Join Pratt SCPS For a Series of Online Floral Design Workshops

   15 Sep 00:00:15  |  ThisIsColossal

This fall, study floral design online with world-famous master florists working in diverse styles in the Floral Art for Interiors certificate program at Pratt Institute?s School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS). Every week, you can join a different floral design workshop and create beautiful designs with locally sourced flowers delivered right to your home.
Instructors include Ariella Chezar and Bella Meyer. Chezar, the author of Seasonal Flower Arranging: Fill Your Home With Blooms, Branches, and Foraged Materials All Year Round, will lead a workshop using flowers sourced from her farm in the Berkshires, highlighting her ?nature-first? style. More

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Insatiable Mouths and Fingers Rouse a Delicate Tea Set by Artist Ronit Baranga

   15 Sep 00:00:15  |  ThisIsColossal

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The Rise of Molds: Dive into the Microscopic Landscape of Growing Fungi

   13 Sep 00:00:07  |  ThisIsColossal

“The Rise of Molds” plunges into the minute world of four species of fungi as they fester, sprout, and morph from spindly, white shoots into dark, dense patches. Shot by Beauty of Science (previously), the timelapse captures Rhizopus, Aspergillus Niger, Aspergillus Oryzae, and Penicillium spores with a supermacro lens, magnifying the microscopic organisms as they grow and sprawl across the screen. Each of the molds is utilized to ferment common foods, like wine and soy sauce, and to add pungent flavors to cheese. More

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Amusing Footage Dives Underwater to Capture Flamingos? Strange Eating Methods

   13 Sep 00:00:06  |  ThisIsColossal

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A New Book Chronicles the 125-Year History of the Button, Its Design, and Its Role in Cultural Change

   12 Sep 00:00:14  |  ThisIsColossal

If something is “fit for the back of a postage stamp,” it’s generally understood as lacking depth and nuance. A similarly sized object, however, has been upending that saying for 125 years. From political campaigns to punch lines to keepsakes, the button has packed bits of incredibly rich history into just a few inches. “It seems like a niche little object, but it really tells a very general American history,” collector and manufacturer Christen Carter tells Colossal. More

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Okuda San Miguel Transforms a Stark Lighthouse in Spain into a Technicolor Beacon

   12 Sep 00:00:13  |  ThisIsColossal

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Old Railway Tracks Converge to Form an Arced Pavilion in Sydney by Studio Chris Fox

   11 Sep 00:00:24  |  ThisIsColossal

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Outfitted with Knights? Helmets, Children Painted by Seth Globepainter Play in the Streets of Paris

   11 Sep 00:00:24  |  ThisIsColossal

French artist Julien Malland, who works as Seth Globepainter (previously), is responding to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis with a new series of murals that capture the innocence of childhood. Painted throughout the thirteenth district of Paris, the public artworks feature kids in the midst of an imaginary adventure or playful activity: one rides an oversized pigeon, another blows multicolored bubbles, and a pair appears to float above the ground to embrace. More

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Quirky Characters Anthropomorphize Patterned, Pastel Vases by Ceramicist Sandra Apperloo

   10 Sep 00:00:35  |  ThisIsColossal

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