Dutch Artist Turns Dead Cat into Remote-Controlled Helicopter
Like many other animal lovers, Dutch artist Bart Jansen found it hard to part with his pet cat, Orville, after he was hit by a car. So he decided to turn the dead feline into a unique piece of artwork called the Orvillecopter. Jansen named his beloved pet after the famous aviator Orville Wright, so […]
Meet Trisha Paytas, a Self-Proclaimed Tanorexic
Trisha Paytas is a blonde lingerie model from Los Angeles who has recently made headlines after being featured on TLC’s show My Strange Addiction for her unhealthy obsession with tanning. Lots of girls out there put their health on the line every time they lay on a tanning bed, but Trisha Paytas takes artificial tanning […]
Poor Carpenter Builds Awesome Tree House with Materials Found on Craiglist
Joel Allen completed his amazing tree house on Whistler Mountain, in Western Canada, two years ago, but chose to keep it a secret for fear it would be torn down. Now, his secret’s out and the Hemloft has become one of the most talked-about architectural wonders on the Internet. Hemloft, named after the hemlock tree […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #41
Hugo Chavez Rewards Three Millionth Twitter Follower with New Home (Guardian) Lip-Sync Wedding Video Goes Viral (YouTube) Online Shop Sells Salt Made from Human Tears (Independent) 10 World’s Creepiest Abandoned Missile Silos (Environmental Graffiti) Cutting-Edge Technology – A Chicken De-Boning Robot (Daily Mail) Is This the World’s Smallest Cowboy? (Digital Journal) German Bride Is Auctioning […]
Vice Lolly – An Ice Cream Made from Holy Water and Absinthe
The Vice Lolly is the latest frozen treat created by controversial ice-cream shop, Icecreamists, in London. The gun-shaped lolly is made from holy water from a sacred spring in Lourdes, France, 80% alcohol absinthe and sugar. A year after he shocked the world with the ice-cream made from breast milk, Icecreamists owner, Mark O’Connor, has […]
Talented Composer Makes Beautiful Music with Instruments Provided by Mother Nature
Meet Diego Stocco, the guy who can make music from anything, even raw nature. In celebration of Earth Day, he staged an innovative musical experiment in which he used all kinds of unusual but completely natural instruments. Who knew tree bark or orange peel could sound so groovy, if orchestrated by the right person? In his […]
Welcome to PigVille, China’s First Village for Pigs
In an attempt to make their pigs more comfortable, the people of Zhangpu Village, in China, have built a residential complex for them, made up of 600 small concrete houses. Most pigs spend all their lives locked up in pens, just waiting to be slaughtered, but the lucky swine of Zhangpu are living the good […]
NeatoShop Gets a Slimy New Addition – A Tentacle Doorstop
We don’t normally do this kind of thing, but we thought we’d make an exception for our friends at Neatorama, who recently got a cool new addition to their collection of neat stuff at NeatoShop. The tentacle doorstop makes it seem like a creepy tentacle monster is trying to break into your room. The handcrafted artworks […]
Cleaning Fairy Breaks into Houses and Leaves Cleaning Bill
Sue Warren decided she wasn’t going to sit around and wait for clients to call her house cleaning business. Instead, she took the initiative and started breaking into people’s houses, cleaning them and leaving the bill. You have to admit, it’s a pretty bold business plan. According to the Westlake Police Department, the 53-year-old woman […]
Wannabe Incredible Hulk Used Green Industrial Paint That Wouldn’t Come Off
Paulo Henrique dos Santos, a pool attendant from Brazil, wanted so much to impersonate the Incredible Hulk for a local running event that he painted himself with green industrial paint. He later found out the paint won’t come off no matter how hard he scrubbed. I always thought becoming a superhero was hard, but a young […]
Pentagram-Stamped $666 Burger Is World’s Most Expensive
Just days after New York’s Serendipity 3 restaurant claimed the Guinness Record for the world’s most expensive burger, with its $295 Le Burger Extravagant, another challenger appears. Presenting the Douche Burger, a $666 sinful delight. After news of Serendipity 3’s burger being dubbed the world’s most expensive spread on the Internet, food blogs were almost […]
Artist Creates Creepy Self-Portraits Out of His Own Frozen Blood
Back in 1991, Marc Quinn started one of the most bizarre art projects in history – making detailed self-portraits from his own frozen blood. He has been making a new one every five year or so, since then. Yes, they’re creepy, but think of it this way – it must be reassuring for Mark to know […]
Charlotte Mann’s Meticulously Detailed Marker-Drawn Murals
Don’s you ever wish you could take a magic marker and simply draw things into existence? I’m talking about things like a better view for your house, new furniture or a brand new bicycle. That’s exactly what Charlotte Mann can do. Most of the time, we don’t like it when other people draw on our […]
Artist Creates Large Scale Portraits by Chipping Away the Plaster Off of Derelict Buildings
Can beauty be created out of destruction and chaos? Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto believes that it can, and offers his incredible chiseled portraits on the side of buildings, as proof. 23-year-old Farto, aka Vhils, grew up in Seixal, on the outskirts of Lisbon, and became interested in graffiti art during the late 1990s. Apparently, at […]
Agni Keli – Unique Indian Tradition Encourages Fighting Fire with Fire
Agni Keli, also known as the Fire Fight of Kateel Durga Parameswari Temple, in Mangalore, India, is a unique ritual which has hundreds of devotees throwing burning palm fronds at each other, to appease the Hindu goddess Durga. Each year, the Festival of Kateel Durga Parameswari Temple is celebrated over 8 days, in the month of April. It commences on the night before […]