The mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed psychiatrist is our friend
“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.” – – Jerry Sienfeld
Chop Stick: Giant swing set and concession stand made from 100 foot poplar tree
Chop Stick
Architects Anders Berensson and Ulf Mejergren of VisionDivision from Sweden have been commissioned to design Chop Stick, a concession stand for 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. They “sacrificed” a beautiful 100 foot poplar, to demonstrate how to make something new efficiently and respectfully. (Pics)
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Advantage always tips to the craziest among us
“There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” – – Douglas Adams
‘Track therapy’ – Indonesians risk lives in latest health craze
Indonesians lay across railroad tracks in the belief the current wil cure them of their illnesses.
Despite the danger and the efforts by authorities in Jakarta to halt the craze, Indonesians with illnesses have been lying down across railway lines in the mistaken belief that a low-voltage electric current in the tracks will cure them as it passes through their bodies. (pics and video)
‘Brainwashing Soldiers’ mural by Italian street artist Blu
Brainwashing soldiers
Blu, an Italian street artist, is no stranger to controversy. You may remember his mural at the MOCA that was taken down. It was in an area of downtown that neighbors a Veterans Affairs hospital and a war memorial to Japanese American soldiers, the provocative anti-war piece showed coffins draped with dollar bills instead of flags. (Pics)
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Castle made entirely of human hair
“I Wanted To Be A Princess” series used clumps of hair to create 3,000 bricks.
Designers have utilized human hair in an incredible range of applications from sunglasses to dresses, product packaging and even woven mats that keeps weeds from growing in lawns. Artists like Agustina Woodgate have also taken note. She has transformed strands from countless heads into a hair bricks that she uses to construct gigantic castles. (Pics)
One of the world’s tallest hotels to open in North Korea
Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang stands out on the Pyongyang skyline in 2009
One of the world’s largest hotels, the massive Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, is nearly ready to welcome guests after nearly two decades in the making, according to Architizer. (photos and video)
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20 amazing sky photos
The sky is always beautiful and never an empty space in the eyes of a photographer. The only thing photographers need is a good vision over things and some adequate equipment. Here we present 20 outstanding photographs of sky-scapes, offering inspiration and a delight to the eye.
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With lips like cherries and a tongue like strawberries,
she has all the makings of a total fruit cake
“If the crime rate keeps falling, we simply won’t be able to build prisons fast enough.” – – Futurist Thomas Frey
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A truly great mouse will never entrust his life to only one hole
“There are three kinds of men in the world. Those who learn by reading. Those who learn by observation. And all of the rest of them who have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” – Will Rogers
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Agim Shala, a two-year-old boy, is passed through a fence made with barbed wire to his family.
It is often said a picture is worth a thousand words. But there only a few rare photos that tell more than a thousand words. Those pictures tell a powerful story, a story poignant enough to change the world and galvanize each of us. Over and over again…
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1940’s whiskey ads predicted the future
“Perfected television and radio telephone combined!”
Seagram’s advertised its VO Canadian whiskey back in the mid-1940’s with a series of extremely manly magazine ads about “Men Who Plan Beyond Tomorrow”. They were unspecified futuristic thinkers who liked the fact that Seagram’s was patient enough to age VO for six years. Each of the ads depicted a different miracle that would transform postwar America and they were glorious. (Pics)