| Apparently, car pool means something completely different in Japan. See this real life car pool. Link |
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Vito Acconci is a renegade artist that designed an artificial island designed like a giant bowl named the Mur Island in Graz, Austria. Link (via Aberrant News) |
| Malnourished all his life, Gopal Haldar couldn't work in the fields in India's Sunderbans mangrove region. Because of his poor health and stick-like body, his neighbors said that he was "born to play a ghost" - so in a when-life-gives-you-lemon-you-make-lemonade fashion, Gopal now makes a living playing a ghost. From the website: "He says it takes him only 10 to 15 minutes to do his makeup and transform his emaciated self into a ghost-like creature -- mainly by painting his sunken face, protruding ribs and skeletal limbs with soot." Link |
| Federal officials in New York announced the arrest of 22 members of an international drug cartel that shipped cocaine in packages labeled with Teletubbies. Link (via BoingBoing) This was not the first time drug dealers used brands for their illegal drugs - Agents have found Harry Potter pills and Bin Laden heroin. I guess branding is everywhere, even in narcotics marketing! |
| Vitaly Matyukhin suffers from a rare disorder that made him unable to stand heat and sunlight. This Russian man built himself a giant fridge, and lived in it for 15 years. Link |
The Internet has everything, including a website dedicated to funny car license plates! Link (via Look At This ...) |
Jeckida makes cool toilets for kids called Toilet Buddies. The one on the left is Ca Ca Cow (yes, for real). They also make Poo P. Bunny, Gatago Giraffe, and Puddles Puppy toilets. |
| Linda Dolack created this pink neon decorated shopping cart art, titled "Hot Rod". For more, see: Link (via Our Strange World) |
| A new study found that male rhesus monkeys will pay (give up their juice rewards) in order to see pictures of a female monkey's bottoms! These monkeys will also pay to see pictures of their top-dog counterparts (kinda like their celebrities), but not at lower-ranking monkeys (the scientists would have to pay them to do this). http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050128_monkey_business.html Guess we're not so different after all... |
The Shining West Side Story Titanic Robert Ryang entered the Association of Independent Creative Editor's contest and won The contest was to take any movie and cut a new trailer for it, but in an entirely different genre. Only the sound and dialogue could be changed, not the visuals. |
| This guy rocks! Watch him play rock-n-roll drum using a special Creative ProdiKeys DM keyboard. Link (via Unique Daily) |
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