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On a routine visit to his car dealership in Norman, Oklahoma, Redditor SquishyMcPhee came across a styrofoam cup that had been left behind by a former customer, but he immediately knew that it was no ordinary cup. The tiny container was covered in intricately crafted doodles with a simple ballpoint pen. Every inch of the cup is meticulously designed with patterns, text, and characters, as though it were a premeditated execution.

To celebrate her daughter, Emma, turning 5 years old, photographer Jaime Moore decided to do a photo shoot with the young girl dressed up as five different women that have influenced change and progress for women. Each image also includes an empowering quote by the woman Emma is echoing, below it. The proud mother wanted to commemorate her daughter's birthday by doing something that reflected strength and allowed little Emma to emulate real women she could look up to.

Victoria Beltran became famous after her role of Admiral General Aladeen’s sexy foot soldiers in Sacha Baron Cohen’s “The Dictator.” But there is a little secret about this sexy lady.

Dave Devries takes sketches of monsters drawn by children purely from their imagination and renders them realistically giving them a truly devilish look. His collection of drawings and paintings form a 48-page book “The Monster Engine”.

Artist Larry Moss uses airigami - which translates literally into the fine art of folding air - to create original works of art, installations and experiences that range from the ridiculous to the sublime. Among his many creations are works from famous artist such as da Vinci and Van Gogh, wearable pieces and large scale installation. Below is a sample of some of his bizarre work.

Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluision traveled the world exploring how the eating habits differ from country to country and presented their results in a photo album, called Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The wife and husband’s team visited 24 different countries and 30 families to photograph them at home, at the market, and surrounded by their weekly food supplies. Apart from being interesting and educative, the project brings up some social issues. The exposed weekly grocery list provides information not only about dietary habits, but also about health, economy, lifestyle, etc. It also clearly shows the division between the first world and the developing countries. Interestingly, less affluent families eat more nutritious food than those who could actually afford it. On the contrary, more economically stable families eat more processed food, while fresh products constitute just a small part of their diet. Come to think of it, how much does your family spend on food per week and what kind of food do you eat?

Very cool compilation of quotes on friendship overlaid onto pictures. So many beautiful words about friendship were said. It is always interesting to know, what was friendship for such people like Muhammad Ali, Bob Marley, Oscar Wilde or Friedrich Nietzsche... Have a look)

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, though it may look and taste different depending on where you're from. While in America it is not out of the ordinary to have a stack of flapjacks and bacon as a morning meal, it is wildly different from Thailand's customary fish, pork, and rice dish. World traveling enthusiast Victoria Philpott took note of the various combinations of platters and variety of breakfasts commonly eaten each day along her travels. Rounding up fifty different and delicious meals that are typically eaten in dozens of countries, the globe-trotter shares an appetizing set of images on her blog from various sources of culturally unique breakfasts. Of course, everyone's taste palette is different but it is interesting, nonetheless, to see how different cultures interpret the best meal to start your day. It is also best to keep in mind that not all dishes are strictly the only breakfast anyone in any given country eats. Sometimes there just isn't enough time to prepare a full English breakfast and, other times, you want more than a simple croissant.

Born in Argentina, visual artist Gerardo Feldstein builds sculptures featuring wacky human figures with disproportionately large hands or feet. Made out of wire and wood, the pieces portray strangely intriguing moments when perspective is distorted. Through his work, Feldstein challenges his viewers to make sense of what we see. The tiny headed figures with exaggerated features do all kinds of everyday things like point, climb ropes, and reach for things. It's a wonder how these bizarre little guys maintain any sort of balance. Feldstein says, “I see the sculpture as an extension of myself, my characters do, dramatize things I want and I can do."

Back to Light is a creatively scientific series by photographer Caleb Charland that explores the naturally electrifying power of ordinary objects like fruits and loose change. The images in the series features a number of materials, including consumables readily found in one's pantry, generating enough power to light lamps and LED lights. We had previously seen Charland light a lamp with 300 apples, but now the grocery list has expanded to include oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruits, pomelos, and vinegar.

9 Film Frames is a single topic blog on Tumblr that presents the entirety of a movie in nine panels. The frames include anything from key plot points to popular scenes that have gone on to leave their mark in film history. The blog is an ongoing project that includes a wide variety of films from Orson Welles' classic Citizen Kane and blockbusters like The Dark Knight and Inception to the more obscure and indie films like Melancholia and Memento, as well as David Lynch's cult classic Mulholland Drive.

Today's your last chance to see this giant red balloon dog! As part of art fair Frieze New York, Paul McCarthy created this inflatable dog towering over Frieze's tent. At 80 feet tall, it's an interesting nod to Jeff Koons with one critic saying, "I’m not even sure why McCarthy bothered to make the giant balloon dog after Koons had already made his over-sized chrome ones, unless of course McCarthy is making a wry contemporary-art-historical commentary on Koons’ art, but that seems too precious and cerebral. Koons’ dogs were interesting, a tad, because of the change in material, so that what at first looked like a helium filled balloon was actually heavy, and hard as steel. McCarthy returned the dog to its balloon form, but just made it into the Gulliver of all dog balloons."

Gallon smashing is the Dumb & Dumberer of pranks. For the blissfully uninformed, “gallon smashing” is when…and please pay attention because this is very confusing…you grab a gallon of milk, water, any liquid but Surge really (the world needs its precious Surge) and you smash it. It’s pointless, unfunny, and *raises fists at teens*. The only good “gallon smashing” videos are those featuring people getting hurt, making the clip below, via Gawker, the Dumb & Dumber of “gallon smashing” videos. (Will you stop saying “gallon smashing”? Yes.)

Last year, Burnsy wrote about the lovely troll known as “Skinny Gurl” who called Kate Upton a cannibal for eating at Carls Jr. Kate Upton’s a cow, you see. Get it? She’s fat. Kate Upton is fat. The same Kate Upton you see above, that very Kate Upton, is fat. I wonder if “Skinny Gurl” knows “Gag of Thrones.” Anyway, Upton is on next month’s cover of Vogue, and in the issue, she discussed the reaction she received from the Skinny Gurls of the world after appearing in the second most popular Sports Illustrated ever, trailing only this classic.

A lot’s happened in TV this week. Dozens of network shows have been renewed, canceled, picked up, or generally ignored — it’s all very confusing to follow, and just as infuriating to try to make sense of. We covered the Big Four decisions on Happy Endings, Community, and Mulaney last night, but to keep things straight, I’ve put together a guide to how you should feel about Fox, NBC, ABC, and CBS saying yes, no, and maybe to series both old and new. R.I.P. Rock Center With Brian Williams, we barely knew you. Because we never watched you.

“Big Woman Funnel Feeder” is both the name of a great CB radio handle (“This is Big Woman Funnel Feeder. Best watch out for the smokey in the bush ’round the next bend. Tijuana taxis everywhere tonight”) and an accurate description of 23-year-old Tammy Jung, who eats 5,000 calories worth of food every day, much of which is slid into her mouth via funnel, because her “career ambition is to become as popular as possible.” According to HuffPo, via Barcroft Media TV: Tammy was once a healthy eight-stone teenager who wore skinny jeans, loved playing volleyball and going out with friends. But in a bizarre reversal of a crash diet, Tammy turned her back on her slim good looks, and spends her days indoors stuffing herself with fried chicken, donuts and whole blocks of cheese. She even allows boyfriend Johan Ubermen, 28, to pour ice cream milkshakes down her throat, in an attempt to put away 5,000 calories a day. Yes, “allows.” Tammy’s diet has seen her weight soar 3.5 stones every six months, and she now weighs 16.5 stone [230 pounds]. The once svelte young woman is piling on the pounds to earn money as a Big Beautiful Woman on internet websites and hopes to one day top 30 stone [420 pounds]. Tammy hopes to one day earn $3,100/month, which is apparently how much human dignity goes for these days.

May 10-12, 2013 will henceforth be known as the weekend we all Charleston’d down to the cineplex: My sources’ latest estimates for the 3D tentpole [The Great Gatsby] are $19.4M for Thursday/Friday, and -6% for $18M Saturday. Hollywood is expecting an overperforming $52M first weekend for the romantic drama co-financed by Village Roadshow and based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic novel. (Via) Gatsby: Based on the Novel “Daisy Pouts” by Fitz-G. Vince may not have cared for the film, but a surprising number of people did; that $52 million is far higher than anyone expected it to make, and it’s certainly more successful than 1974′s Gatsby, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. You know what that movie was missing? Filter songs. The video below, which envisions the old Gatsby as the new Gatz, fixes that problem.

What if — and please hold your questions until the end — tonight's SNL is just...Gilly? Gilly cold open. Gilly monologue. Gilly musical performance. Gilly 10-to-1. Honestly, like Baxter and his wheel of cheese, I wouldn't even be mad; I'd be too impressed. OK, sure, FINE: one Target Lady, but otherwise, Gilly 24/7 (for 90 minutes). But that's probably not going to happen. SORRY. In honor of her return to SNL, today's GIFs of the Week is dedicated to Kristen Wiig and all of the (occasionally awful) characters she played over seven seasons.

Happy Mother’s Day! If there’s anyone out there reading this that just replied, “Thank you,” you have terrible kids. Today is your day; spend it doing things that don’t involve the Internet. Come back to us tomorrow, when the world won’t care about you for another 364 days. For everyone else: yeah, I forgot to send a card, too. Anyway, a lot can be learned about being a good mother from watching TV. Not literally, of course, not that my sitting six inches from the screen as a kid did any long-term damage *begins drooling, tries to count the fuzzy lines swimming in my eyeballs* but from examples shown to us by the Marge Simpsons and Tami Taylors of the world. In honor of Mother’s Day, here are 15 life lessons taught to us by 15 TV show moms.

What did we learn about Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. from the promo that ABC just released? 1. I’m never referring to it as Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. again. It’s SHIELD from here on out. 2. Seriously, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a terrible name for a show. 3. What are we going to hashtag it as? #SHIELD? #MAOS? Or is that taken by multiple Mao Zedongs fan fiction? 4. Why doesn’t WordPress recognize “hashtag” as a word? It’s 2013, guys. Get with the times. 5. But I digress: the clip shows a lot of women kicking ass and Agent Coulson looking like Kevin Spacey.

Virgin Group founder [Richard Branson] had his legs shaved, put on lipstick and squeezed into a red skirt to honor a bet by serving as a flight attendant Sunday on an AirAsia trip from Perth, Australia, to Malaysia. Branson lost a bet to [AirAsia chief Tony] Fernandes in 2010 after they wagered that their Formula One racing teams would finish ahead of each other. Fernandes’ team landed two spots above Branson’s. (Via) Nightmare fuel. Though I guess it’s fitting that Branson looks like Tim Curry dressed as Mommie Dearest. http://news.yahoo.com/richard-branson-swaps-suit-skirt-honor-bet-091130555.html