So what ‘Map Projections’-type are you?

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cartoon, humour, illustration, map, map projections, maps, xkcd

Source:xkcd: Map Projections.

Higgs Boson from the eye of an artist

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Artist, boson, cern, Design, higgs, illustration, le monde

Representation of a collision of protons (based on a graph from the CERN).
The rings range from infinitely large, to infinitely small.

Higgs Boson – Le Monde on Behance by Zim and Zou.

Rocket Tech Explained in Most Popular Thousand Words

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humour, illustration, rocket, science, Space, technology, xkcd

Source: xkcd: Up Goer Five.

Photographic Portrait Drawn with Ballpoint Pens

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Art, ballpen, bic-ballpoint-pen, creative, illustration, paiting, Paper, sketches, sketching, Stationary

This is an amazing portrait drawn by 29-year-old Portugal-based attorney Samuel Silva (he says art is just his “hobby”) based on a photograph by Russian photographer Kristina Tararina. Silva’s medium of choice is standard Bic ballpoint pens on paper and this particular portrait uses eight different colors

More from the artist: http://vianaarts.deviantart.com/gallery/

Source: This is Not a Photograph: Amazing Portrait Drawn with Ballpoint Pens by Samuel Silva Colossal.

Envisioned present in the past

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1900, Art, France, Future, Paris, postcards, Science Fiction, vision, world exhibition

 

Jean-Marc Cote and other artists envisioned what France would look like in the year 2000. Presented at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, at least 87 different cards were distributed in France from 1899 to 1910.

Watch the whole gallery: A vision of the future from 1899 Pictures | CBS News.