Fake Pregnancy Bellies Become Top Sellers in China
China is notorious for making cheap copies of almost every item in the world. And now, they seem to have moved on from man-made objects to replicating nature itself. The latest in the long list of fake Chinese items is a fake pregnancy belly. Put it on, and you can deceive anyone. These artificial copies […]
Week in Hell – Five Days Locked in a Hotel Room, Making Art
It sounds like the title of a horror flick, but it’s actually a short video documenting artist Molly Crabapple‘s project, for which she locked herself in a hotel room covered the walls with doodles. Molly started contemplating “what happens when an artist leaves their studio, their cliches, and their comfort zone and draws beyond the […]
Tyree Callahan and His Amazing Chromatic Typewriter
It might look like just an old typewriter, but Washington-based artist Tyree Callahan has actually converted this antique 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter into an art instrument that makes beautiful paintings. Callahan replaced the ink pads of the typewriter with colored paint pads and the letters with color markers, to create a painting machine he calls […]
Guy Has over 10,000 URLs Tattooed on His Body
Pat Vaillancourt is the current record holder for the most web addresses tattooed on his body, with over 10,000 URL’s inked on his back and shoulders. That sounds like a lot, but he’s not stopping until his body is covered by 100,000 website addresses. In 2010, 30-year-old Vaillancourt, from Quebec, Canada, decided he wanted to set a […]
English Artist Paints Using Remote-Controlled Toy Cars
Artist Ian Cook has a unique painting style which involves dipping remote-controlled cars in paint and driving them across the canvas to create colorful contemporary artworks. Nicknamed “Pic-cars-so”, 28-year-old Cook has developed a special painting style known as “Auto Drawing”. He uses various remote-controlled toy cars to spread acrylic paint across the canvas, creating incredibly […]
Collector’s Holiday Home Houses over 10,000 Teddy Bears
Ricky Lenart, an artist and resident of Uptown New Orleans, has an entire holiday home dedicated to his collection of teddy bears. Every room of his three-story house at Duffossat Street is filled with the soft toys, a total of 10,000 in number. Lenart’s unusual hobby did not come cheap. He says that it would […]
Artist Uses Fire and Soot to Create Unique Masterpieces
A true artist can create art out of literally anything, even ashes. Steven Spazuk, a Canadian artist, is doing just this. Through his unique technique of burning paper and drawing on the soot, he creates breathtaking monochromatic images. He has perfected his art form over ten years of practice. Spazuk uses candles and torch flame […]
Alexa Fisher – An 8-Year-Old Poker Prodigy
Alexa Fisher, from Texas, looks and talks like any other 8-year old girl. However, she has a skill that is most unusual for girls her age. She can play poker fabulously well. In fact, Alexa is so good at poker that she can take on card sharks seven times her age. She was introduced to playing […]
Students Claim Haunted Toilet is Causing Them to Faint and Scream
Kids love exchanging horror stories at school, even if it means weeks of sleepless nights. But what if a real ghost decides to make a guest appearance? It could cause kids to lose not just sleep but even their sanity. In Vietnam, it’s causing them to faint on a regular basis. The students of Son […]
Photocopied Portrait Recreated with 3.2 Million Dots
People have been photocopying their body parts for a while now, and even though it’s still pretty funny, it’s not that impressive at it once was. But what about a portrait of a photocopied face recreated with over 3 million dots, is that impressive enough for ya? Artist Miguel Endara started out with a portrait […]
Germaphobe Artist Spends Four Days Living and Sleeping with Pigs
I’ve always thought that the best thing in the world would be getting paid to just eat and sleep. Well, Miru Kim, a Korean-American performance artist found a way to do just that. Except, she calls it a form of art. Influenced by Buddhist teachings that all livings beings are connected in a circular manner […]
Yukigassen – Competitive Snowball Fighting from Japan
If you grew up in a place where it snowed, you probably would have mastered the art of throwing snowballs. Bet no one thought much of your talent back then. Too bad you never heard of Yukigassen, a snowball fighting competition that is held in Japan every year, and now in other parts of the […]
Convicts Prove Knitting is Hardcore
The male convicts at the Pre-release Unit in Jessup, Maryland, have a unique story to tell. A story of how they found peace and calm through an unusual activity – knitting. Unusual, because it hardly seems normal to picture a bunch of rough-looking guys sporting tattoos and several teeth missing, sitting quietly, occupied with knitting […]
The Iconic Goat Tower of Fairview
The Fairview Wine and Cheese farm in South Africa is famous for more than just its wine and cheese. Owned and run by Charles Back, it houses a unique monument built for the comfort and use of the farm’s goats – The Goat Tower. Acknowledging the fact that goats love to climb, sometimes even up […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #20
90’s Boy-Band, Hanson, to Launch Their Own Beer, Called “MMMHop” (Contact Music) Pee-Powered Video Games Hit London Pub (The Sun) Man Has 120 Kg Alligator Pet, Says He’s a Gentle Giant (Daily Mail) Exploring the Decaying Chambers of an Abandoned Slaughterhouse (Environmental Graffiti) Ugandan Space Chief Builds Test Craft in Mother’s Muddy Backyard (MSN Photoblog) […]