Reveal your “unique essence” with a celestial soul portrait. // Baby dreams. // Bacon caviar. // Crap at my parents’ house. // Iconic photographs. Including Evelyn McHale, Khrushchev and H G Wells with Lenin. // Wild marijuana grows on East Village sidewalks. // Art Deco motorbike. // A blizzard of feathers. (Caution: text contains art bollocks.) // Astronaut insurance. // Photographs of light. // Arresting bookshelves. // Webtagging. // Watchmen, Star Trek and Inception sound design. // When you need toast, stat. // Manufacturing sex dolls. // Wienermobiles of note. 

Jerboa. // Sculpted pencil tips. // How to pet your porcupine. // Robot butterfly. // The Rex exoskeleton. // MRI scans of oranges, mushrooms and other foodstuffs. // Beef lolly. // Abandoned couches. // A brief history of computer icons. // “Communist authorities suspected that Wittenburg’s photos amounted to a critique of the regime.” // Penn & Teller on the hijacking of environmentalism. // Simulated physics. // Pondering Inception. // Ode to Newport. // Tesseract 101. // Turntable kitsch. // Floating Point. // Bioluminescent algae. // Niagara Street, 1908. Spot the window cleaner. // Zoom trees. // A must for Elvis fans.

No corkscrew? No problem. Use a shoe. // What astronauts see. // Curtains made of slides. // Ant megalopolis. // Pulsate, a diversion. // Petri dish paintings. // Portraits by Tom Hoops. // Awkward family pet photos. // Wigs of note. // Crowd scene, Chicago 2010. // Critters of the deep. // David Horowitz on the one-party classroom. // The crushing tedium of Tarkovsky’s Solaris. // Escher in Lego. // 8-bit Gary. // Exploitation tat. // Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. // Bacterial fashion. // Bowerbird nests. // Attention Xbox users. // Tonight you’ll dream of cow spiders.

The images were taken via satellite and they show the rather oddly shaped football pitches that seem to be built wherever possible – the desire for playing the game has clearly surpassed and ignored the limitations of natural topography and FIFA’s laws of the game. According to the official rules, you would not be allowed to play football on any of these fields. However, the careers of many of the world’s best football players began on these very same fields despite their askew angles, odd proportions, misshapen border lines and pitch markings.

From Joachim Schmid’s book O Campo: Brazilian Football Fields. Via Anna.

You too can look like a handsome guy. // Polar mesospheric clouds. // Drum light. // Captured lightning. // Nuclear explosions, 1945-1998. (1958 was a busy year.) // Noodle restaurant, Tokyo. // Spider-Man and Elvis are coming to Roswell. // Transparent specimens. // Coldest ever antimatter. // Defrosted dinosaur leg. // The frog dissection app. // Fighter planes as art. // If the Earth stood still. // During the London blackout, 1944. // Woodbots. // Cheescake of yore. // Coma, a game. // Magnetic vuzzle chair. // A car called “mindset.” Really? Mindset? // As driven by Bond. // A door for children. // And speaking of Spider-Man…