And for me, 25 years on, what I love about this is being able to give this to somebody and say, “See, this is what I mean by comics.” It is not a genre. It is simply a medium. And it’s a medium that you can do anything with.

Neil Gaiman.

The Big Picture looks at abandoned and incomplete housing developments in South Florida.

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality.

Alan Kay

Found Functions is a short series of photographs by Nikki Graziano that overlay mathematical functions and graphs over shapes in nature. Such a simple idea but executed beautifully: what mathematicians see when they look at the world.

Nikki can also be found on Twitter throwing out wonderful little thoughts such as this.

has anyone ever really stopped and thought about ∑ n=0 to n=∞? “add up all the stuff there is between nothing and everything.” shit.

Well it made me laugh, must be a maths geek thing.

Absolutely stunning.

Hat tip: Penny Arcade.