Chimera

Chimera

• chimera noun a grotesque product of the imagination
• noun (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion’s head and a goat’s body and a serpent’s tail; daughter of Typhon

Collection of Chimeras

Particles

Visit the site, and simply click your mouse within the circle, where the particles are swirling. Try clicking in different locations, or multiple clicks in one location, or try moving your cursor around in quick circles, holding the left mouse button down, and then abruptly releasing it. The effect is really quite beautiful.

Bizarre, interactive flash animations

Interesting. Unusual. The “Neurotica Series”

humans make great crop mandalas

That’s right, I said “humans.” Click on thumb for the big picture.

The Domino Effect – with 1500 X-Box Hard Drives

The World’s Smallest sculptures

By Willard Wigan, “microsculptor.” The Wizard of Oz in the eye of a needle, below. More here.

Flying Spaghetti Monster Treats

Or simply “FSM Treats.” With working, 100% edible Googly eyes, the production of which is explicitly detailed at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.

World’s tallest virtual-building

Man, I love stuff like this. All the intricate, impossible, comedic elements, soaring into that static-filled cybersky.

See the mammoth construct in its entirety over at MrWong.de

Zoom

A very cool variant on “Powers of Ten,” from the book “Zoom” by Istvan Banyai. The following picture is the first in a series that made me sit back and say, “awesome!”

The rest of the series here.

Send an E-card from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

http://www.mfa.org/collections/index.asp?key=36