangelo’s David. Or that a pile of broken glass and a few other items can somehow produce a beautiful image of a sunset.

digital grotesque: a 3D printed room by michael hansmeyer

How fireworks get their color