Like many, author Stephen Markley loves the idea of travel – the concept of being amongst new communities, surrounded by different customs and (depending on how spontaneous and open-minded you are) learning to improvise and see where the days events take you. Which is why when it comes to traditional travel guidebooks, both he & his publisher Matthew Trinetti found them to be utterly inaccurate. “Guidebooks today are static and stale. Travelers in today’s connected world are better served by free, curated websites like TripAdvisor, or by asking friends or locals for travel advice. We’re creating a series of storybooks that are fast, fun, and educational.” Together they’ve published a bold, amusing and startling original book titled Tales of Iceland or “Running with the Huldufólk in the Permanent Daylight” currently one of the bestsellers on Amazon. It’s Markley’s second novel (following on from his wildly successful Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote, Sold and Published This Very Book) and it looks his unusual and peculier travels around Iceland, a country itself that is home to just as many mountain trolls as desirable women. http://www.amazon.com/Iceland-Hulduf%C3%B3lk-Permanent-Daylight-ebook/dp/B00CHCPHY8/ref=la_B003VR7Q6A_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370305457&sr=1-1

Japanese teenagers do it again! After creating viral photo memes such as staged Dragon Ball Kamehameha attacks, Harry Potter Quidditch games,  Vadering, they just don't seem to stop bursting out their creativity. This time they have come up with Tuba Guns, another clever photo meme in which band members fight one another with musical instruments. Check it out!

Baby Mugging is a rather new photo meme where people hold up a coffee cup in front of their babies to make it appear as if they are sitting inside, when actually he or she is lounging in the background of the photo. All you need to pull this off is a baby (adult, animal, etc.), a cup and a camera. Get inspired!

Miami-based photographer Alex Beker has created “Feet & Paws,” a series of photos featuring the paws of dogs and the feet of their owners. Adorable!

Tech Noir is a blog that features a large collection of cinemagraphs, seamless animated GIFs created using stills from popular films like The Matrix, Ghostbusters, The Dark Knight, and many, many more. Check it out!

Grumpy Cat’s manager Ben Lashes and her rep Al Hassas have cut a movie deal with Todd Garner and Sean Robins of Broken Road Productions “to produce and assemble a package for a Garfield-like feature film with the famous frowning feline at the center.” Lashes was featured in The Wall Street Journal, alongside a stipple portrait of Grumpy Cat, where he discusses the other deals he’s helped make for her including a line of Grumpy Cat coffee-in-cans and bottled beverages and a forthcoming book titled, Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book: Disgruntled Tips and Activities Designed to Put a Frown on Your Face. Grumpy Cat was recently awarded the 2013 Webby Award for Meme of the Year.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana photographer Quinn Miller recently created a brilliant wedding photo that shows a ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex chasing down the bridal party. He used a stock photo of the dinosaur and his keen Photoshop skills to end up with this impressive result. The facial expressions of each member of the bridal party are priceless.

Skilled Photoshop ninja Patrick Thorendahl (aka “Peeje“) has taken his talent to Instagram and Facebook, where he digitally inserts himself into photos with various celebrities. In an interview with The Daily Dot, Peeje said that his photos “became popular through word-of-mouth exposure.”

Nathan Fielder, star of Comedy Central’s Nathan for You, recently encouraged his Twitter followers to “accidentally” tweet their parents about a drug deal and to then tell them to ignore the text. That prank was quite successful and now he’s asked his followers to text the person they are dating “I haven’t been fully honest with you,” not respond for an hour and then tweet the result.

Here’s a look at some of the results (kids, if you like being in your relationship, don’t try this at home)

Having a bad day? Here's some baby raccoon cuteness to cheer you up and make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Besides being refreshing, cool, soothing and powerful, water is life itself. I am a big fan of element inspired art, and here's a collection of some gorgeous water inspired creations.

There has been an outbreak of frozen fruit mix related hepatitis A. 30 people from California, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada have been infected. Many of them reported eating Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend, a mix of frozen berries and pomegranate seeds. The virus has been traced to contaminated pomegranate seeds from Turkey that are used in the mix. So far only Costco received the product and has removed it from the shelves. The Food and Drug Administration and the CDC continues the investigation.

Beyonce is easily one of the most beautiful people on the planet, so the idea that anyone needs to retouch her whatsoever is pretty preposterous. And Bey got really (Sasha) fierce when she found out H&M wanted to retouch her bikini photos. A source told The Sun, “When Beyonce found out they had edited the way her body really looked, she hit the roof. She’s a true diva and was furious that she had been given such a snubbing. Her people refused to give the pictures the green light so H&M were forced to use the originals.” Um, have you seen these pictures? What in God’s name could they have tried to improve? “As with all campaigns there are discussions on which images should be used,” a rep for the retailer admitted. “Both H&M and Beyonce are very happy with the final result.” So is every other hot-blooded human on Earth.