Another entry for our list of "random things made awesome by slow motion": here's a video of a steel ball being dropped into fine sand heated to about 500° C, at which point it takes on strange liquid properties. Be sure to also check out the water drop at 2000 fps video we posted in the beginning of the year if you haven't seen it.
Last week we wrote that NYU arts professor Wafaa Bilal was planning to have a camera surgically implanted on the back of his head as part of an art project. Today the Washington Post is reporting that the surgery was completed and camera successfully embedded into Bilal's skull. Turns out it wasn't just an elaborate hoax after all.
If you're subscribed to the New York Times, you might have noticed some unique-looking war photographs featured as the top story when opening up the paper yesterday. The four photographs were actually iPhone photos taken by NYT photographer Damon Winter in Afghanistan, and processed with the popular app Hipstamatic. Earlier this year AP photographer David Guttenfelder did the same thing in Afghanistan with an iPhone and a Polaroid filter app.
"Red Eye Flashes Twice" is a humorous photography-related song by YouTube personality Julian Smith in which he delivers an important public service announcement: don't be stupid, red eye flashes twice.
Update: Turns out this story wasn't true.
