Indeed.

Clouds Crashing Over Nebraska

Storm chaser Alex Schueth captured timelapse of a rare cloud formation called undulatus asperatus during a storm over Lincoln, Nebraska earlier this summer. The term, which translates to “roughed or agitated waves,” describes the bizarre rolling pattern formed by the clouds. Observers have noted that the phenomenon gives the impression of being underwater looking up at the surface at waves. Margaret LeMone, a cloud expert with the National Center for Atmospheric Research has taken photos of asperatus clouds for 30 years, and considers it a likely new cloud type.

Over the past six years, Gianluca Gimini has asked more than 500 people to draw a bicycle from memory. This is harder than it sounds. Try it. Of the 370 people who really tried, about 25 percent managed to accurately sketch a bike.

Gimini doesn’t pay attention to the accurate drawings in his illustration project Velocipedia. Instead, he created digital renderings of some of the weirdest, most impractical designs that came from the other 75 percent of the test group. Gimini’s project is a celebration of the ways people can be accidentally creative.

Check out more photos and read about Gimini’s project.

april fools song #7 Ying Yang Twins Feat Adam Levine - Live Again

THIS SONG IS EVERYTHING. the ying yang twins are trying to illuminate what they imagine are the difficulties in the lives of a stripper. adam levine shows up to croon in a heartfelt manner about the same topic.the only singer not credited is the woman singing as the stripper. there is a moralistic rap about how our country has gone wrong because people turn to rappers for moralistic lessons. (sad, ain’t it.) the whole thing is designed to be very serious and tug at heartstrings and it is just flat out hilarious. according my my itunes, i’ve listened to it at lest 55 times. i also know all every word. I LOVE THIS SONG.

Pas de deux. Paul Klee (1935).

So cool!

What’s on that whale?!

This close up of whale skin shows a community of living creatures. Gray Whales have two common hitchhikers on their bodies: barnacles and whale LICE. But whale lice aren’t lice at all; they’re a type of amphipod crustacean called cyamids. And each species of cyamid is unique to a species of whale! To survive, cyamids hitch a ride on a whale and munch bits of its skin and flesh. If the whale is healthy these parasites don’t harm it - a commensal relationship. If a whale is covered in them it is often an indication of illness or injury. Photo by refuge volunteer Roy W. Lowe

(via: Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuges)

Time lapse plane window flight over the Peruvian Andes. Some nice scenery including a desert river valley that cuts right through the range.

“His influence on design will be felt forever. There’s no doubt that, centuries from now, amazing spaceships will soar, future cities will rise, and someone, somewhere will say, ‘That looks like something Ralph McQuarrie painted.’” –George Lucas (x)

Those Europeans....

After their arrival in Asia, Europeans puzzled artists from across the continent. This bemusement resulted in some bizarre images, including a minor genre of paintings from India.

“A European Concoction,” c. 1760, made in India

“Momentum” is a 3-year project in which photographer Alejandro Guijarro travelled to the great Quantum Mechanics institutions of the world and photographed the blackboards just as he found them. (X)