German Photographer Marcus Reugels takes pictures of water droplets refracting an image of a planet behind them, making them each appear to contain a lil world (prior: MC Escher droplet ). Aaaaaaah, we’re all gonna drown! Just kidding, but this does remind me of that cat in Men In Black that carries a whole galaxy around on its collar. Marcus sells prints of his work on his website and also takes requests in case you’ve got something special in mind. “I’m gonna get one of my penis!” Ha, I said special. BURN! Your girlfriend agrees though is the thing. Hit the jump for several more earths, a moon, Jupiter, Spider Man and Batman and a picture of his setup.

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Eye Candy: The World In A Drop Of Water (Plus Bonus Spider Man & Batman!)

I know, I’ve already posted some before . This is the last one though, promise. Of course, I’ll probably get drunk over the weekend, forget I made any promises, and post like six next week. Promises: people get drunk and break them . The sooner you realize that the sooner you’re realize to stop taking anybody’s word seriously. Or ability to keep a secret. You really think your best friend keeps your secrets ? WRONG. She doesn’t even like you — she just wants to be close enough so that when you and your boyfriend break up so she can jump right in there and desecrate anything you thought your friendship ever meant. Oh I’m sorry, am I being too real? TOO BAD, I’M AS REAL AS THEY GET! Kidding, I’m a hologram like Zordon in Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers . “Zordon wasn’t a hologram, he was a wizard trapped in an interdimensional time warp by Rita Repulsa that just communicated with the Rangers via hologram.” You — wow . Just wow. Hit the jump for the video, if only for the first couple intense seconds.

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Last Guitar String Oscillation Video, Promise

Bioshock’s Rapture : hands down one of my favorite video game environments to date. “Do you hold hands and kiss a lot?” Dammit — as in, ‘to this point in time’, not to wear my letter jacket, moron. This is an impressive build of the underwater city (complete with crashed plane!) by LEGOmaniac Imagine Rigney that was on display at the recent Brickworld convention. The outside is amazing, but if you’re a fan of the game, or LEGO (or both!!!1), you’ve got to see the insides as well. I posted a couple pictures after the jump, but you should really, really , REALLY go check out the artist’s Flickr page and see the high-res versions to do it justice. It even contains Sander Cohen and his creepy Quadtych masterpiece! You know, I really liked that guy alot. No — loved. I never killed him on my first play-through and actually paused the game when I got to him on my second so we could be together forever. I’m serious, that’s why I can’t play my Xbox anymore. Hit the jump for a couple more and another link to the artist’s Flickr which also contains other amazing builds including Hogwarts, Howl’s Moving Castle and Avatar.

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AMAZING Rapture LEGO Build (With Insides!)

But that rug really tied the room together! Using 3-D video-mapping technology, the guys at Mr. Beam were able to transform a plain white living room filled with plain white furniture into whatever kind of fancily decorated living room they desired by projecting different patterns onto the various elements. Coooooool. Now make the couch look like a pile of skulls! We created an unique physical 3D video mapping experience by turning a white living room into a spacious 360 projection area. This technique allowed us to take control of all colors, patterns and textures of the furniture, wallpapers and carpet. All done with 2 projectors. Granted it’s not very practical for an actual living room unless you live entirely in the kitchen and only admire the space from the tent you built out of a bedsheet and barstools, because once you step foot in there you gonna be casting all kinda shadows. And, just like that, your cool-lookin’ living room turns into less of a place to relax, and more of a place to be blinded by a projector and stub your toes on the f***ing coffee table. You think I won’t saw that leg off?! CONSIDER YOUR ASS TRIPODED! Hit the jump for the very worthwhile video.

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Eye Candy: 3-D Video-Mapped Living Room Is Like Having A Million Living Rooms In One

Ever wondered how a hummingbird pushes the air around while flying ? Me neither. I’ve always been preoccupied with where my next drink is coming from and whether or not if you jump right before a plummeting elevator hits the ground if you’ll survive. SPOILER: Nope (R.I.P. Dave). As this rufous hummingbird hovers, laser-illuminated olive oil droplets show the resulting wake and yellow vectors reveal air velocity. Uh, are you sure dousing a hummingbird in laser-illuminated olive oil was a good idea? I mean, from a culinary standpoint, absolutely, but it’s gonna take a lot more than one to sate my appetite! 80,000-piece McHummers and an orange Hi-C, please! Just kidding. You guys do know I’m vegetarian, right? Be sure to check out the New York Times article for a detailed article discussing the science of how birds fly. Flying Machines, Amazing at Any Angle [newyorktimes] via Image of the Day: hummingbird in flight [dvice]

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Air Velocity Surrounding A Flying Hummingbird Revealed Through Magic (Okay — Science)

You probably already know about the mimic octopus because you’re at that stage in your life where you stay up late getting high and watching Animal Planet. I’ve been there . But for those of you who haven’t, this is a video of the mimic octopus , an octopus that can successfully mimic over 15 different species of sea creatures . until now, an octopus with the ability to actually assume the appearance of another animal had never been observed. “Having studied many octopus species in the wild, I am never surprised by the color and shape change capacities of these animals,” said Mark Norman of the Melbourne Museum in Australia. “However, this animal stood out as it was the only one we’ve encountered that goes beyond camouflage to take on the guise of dangerous animals.” The octopus’s mimic animals (not to be confused with spirit animals) include, but are by no means limited to: a poisonous flatfish, a poisonous sea snake, and the lionfish. Cool! Ooh ooh — do an eel next! Amazing . Now do a spicy tuna roll! *dousing with soy sauce* Haha — sucker! Hit the jump for the worthwhile video. Particularly if you ever wanted to be a marine biologist (and who hasn’t?).

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I Don’t Even Know Who You Are Anymore!: An Octopus Can Mimic Over 15 Different Species

This is the Bubble Nebula, located in the Cassiopeia constellation, over 11,000 light-years away . Which, I think we can all agree, would make one hell of a road trip. OMG I SWEAR IF I HEAR ONE MORE “ARE WE THERE YET?” I WILL TURN THIS SPACESHIP AROUND AND FLY IT INTO THE NEAREST SUN! Cataloged as NGC 7635, it is also known simply as The Bubble Nebula. Although it looks delicate, the 10 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work. Above and right of the Bubble’s center is a hot, O-type star, several hundred thousand times more luminous and approximately 45 times more massive than the Sun. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from that star has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud. Now, I know what you’re thinking: Holy shit we need to pop that thing. And, perhaps for the first time ever, we’re on the same page. I mean, who knows what kind of magical space technology lurks inside that bubble! Hover boots, x-ray specs, invisibility cloaks, time machines — the possibilities are endless! Just kidding, those are the only four. A Chrome Marble Floating In Deep Space [gizmodo]

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Outerspace, You Never Cease To Amaze Me: The Bubble Nebula

Some moron decided it would be a good idea to attempt stealing holy gas from a church van. Only problem is, Jesus wasn’t having it . BURN HEATHEN, BUUUUURN! Blake King, 24, was reported in stable condition Wednesday in Vanderbilt University Hospital’s Burn Center. Evansville police report King was burned as he was using a cordless drill to drill into the gas tank of a 2001 Chevrolet van on the lot of Abundant Faith Church, 1228 Lodge Ave. Something sparked, according to the police report, catching the van on fire and burning King . The fire leaves the church without one of its two vans, which was supposed to help transport youth members to St. Louis this weekend. Officers arrived and found King, who told them he was burned when he stopped at 1228 Lodge Ave. to help another man who was on fire. Firefighters and fire investigators found a cordless drill next to the van. LOLWUT — cordless drilling a gas tank?!?! Let’s say you somehow managed to not set your dumbass on fire, what were you gonna do when the gas started flowing? Catch it in your mouth and spit it into a bucket? Okay that’s actually pretty good. Police: Man caught self on fire trying to steal gas from church van [courierpress] Thanks to Dakota, who tried electric drilling a dairy truck once and ended up with nothing but a milk mustache. I’m not gonna lie, you look handsome.

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Man Attempts Gas Theft From Church Van, Sets Himself, Van Ablaze

Note: MUST WATCH video is after the jump because your head’s gonna explode from the cuteness and I already hosed down the front page once today. This is a short video by Patrick Boivi entitled ‘AT-AT Day Afternoon’. It’s a one-minute documentary showing a typical day in the life of a pet AT-AT . Just watch it, you won’t regret it. And if you do regret it there’s obviously something wrong with you. My guess is an internal parasite. Your skin itches, doesn’t it? Sounds like a worm. Hit it. DO IT NOW (also available in HD).

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Best Thing You’ll See All Day (And Possibly Week): A Day In The Life Of A Pet AT-AT

Note: This pic is small and doesn’t do the piece justice so to see the whole thing click CHEER . Oh shit, oh shit — spirit fingers! DeviantARTist gottabecarl went and mashed the Futurama and X-Men universes together. This is what he got. Oh really — then what about the superpowers you’re not telling us about?! ARE YOU X-RAY VISIONIN’ MY NIPPLES RIGHT NOW?! You wanna? A friend of mine suggested one day that it would be cool to see the characters of Futurama as X-Men and so I drew him Fry as Cyclops. For some reason I couldn’t just stop there…and what came of it was a pretty extensive illustration with some of the most obscure characters from both the X-Men and Futurama universes. Great job, Carl. It’s times like these I wish God would have given me some sort of artistic talent. But alas, all I got was a face that could make Adonis cry and a wiener that NASA wants to use as a ladder to the moon. Still, I wish I could draw. Carl’s deviantART Thanks to Martin, who once mashed Batman and Robin together and got, well, Batman and Robin rubbing twinkies.

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Mashup!: Futurama Characters As X-Mens