Lucas the adorable young spider (previously at Neatorama) is looking for a place to nap. It has to be perfect: private and cozy and away from distractions. When you are a tiny spider, there are a lot of spots to choose from! Spoiler- he finds a good place. -via Laughing Squid
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You know when you think about it, animals are what a county or state fair is all about, whether you are showing them, winning them, or eating them. On a stick. This ad just put it all in a nutshell. Found at Bad Newspaper.
A curious kitten jumps into a box to find out what all that squeaking it. It’s an incubator full of ducklings! You’d think that would be kitten heaven, but this little guy is soon overwhelmed. You’ve probably seen the .gif going around, and here’s the full video, courtesy of Ignoramusky. -via Everlasting Blort
Sea otters are social animals who, once mated, are practically inseparable. The pair mates for life, eating and sleeping together. They "hold hands" while floating in the water so as not to drift apart. Cheers to the perfect animal role models for this weekend of romance. -Via Tastefully Offensive
The dog barks a good game, but that's all he has--and the cat knows it. As the puppy drags the bed across the floor, the cat calmly lies down, unimpressed with her foe. Pup, you need to find a different place to sleep.
-via 22 Words
I love these lamps! They're charming, functional and probably terribly hot to the touch. I'm not sure who made them, but my friend Marilyn Bellamy thinks that they can be traced back to a company called Balloonatics Enterprises.
It looks like a vase and you can still keep your flowers watered, but you don't have to deal with storing a glass vase when you don't have flowers out. The Crown Vase, designed by Lambert Rainville, uses nothing more than a small plastic ring and the actual stems of flowers to hold up the bouquet, making the flowers really stand out as the center of attention.
If you want to make your vase match your bouquet or even your dinner plates, just switch out the color of plate you use to hold the water underneath.
If you like great decor ideas like this one, you really ought to visit Homes and Hues regularly.
A man takes his toddler daughter to visit his identical twin brother for the first time. She knows what Daddy looks like and sounds like, but now there's suddenly two of them! She has no trouble going to her uncle, but keeps looking back and forth at both guys in adorable confusion. -via Viral Viral Videos
The past meets the future in the present! German cosplayer Genovefa designed and made these long dresses complete with corsets that resemble futuristic Starfleet uniforms. Here you see her wearing a Captain Janeway dress while her friend models a Data version. See more picture at her blog (which is in German). -via io9
Cartoonist Grant Snider is composing a new series at Medium called “Who Needs Art?” His first piece discusses the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. Snider writes:
René Magritte is not my favorite painter. His Surrealist visions are smooth and perfectly rendered, but they lack the bold color and shadowy mystery of say, a Giorgio de Chirico canvas. Still, he is perhaps the most successful artist at achieving the purpose of the Surrealist movement, as stated by André Breton : “to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality.” By favoring direct representation of ethereal imagery over stylistic innovation, his works feel less like pieces of art than objective accounts of lucid dreams. And all those faceless men in suits and bowler hats are decidedly creepy.
I don’t think that I’d mind having Magritte as a neighbor. I’d love to have Bob Ross as one. What artist, living or dead, would you like to live next to?
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