Hotheads Pay to Let Out Their Aggressions in Dallas Anger Room
Have you ever been so angry that you just wanted to hurl that laptop right across the room, but restrained yourself in the interest of ‘proper conduct’? I know I have. Anger is a common emotion experienced by everybody at some point. Some manage it, some don’t. But it gets the better of even the […]
Chinese Village Gives Every Villager Gold and Silver Bars
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of a village-owned business, Changjiang Village, in China’s Jinagsu Province, has given every one f its 3,000 villagers 100-gram bars of gold and silver. It’s no secret that China has the world’s fastest growing major economy, but some of its residents like to flaunt their riches anyway. Take Changjiang village, for […]
Man Single Handedly Carves Orthodox Churches in the Side of Mountain
It’s the stuff that ancient legends are made of, but I guess you could call the story of Aba Defar a modern-day miracle. How else would you explain an old man carving four churches on a mountain side of the Ethiopian highlands, all on his own? Aba Defar is a man driven by his faith […]
Carrot-Obsessed Woman Covers Her Body with Tattoos of the Vegetable
A while ago we did a story about a boy who turned orange after eating carrots. Now that I’ve come to know about carrot-obsessed Zizi Howell, I think she’d do anything to trade places with the boy. Unfortunately, she can’t really change skin colors, but she’s settled for tattooing carrots all over her body. She […]
Woman Postpones Wedding to Pay for Pet Lizard’s Chemotherapy
Lizards creep me out big-time. That’s why it’s a little hard for me to understand what 25-year-old Lizzie Griffiths, a lizard-loving school teacher from London did for her little dragon. She loves her pet lizard George so much that she wakes up at 5.30 am every day to snuggle with him for a while. She’s […]
Zombie Shopping Mall – A Real-Life “Dawn of the Dead” Experience
If you’ve always wondered it must be like to actually experience a zombie apocalypse, then Zombie Shopping Mall is just the thing for you. You’ll be briefed and armed by a special police unit and pitted against a horde of zombies in a creepy condemned mall. Sounds awesome, yes? Remember the Zombie Boot Camp we […]
Japan’s Okinawa Island – The Healthiest Place on Earth
I used to think that there were only a handful of people over the age of 100 in the world. How wrong was I! The Japanese island of Okinawa alone has about 457 of them. It is considered to be the healthiest place in the world, where the average life expectancy of an Okinawan woman […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #33
Li Wei – The Flying Buddhist Monk (News.com.au) Romanian Fashion House Makes World’s Longest Bridal Train (Yahoo Shine) Brazil Real-Life Rapunzel (The Sun) Awesome Fences Made of Recycled Sporting Goods (Environmental Graffiti) Steampunk Corkscrew is Incredibly Cool (YouTube) World’s Biggest “My Little Pony” Fan (Daily Mail) Poo-Powered Rickshaw Is First of Its Kind (Huff Post) […]
Holland’s Repair Cafes Breathe New Life into Broken Objects
Got something in your home that needs fixing? Take it with you on your next trip to Holland. They have a ‘Repair Café’ there, where you can get almost anything fixed. The concept café, sponsored by the Dutch State, is the brainchild of former journalist Martine Postma. She felt that the Dutch people tend to […]
Chinese Artist Lives on a Scale to Lose Weight in Public
Chinese artist Wang Jun is going to be spending a whole month at the Yitel and Yi Hotel in Beijing. Not in any of the luxury rooms, but as a display piece in an art project called “Keep Fit Deal – 15”. He’s going to be spending the whole time on an electronic weighing scale, […]
The Gun Powder Drawings of Cai Guo Qiang
Also known as China’s most explosive artist, Cai Guo Qiang uses gun powder to create some truly unique works of art. His technique of igniting gun powder on a paper canvas is considered a new medium of contemporary artistic expression. Fire and explosion seems to be a very popular art theme these days. We’ve recently […]
Man Says He’s Been to Heaven Four Times, Draws Map
No offence to 64-year-old Sibusiso Mthembu, but hearing his story just made me laugh out loud. Of course, the South African from KwaZulu-Natal tells it in all seriousness. And who knows, he may even be telling the truth about having visited heaven four times, so far. The first time was in 1998, and subsequent visits […]
People CAN Fly: Man Takes Off with Custom-Made Bird Wings
How many times have you wished you could soar through the sky like a bird, only to remind yourself that it wasn’t possible? For me, it must have been a million times. But now it doesn’t seem like such a remote possibility, not after watching this video of a man flying with a pair of […]
Hula Hoop Helps Woman Lose Massive Weight
Who knew that an old childhood pastime could actually help adults lose weight. And I’m talking massive weight here. 31-year-old Jen Moore simply hula-hooped her way from a huge 288lbs to a trim 145lbs. Now she’s a fitness trainer with the very same company that helped her shed it all. Sure does sound like a […]
Serene Seascape Mural Made of 500,000 Fishhooks
Cuban artist Yoan Capote uses all kinds of unusual materials to create beautiful art installations. For one of his latest project, Isla, he used around 500,000 fishhooks to build a photo-like seascape mural. Throughout the years we’ve featured a lot of talented artists with the power of turning everyday objects into stunning masterpieces, and today […]