Cool Hunting Video Presents: To Catch a Web, Part Two

Emil "Rocky" Fiore gently captures spiderwebs that preserves on glass, Part Two

Our second video on Emil Fiore, New Jersey’s only spiderweb catcher, ventures into the forest to watch a few “catches.” Going a little deeper than Part One (which documented the capture of one web), this episode looks more closely at his process, as well as the spiders and their webs themselves.

Cool Hunting Video Presents: To Catch a Web, Part One

Emil "Rocky" Fiore gently captures spiderwebs that preserves on glass, Part One

The first in a two-part series, this video is an introduction to the real Spiderman, Emil “Rocky” Fiore, who captures and mounts spiderwebs on glass. Here, the episode documents his process—from spray paint and varnish to delicately aligning the glass—on a pier along New York’s Hudson River.

From the Archive: Amorphophallus Titanum

A celebrity of the plant world, the Amorphophallus Titanum, or “the corpse flower,” is a rare bloom that’s native to Indonesia and known for the extreme smell that it emits when it opens.; Cool Hunting Video; nature; A celebrity of the plant world, the Amorphophallus Titanum, or “the corpse flower,” is a rare bloom that’s native to Indonesia and known for the extreme smell that …