Woman Marries 107-Year-Old Warehouse to Save It from Demolition
Babylonia Aivaz, from Seattle, fell in love with an old warehouse where she and other activists protested inside the building, during an Occupy Seattle event. Now, the 107-year-old facility has been scheduled for demolition, so Aivaz decided to marry it to show her love, and hopefully save it. It sounds like a pretty bizarre situation, […]
Rent-a-Girlfriend Services Are Becoming Popular in China
In recent years, young men and women pressed by their families to bring their girlfriends home with them for the seven-day Spring Festival prefer to rent total strangers, just to avoid long lectures and appease their relatives. Single men and women have it tough in China, a country where most parents go to any lengths […]
Man Trains to Become Real-Life Tarzan
DeWet Du Toit, a 24-year-old South African man obsessed with Tarzan, spends his days swinging on vines and tree branches, riding elephants and eating fruits of the bush, just like his celluloid hero. He traveled to England where he worked as a security guard and delivery driver for a year, but returned to his native […]
Florentine Artist Fights Pollution by Painting with Smog
If you’re ever in Florence, Italy, and see a grown man on a ladder wiping the dust off statues and building, don’t worry, it’s just Alessandro Ricci gathering material for his famous smog paintings. 40-year-old Ricci is not your average artist, and I don’t say that just because he used smog as the main medium of […]
Artist Paints Portrait of Yao Ming Using a Basketball
I can think of a few things one can do with a basketball, but painting is definitily not one of them. But I guess that’s exactly what makes Shanghai-based artist’s, Yi Hong, so special. Yi, who goes by the name of “Red”, and describes herself as an artist who “loves to paint, but not with […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #26
South African Weathermen Could Face Jail Time for Wrong Forecasts (Yahoo) Jaipur’s Painted Elephant Festival (Environmental Graffiti) Man Spots Dead Mother’s Ghost in Guesthouse Photo (Metro) MMO Game Wants to Break Record for Virtual Marriages (Geekosystem) 16 of the Smartest Children in History (Business Insider) China’s Famous Salad Towers (The Consumerist) Functional Bone Guillotine Model […]
17-Year-Old Girl Has Eaten Chicken Nuggets Every Day for the Last 15 Years
Everyone craves fast food every once in a while, but for 17-year-old Stacey Irvine, chicken nuggets have been a part of her daily diet ever since she was 2 years old. Although you wouldn’t think so by looking at her. I’m a big cheeseburger fan myself, though I try not to eat more than one […]
Billion Euro Home Is Made from Shredded Remains of 1.4 Billion Euros
Unemployed Irish artist, Frank Buckley, has built an entire apartment from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euros he borrowed from the national mint. He says the Billion Euro Home is a monument to the madness the single currency brought to Ireland. In 2002, when Ireland adopted the euro, a wave of cheap credit flooded the […]
Guy Spends Six Years Making the World’s Largest Gumball
This is one of the grossest world records I have ever covered, but it’s just so unusual I couldn’t resist sharing it with you guys. A man has kept the around 95,200 pieces of nicotine gum he has chewed over the last six years and put them all together in what is considered the world’s […]
Chinese Cat-Boy Can See Perfectly in the Dark
If you ever doubted real X-Men were among us, check out the neat super-power of Nong Youhui, a young Chinese boy who can see in total darkness. Riddick, the cool antihero played by Vin Diesel in Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi movie characters, but I never […]
Chinese Army Plays Lethal Pass-the-Bomb Game
A video showing Chinese soldiers in a circle passing an explosive satchel from one man to another, until one of them decides to throw it in a hole just before it explodes, has been making the rounds online, leaving everyone flabbergasted. Photos of South Korea’s special forces troops training in all kinds of extreme conditions have been […]
Incredible Fingerprint Paintings by Judith Braun
New York-based artist, Judith Braun, creates giant symmetrical wall paintings, using only her fingertips as brushes. This would be difficult to do with one hand at a time, but Judith sometimes uses both hands at the same time. As children, we all got our hands dirty then tried to use our fingers to draw, but […]
Artist Disappears in the Background of Her Works
Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes uses a mix of make-up, paint and costumes to make herself disappear in her own paintings. Like the real-life invisible man, Liu Bolin, she is a master of blending-in the background. Paredes explains her technique as a way of making herself part of the landscape ïn a quest of belonging”. “The theme behind all is […]
Creative Agency Creates Detailed Money Portraits
Artists from Chinese creative agency Senseteam cut apart banknotes from various country and recomposed them as detailed portraits, in a series called Big Business 3. ‘Currency symbolizes the value of a nation and its position in the world,’ the designers say, so their portraits ‘reflect the subtle relationships and influences across money, desire, society, nations, and […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #25
Chaiten – The Chilean Town Engulfed by Volcanic Mudflow (Environmental Graffiti) World of Warcraft Addicts Pee in Bottles to Stay Glued to Computers (The Register) 1,000-Pound Butter Sculpture to Power Farm for Three Days (Huffington Post) Impressive Boat Made from Thousands of Donated Items (Daily Mail) Real-Life Milka Purple Calf Born in Croatia (You Kidding […]