The Serpentine’s Unearthly Summer Pavilion

Futuristic workwear in Milan, London's new Serpentine Pavilion, electronic sign language and more in our weekly look at the web

For well over a decade now, London’s Serpentine Galleries have annually commissioned a different architect to create a temporary structure in the famous Hyde Park space, and this year’s concept from Chilean designer Smiljan Radic presents what’s sure to be the project’s most obscure offering to date. Radic’s cocoon-like alien structure presents a great juxtaposition of materials and textures; massive boulders strewn about set the …

TrapCrunch

Futuristic workwear in Milan, London's new Serpentine Pavilion, electronic sign language and more in our weekly look at the web

Following the launch of Buzzfeed parody site ClickHole by The Onion, this week we saw the introduction of TrapCrunch, a new satire site taking aim at TechCrunch. From Tim Cook leaving Apple for G-Unit to Elon Musk giving public access to his Facebook account, the cheeky site is filled with hilarious faux-innovation stories and impossible products, making it as clever as one would hope.

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Futuristic workwear in Milan, London's new Serpentine Pavilion, electronic sign language and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Painting Mutant Bugs Cornelia Hesse-Honegger is a researcher who is attracted to bugs—especially the malformed and mutated kind. Looking at the insects through a microscope, she takes days or even months to paint their texture, color and measurements as precisely as possible. As many scientists are quick to judge art as subjective, her piece for Nautilus discusses the unique perspective she’s had as an …