Mad-hatter artist Graziano Cecchini has struck again. The public-art prankster who filled the Trevi Fountain in Rome with blood-red dye last October released 500,000 brightly colored plastic balls ...

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David Blaine wants to be the new Houdini, but he looked more like the boy in the bubble yesterday. The Brooklyn-born performance artist lowered himself into a water-filled plastic sphere at Lincoln ...

Take a deep breath. David Blaine's latest stunt is spending a week living in an acrylic sphere filled with water. Magician David Blaine gives the "OK" sign after submerging himself into an eight foot ...

The Los Angeles Times reports that 20,000 black plastic balls have been added to the largest reservoir in L.A., the last of millions of “shade balls” meant to bring the city in line with federal water ...

When Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, standing alongside several workers from the Department of Water and Power (LADWP), was photographed emptying a bag of “shade balls” into the Los Angeles Reservoir ...

If you’re an Angeleno, you’re probably used to the black plastic balls floating in local reservoirs. But the rest of us may be wondering why LA’s turning a massive water source into a goth-looking ...

New York firm Hou de Sousa has created an interactive installation in a Washington DC subway station, using over half a million plastic spheres glued together to form building blocks (+ slideshow).

For centuries, Posidonia has been used for packaging, bedding and even insulation for houses. But researchers from the University of Barcelona have found these spongy balls are spontaneously ...

Indestructible objects are useful enrichment for nonhuman primates (Bayne et al. 1993; Bloomsmith et al. 1990; Fritz and Howell 1993; Sanz et al. 1999; Shefferly et al. 1993). They reduce time spent ...