Benjamin Starr
Visual News
Sydney, NSW, Australia
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This Real-Time Face Reenactment Can Make Youtube Videos Say Anything
Change the face of any person talking on Youtube with just an off the shelf webcam. Simply remarkable. → Read More
This Real-Time Face Reenactment Can Make Youtube Videos Say Anything
Change the face of any person talking on Youtube with just an off the shelf webcam. Simply remarkable. → Read More
Watch these Hypnotically Animated Photos from Burning Man
2015 was Ari Fararooy’s second trip in a row to Burning Man. While enjoying the mind blowing experience on the dusty playa, the photographer captured its u → Read More
This Man 3D Printed a Life-Size Replica of His Brain Using MRI Data
Andrew Sink got an MRI scan of his brain. Being able to look inside ourselves with such ease is a HUGE scientific achievement, or as Andrew put’s it: "Livi → Read More
50 Designers and Illustrators You Should Be Following on Instagram
If you’re looking for the latest from top designers and illustrators around the world, you’d be hard pressed to find anything more instant than Instagram. → Read More
This Translucent Cube Conceals 6 Anamorphic Paintings
Look at any of this acrylic cube’s 6 faces and a new image appears. Called Emergence Lab, it’s the latest work from artist Thomas Medicus (featured previou → Read More
Did Wes Anderson Design North Korea? You Decide
Turns out North Korean interior design looks exactly like a Wes Anderson film. → Read More
Prototypo: Design Typefaces with the Ease of Moving a Slider
Prototypo is a parameter-based typeface generator that looks very promising. With the ease of moving a slider, everything from serif height, roundness, and → Read More
These Are the 116 Images NASA Picked to Share Our World with Aliens
Voyager 1 made history in 2012, becoming the first human-made object to leave the solar system and sail into interstellar space. It had been 35 years since → Read More
28 Dynamite Resources for Freelancers
Being a freelancer gives you much more life freedom--I mean, it’s right there in the name--but what it also brings is a lot more responsibility for keeping → Read More
Visualization Shows How Far You’ve Traveled Through Space, in Real-Time
There’s a good chance you’re sitting still while reading this, but the fact is, you’re actually hurtling through space at an incredibly high speed. It’s a → Read More
Dig These 'Star Wars' Toy Commercials from 1977, Placed in the Same Order as the Movie
Eric Stran has made a compilation of retro-tastic Star Wars toy commercials from 1977. Filled with bell bottom wearing kids running with Tie-Fighers (punct → Read More
Fictional Landscapes Created from Old Flea Market Photos
Artist J. Frede creates his Fiction Landscapes from photographs found at the flea market. He arranges each image, aligning their similar horizons into a sc → Read More
This is the Most Trippy BMX Video You Will Ever See (and It's All Real)
It's not too often I get a chance to write about BMX riders, but this video is something completely different. It features Kriss Kyle, one of the more uniq → Read More
Cutout Fashion Colored by the World Beyond
Fashion illustrator Shamekh has been adding patterns to his clothing designs without pens, paint or pencils. Instead he cuts holes where the clothes should → Read More
What Would Happen if You Didn’t Sleep? Very, Very Bad Things.
Want to function at your peak performance physically and mentally? The secret isn’t very complicated: get plenty of sleep. Just like how taking micro-break → Read More
The True Story of Thanksgiving... from the Perspective of a Brit
What does the Thanksgiving holiday have to do with England? A lot actually. That’s why the charming BBC show Anglophenia has dedicated an entire episode to → Read More
This Beautiful and Unnerving CGI Imagines the Human Figure with Patterns
"Why don't humans have patterned texture like animals?" That's the thought provoking question asked by director Kouhei Nakama in his new CGI film “DIFFUSIO → Read More
Gift Guide: 10 Perfect Presents for the Designers in Your Life
Let's be honest: buying gifts for designers is tough. I mean, when being fastidious about every detail of an object is your obsession, you're bound to be a → Read More
Interactive Timeline Charts the Failures of Famous Founders
We know about successful people because they were successful. Obvious right? But what we hear much less often is how many times those same people tried and → Read More