Whether at the hospital or standing in line at airport security, x-rays are usually associated with dreary situations—but thanks to artist Roy Livingston, they’ve been given new life. In his series of retro-futuristic photos, Livingston x-rays the guts of old-school mechanical objects, including transistor radios, alarm clocks, microscopes and movie cameras, revealing a bevy of wires, rods and gears that keep them running. He then …
Did you know that a hamster’s cheeks extend all the way to its hips? Neither did we. In an episode of BBC One’s “Pet-Wild at Heart,” a hungry hamster stuffs its cheeks with treats while an X-Ray view of the critter reveals just how far back those pouches go. The adorable video ends with the hamster, now full of food, trying to crawl back home …
A mathematician with a penchant for graphic design, Simon C Page creates works that are as nerdy as they are visually striking. 2014 marks the International Year of Crystallography, and Page celebrates crystals’ mesmerizing atomic structures with a detailed study in a limited edition print.
