Tagged: culture

Scooby-Doo and the Gang get a modern makeover (12 pictures)

Good ol’ Scoob and Mystery Inc. have had an outdated style for some time now, so photographer, Jeff Zoet, sought out to ‘hipster’ them up a little bit. In this surreal shoot, Scoob and the gang take on the zombie apocalypse equipped with shot guns, hand guns and yes even a cross bow. The shoot titled, “Scooby Doo vs The Zombie Apocalypse” has fun mashing up our favorite childhood amateur detectives with “Walking Dead” style zombies. Velma, we had no idea.

10 things you want to know about ‘Anonymous’

Anonymous is a loosely associated network of hacktivists. A website associated with the group describes it as “an internet gathering” with “a very loose and decentralized command structure that operates on ideas rather than directives”. The group became known for a series of well-publicized hacks and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government, religious, and corporate websites.

Gyre: Creating art from a plastic Ocean

Join the Gyre Expedition for a close-up look at how garbage impacts our planet. This team of scientists, artists, and educators journeyed into the Alaskan wild this summer to study and gather marine debris. What they collected will become part of a 2014 traveling exhibit that seeks to bring the environmental harm of trash into perspective.

How to make an origami butterfly

In this tutorial, I explain how to make an origami butterfly (designed by Akira Yoshizawa) out of a sheet of printer paper. We must first make the paper square, and then go on to make what is known as the “Water Bomb Base” or “Paper Balloon Base”. After that, we will go on to make the wings and head of the butterfly, finally folding it into the final shape. This tutorial should be regarded as fairly simple and is gone over in detail.