Eric Molinsky appears in the following:
Imagine Your Next Vacation Destination: Kepler-186f
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory imagines exoplanetary travel for leisure with these vintage-style posters.
Photos Transform Office Workers Into Athletic Gods
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Regular people are transformed into awesome-looking athletes in Benjamin Von Wong's highly stylized photographs.
It’s a Giant Dirt Igloo – Want to Buy It?
Thursday, January 08, 2015
An architect designing a lunar colony for NASA discovered that the dome-shaped buildings could work as inexpensive housing here on Earth.
Existential Progress Bars
Tuesday, January 06, 2015
A graphic designer turns tedious progress bars into existential questions.
For A TV Spy Show, The CIA Approves The Scripts
Thursday, January 01, 2015
On the FX's “The Americans,” Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys play a typical suburban family in the 1980s. They’re also Soviet spies, moles sent to live among us.
Gertie, The Dinosaur Who Gave Birth to a Mouse
Thursday, December 25, 2014
The first animated character wasn’t a mouse — it was a dinosaur, Gertie. Her creator thought cartoons would become a great art form, and was bitter when they went commercial.
The Greatest Animated Film Never Made
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
"The Thief and the Cobbler," an Aladdin-like film worked on by former Disney animators, took 30 years to make and was never released.
Student Doodles from the Middle Ages
Monday, December 15, 2014
A scholar's discovery of 600-year-old doodles gives us a glimpse into the wandering minds of 15th-century students.
Have Yourself a Scary Little Krampus
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
St. Nicholas has long rewarded kids who are nice, but did you know he has a counterpart? Krampus the demon punishes naughty tykes.
Alan Turing, Digital Pioneer
Friday, November 21, 2014
Alan Turing’s pioneering vision for computers continues to shape our daily lives, decades after his death.
Alan Turing, Man and Myth
Friday, November 21, 2014
The Imitation Game stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the British code breaker and mathematician. But Turing, the original computer genius, remains enigmatic.
Batgirl Crosses the River into Gotham's Brooklyn
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Batgirl's latest reboot takes her across the river into Gotham's Brooklyn, giving her a style and sensibility that spells "Williamsburg."
Famous Paintings Sell For Millions At Auction, But The Artist Gets Zero
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Unlike novelists and musicians, visual artists don't get royalties for their work. New legislation aims to fix this by taxing public sales, but auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's oppose the idea.
Spawn of Gerrymander
Monday, November 03, 2014
When Congressional districts are redrawn, the shapes they form on a map are odd indeed. These artists make a virtue of that.
Rooftop Giants: New York Water Towers
Monday, October 20, 2014
Photographer Ronnie Farley says every New York water tower has a personality: "Some have faces, some are clustered together like families."
Have We Finally Conquered the Uncanny Valley?
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Animating a realistic human being has been the holy grail of CGI. Australian animator Chris Jones may have cracked the code with "Ed."
The Real Have-Beens of Hollywood
Friday, October 03, 2014
Half a dozen of this fall’s most promising films star actors playing washed-up versions of themselves. Why?
NanoArt: Teeny Tiny Landscapes
Monday, September 29, 2014
With the help of an electron microscope, some scientists have gone past observing the atomic landscape to shaping it, creating tiny sculptures and other works known as NanoArt.
Artists Want a Cut From Auction Mega-Sales
Thursday, September 25, 2014
If an artist sells a work of art for thousands of dollars and then years later it's sold again for millions at auction, the artist gets nothing. A bill on Congress might change that.
Why You Should Be Watching "The Knick"
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Steven Soderbergh's The Knick is a delightfully bloody show about turn-of-the-century medicine. His New York is punctuated by bright whites, making 1900 feel futuristic.