This week, The Creators Project documented artist Vik Muniz and synthetic biologist Tal Danino turn living cells into art with Colonies, watched a model's face transform with makeup made of light, and explored a future where wearable technology gives us a break from staring at screens. For all the awesome projects we missed, here's the best of the rest.This week we……Entire Simpsons world made of Lego [FastCo]…Looked behind the scenes of the Onion's ridiculous photoshop team. [FastCo]….Built iconic Gropius architecture out of Ikea furniture. [Architizer]…Tried on these expressive masks made of toilet paper. [My Modern Met]…Painted ornate dragons in a single brushstroke [This Is Colossal]…Realized that while its favorite color might be blue, the Internet is mostly orange. [FastCo. Design]…Mapped the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. [Vox]…Watched T.C. Sottek Photoshop the Internet's predictions about the future in real time. Killer dolphins, man. [The Verge]…Ogled a 20-year-old 3D-printed object found at MIT [3DPrint]…Bent water with Mercedes-Benz [LaughingSquid]…Celebrated the Streamy Award Nominees [Streamys]…Imagined Manhattan covered in soccer fields [Experiments In Motion]…Were tricked into reading all of Moby Dick through a misleading clickbait article. [Clickhole]…Stitched ourselves into the woven portraits of Samuel David Stern [We And The Color]…Let Aphex Twin's deep web album art (and next-level press release) blow our IDM minds all over our faces. [Pitchfork]
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