Custom 1959 Ford F-100 pickup “driving backward” at the 2025 Woodward car event. Now THAT’S ass-backwards 😂 IG: @caseyfaitel

Aww, poor Nancy. She just needs a hug. 😢

Nancy is a rare c.1910 Paris breathing automaton that uses hidden bellows and air chambers to mimic human respiration and hand movements, a hallmark of Edwardian mechanical engineering now displayed at the House of Automata. IG: @naomi.paxton

“Made from 1,500 Kennedy Half Dollars, this chair literally turns money into art. The coins form a flexible surface that gently bends under your weight, making the chair surprisingly strong & comfortable. The chair weighs about 26 kg (58 Ibs).” IG: @allakay_ and johnnyswing

Industrial rope braiding machine IG: @langmanropes Nijkerk, Netherlands

Lighten up, it’s just good-hearted humor. 😃

Romanian athlete Andrei lonuț Chiriac set a new ITF World Cup record in ‘Twimyo Nopi Ap Cha Busigi’, clearing 292cm at the 2026 Benidorm event, just 1cm higher than his previous mark. IG: @tkalive_pl

Antique folding camp table uses an accordion-scissor leg mechanism that expands and locks into a sturdy tabletop that folds away for storage. IG: @antique vintage_rust

The fight scene: “TAKE ONE” 🎬 An epic story of love and hate. Passion and crime. IG: @pianists_mariana.dimcho www.instagram.com/pianists_mar...

Istanbul's Basilica Cistern is a 6th-century Byzantine underground reservoir built by Emperor Justinian I, famous for its 336 columns and two Medusa head bases that became one of the city's most photographed landmarks. IG: @hugo_guiaturco Avanos, Türkiye 🇹🇷 www.instagram.com/hugo_guiatur...

The Hitachi Tree in Moanalua Gardens, Hawaii is a massive, roughly 130-year-old monkeypod tree with a sprawling umbrella canopy stretching roughly 40 meters (120–141 feet) across. 😌 IG: @retiredsiberian

This is how I imagine Mamdani walks when he comes home from being a mf superhero all day. TT: @ckjacksonvibes

Only a pure voice can truly touch the human soul.

Lavrans Svendsen delivers an emotional rendition of "Stay" on The Voice Norway 2024, earning stunned reactions from judges Ina Wroldsen, Jarle Bernhoft and Yosef Wolde-Mariam and later reaching the final. IG: @artistwithtalent

NileRed demonstrates an industrial capacitive discharge magnetizer that uses a high-voltage pulse to create a strong magnetic field, pulling metal items with extreme force. IG: @nile.red

Aboard a U-434 Soviet Cold War submarine in Hamburg, Germany IG: @destinationsofhistory

“Nidum” by SPLACES STUDIO, this large, biomorphic interactive light sculpture shaped like a giant bird's nest and woven from willow branches with integrated LED lights, that reacts to sound and environmental changes. *Attachment IG: @sabir_park www.instagram.com/sabir_park?m...

Foot-pedaled loom weaving, where warp threads are held taut while the weft is interlaced through a shed to build colorful fabric. shawbost-weavers.com IG: @shawbostweavers www.instagram.com/shawbostweav...

Manufactured in Leipzig, Germany, around the late 1800s to 1900, the hand-wound upright Polyphon disc music box uses a large, vertically mounted metal disc with punched tabs and perforations that rotates to pluck internal steel teeth. IG: @musicmecalesgets

It’s the slow push for me 😂😂 IG: @catdaddy.dan Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 www.instagram.com/catdaddy.dan...

This late-1800s Filipino bronze betel nut box held areca nut, betel leaves and lime for chewing betel quid, a once-common status symbol across Southeast Asia before it evolved into the mass-market, highly addictive stimulant used by an estimated 600 million people worldwide. IG: @harpgallery

Rare 1967 Amphicar model 770 designed by Hans Trippel and manufactured in West Germany from 1960 to 1965, switching from water to road using a Triumph Herald engine and twin rear propellers at 7 knots on water and 70 mph on land (hence “Model 770”). IG: @gearheadbrand

Very nice setup in this multigenerational home ❤️ IG: @grandmalivesinthebasement Ortonville, Michigan

His decline is already well past the point where he should have been forcibly removed, WTF are we even doing?

Not every place can support having one if electric/plumbing was not built in. Not everyone can afford buying one & when you move, not all places have it pre-installed. Not everyone has a house; lotta homeless & impoverished people use them. Then communal places like schools/apartments saves cost.

19th-century George Kent oak and cast iron knife polisher. IG: @littlewingantiques South Murwillumbah, Northern New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺

Nika Ritshel and ballerina Anastasila Shylnikova use a motion-trail effect to create layered, translucent silhouettes that capture the arc of a high leg extension in ballet photography. IG: @nika_ritshel ~ Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦 www.instagram.com/nika_ritshel...

“The Rhythm of Craftsmanship” Incredible hand-eye coordination of a master upholsterer as he works on a furniture frame with a speed and rhythm that rivals automatic machinery. IG: @realengineerings

Carlos Ochoa collects his 7-day laundromat earnings. I wonder what his overhead expenses are. 🤔 IG: @laundromatmoneyofficial Visalia, California

The Wodaabe are a nomadic Fulani (Fulbe) subgroup of the Sahel, best known for the Gerewol festival where men perform a beauty-and-courtship ritual judged by women. *Attachment IG: @thebrolesstraveled