Chinese Art Student Builds Home-Made iPad for His Girlfriend
Owning an Apple iPad is not such a big deal these days, but building one for scratch is definitely an impressive feat. That’s exactly what Chinese art student Wei Xinlong did, in the name of love. Like many other college sweethearts in China, Wei Xinlong and Sun Shasha decided to settle for a long distance […]
New Mind-Twisting Doodle Madness by Sagaki Keita
Sagaki Keita is an amazingly talented Japanese artist who specializes in recreating classic masterpieces from thousands upon thousands of childish doodles. If you were to look at Sagaki Keita’s work from really up-close you’d only see familiar doodles like we all used to do back in school, during boring classes. But as you slowly back […]
Photo Realistic Paintings by Alyssa Monks
Using photos for loose reference, Brooklin-based artist Alyssa Monks creates incredibly realistic paintings that make viewers scratch their eyes in awe. Although many set photo realism as their ultimate goal, artists that can make people ask themselves “Is this a photo I’m looking at?” when they look at their masterpieces, are really rare. Alyssa Monks […]
10 Coolest Finds of the Week #16
Hamster Drag Racing (YouTube) Man Builds Crazy Bike Just for Fun (Orange News) Couple Share Home with 14 Skunks (The Sun) 10 Creepiest Abandoned Water Parks on Earth (Environmental Graffiti) 10 Unusual and Unbelievable Underground Places (Oddee) Marble Village of Dhee Ayn (Atlas Obscura) First Manned Multicopter Flight (The Escapist) Heterochromia in Cats (Environmental Graffiti) Prosthetic Noses, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Swallowable Perfume Makes Your Sweat Smell Nice
Netherlands-based artist Lucy McCrae teamed up with a synthetic biologist to create a perfume pill that actually turns your sweat into a fragrance. Swear has never been known for its nice odour, but that’s all going to change as soon as “Swallowable Parfum” becomes a reality. Australian artist Lucy McCrae is currently working on a revolutionary pill […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
10 Coolest Finds of the Week #13
15 Bizarrely Precarious Planking Positions (Environmental Graffiti) Meet the Real Spice Girl (Daily Mail) Thorntons Breaks Biggest Chocolate Bar World Record (Metro) P Diddy Publishes Book That Celebrates the Female Behind (Dailymotion) Mum Teaches 2-Year-Old to Smoke (Orange) The World’s Richest Beggar (New York Times) Seven Churches Devoured by Lava (Environmental Graffiti) Housewives Set-up Adoption […]