Artist Makes Celebrity Portraits from Thousands of Circles
Using an original technique he calls Digital Circlism, artist Ben Heine creates detailed portraits of celebrities like Eminem, Bob Marley or Elvis Presley. A Belgian artist born in the Ivory Coast, Heine is most famous for his Pencil vs Camera series, which was covered by many of the major online media outlets, but his Digital […]
German Funeral School Offers Recession-Proof Job Training
The funeral business is probably the only one that hasn’t been affected by the recession, and people are turning to undertaker classes to make sure they find a job in these troubled times. The Theo Remmertz Academy in Münnerstadt, northern Bavaria, claims it’s the only official funeral school in Europe. It offers a three year […]
Girl Meets Bug – Where Insects Are the Main Course
Daniella Martin is the host of a web-based show called Girl Meets Bug, which tries to show viewers just how eco-friendly it is for people to eat insects and worms. Daniella’s fascination with eating bugs began 10 years ago, while she was doing anthropological work in Mexico. She discovered the Maya used to eat a […]
Chinese Transformers Fan Builds His Own Army of Robots
All geeks love Transformers, but Yang Junlin of Huizhou, China, took his passion for the franchise to a whole other level when he opened the “Legend of Iron” factory and began producing his own robots. Remebre that uber-cool Megatron Tank we featured a few weeks back? That was one of Yang Junlin’s iron masterpieces, but […]
Lamborghini Gallardo Owner Destroys His Own Car in Protest over Poor Service
A Chinese Lamborghini Gallardo owner decided to have his supercar destroyed in public, to show his dissatisfaction with the car maker’s services. The businessman from Qingdao, Shandong Province, says the engine of his luxury sports-car, a Lamborghini Gallardo L140, failed to start on November 29, 2010, just six months after he bought it. As any […]
Inspiring Iranian Artist Paints with Her Feet
Zohreh Etezad Saltaneh is a 49-year-old Iranian artist born with a birth defect that affected the growth of her arms, who manages to paint, weave and do house chores with her feet. Born in 1962, Zohreh struggled with her condition at first, but says she owes everything she has achieved to her parents, who “brought […]
Creepy Post-It Art by John Kenn Mortensen
John Kenn Mortensen is a Danish artist who uses the common post-it as canvas for his mysterious and scary artworks. While other modern artists search for ever larger canvases to express their artistic talents, Mortensen lets his imagination runs wild on the tiny sheets of paper we know as post-its. Most of us use them […]
Virgin Eggs – A Chinese Delicacy Soaked in Boys’ Urine
While anything boiled and soaked in boys’ urine doesn’t sound tasty at all, Virgin Eggs are considered a Spring delicacy, in China’s Zhejiang Province. In most places, Spring is all about the smell of blooming flowers, but in Chinese cities like Dongyang, the streets reek of urine. No, the smell doesn’t come from drunk people […]
Scooter-Riding Dog Becomes Internet Sensation
Norman, a 20-months-old Briard, has become quite the online star, after his owners posted videos of him riding a scooter. The incredible canine who lives with the Cobb family, in Canton, Georgia, started playing with a razor scooter in the backyard, when he was a pup. Karen Cobb says they saw him playing around with […]
Man Lives on Beer and Water Alone, for Lent
J. Wilson, a blogger from Adams County, Iowa, is giving up solid food for Lent, as he investigates and old story about Paulaner monks who lived on beer and water only, during fasting periods. Wilson, who has been a home beer brewer for more than 14 years, says he’s been considering testing the story of […]
Crazy Fan Covers His Body with Tattoos of Julia Roberts
Miljenko Parserisas Bukovic, a 56-year-old newspaper salesman from Mexico, has 82 tattoos of Julia Roberts’ face inked on his body. After watching “Erin Brockovich”, a great movie that earned Julia Roberts an Academy Award, Mexican Miljenko Parserisas Bukovic decided to show his appreciation for her talent by getting tattoos of her face all over his […]
Unbelievable Pen and Ink Art by Sagaki Keita
Japanese artist Sagaki Keita recreates famous artworks out of thousands of whimsical characters he created using his own imagination. Looking at the creations of this talented 27-year-old artist, I can’t help but remember my childhood days when I would doodle all kinds of drawings on the back of every notebook I had. But while my […]
Japanese Geek Is World’s Biggest Super Mario Fan
Mitsugu Kikai, a 25-year-old from Tokyo, Japan, has received the title of World’s Biggest Super Mario Fan, for his giant collection of Mario-themed memorabilia. I’m not saying it’s fate, but Kikai was born the same year Nintendo released their first Super Mario video game, and he says one of the first things his parents bought […]
The Postage Stamp Paintings of Peter R. Mason
British artist Peter R. Mason uses thousands of recycled postage stamps to create extraordinary pixelated images that look like genuine paintings, from afar. Peter R. Mason was born in Brownhills, England an d studied at the Stafford College of Art, where he was awarded the National Diploma in Design in Painting and Lithography, in 1962. […]
Galleta Meadows – A Metal Menagerie of Incredible Creatures
Galleta Meadows is a unique sculpture park of the Anza Borrego Desert, filled with dozens of metal creatures that supposedly inhabited the area millions of years ago. The Anza Borrego Desert isn’t the most hospitable place on the North American continent, and it’s definitely not where you’d expect to find an outdoor art exhibit like […]