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Using images from Google and Bing Maps for “before” pics and various news photos from the last couple days for “after” pics, NBC News compiled a short series of then-and-now images showing some of the damage brought about by Monday’s storm in and around Moore, Oklahoma…

How The West Was Pun is an upcoming solo art show by New York City-based street artist Hanksy at Gallery1988 (West) in Los Angeles featuring a clever collection of his pun-filled pop culture street art. Take a peek at some of the works.

Love Hurts is a kit for people with a broken heart, created by Melanie Chernock. Melanie is a graphic designer who recently graduated. She didn’t want to make a box of sadness so she tried to approach the pain in a different, lighter way. There has to be some humor in it, laughing always helps next to the other products in the box. If it doesn’t work anyway, you will still have the tissues. Could be a nice gift for a friend with a broken heart.

The Unkai Terrace is located atop a mountain peak on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and provides a scenic spot for tourists to enjoy a unique and spectacular view of a natural cloud formation.

“Fuente del Barco de Agua” (“Water Boat Fountain”) is a sculptural fountain in Valencia, Spain that uses streams of water to mimic the form of a traditional sailboat. There’s no information on the artist behind the design, but http://www.mymodernmet.com/ that similar sculptures exist in Israel and Portugal.

In collaboration with JJKirby, artist Jon Bolerjack has redesigned characters from Marvel’s The Avengers as Storm, Clone, and Shock troopers from Star Wars.

On April 22, 2013, the Century Chest, a time capsule that had been sealed for 100 years, was opened during a ceremony at the First Lutheran Church of Oklahoma City. Onlookers and historians were astonished by the pristine condition of the contents: an untarnished desk telephone, a shiny pair of women’s shoes, a Kodak camera, and much more. Scroll down to see the pictures.

30-year-old Jason Torres is now known as Nicole Sanders. He loved Barbie dolls so much as a young boy that he has spent the past 12 years and over $300,000 transforming his body into Barbie. Nicole's rich boyfriends helped her to pay for it.

Game industry is changing very fast. This is what modern video games would look like 20 years ago. Now they look more like movies than actual games, this is why they bocome more and more popular.

UK-based illustrator Ed Fairburn has created a series of portraits on World War I military maps of the Western Front. In Part I of the series, Fairburn used ink to draw the portraits directly on to the maps. Part II includes additional ink and paper cutting by collaborator Bobbie-Jo. Beautiful work, check it out.

Want a little challenge, try and figure out these structures that are seemingly impossible.

Manon Wethly is a Belgian photographer who has created an interesting 'Flying Stuff' series, with some magnificent pictures she captured of flying beverages. The beautiful part about this artistic style of photography is that every time it's a different shape, no liquid is predictable, and it all depends on the moment of clicking the button. "It is absolutely fascinating to see what kind of shape an object or liquid gets when it is ‘flying’. Clicking at exact the right second most often brings the most spectacular and surprising results" She said.

I am never tired of admiring creativity in any form, home decor has to be one of my favorites. These vases are sure to catch some eyes, spark conversations, and make your house totally unique. Enjoy.

LEGO has taken custom model building to the next level with their incredible life-size model of a Star Wars X-Wing Fighter that is built out of 5,335,200 LEGO bricks. Gizmodo reports that “it reproduces the official $60 Lego 9493 X-Wing Fighter. But instead of being 560-pieces and a few inches long, this model uses more than five million pieces and it’s 11-feet tall and 43 feet long, with a 44-foot wingspan."

Kazuki Yamamoto Espresso art is extremely amazing. These 3D latte creations are almost so impressive to drink. This Japanese Barista art is something you wont find at your typical Starbucks. Take a look at these amazing 3D Latte Creations.

Reder Hoekstra is a Dutch artist who has caught my attention with his absurd, super creative, weird and beautiful work. This is the gist of his inspiration, "I'm inspired by the world and reality I see around me. How does it all work, what is truth? My mind floats through landscapes and dreams, and from it, new machines, creatures and things find life." Try and see what thoughts and feelings each of his pencil drawn pictures provokes. I'll write my thoughts on each, since I couldn't find their names.

When somebody says “cake“, we typically imagine a round baked sweet, most often decorated with fancy flowers and ribbons, layered together from different kinds of goodies. However, the first cakes, recorded in Ancient Rome and Greece, were way different: the Romans would simply enhance basic bread dough with butter, eggs and honey, and the more creative Greeks would make their version of a cheesecake, using goat’s milk. The term “cake”, however, originates from the times of the Vikings, and their Old Norse word for it, “kaka”.

A good compilation of hilarious Chinese Photoshop edites)) These people just wanted to have cool pictures and this is what they got. They should learn to use Photoshop for themselves to avoid situations like these)

Stuff No One Told Me (but I learned anyway) is a hilarious cartoon blog by Barcelona-based illustrator Alex Noriega. Dispensing valuable advice for an adult crowd, Noriega's art will make you laugh out loud and nod your head in approval. His art is the kind you can easily share amongst your friends or co-workers because they center around topics that touch upon everyone's lives. Best words to describe these pieces? Witty, whimsical and yet slightly acerbic.

Luke Chueh's pieces are really cute in an eerily disturbing way - and that's exactly why they're so great. Featuring sad and/or tortured characters, Chueh's work stems from the intolerance he suffered as child growing up as a Chinese-American. Luke was born in Philadelphia, but raised in Fresno. In 2003, Chueh moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in design. Since then, Chueh has quickly worked his way up the ranks of the LA art scene, establishing himself as an artist not to be ignored. Collected here are fifteen of my favorite paintings from his portfolio.

More than anything, when I finally take that giant step and become a mother, I want to make sure I foster my child's creativity. I want them understand the important of imagination and I want them to feel like there's nothing they cannot do. Here are five creative truths put together by Shirley-Anne Dick. Her idea was to design a poster calendar, bearing quotes from famous artists, poets and scientists.

Step into the mysterious world of Dan May and you'll find yourself amongst a large gathering of monsters. At first they may seem scary, but take a closer look and you'll find lonely creatures looking to find meaning in this world. The question is, are they really there? Or do they only appear when we need to reflect on our own troubled emotions and imperfections? Dan May is an artist living in Jacksonville, Florida who spends his days (and nights) painting dreamlike environments that transcend space and time. These delightful yet haunting images are often based in personal observations of both human's and nature's relationships with each other, blended with a healthy dose of whimsy, fantasy and cautious relevance.

The Wheel House is a live performance in which two acrobatic performers entertain audiences with the slow-paced rolling travel of their mobile home. The interior space of the circular home is designed to look just like a normal house, with doors, windows, curtains, pots and pans, and even a bed. The project is produced by Acrojou Circus Theatre, a group formed in 2006 by artistic directors Jeni Barnard and Barney White. According to their website, the team has so far created six original shows, toured within nine countries, and performed to nearly 60,000 people.

This is arguably the most delicious looking wrapping paper in history. While I must concede my exposure to food-related wrapping paper is limited, surely this design must be in contention. The wrapping paper set was the brainchild of Sarah Fay and Justin Colt, two Penn State grads now based in New York, who together have formed a wrapping paper company called Gift Couture. Last year the pair launched a Kickstarter campaign to help start their company and print 1000 sheets of the their first design, the hamburger wrapping paper set. The campaign raised $16,713, more than double their initial goal of $7,900. A recent surge in popularity has completely depleted their stock and they are sold out at the moment, so you’ll just have to wait and enjoy the pics below :)

In her series entitled Harm Less, artist Sonia Rentsch creatively assembles a variety of plant parts into various handguns and bullets. A 2002 graduate of industrial design from RMIT university (Australia), Rentsch has worked for a diverse range of clients including the L’oréal Melbourne fashion festival, the Sddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) & Christian Dior (UK). More recently she worked for the creative house Moth Design (Melbourne), before a rendezvous in berlin where she transitioned to film & still life set design with Sarah Illenberger and Sarah Horton.

“Sandwich Monsters” or the creative sandwiches designed by art director Kaisa Haupt, based in New York. Some unusual and tasty culinary creations that transforms the art of sandwich into monsters and animals to eat! In the same vein.

“Fire Rainbows” are neither fire, nor rainbows, but are so called because of their brilliant pastel colors and flame like appearance. Technically they are known as circumhorizontal arc - an ice halo formed by hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high level cirrus clouds. The halo is so large that the arc appears parallel to the horizon, hence the name.

Makr Shakr is a robotic bartender system that lets people order drinks from a trio of industrial robots. A companion app lets people choose and customize a drink recipe from a list of more than 100 liquors and mixers. Two of the Kuka industrial robots are equipped with cocktail shakers for mixing duty, while the third delivers finished drinks to a conveyor, which passes them on to the person who ordered the drink (presumably so that nobody gets whacked by the extremely fast-moving robots).

The Softstop Barrier System projects an enormous image of a stop sign across a roadway in an emergency. The system deploys in less than three seconds, releasing a curtain of water on which the stop sign is projected. It is currently used at Sydney Harbour Tunnel to prevent oversize trucks from entering and damaging the tunnel.

In his series “Through My Eyes,” Kazakhstan-based photographer Timur Zhansultanov has been documenting his life for the past two years with photos taken from the perspective of his own eyes. Very creative, check it out!

Kevin Briggs has saved hundreds of lives over the last 26 years. He is a California Highway Patrol Sergeant who patrols the Golden Gate Bridge and helps people who want to jump from there. In the first photo Kevin Berthia shakes the hand of Kevin Briggs, the officer who talked him down from throwing himself off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge in 2005.

There seems to be no real reason behind this particular fashion movement but students in Japan have taken to wearing the same outfits to college each day.