This clockwork arachnid was designed by Cazouillette.  It is made from brass, clockwork and sculpey.  Unfortunately this arachnid doesn't have any moving parts.  Link.

Previously:
Spider Car
Interactive Hexapod Robot

Lost scenes from the legendary silent film "Metropolis" were discovered in Buenos Aires.

ZEITmagazin has now reconstructed the story of how the film nevertheless managed to survive. Adolfo Z. Wilson, a man from Buenos Aires and head of the Terra film distribution company, arranged for a copy of the long version of “Metropolis” to be sent to Argentina in 1928 to show it in cinemas there. Shortly afterwards a film critic called Manuel Peña Rodríguez came into possession of the reels and added them to his private collection. In the 1960s Peña Rodríguez sold the film reels to Argentina’s National Art Fund – clearly nobody had yet realised the value of the reels. A copy of these reels passed into the collection of the Museo del Cine (Cinema Museum) in Buenos Aires in 1992, the curatorship of which was taken over by Paula Félix-Didier in January this year. Her ex-husband, director of the film department of the Museum of Latin American Art, first entertained the decisive suspicion: He had heard from the manager of a cinema club, who years before had been surprised by how long a screening of this film had taken. Together, Paula Félix-Didier and her ex-husband took a look at the film in her archive – and discovered the missing scenes.

Link

Related:
Official "Metropolis" website

Illustrator Christoph Niemann put together a very cute illustrated story of his travels with his boys, Arthur, Gustav and Fritz, through the New York City subway system.  Link.

Related:
Christoph Niemann's official website - Link

Previously:
History of Typography in the Toronto Subway, City Hall Station: Photos of a Beautiful Abandoned Subway Station, subway sketches (LwL)

Zach grabbed Jason's skateboard from the garage the other day and  has been wanting to learn how to skate.  So far he's coasting up and down our sidewalk with ease and seems to be a natural.  Before he expressed interest I was thinking it may be at least a couple more years before we start teaching him how to skate, but apparently we are a year behind.  Check out this 2-year-old skateboarder.  Link.

Our Wonderful Nature is a short animated film about the mating habits of the water shrew.  Warning: this film contains animated, animal violence and sex.  Enjoy.

Credits:
Directed by: Tomer Eshed
Animation: Tomer Eshed, Dennis Rettkowski
Sound: David Ziegler
Music: Stefan Maria Schneider

Link

Can you identify the candy bar by just looking at its cross-section?  Test your candy bar knowledge and see if you can identify 20 popular candy bars.

Take the quiz - Link

Previously:
Viking's Stationery Movies, guess the movie, Stationery Movies Quiz II, M&M's Dark Chocolate Online 50 Dark Movies Game

Joseph Herscher put together a pretty fantastic Rube Goldberg machine using Cadbury Eggs. 

Link [via]

Previously:
Pythagoras Switch: Japanese Kids Show and Crazy Smart Kids

Between the years 1989 and 1997, Andrew Bush took photographs of people driving next to him while traveling 50 to 70 miles per hour throughout the southwestern portion of the United States.  Link [via]

glowingskeleton illustrated a series of one thousand illustrations of beasts which will be appearing in the the Fantagraphics art book Beasts! Volume 2 later on this year.

Jason bought Beasts! last year and it's actually quite a fascinating and eclectic book.  The art book describes mythical beasts from around the world and the illustrations were provided by various talented artists. 

Link to Flickr set [via]

I made it in the paper! I thought I'd share with all of the blogcadre community. Here's a snippet and the link to the full article:

"A Japanese illustration from her father was the inspiration behind the work of a Camarillo artist whose pieces appear in one of the many extravagant rooms in "The Real World" house on MTV."

LINK TO FULL STORY HERE!