Russian artists seem to be coming out of the woodwork online lately, but the difference between the Russian art boom and others is most of the stuff they're posting online is really good.

Whether digital, traditional or experimental, the new wave of Russian artists love to pay homage to their sources of inspiration while pushing their chosen medium forward.

If you're a fan of classic pin-up art, retro advertising or old school Rockwell style realism you'll adore the cool and colorful artwork that springs from the mind of Valery Barykin.

Valery's wonderful illustrations are a bit naughty at times but never too risqué, manage to contain modern devices and such without losing their classic appeal, and the colors and contours are always easy on the eyes.

To say an actor is an actor no matter which stage they're on is discounting the different set of skills needed to act on a stage rather than on a set.

Stage actors must emote, project their voices and move about the space so the audience can see what they're supposed to on stage, and they don't have a hundred takes to get it right.

Get the difference? If not, consult this clip from Conan where screen actor/master thespian Timothy Olyphant demonstrates the different in a most peculiar way. (Barely NSFW due to language)

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I'll never think of the phrase "pan out" the same way ever again!

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People who question or disagree with a scientific theory often have a hard time proving the theory is wrong, and if they want their proof to resonate with the internet community they must put the proof on video.

So when Destin Sandlin, host of SmarterEveryDay, took issue with a Tweet sent by Neil deGrasse Tyson claiming “A helicopter whose engine fails is a brick” he knew he'd actually have to ride in a falling 'copter to debunk the theory.

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Strapping yourself into a falling helicopter to prove it can be landed safely using physics is both sheer lunacy and the most thrilling scientific theory debunking ever caught on video.

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Krispy Kreme donuts are good and all, but eating more than a half dozen in a sitting seems like it would send your system into sugar shock.

Heck, eating half a dozen makes me feel like a total pig, and a dozen would probably put me in a sucrose-related coma, so devouring 50 donuts seems like a one-way ticket to the afterlife.

But model and competitive eater Nela Zisser stared donut-induced death in the face and did the seemingly impossible, devouring 50 Krispy Kreme glazed donuts all while maintaining her modelesque figure.

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I can't imagine how someone can scarf down 9,500 calories worth of sugary fried food and still maintain this figure:

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Maybe Nela has hummingbird DNA?

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Artists who choose to infuse their works with genre specific imagery tend to get stuck in one style of art, such as horror or science fiction, but painter Michael MacRae is different.

His mind is full of stories that he prefers to tell with his paintings, and those stories, while often dark and full of fantastic imagery, can't be constrained to a particular genre.

Michael's paintings invite us to stay a while and figure out what's going on in each scene, and as we invent answers we write our own version of Michael's dark fantasy tales in our minds.

See The Voice Of The Night: The Terrifying And Dark Fantasy Art Of Michael MacRae here

Being in a new relationship can make you feel like you're walking on eggshells, as you try not to move too fast or make too much noise and scare off your potential partner.

But once you reach the comfort zone and settle in for a long term relationship you find that all those pieces of shell stuck in your feet were worth all the frustration and fear.

Now you're free to be your real self, with lots of free time on your hands since you no longer have to worry about bathing or getting all dolled up.

Comic artist Sarah C. Andersen visually explores the changes we undergo when we've finally suckered someone into being in a long-term relationship with us, scan the strips and smile.

See 7 Ways Relationships Change Over Time here

When you head to a baseball game this summer and fall you're going to see all kinds of peanuts and cracker jacks in the stands who'll make you feel like you've unwittingly joined the cast of the Major League reboot.

If you encounter the Overzealous Wave-Starter you should shield your eyes, because she might jump up at any time and you may get slapped. But at least she's not wasted and annoying like Mr. Just Here For The Beer.

Illustrator Kevin Valente has done a great job of capturing the spirit of baseball season by giving us the vital stats on all the fans we'll have to contend with in the stands, like these for old man I Remember When:

Stats:
Times per inning he calls the umpire a “bum”: 7
Fond memories per game: 14
Stories about the past: 21
Stories that start with “In my day…”: 19
Percentage of those stories you’ve already heard before: 95%

See Baseball Cards For Every Type Of Fan here

Chris Evans has proven he's a good guy by giving to charity, making himself to available to fans at conventions and on social media, and making videos for sick fans to show his support.

But Chris is also a warm blooded male, and his love of the ladies is no secret, so when he is presented with a chance to peek at cleavage he takes it.

Only Chris's peek was a full blown stare captured in a photo that made it online, where it was instantly subject to digital modification by the Photoshop gods, who deemed his stare hilarious.

He tried to justify his stare by claiming he saw a chestburster about to emerge and kill them all.

But his fellow Marvel movie stars weren't buying his story, and they weren't too happy about his lascivious conduct either.

And then Travolta came along and made the whole situation even more awkward, which just happens to be the superpower he was granted by the Church of Scientology.

See Hilarious Photoshops Of Chris Evans Caught Staring At Boobs here

People who are proud of their age and choose to look natural rather than dyeing, painting or otherwise concealing the true story their naturally aged head tells the world deserve our respect.

But it's natural for women who grew up wearing makeup every day to miss getting all dolled up when they stop painting their faces, like when they go off to live in a nursing home.

That's when they call in the Cover Girl calvary to give them a makeover and help them feel young again, and lucky for 80-year-old grandma Livia her granddaughter Tea Flego is a talented makeup artist.

Tea came to her grandma's rescue and used contouring makeup techniques to make Livia look years younger, and while she expected to make her grandma feel better about herself she didn't expect to make her internet famous.

Soon after Tea posted the makeover pics online Glam-Ma became a viral sensation, her pic shared by millions who love to see a senior feeling young and frisky again.

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People are way more into recycling these days and will reuse easy stuff like plastic bags and coffee cans to “go green”, but repurposing old junk is a bit harder and may require a bit of inspiration and instruction.

Well, consider this article by Popular Mechanics a great jumping off point for ways to put that old junk lying around your house to work for you.

Have an old tire rim taking up space in your garage? Surround it with some bricks or stones and you've got a handsome and durable tire rim fire pit that will last a lot longer than many store bought fire pits.

Sitting on a bunch of pipe fittings from your last major plumbing repair? Clean them up, add some color and turn those leftover plumbing bits into a custom made Steampunk inspired chess set, which makes a great gift and conversation piece.

Don't know what to do with those old cheese graters after they've started to rust? Make some fun and funky cheese grater pendant lights that look great hanging in a kitchen or dining area.

See 22 Ingenious Ways To Repurpose Old Junk here

Some martial arts are all about striking power, defending against attacks and other similarly martial matters, but Kung Fu has always been about both fighting ability and grace.

The basic patterns learned by practitioners of kung fu teach fluid motion, strong yet graceful movement and body positioning for striking and defending, all while looking like a deadly cool dance.

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German artist Tobias Gremmler has brought the concept of fluid motion to life with a little help from 3D animation software, revealing the invisible ripples a kung fu master creates in the air during their routine.

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George Clooney is famous among the famous for his pranks, and cardboard cutout of a human Ashton Kutcher is such a prankster he had his own prank show called Punk'd, but Clooney's pranks don't end in physical assault.

Punk'd, on the other hand, featured a segment where Donald Faison pranked his Scrubs co-star Zach Braff by making him believe his brand new Porsche had been tagged on by a group of teen ne'er-do-wells.

Donald clearly wasn't aware of Zach's anger issues, nor could he have known Zach would chase down and beat the crap out of a 12-year-old, which they was edited out of the episode because "you're not supposed to punch people on Punk'd".

And speaking of pranks pushing an actor to their limit- Leonardo DiCaprio seems to think beating the crap out of his fellow actors is a funny prank, but Wolf Of Wall Street co-star Jonah Hill isn't a fan of the rough stuff, so he decided to teach Leo a lesson.

Jonah's improv skills gave him the perfect opportunity to prank while filming a scene where he and Leo are eating sushi- the script called for Jonah to eat the last piece but he thought fast and had Leo eat it instead.

The scene was reshot about 70 more times to get the version we saw in the film, which meant Leo had to eat 70 pieces of sushi in one day, leaving him with one hell of a gut ache much to Hill's (and Scorsese's) delight.

Read 7 Celebrity Pranks That Backfired Horrifically here

Taking psychedelic drugs was an integral part of Hippie life back in the 60s and 70s, but not everyone who lived through that experimental era took drugs and tripped out.

Some self described “close minded” people didn't dare mess with their minds by taking drugs when they were younger, but as they grow older they start to wonder what they were missing.

So when a clinical yet caring son found out his 61-year-old mom was open to eating Psilocybin 'shrooms he decided to give her a safe (1 gram) dose and record the experience on video, strictly for the sake of research, of course.

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I'm surprised she experienced such strong effects considering how small a dose she took, but at least she had fun with this freaky little experiment!

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Most automobile madness has something to do with the electrical system, as dying batteries cause cars to do all sorts of strange things, and apparently dying car alarms create funky beats.

A musician named Guamu was walking by a car one day when he heard its dying car alarm laying down a funky beat, which inspired him to

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Hopefully Guamu will share any profits he makes from the song with that poor sick car so it can afford to buy a new battery.

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Ninjas are shady characters full of secrets, and their history is likewise shrouded in mystery to keep outsiders from learning of their ways and ruining all their ninja fun.

But the ninjas we see in pop culture are mutant animals, blonde Americans, and a funny fat guy in Beverly Hills, a far cry from the real shadowy assassins of yore.

Pop culture has been faithful to ninja history in a few ways, namely the fact that there were female ninjas we now call Kunoichi and that ninjas were every bit as honorable as samurai.

The ninja's significance in Japanese history has been overshadowed by the samurai, but if they weren't as important as samurai why did Japanese Lords Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Oda Nobunaga try to kill them all off in the late 16th century?

Ninja warriors were also involved in castle sieges, sometimes using a fun ferris wheel-esque device called a Yagura to quickly launch over the wall and "jump into the fortified position".

But when they preferred a silent but deadly approach ninjas used hooked spears to slip into a castle in the dead of night, as they did in 1562 when Tokugawa Ieyasu hired a team of 80 ninjas to capture Castle Kaminojo and rescue Tokugawa's family.

Read 10 Surprises And Hardcore Legends Concealed In Ninja History here