Mental Health Break

A mesmerizing look inside everyday objects:

Verschleif from Laurin Döpfner on Vimeo.

With an edge sander, half a millimeter is sanded off each work piece (wood, walnut, transformer, skull or analogue camera) and photographed. About 650 photos are made into a short film, which contrasts the inner structure of nature and technology.

Mental Health Break

One reason many Americans can’t take the World Cup too seriously:

Update from a reader:

I appreciated today’s MHB because I think Neymar is the perfect example. Here is Neymar and his various dives. Here is Neymar and his real injury. When a player is acting, he rolls around on the ground and makes a spectacle of himself. When he is truly hurt, he lies still and tries to minimize the pain.

But another reader points to a video compilation “from the American sport with just as much flopping as soccer”: