Couple Get Married in Cemetery, on Halloween Night
Halloween is not exactly known as a romantic holiday, but for one Albuquerque couple it was the perfect time to tie the knot in a cemetery. Officials from the Fairview Memorial Park Cemetery admitted they get all kinds of bizarre requests, but this was the first time someone asked them to use the venues for a […]
College Girl Saves Grocery Money by Digging through Trash
23-year-old Ashley Fields is just one of the thousands of New Yorkers who discovered dumpster-diving for food can really help them save serious cash. Ashley’s not homeless or poor, she’s just doing it because it’s easy. Fields, a theater-major from Saint Louis, is still in school but also has a theater job that pays between […]
Meticulously Detailed Drawings Made with Graphite and Chalk
Paul Cadden is a Scottish-born hyperrealist artist who creates painfully realistic artworks using only graphite and chalk. I’ve posted some pretty realistic drawings in the past, like Rajacenna’s detailed celebrity portraits, Juan Francisco Casas’ photo-like ballpoint pen drawings, or Paul Lung’s pencil artworks, but the pieces you’re about to see are on a whole other […]
In Indonesia Football Is Played with a Ball of Fire
Sepak Bola Api, or The Fireball Game, is a unique game Indonesians play to welcome the month of Ramadan. It’s a lot like football only they have to kick a flaming fireball. It seems regular football is pretty boring. At least that’s the feeling I get after discovering similar games like Footdoubleball, Cycle Ball or […]
Aphrodisiac – America’s Hottest Ice Cream Truck
Hot is good even when it comes to ice cream, and Aphrodisiac, a unique Miami ice cream truck that comes with smoking hot spray-painted models is the perfect proof. As if ice cream wasn’t tasty enough, Miami photographer Justin Price and Costa-Rican model Jacqueline Suzanne thought it would taste even better if served by scantily […]
Disabled Street Beggar Creates Beautiful Typography, Sells It to Font Supplier
Chui Xianren, a disabled street beggar from Shangdong, China, has recently become an online star after photos of his beautiful handwriting were posted on a popular Chinese site. Now Founder Electronics, the biggest Chinese font supplier in the world has decided to acquire his unique typography. There are many talented font designers out there, but […]
Florida Gator Expert Opens Hug-an-Alligator Business
Ever wished you could go up to an alligator and just give him a great big hug? Well, thanks to a nutty gator expert from Florida, now you can. Gator Man Mike has recently moved from the Everglades to Naples, Florida and decided to give people from his new home the chance to really bond […]
Jason Sho Green’s Mind-Blowing Doodle Portraits
Jason Sho Green uses a simple ball-point pen to create incredibly intricate portraits that are actually made of other smaller drawings. Whether we’re good at it or not, we all like to doodle, but American artist Jason Sho Green has taken the pastime to a whole new level with his amazing doodle portraits that look like […]
Russian Artist Paints with Molotov Cocktails
Radya Timofey, a 23-year-old Russian artist is taking the art world by storm with a series of original paintings made by throwing Molotov cocktails at his canvases. They are often used to cause chaos, but young Radya Timofey is turning Molotov cocktails into art tools to create beautiful portraits of soldiers who fought in World […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #15
Sea of Blood – Whales Slaughtered on the Beaches of Faeroe (Environmental Graffiti) Fully Functional Nikon DSLR Halloween Costume (Petapixel) Awesome Shaolin Kung-Fu Kid Is Awesome (YouTube) India’s Real-Life Slumdog Millionaire (Asylum) Halloween Creepiness – The Enfield Poltergeist Story (Daily Mail) Jail Made Even Scarier for Halloween (Inside Local) Disturbing Baby Chewbacca Doll (Technabob) Artist […]
12-Year-Old Builds Real-Life Angry Birds Game Using Pumpkins
Sam Beards, a 12-year-old Angry Birds fan from England, has taken his obsession with the popular video game to a whole new level, by creating a real-life version using pumpkins and a giant cannon. Just like millions of people around the world, Sam spent hours every day playing Angry Birds on the tiny screen of […]
Young Artist Uses Gravity as Her Paintbrush
Toronto-based artist Amy Shackleton creates amazingly detailed paintings without using brushes, or even her fingers. Instead she just relies on gravity to slowly guide the paint across the canvas. It’s almost impossible to believe anyone can paint such beautiful artworks without a paintbrush, but actually doing it all by using the laws of gravity? That can’t […]
World’s Largest Collection of Clowns Is Kind of Creepy
Ortrud Kastaun, a 61-year-old woman from Germany, has set a new Guinness record for the world’s largest collection of clown related items. Orty, as her friends know her, has been collecting clowns for the last 15 years, and has so far amassed 2,053 different clown-related items. She’s had to move to a bigger house that would […]
India’s Richest Man Won’t Move into Billion-Dollar Home for Fear of Curse
The 27-storey, billion-dollar tower home in Mumbai, called Antilia, was completed a year ago but India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, and his family refuse to move in for fear of bad-luck curse. Dubbed the most expensive home in the world, Antilia has been dominating the Mumbai skyline ever since it was completed last October, but […]
Stunning Landscapes Are Actually Built in a Fish Tank
They may look like some of the most beautiful places on Earth, but they are actually miniature topographies of fictitious environments, built in a large fish tank, by New-York-based artist Kim Keever. The pictures below look a lot like traditional paintings, but the process in which they are created is anything but traditional. In a era […]