Treats in the Streets
For the third year in a row Chicago artist Jim Bachor (previously here and here) has taken it upon himself to preemptively fix city potholes by filling them with themed mosaics. This year Bachor decided on a series of 10 pothole mosaics called Treats in the Streets featuring different kinds of ice cream. Nice.
Dancing with computers
8 projection mapped performances of people dancing with computers. More innovative than it sounds! Check them out here.
D&AD extension to block rubbish ads
D&AD has released a browser extension that blocks annoying ads and replaces them with ‘great’ ones. They claim that ‘with the ad filter, you will be inspired by great ideas everyday, without thinking about it’. Check it out here
38 new emoji to dominate 2016
The organisation that standardises the list of characters across different operating systems has unveiled its choices for the next 38 emoji – highlights include drooling faces! Check them out here.
A mirror in the jungle. Endless fun
A French photographer travelled to Africa to see how animals would react to their reflections. Xavier Hubert Brierre set up a mirror in several locations of a jungle in Gabon and caught their responses on camera. Watch the reactions here.
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