Japan’s Ear-Cleaning Parlors Bring Back Childhood Memories
Japanese associate ear-cleaning with their childhood and many of them are willing to pay to return to those carefree days if only for just a few minutes. That’s what makes ear-cleaning salons one of the most popular businesses in Japan, right now. Ever since Japan authorities decided to deregulate ear-cleaning as a medical profession, making […]
Incredibly Realistic Pumpkin-Carved Portraits by Alex Wer
Alex Wer is an awesome artist who can take just about any image and turn it into a piece of everlasting art, by carving it into a craft pumpkin. His Halloween creations look so almost to good to be real. Alex Wer, also known as “The Pumpkin Geek” first started exercising his awesome talent as […]
Wacky Business Owner Runs Company via Robot Proxy
Richard Garriot, the owner of a Austin, Texas-based video-game development company, has found the perfect way to keep an eye on his employees when he’s out of office – a $15,000 robot called QB60. Garriott, who founded Origin Systems back in the 1980s, a company best known for creating the Ultima franchise (which led to […]
Incredible Photographs Look Like Traditional Chinese Paintings
Using a style known as pictorialism, Chinese artist Dong Honh-Oai was able to create a series of amazing photographs that look like Chinese traditional paintings. Born in 1929, in Guangzhou, China’s Guangdong province, Dong Hong-Oai left his home country when he was just 7, after the sudden death of his parents. The youngest of 24 siblings, […]
Necomimi – Japan’s Wacky Cat Ears Controlled by Brainwaves
Japanese company Neurowear has invented an innovative and wacky set of furry cat ears that help you express a state of mind without having to say a word. It’s called Necomimi and it’s bound to become one of the world’s coolest gadgets/fashion accessories. Just in case you were wondering what Japan will come up with […]
10 Coolest Finds of the Week #14
Superhero Wages War on Dog Poo (Orange News) Biggest.Crocodile.Ever (Twisted Sifter) Light Paintings by Brian Hart (Wooster) The Ancient Tradition of Fishing with Cormorants (Environmental Graffiti) Real-Life Spider Woman Climbs 70ft Wall to Avoid Admission Fee (Daily Mail) Japanese Anti-Aging Goggles Look Pretty Darn Uncomfortable (Book of Joe) Dude Conquers Super Mario 64 with His […]
Panama’s El Valle de Anton – Where Trees Are Square
A few miles north of the Panama Canal Zone is the Valley of Square Trees a unique tourist attraction where trees of the cottonwood family have rectangular trunks. Unique in the entire world, this group of square-shaped cottonwood trees grow in a valley created from the ashes of a giant volcano – El Valle de […]
101 Uses for My Ex-Wife’s Dress – The Hilarious Book of a Divorced Man
When his ex-wife, who left him after 12 years of marriage, told him he could do whatever he wished with her wedding dress, 38-year-old Kevin Cotter set out to prove a wedding dress isn’t as useless as you think, and became an Internet sensation in the process. With the help of his brother Colin, box […]
Japan’s Anti-Groping Women-Only Train Cars
Groping on public transportation is an international problem, but Japanese railway companies have found an effective way to stop it by introducing women-only train and subway cars. It’s a known fact that Tokyo is overcrowded and that is most obvious during rush hour, when professional pushers shove people into train cars so the doors can close […]
Personal Trainer Willingly Puts on 30 Kg to Experience Being Overweight
Drew Manning has been in great shape all his life, playing sports growing up and being passionate about fitness, so after some people told him he didn’t know what it’s like being fat and craving sugary foods, he realized they were right and decided to experience those things first hand. So the personal trainer came […]
Which Way Are They Looking?
Venezuelan artist Jesus Gonzales Rodriguez creates mind-twisting images by putting together multiple photographs of a person and cutting along the edges. Every image is made up of a frontal and side-view photograph pieced together to form an optical illusion in which the portraits look normal at a glance, but only until your eyes detect the […]
Glitter Girl Is Made of 50,625 Hand-Mounted Sequins
Jeremy Kirsch has creates what is probably the world’s first photographic sequin mosaic, comprised of 50,625 independently-mounted sequins, which move and sparkle when they catch the light. The artist from Glendale, California created this unique work of art for the ArtPrize 2011 competition, where although it didn’t win the big prize, it caught the eye of […]
Retired Dentist Creates Functional Miniature Airplane Models
Young C Park, a retired dentist from Honolulu, Hawaii, spends thousands of hours painstakingly working on fully functional models of famous fighter planes. Every little part of Mr. Park’s planes is a miniature replica of the original. He spends hours on end manipulating aluminum into chains, cable and hinges for his creations and doesn’t leave […]
Do Body-Painted Models Make Coffins and Death Look Sexy?
Lindner, Poland’s biggest coffin manufacturer, certainly thinks so, since they’ve been using scantly clad models to market their products for the last three years. For the 2012 edition of their controversial sexy-morbid calendar they’ve used body-painted models. The first edition of the Lindner Calendar appeared in 2010 and featured artistic photos of female models dressed […]
Montreal Artist Makes Portrait of Steve Jobs from 3,750 Apples
Last Sunday was the first official Steve Jobs day, but instead of wearing jeans and a long-sleeve shirt, Montreal-based artist Olivier Lefebvre decided to honor the Apple co-founder in a very unique way – a portrait made from real apples. Ever since his death early this month, people all around the world have been celebrating […]