Imagery

If Jupiter were the moon's distance from Earth, a changed night sky would be the least of our problems.

A normal, cyclical change in continental air pressure gradients has the world turned upside-down.

The godlike vision granted by our far-flung sensors.

Precorder provides a buffer interface for iPhone video, letting you choose your shots after they've happened. Or seen another way, it's a reticle for aiming special effects at points in space and time.

Want to know what the future of Vimeo is? Look at the Dick Van Dyke show. Bruce Sterling shows how to think about the future: start with the past. He's not the first to say it, but he puts it together with as much brio and precision as anybody.

The trailer for the long-awaited, much-maligned Duke Nukem Forever may be pixelated, but it tries hard�too hard�to pull no punches. Warning: although blurred, some bits are not safe for work. Video after the jump.

A Data-viz lab headquartered in the "mythical birthplace of HAL 9000" produces both eye-popping IMAX animations and rigorous modelings of scientific data. In fact, these things are one and the same. Video after the jump.

Trapped in a tiny infinity, unaware of its extent, the protagonist of math doodler Vi Hart's drawn dilemma faces a struggle as existential as it is mathematical. Video after the jump.

Tearing down tens of thousands of horoscopes, David McCandless seeks the heart of the Zodiac not in the stars, but in the word-clouds.

Video projection extends its pseudopods into the real world in the inspired work of the "anti-VJ" Aalto; video after the jump.