Mind-Blowing 3D Sketchbook Artworks by Nagai Hideyuki
21-year-old Japanese artist Nagai Hideyuki creates amazing sketchbook drawings which viewed from the right angle create a realistic 3D illusion. We’ve featured some pretty impressive three-dimensional art in the past, and young Hideyuki’s works are right up there with the best. Using a technique known as anamorphosis, the talented Japanese is able to create mind-boggling […]
Huangluo – The World’s First Long-Hair Village
Hair is very important to women, who generally use it to highlight their features, but for the women of the ethnic Yao people of Huangluo Village, China, hair is their most prized possession. Located in the Longji Scenic Are of Gulin, China, Huangluo Village numbers around 82 households of Red Yao ethnics, who get their […]
New York Cafe Sells Only Tap Water for $2.50 a Bottle
Molecule, a newly-opened cafe in New York’s East Village, has sparked a lot of controversy when it started selling tap water for the price of $2.50 per bottle. It might sound like a scam, and many think it is just that, but the owners say the price is right for a taste of “pure H2O”. […]
Woman Turns to Serial Hugging to Cure Homesickness
After moving to the big city, Melinda Schmidt looked for a way to connect with people like she did with her friends and family back home, and found hugging helped. So she hugged total strangers every day, for a whole year. It’s tough moving to the city after you’ve spent all your life in a […]
Artist Creates Portraits with Strips of Shredded Money
Using thousands of paper strips from shredded U.S. Federal Reserve Notes, American artist Evan Wondolowski creates impressive portraits of famous figures, from George Washington to Notorious B.I.G. According to This Is Colossal, “Evan says that he starts with an underdrawing of the portrait on newsprint and then glues each shred of currency piece by piece […]
Chivalry Is Alive and Riding a Horse through Canada
In a time when man has so many communication tools at his disposal, it seems odd that someone would use a horse to get their message across to the world. But that’s exactly what Vincent Gabriel Kirouac did to promote chivalry and polite manners in Canada. It’s not every day that you get to see a […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #46
American Woman Loves to Eat Rocks (Metro) 20 Most Incredible Lenticular Clouds (Environmental Graffiti) Horrific Meals at Beijing’s Penis Restaurant (Asia Obscura) $165,000 Ferrari Has a Leather Exterior (Elite Daily) Video of Man Using Piranha as Scissors Goes Viral (YouTube) Cosmetic Surgery to Beat “Toe-besity” on the Rise in the US (ABC News) German Mayor […]
Guy Paints and Draws Incredible Portraits with One Continuous Line
Think about the most impressive maze you’ve ever had to solve, and I guarantee it’s not as cool as what this Reddit user can create with a single continuous line. I could never draw or paint anything worth looking at, but I’ve always been fascinated by what some people can accomplish if they’re given a […]
Professional Cuddler Charges $60 Per Hour of Cuddling and Snuggling
A lot of people like to snuggle and cuddle, but Jacqueline Samuel, from New York’s Rochester area, actually opened her own business charging $60 for an hour’s worth of non-sexual cuddling and snuggling. There are moments in life when you feel the need to cuddle, but you have no one to do it with. That’s […]
Man Sits on Toilet for Two Straight Days to Prove He Gives a Crap
Sitting on a toilet isn’t the best way to get things done, except for one particular thing, but it was the perfect way for Simon Griffiths to raise $50,000 for his commendable project. Australian Simon Griffiths is a man on a mission. He’s planning to solve a big part of the world’s sanitation problem by […]
Woman Is Addicted to Water, Drinks 25 Liters a Day
I know what you’re thinking, we’re all pretty much addicted to water, but we don’t feel like drinking it every moment of every day, and we certainly don’t consume over six gallons of it, daily. But Sasha Kennedy does, and that definitely makes her a water addict. Drinking plenty of water is generally regarded as healthy advice, […]
Leg Humping Competition Celebrates Dogs’ Love for Our Legs
Usually, when a dog starts humping your leg, you’re quick to make him stop, but at the Humpy Awards, owners actually encourage their pooches to get it on with their legs. There’s the Grammys, the Emmys, the Webbies, and now we have the Humpys, which celebrate dogs’ natural behavior to hump your legs. This first […]
Brazilian Inmates Pedal Their Way to Freedom
At one particular Brazilian jail, inmates don’t actually need both wheels on their bicycle to make an escape. By pedaling on stationary bikes, they can reduce their sentence and also get into shape. The medium-security penitentiary of Santa Rita do Sapucai, a mountain range city about two hours north of Sao Paolo, has recently made headlines for […]
Banking Is Child’s Play – Indian Street Kids Create Efficient Financial System
They say the banking system is very complicated, but try telling that to a bunch of Indian street kids who set up a model bank with tens of branches all over South-East Asia. In order to save money for a brighter future, a group of Indian children have created their own bank, where they can […]
Vik Muniz Recreates Famous Artworks Using Thousands of Torn Magazine Scraps
We discovered Brazilian artist Vik Muniz two years ago, when we came across his amazing portraits made exclusively with trash. Now he’s back with a whole new collection of mind-blowing recreations of classic paintings made from torn magazine scraps. It seems everything Vik Muniz touches turns to gold, including outdated magazines. For his latest art […]