Long ago, I learned this rule: when you're in a line, stay in it. No matter how appealing the other line may be, it'll get comparatively worse as soon as you change. Dance with the girl who brung ya.
Stay in Queue, a short film by Ferdinand Lutz, shows a bear who doesn't understand this. It won first place at the Kurz.film.spiele film festival in Konstanz, Germany in 2008.
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No worries: he will not be permanently damaged. The Empire will compensate you if he dies. At least, until Jabba sits on him. That probably voids any warranty offered by eBay seller derbycovers, a maker of custom toilet lids. This airbrushed wood lid shows Captain Solo's full horror at the sight of you naked.
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Do you ever feel like parts of your life were intentionally designed to go wrong? Fabian Bürgy knows your pain. He's a Swiss artist who lives in Bern. Bürgy takes ordinary objects and subjects them to a "slightly violent and disturbing process of transformation, misplacement and dysfunction of things." The results are exaggerated expressions of the frustration that we experience.
Etsy seller Neal Sasser of La Grange, North Carolina made this impressive model of the Enterprise using 70 Natural Light brand 24-ounce beer cans. He describes it as his masterpiece and the flagship of his crafting operation. What are its dimensions? Sasser says, "Specs = AWESOMENESS." That really does tell you all that you need to know.
I'm especially impressed with Sasser's realistic depiction of the shuttlecraft bay doors.
Kirk McGuire is an artist in San Francisco. He works extensively in bronze. Although he creates a variety of animal images, it's his stunning sea animal tables that caught my attention. They look vibrant, as though they're moving toward you for the kill, ready to drag you under to your death in the abyss.
This one is subtle. I didn't catch the subject matter right away. It's a pair of moray eels nibbling at your knees.
Until recently, this Amazon.com listing described this ring as being inscribed with the Lord's Prayer in Arabic. It is not not Arabic, but Elvish. It may have be an Elvish translation of the words from the Gospel of Matthew for all I know. Alas, I must confess my ingorance of that language.
But the customer reviews indicate that it is most likely the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings:
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This is mostly correct, except that with the proper supplements, you can also breed parasitic larvae in spoonbills.
By the way, if you're trying to have a baby right now, then I have good news: the American wood stork was just taken off the endangered species list.
In 2001, an Australian man named John Keogh designed a "circular transportation facilitation device." He patented it through his nation's intellectual property register. Since that time, this marvelous invention has become popularly known as the "wheel." It's a tremendously useful implement for moving objects across horizontal distances. Engineers have often applied it in combinations, so that it is now common to see devices with not only one wheel, but often two or more wheels.
Unfortunately for Keogh, he has lost the legal protection that his patent granted him and, no doubt, the impressive royalties that he gained by licensing it. Marc Abrahams of Beta Boston reports that the Australian government has quietly revoked Keogh's patent.
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(Photos: World Balloon Convention)
Starting in 2010, the Pioneer Balloon Company has hosted the annual World Balloon Convention. It's a celebration and competition of balloon art. This year, 800 artists from 54 nations traveled to Denver, Colorado to show off their skills. 31 instructors offered classes to visitors who wanted to learn to create amazing sculptures like these.
You can see more photos of balloon sculptures from the convention at Pleated Jeans.
(Photo: Estrada Photography)
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"Put the Evil Queen in the cargo hold. She's worth a lot of money to me."
Here's Amber Arden cosplaying as the fairest bounty hunter in the land. The huntsman tried to kill her, but he changed his mind when she changed him into dust. You can see more photos at her Facebook page.
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Shaun Hughes is an artist in the UK who carves nickels, coins, and other metal tokens in the hobo nickel tradition. We've previously seen his nickel with the face of a Star Wars stormtrooper. Hughes is a highly productive artist, so he's made a lot more work. Here are some of his other pieces inspired by popular culture.
Jessica Rabbit (?)
Sandman Upcycling made this tripod mounted lamp (translation) that features an old LP record as a reflector. He doesn't say how he does it. Perhaps he softens the record with heat and then wraps it around a mold. What do you think? How would you build a reflector like this one?
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Raising children is an art, a science, and exhausting. Melissa Sher, the blogger known as Mammalingo, has done a lot of hands-on research on the subject. She's here to lay down some knowledge on you in 17 charts that have undoubtedly been peer-reviewed and subjected to experimental replication.
Yes, the color of the cup is very important. And the earlier in the morning it is, the more important the color becomes. You may not understand why, but your toddler does.
(Photos: Agustín Nieto)
Let Anna Keville Joyce loose in your kitchen and you'll have not only a tasty meal, but also an international trip. We've previously seen her depictions of food birds. Now she's showing us four capitals of Eastern European nations. She made them for Foodie Backpacker, a blogger who is traveling the world to experience the best food everywhere.
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Krystal Cantu, 24, of San Antonio, Texas, lost her right arm in a car accident. She had, at the time, been getting into CrossFit and loved it. Refinery 29 reports:
“I remember every single detail from that day. As soon as I saw my arm, the CrossFit competition was the first thing that ran through my mind,” Cantu tells us. “It killed me knowing I wouldn’t be able to compete, but I was so grateful to still have my life.”
So a month later, she was back at CrossFit. Two months after that, she was competing in the Working Wounded Games.
The unstoppable Cantu posts images and videos of her impressive strength on her Instagram account. Her right arm is gone, but her fighting spirit is not.
-via Huffington Post
