Man Trains to Become Real-Life Tarzan
DeWet Du Toit, a 24-year-old South African man obsessed with Tarzan, spends his days swinging on vines and tree branches, riding elephants and eating fruits of the bush, just like his celluloid hero. He traveled to England where he worked as a security guard and delivery driver for a year, but returned to his native […]
Florentine Artist Fights Pollution by Painting with Smog
If you’re ever in Florence, Italy, and see a grown man on a ladder wiping the dust off statues and building, don’t worry, it’s just Alessandro Ricci gathering material for his famous smog paintings. 40-year-old Ricci is not your average artist, and I don’t say that just because he used smog as the main medium of […]
Artist Paints Portrait of Yao Ming Using a Basketball
I can think of a few things one can do with a basketball, but painting is definitily not one of them. But I guess that’s exactly what makes Shanghai-based artist’s, Yi Hong, so special. Yi, who goes by the name of “Red”, and describes herself as an artist who “loves to paint, but not with […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #26
South African Weathermen Could Face Jail Time for Wrong Forecasts (Yahoo) Jaipur’s Painted Elephant Festival (Environmental Graffiti) Man Spots Dead Mother’s Ghost in Guesthouse Photo (Metro) MMO Game Wants to Break Record for Virtual Marriages (Geekosystem) 16 of the Smartest Children in History (Business Insider) China’s Famous Salad Towers (The Consumerist) Functional Bone Guillotine Model […]