Cuban Sculptor Proves Tobacco Can Be Used for Better Things than Smoking and Chewing
Janio Nunez is a talented Cuban artist who has the gift of making incredible sculptures exclusively from tobacco leaves. He creates works of art both tiny and life-size that prove there are better things to do with tobacco than smoking it. Janio’s fascination with tobacco began as a little boy, watching his grandparents roll cigars […]
Believers Rock Out at Colombia’s Heavy Metal Church
Some may find it blasphemous, but for the members of Pantokrator Church in Bogota, Colombia, Heavy Metal is a form of pure devotional worship. I know it’s pretty hard to associate screaming and head banging with the serene image of Jesus, but somehow, the 40-member-strong church is able to make the connection. I wouldn’t blame […]
The Mosuo Tribe – China’s Kingdom of Women
There’s a popular one-liner that’s been doing the rounds on Facebook for a while now – “If women ruled the world, there would be no wars. Just a bunch of jealous countries not talking to each other.” While that’s something we’ve all laughed at and forgotten, there actually does exists a Chinese matriarchal tribe where […]
Young Comatose Patient Loved to Shoot Hoops
Her eyes looked dazed, her expression blank. And yet, her hands worked in perfect coordination, shooting a basketball through the hoop with practiced precision. This is the story of 18-year-old Maggie Meier who was able to shoot hoops while comatose, at age 14. In 2008, Maggie started to complain of headaches and suffered nonstop seizures. […]
The Amazing Shadow Paintings of Rashad Alakbarov
Using various everyday objects and back light, Azerbaijani artist Rashad Alakbarov creates mind-blowing shadow paintings. It always amazes me what some people can achieve by using the simplest materials and their imagination. Rashad Alakbarov is definitely one of these incredible individuals; using common items like empty plastic bottles, metal pipes or simple pieces of plastic […]
South-African Company Offers All Kinds of Services Performed in the Nude
Hiring people to strip at a bachelor’s party has been a long-standing and extremely popular tradition. That’s why this South-African company wants to take it one step, or rather several steps further. Natural Cleaning Co. is “the world’s only all-naked service company.” With a description like that, I’m pretty darn sure they’re never going out […]
Mom Gives Daughter Plastic Surgery Voucher for Her EIGHTH Birthday
“Turning eight is the new 18” – I seriously wonder how and where people get such ideas. But, apparently they do, and 51-year-old Sarah Burge is one of them. She thinks it’s perfectly normal to gift her 7-year-old daughter plastic surgery gift vouchers worth £8,000 ($12,700). The vouchers are meant to be a present for […]
Wacky Therapist Swings Toddlers Around Like Dolls in Bizarre Baby Yoga Routine
If I told you of a place where babies are repeatedly flipped, spun, swung and dunked underwater, you’d waste no time it telling me it was baby-hell. Or at least some kind of baby-torture camp. But it’s neither. It’s really just a session of Baby Dynamics. People who are not familiar with the routines involved […]
The Flying Men of Bolivia’s Yungas Valley
It truly amazes me how people are able to find great shortcuts in any kind of situation. A while ago, we wrote about Bamboo Drifting , which was a means to cross rivers in China by balancing on a thin bamboo pole. Deep valleys exist in the jungles of Bolivia too, but the locals have chosen […]
Rules Are Simple at Atherstone Ball Game – Just Don’t Kill Anyone
Festival games are really fun to watch, but I certainly wouldn’t want to be in one like the Atherstone Ball Game. I’ve always followed the Spanish La Tomatina with interest, so when I heard about the Atherstone Ball Game, I had to find out more. Considered to be one of the oldest traditions of England, […]
Woman Desperate to Find a Job Sells Herself on eBay
“For sale – a willing and able permanent or temporary employee’ – reads the eBay ad. It’s quite unusual for the e-commerce website where merchants are more interested in selling goods. But 38-year-old Deborah Bowen had no other choice but to try and sell herself on eBay, having had no proper employment for over 2 […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #29
17 Spectacular Pictures of Siberia’s Altai Mountains (Environmental Graffiti) Couple Makes Lovely Art Out of Beach’s Plastic Trash (Laughing Squid) Write a Bike – Conceptual Bikes Made Incorporate Names (Behance Network) Wold’s Shortest Man Measures 55cm (Metro.co.uk) Slovaks to Name Bridge After Chuck Norris, making It Indestructible (AFP) Supermanning Is the New Planking (YouTube) White English Teacher […]
16-Year-Old Girl Is a Real-Life Barbie
Everyone meet Dakota (at least I think that’s her real name), she’s a 16-year-old girl who goes by KotaKoti and looks a lot like a Barbie doll. Recently, photos of her have gone viral on several Asia and Arabic social sites because of her incredible resemblance to Barbie. I stumbled upon some photos of KotaKoti […]
Seo Young Deok’s Bicycle Chain Sculptures Are Off the Chain
You’ve probably sculptures made from bicycle chains, but I bet they’re nothing like the ones created by South Korean artist, Seo Young Deok. The incredible ‘works of Seo Young Deok are clearly inspired by the shapes of the human body, but artists have been sculpting masterpieces based on our natural curves for hundreds of years. […]
Real-Life 50 First Dates: Teen Loses Memory Every 24 Hours
Drew Barrymore’s character has a weird memory condition that makes her relieve the same day every time she wakes up. This pretty much the basis of the romantic comedy 50 First Dates. It’s a pretty interesting concept for a film, but in real life it would be considered a nightmare. Unfortunately, 19-year-old Jess Lydon has to […]