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NOAA’s gallery of coral photography

David sez, "NOAA has an amazing gallery of photos from their work studying coral reef ecosystems. Coral reefs are extremely imperiled all over the world due to climate change, overfishing and pollution. Boing Boing readers might want to see these before many of the reefs depicted are gone." Welcome to "The Coral Kingdom." (via Boing Boing)

Enchanting nudibrach glam-shots

Marilyn sez, "David Doubilet is the Annie Leibowitz of the marine gastropod world. He took all but two photos in this amazingly beautiful gallery of nudibranchs to accompany a feature story on the same subject in the June Nat Geo magazine, online now." Link to article, Link to gallery) (Thanks, Marilyn!)(via Boing Boing

Fractal drawers

Fractal 23, from New York's Takeshi Miyakawa Design, might just be the coolest chest of drawers I've ever seen. Link (via DVice) (via Boing Boing)

Niagara Falls's secret tunnel

The Vanishing Point, a site dedicated to urban exploration and secrets of the built environment, has a page about the massive abandoned Tailrace tunnel at Niagara Falls. (The entire Vanishing Point site is mesmerizing, rich with great writing and fantastic photography.) Part of the decommissioned Toronto Power Co. hydroelectric plant, the tunnel is ten stories underground and only accessible through a hidden slit in the ceiling. From Vanishing Point:

Lying below a river that will relentlessly tear into the bedrock until all has been obliterated from Queenston to Erie, this tunnel thirty-three feet in diameter is imprinted into my being forever. A swirling army of red brick millions strong, the eye of a petrified hurricane leading us right into the centre of the stalled but fighting storm that is Niagara Falls. Standing in its back-blast, in a place far deeper and darker than any middling storm sewer, I breathed and drank from the fount of the universe and swam closer to its centre than I ever will again.

Link (via DIGG)(via Boing Boing)

Pencil sculptures that look like sea urchins

Jennifer Maestre uses hundreds of pencils, cuts them into 1-inch sections, drills a hole in each section, sharpens them and then she sews all of them together to create these fantastic prickly and colourful pencil sculptures inspired by sea urchins. (via I.Z.Reloaded)

Pen-cap cutlery

Din-Ink is a concept design for office cutlery by Andrea Cingoli, Paolo Emilio Bellisario, Cristian Cellini and Francesca Fontana for the DesignBoom Dining in 2015 contest. The idea is that the caps will be made from biodegradable starch and fit over your desk-pen. Link (Thanks, Fipi Lele!) (via Boing Boing)

Chair made of melted ball of rope

Tom Price's "Meltdown Chair" is made by heaping up a big cuddly pile of nylon rope, then melting an Eames-ish chair-shape into it. Don't miss the video of the hot former-on-nylon action.

This chair is created by heating and pressing a seat-shaped former into a ball of polypropylene rope. The rope begins to liquify as it comes into contact with the heated former and, as it cools, it sets in the shape of a seat creating a contrast in form and texture to the remaining rope. No additional material has been added to make the seat - it is all made from melted rope.

Link (via Geekologie) (via Boing Boing)