World’s Youngest Tycoon Is Just 8 Years Old
Man has done his bit to improve various things around him and, in doing so, he’s even managed to improve himself. Maybe not directly, but they don’t say children are the future for no reason. In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg went down in history as one of the youngest people ever to be deemed Times “Person […]
Katskhi Pillar – Going to Church on a Stairway to Heaven
Trust me on this, that headline has absolutely nothing rock’n’roll about it . Weirdly enough, it’s actually true and you can even go on to experience it yourself, provided you’re willing to travel. Travel a little or a lot rather depends on where you’re starting from as you’ll have to go to Georgia in order […]
La Pourcailhade – Becoming a Pig in France
La Pourcailhade is a festival dedicated to one of the most popularly eaten animal around the world, the pig. I’d like to mention that the Festival isn’t dedicated to pork as much as it is to the pig. There’s the usual “eat the most… to win” contest and a few barbecues go on but they’re far […]
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi – India’s Hugging Saint
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi is a spiritual leader of a different kind. She doesn’t preach, she doesn’t ride around in a massive bullet proof Mercedes, she doesn’t sit atop a mountain and she’s really ruining the business for everybody else as she allows commoners to touch her. In fact, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi is such a spiritual person […]
Artist Uses Thousands of Letters to Create Detailed Images
Erin Smith is a young Australian artist who deconstructs entire passages of text and uses the thousands of individual letters to create beautiful detailed artworks. The 29-year-old from Queensland moved to Melbourne a few years back, to study graphic design, and has recently moved back to her home state. It turned out this wasn’t the right […]
Soccer Moms Take on Cheerleading for Their Sons
You all know the soccer mom; it is a dominant sort of individual in the suburbs and easily noticeable at any PTA meeting or sporting day of any school. This stands true pretty much everywhere, except St. Ignace, Michigan where soccer moms have managed to do something genuinely surprising. Instead of sitting around yelling at […]
Design Duo Create Mind-Blowing Thread and Nail Portraits
Pamela Campagna and husband Thomas Scheiderbauer create intricate thread and nail portraits based on old family photographs. It’s amazing how someone can recreate organic shapes so well from thousands of angles created with nails and thread. Designers Pamela Campagna and Thomas Scheiderbauer take up to a month to work on each of their complicated artworks, […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #18
Cool Batman Marriage Proposal (Metro) World’s Most Expensive Cheese (IB Times) 7 Most Incredible Cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion (Environmental Graffiti) Seven-Year-Old Girl Cries Stone Tears (The Indian) Russian Woman Keeps Alien Body in Fridge, for Two Years (Daily Mail) Heterochromia in People: The Beauty of Multi-Colored Eyes (Environmental Graffiti) The Winners of Canstruction 2011 […]
Millionaire Who Gave Fortune to Charity Now Lives on $1,350 a Month
Karl Rabeder, the Austrian businessman who last year decided to give away his large fortune, because he realized money didn’t make him happy, now lives on just $1,350 a month. It was one of the most shocking headlines of 2010. Karl Rabeder a millionaire from Telfs, Austria, announced he was in the process of selling […]
Marvelous Finger and Palm Print Paintings by Zhang Baohua
In 1989 Chinese artist Zhang Baohua invented a new style of painting which requires the artist to use his finger and palm prints to create unique works of art. It’s hard to believe such masterpieces can be created without any tools, but Zhang Baohuang manages to do it by using just his fingers and palm […]
Designer Builds Functional Sound System from 5,000 Recycled Beer Cans
Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki teamed up with Mathew Kneebone to create an incredible beer can sound system for Red Stripe’s “Make Something Out of Nothing” project. Suzuki and Kneebone were commissioned by Red Stripe, Jamaica’s most popular beer, to use their talents and create a work that reflects Jamaican DIY culture. The two came up […]
Couple Name Baby after “Skyrim”, Win Free Video-Games for Life
Megan and Eric Kellermeyer decided to name their baby born on 11/11/11 Dovahkiin, after the leading character in Bethesda Studios’ “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” video game. Dovahkiin Tom Kellermeyer was born at 6:08 pm PST, and his parents explained their decision because they wanted to give their son an “awesome name”. Meaning “Dragonborn” in dragon […]
Learn to Fight Zombies at Real-Life Zombie Boot Camp
Zombie Boot Camp, a recently inaugurated one-day training course, promises to teach people specialized zombie-fighting skills for only 90$. Whether you’re one of those crazy folks who believes a zombie apocalypse is imminent, or just a big fan of zombie culture, Zombie Boot Camp sounds like the perfect experience for you. The unusual training course […]
Belarusian Builds Impressive Car Part Bison Sculpture
Roman Beybutyan, a young car enthusiast from the Grodno region of Belarus has built an impressive bison sculpture exclusively out of car parts. Using shock absorbers, springs, steering rods, clutches, chains and various parts from soviet era cars like UAZ, Moskvich and Lada, Roman and his father managed to create a life-size metal bison, in […]
Susan Stockwell Makes Victorian Gowns from Paper Maps and Real Money
We’ve all seen paper dresses before, but Susan Stockwell’s Victorian gowns made from maps and various bills are in a class of their own. A sculptural study on colonialism and the British empire, her series of life-size paper dresses are composed of ordinance survey maps and English bills glued together. By sing military maps to create […]