ARTIFAXING

The cover of Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division is actually a scientific diagram showing radio signals from CP 1919, the first pulsar ever discovered, originally created by astronomer Harold D. Craft Jr. for a 1970 PhD thesis. Guitarist Bernard Sumner found the image in an astronomy encyclopedia and wanted to use it because of how cold, mysterious, and mechanical it looked, which matched the sound of the band. Designer Peter Saville later inverted the colors and removed all text from the cover, turning the data plot into one of the most recognizable album artworks ever made.

Various works by John Yuyi (2015-2026) Taiwanese artist John Yuyi began making temporary tattoo artworks and doing photography while trying to fund her move and artist visa process in New York after studying fashion design in Taipei. Since then, she’s worked with brands like Gucci and Maison Margiela.

The Mother as a Creator by Annie Hsiao-Ching Wang (2001-2026) Wang began the project in 2001, taking a self portrait one day before giving birth to her son, then continuing the series yearly by photographing themselves in front of the previous image.

When a monitor lizard ran onto the track during the Singapore Grand Prix and the broadcast started timing it like an actual F1 driver (2024) Monitor lizards are typically around 1.5-2 metres long and can run up to 20 km/h (12 mph)

Summer always feels shorter once it’s over. there’s actually research showing people tend to feel happier and more social with longer daylight exposure, which might explain why some of the most important memories of our lives end up attached to random hot days, late nights, and walks home when the sun still hasn’t fully gone down.

Robert Hanssen, an FBI counterintelligence agent, secretly spied for the Soviet Union and Russia for over 20 years while simultaneously helping the FBI investigate the very mole they were searching for. He passed thousands of classified documents, exposed U.S. assets who were later executed, earned around $1.4 million in cash and diamonds, and was finally arrested in 2001 after the FBI bought a KGB file containing his fingerprints and recordings.

Studies suggest around 1 in 4 people leave hair appointments unhappy with the result, yet most never say anything, with surveys showing roughly 85% of dissatisfied clients stay silent instead of correcting the barber or stylist.

Judith Love Cohen, an aerospace engineer at TRW, went into labor in 1969 but stopped by the office first and later brought a printout of an unfinished problem with her to the hospital, where she worked on it and called in the solution before giving birth to Jack Black The problem was part of the Lunar Module’s Abort Guidance System, a backup navigation system that was later used during the Apollo 13 mission after the onboard explosion forced astronauts to rely on it

Sharing a smoke can act as a bonding ritual where synchronized actions like inhaling and passing trigger neural coupling and mirror neuron activity, while nicotine or THC stimulates dopamine release in the ventral tegmental area At the same time, oxytocin release and reduced amygdala activity can lower social defenses, reinforcing trust and a sense of in-group connection

Horses sometimes briefly sit on their haunches while getting up from lying down, a position often called “dog-sitting,” even though their bodies aren’t built to stay that way for long.

Various works by Nadia Lee Cohen (2014-2026) Growing up on an isolated farm in Essex, Nadia Lee Cohen became interested in observing people, interiors, clothing, and suburban life, later building photo sets in her parents’ garage while studying at the London College of Fashion. Today she’s worked with everyone from Robert Pattinson & Zendaya to Lana Del Ray… delivering some of my personal favourite portraits in recent times.

Karen Gillan shaved her head to play Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), originally expecting only a short role of 8 days, and revealed it by pulling off her wig live at San Diego Comic-Con. Her real hair was later turned into a wig, which she wore while filming the show Selfie as it grew back.

Ferrets are often called “little thieves” because they instinctively collect and hide objects, a behavior that comes from their ancestors caching food in the wild Instead of prey, domestic ferrets stash things like socks, keys, and rubber items in hidden spots around the house

The “Will it Falcon?” trend is a LEGO challenge where people rebuild any set into the Millennium Falcon using only the pieces from that box. The official 7,541 piece Millennium Falcon set costs close to $1,000, which partly explains why people try to recreate it with whatever they already have.

In 2018, YouTuber Billy Krankavitch ate a photo of PewDiePie every day for 100 days until PewDiePie eventually noticed and ate a photo of Billy in return.

In 2003, scientists found preserved soft tissue in a 68-million-year-old T. rex bone, and later protein analysis showed its closest match was to modern chickens This confirmed that birds are direct descendants of theropod dinosaurs, with chickens being one of the closest living relatives.

The cinematic parallel between Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) & X-Men : First Class (2011)

Until Death Do Us Part by Thomas Sauvin Sauvin began collecting negatives in 2009 from a recycling plant in Beijing, later forming the Beijing Silvermine archive of over half a million images. This sub-series focuses on wedding photos from 1985 to 2005, documenting cigarette rituals where couples would light and share cigarettes as part of the celebration.