Ladies for your next night out! Instructables user seamster has created an R2-D2 bra, complete with blinking lights and sounds taken from an action figure of the Star Wars droid. Seamster has posted two versions of the bra, one made of duct tape and the other “ultimate” version is made using papier-mâché. Instructions to make your own are available at Instructables. See the link at the bottom.
Ladies, this one's for you! Do you prefer a man with a little hair on his chest or do you make him shave it off? What about these half shaves? Turned on yet?
A Chinese engineer who operates a data recovery and hard drive repair center is being hailed as a genius after inventing a DIY candy floss machine made from a used hard disk. According to the instructions, all that is needed to create your own candy floss maker is a hard drive that can still power up, a round flat metal tin, six bicycle spokes, an aluminum can and a plastic basin. A series of photos demonstrating how to create this candy floss machine have made some sensation across China internet …
The moon is about 386,242 miles from Earth. Our moon is certainly not low. More than that – it is big enough to be a full planet, of course, if it revolved around the sun, not the earth. The moon is a quarter the diameter of Earth. Only Pluto larger satellites relative to the size of the planet around which it revolves. We invite you to see how the other planets would look if they were at the scene of the moon. So, the Moon, as we see it quite often.
Procter & Gamble has announced Scope Bacon Mouthwash, a mouthwash that is flavored synthetically like bacon to give you “breath that sizzles."
More surveillance please! Researchers at Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering have created Cyro, an autonomous robotic jellyfish that’s roughly the size and weight of a grown man, for the purpose of underwater surveillance. The 170-pound Cyro prototype and a smaller, hand-sized “RoboJelly” robot were created as part of a project funded by the US Navy. Cyro is modeled after the lion’s mane jellyfish, and measures five feet and seven inches long.
For the yearlong photo project “6:30 AM Series,” photographer Robert Weingarten took a photo at 6:30 each morning of the exact same view of Santa Monica Bay, as seen from his home in Malibu. He did so for every day he was home during 2003. To keep the photos consistent, Weingarten strictly followed a set of rules: the aperture and focus settings were fixed, the color transparency film was from a single production batch, and the camera and lens were securely fixed to a tripod to maintain the frame.
Worth 1000 is famous for their photoshop & Photo-Effects contests. In which Two or more movie posters are combined to make one much funnier and creative poster. Their latest, Mate a Movie series, asks graphic artists to take two or more movies, and combine them to make one much funnier movie. I’ve included some of my favorites. Hope you will like them or may be they will inspire you to create some.
Researchers at the University of California in Santa Cruz have successfully trained a sea lion to bob its head in time to music, in a study that may change our understanding of how rhythm is acquired. But let's leave the scientific details for later and just enjoy this cute performance:)
Breaking up with someone is the worst. They get all sad and start crying. Then they're like, "But I thought you loved me." Awkward! Who wants to deal with that? Not me. Here are five fool-proof ways to kick someone out of your life without having to watch them turn into an emotional wreck. Note: Although these all say "girlfriend," they're sure to work on boys, too.
There have been an abundance of celebrity Hindenburgs throughout the years — fashion and grooming choices that crash and burn in front of millions of flashbulbs and gawking eyes on the red carpet and beyond, leaving everyone wondering, “WTF where they thinking?” Sometimes it’s what stars are wearing — or not wearing — that catches our attention, other times it’s an unfortunate hair style, and occasionally it’s even a regretful nip and tuck. And often? The mistakes enter pop culture lore and live there in perpetuity. On this list, you’ll see some of the biggest style derps, blunders and overall fails in recent memory. Join us as we stroll down this bumpy Memory Lane, won’t you?
April Fool’s Day is today, and what better way to celebrate the day that it’s totally cool to wrap a toilet in cellophane than to go through some of the best celebrity pranks throughout the ages? Of course, by “ages,” we mean anything within the new millennium. Whether they’re perpetrated on the first of April, done to add a spark of fun to a hoity toity red carpet, or executed merely for comedic purposes, pranks have been a traditional part of human culture since the 1300s. At least according to Geoffrey Chaucer and his unfinished ‘Canterbury Tales.’ (Fred Flintstone would probably disagree, though.) Anyway, check out our list to see a lot of prankster celebs and their unwitting victims.
When it comes to graphic design, the 1920′s and 1930′s serve as fascinating zeitgeist in Japanese culture. The surging influence of the Western culture in different mediums – cinema, magazines and TV, started to be adopted & reconfigured by Japanese artists. These evolving art forms reflected Japan’s socio-economic transformation, the rise of its industry and technology sectors and even a shift in political thinking, from right to the more social aware left. Those internal influences, combined with that of from the West, had a significant impact on traditional Japanese graphic design. Suddenly it started to becoming bolder, brighter, less stark, more colorful and it’s imagery more impactful & striking. The fascinating evolution of Japanese graphic design in the 1920-1930′s was a direct reflection the bubbling melting pot of influences & issues occurring within the country itself. Below are a few highlights during that decade of change, you can find out more about the evolution of Japanese graphic design by getting yourself a copy of Modernism on Paper: Japanese Graphic Design of the 1920s-30s from which these are taken. Enjoy!
Your laptop is a gateway to a world of limitless ideas, possibilities and basically anything your imagination (or browsing history) can conjure up. So why confine your creativity to just the screen? Why not customize your laptop and make it stand out from the crowd? That’s the thinking behind these cool MacBook vinyl stickers for your MacBook – designed add a unique twist on the famous Apple logo, whilst adding a sense of fun to proceedings. Better yet, they’re also really easy to stick on & peel off, so thankfully no need to live in fear of them ruining the casing of your sleek MacBook. I’ve selected a wide range of designs, from the funny, to the sleek, from the iconic to the unusual and everything in between. We’ve even thrown in some zombies, Banksy art, Darth Vader & plus Homer & Bart from The Simpsons. If there was a downside to any of them, it’s that you can only use on at any time! Let me know which is your favorite ok? Do you use any of them already?
After seeing Tokyo-based photographer Aya Sakai's adorable photos of her baby boy and their French Bulldog, we knew it would just be a matter of time before we came across a similar set of heartwarming images between a child and their pet.
Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut's Asian Cairns project proposes a new look for China's urban environments, offering an eco-friendly alternative known as farmscrapers (in lieu of skyscrapers). With China's urbanized population growing, leaving fewer and fewer countryside inhabitants, there is an inevitable increase in energy consumption and, thus, an environmental concern. Callebaut's project seeks to restructure the city of Shenzhen by placing his innovative vertical farming towers as a positive response to the impending environmental issues.
Launched in 2009, Paperless Post is a New York-based company that has quickly risen to become the one-stop-shop to send well-designed online (and paper) invitations and cards. Founded by sibling entrepreneurs James and Alexa Hirschfeld (who were just 23 and 25 years old at the time, talk about inspiring), the company has been wildly successful and, to date, boast 2 million users that have collectively sent over 75 million cards.
Watchmen is a series by Paris-based photographer Lionel Bayol-Thémines that presents a number of masked men and women looking over an expanse of land and sea. The calm collection of images give us a taste of a less explored scene of elusive superheroes taking a moment to breathe in their natural surroundings and reflect on their lives.
Ciara is an American singer, songwriter, actress and fashion model. In other words, she is the quadruple threat. To see more sexy photos and learn more about the life and career of Ciara, click on.
A compilation of the most hilarious and the most awkward Easter photos.
Marina weighted 90 kilos (198 lbs) before she decided to get herself in shape. And she did it successfully; in one year and a half she has lost 40 kilos (88 lbs).
The Beautiful Kanopi house is located in a sandy cove on Jamaica’s Blue Lagoon. This would be one fantastic place to live. Check out these stunning pictures. This makes me want to take a vacation.
Well, now I feel very old. Take a look at all of these famous celebrties who were born in the 90's. Darn, they keep getting younger as I get older.
A selection of photos of very cool underground homes. Wouldn't these be fun places to live? I want one!
Here are people who modeled for your favorite Disney characters. These fictional disney characters are put in a new light next to these real life men and women.
I have no idea why she did it, but the photos are nice. While Shaving her head she reenacts scenes from famous movies.
A Joker livens up his journey to work — by transforming an unsuspecting commuter into US President Barack Obama and funny Characters. The unknown snapper folds a copy of The Sun and then sneakily takes a picture on his smartphone to create the hilarious images.
A WOMAN plants a kiss on a 30-tonne grey whale after the giant mammal swims up to her boat. The tourist was with a group of whale watchers as the friendly mother rose to the surface with her curious calf. The 40ft creature stunned the guests by drifting in for the kiss and a few pats. The heart-warming photographs were captured by Justin Hofman off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.
British film student Richard W. Scott imagines what the comedy film, The Hangover, would be like as a horror film.
"This was created as part of an experimental investigation into the power of post-production techniques on a movie’s genre (university undergraduate dissertation)."
Here's something for you to think about next time you give up on your exercising. Born in British India in 1911, Fauja Singh began competing in marathons in the year 2000 at 89 years of age. He started running in 1995 in order to cope with deaths in his family. He retired from marathon running in February—at the age of 101. During his running career he has broken many world records and he is believed to be the world’s oldest marathon runner. Amazing. No more excuses for you!
I wish the more streets were filled with this kind of art, wouldn't it cheer everyone up? Russia-based artist Alexey Menschikov creates whimsical street art that is populated by cartoon and pop culture characters. Take a look!
Back in 2011, a fisherman off the coast of Florida caught a female bull shark and made a remarkable discovery—in the uterus of the shark he found a live two-headed shark fetus. The bizarre creature died shortly thereafter and was eventually delivered to scientists. A study carried our by experts at Michigan State University confirmed the shark was a single shark with two heads, rather than conjoined twins. Weird?
Check out this stunningly colorful photos of waves along the coast of Southern California captured by Santa Barbara based photographer David Orias. To capture the unusual bands of color, Orias takes long exposure photos of the waves in early morning light. Cloud cover, wildfire smoke, and other atmospheric conditions cause variations in the colors. Beautiful!
Human sardines? No it's an art work by Italian artist Angelo Musco who creates incredible large-scale photographic compositions that are made up of thousands or even millions of human bodies. The time-consuming process of creating each piece starts with photo shoots of nude volunteers. The models are isolated in Photoshop and then added to Musco’s compositions. The final works, some of which have required two years of post production, can be upwards of 40 feet wide and 12 feet tall.
This man's unique skill is a dream of every hipster. The guys at the prank youtube channel "whatever" were filming a video and afterwards ran into a homeless man named Clydesdale who has a curious talent for making his mustache dance. The guys at whatever have started an Indiegogo fundraising campaign to financially help Clydesdale out.
