Artistry of Birds in Flight

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Using the program After Effects, artist Dennis Hlynsky has made visible the flight paths of birds overhead. In his recently released video series, the sky squiggles with movement as indicator lines trail the winged creatures—much like the contrails of jets. With power lines as a resting point, and sound as the stimulus, every so often the sky blackens with a mass surge of charted flight. …

LEGO Film Development Lab

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With a few sets of LEGO Mindstorms and DIY panache, Dutch photographer Jan van den Broek skillfully built an astonishing semi-automatic film processing station. Using a self-propelled car on a track atop five developing chemical stations, the film is transferred through each step unmanned, from pre-wash and developer to fixer and stabilizer.

Paper Planes

Gerrit Rietveld reissued, a virtual reality gender swap, NASA in art and more in our weekly look at the web

Designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart has crafted a stunning 1:60 scale replica airplane model of an Air India 777-300ER from bits of manila folders. Over five years he measured, cut and glued tiny pieces together to construct what might be the most advanced paper airplane to date. The detail work, both internally and externally, is extraordinary and elements like doorways and the landing gear are—incredibly—retractable. His obsession …