He's on his way to becoming a tattoo artist extraordinaire while 7-year-old Russian tattoo artist Lisa Jelizaveta is already applying full pieces to clients who end up with a tattoo that looks like what you'd expect from a 7-year-old.
Likewise Lisa's "tattoo gun" looks like a janky jailhouse tat gun to me, so there's another point in The Shark's favor, but I guess if you're in the market for a permanent reminder that you make bad decisions then Lisa's your gal!
SpongeBob SquarePants has a signature look influenced by 60s animation and the slapstick cartoon stylings of John Kricfalusi, both of which keep the show light and whimsical for the kiddies.
But if the show was made in Japan SpongeBob would have been a serious show about a serious young man, with a seriously kickass theme song that contains lyrics like "I sink into the tomorrow where I can't see colors anymore."
And his friends Patrick, Sandy and Squidward would have all been troubled and super serious too, with emotional depth that actually defines who they are as a character.
Eh, maybe this awesome anime intro for SpongeBob SquarePants created by the mighty Narmak is all the anime SpongeBob we can handle...was anybody else disturbed by Patrick's lack of clothing?
Video game consoles have only been around for about forty years, so it will be a few more decades before Gen Xers reach their golden years and start telling "back in my day" stories about Pac-Man high scores and Atari 2600 consoles.
And when the original gamers start dying of old age they'll leave behind epic save files built up over a lifetime, achievements galore and a gamerscore their descendents can be proud of.
But, as this comic by Julia Lepetit shows, they'll also turn funerals into competitive events where the deceased gamer gets to call everyone a noob one last time.
No matter how hard we try we can never truly get rid of those dust bunnies, because they hide out in the oddest places and ride the airwaves to scoot out of the way before our brooms obliterate their fragile bodies.
But if dust bunnies looked like the little critters in Beth Tomashek and Sam Wade's animated short Dust Buddies we'd probably stop hunting them and start keeping them in terrariums!
Kids don't like it when their parents invade their privacy by snooping around in their rooms, but these investigations are necessary to keep our kids safe and make sure they're not getting themselves into trouble.
"I do not know why, but my 8-year-old has taped a mustard packet to his door and labeled it 'Top Secret,'" Reddit user FaustusRedux wrote. Because, of course.
Redditor FaustusRedux didn't know what to think when they found a packet of mustard taped to their 8-year-old's door labeled "Top Secret" but they assumed it was nothing sinister.
On the flip side Redditor bonro started to get worried about their kid when he lost 31 pairs of swim goggles- until they found the missing goggles and cracked the case:
Reddit user bonro spent almost a year buying and re-buying goggles for her 14-year-old son to wear to swim practice, only for them to disappear after just a few uses. She grew more and more frustrated before finally finding all 31 missing pairs at once: They were tucked away in a hole in her 11-year-old daughter's mattress, where the family's pet ferret had apparently been storing them.
Most of the time kids have a perfectly logical explanation for the weird stuff they do in their room, or at least an explanation that makes sense to them, and their answers are almost always adorable:
While cleaning the house one day, commenter comonnow went to return one of his 5-year-old daughter's dolls to her bedroom — where he found every last one of her dolls set up to stare him down as he entered the room. "When my daughter got home from school I had to ask her why, because she had never arranged them like that before, and she casually stated that she wants them all to see her when she gets home," the Reddit user wrote. Fair enough.
Television industry producers and network execs don't like to part with the money flooding in, they'd rather drown in a deluge of cash if they could, so they're not going to take a chance on strange or crappy TV shows.
So it's safe to say shows like Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp, Clutch Cargo and David Cassidy: Man Undercover would not have made it on the air if they were pitched to the TV execs of today.
That being said Clutch Cargo is stupid funny, and Lancelot Link is one of my favorite TV shows of all time because it stars chimps, and who doesn't love chimp actors?
Skate parks are usually kept kinda drab on purpose, because chances are the skaters are going to jack the place up with their boards, and if anything the owners will let people paint all over their pools and walls.
I think the idea of letting patrons paint the place is a cool idea in an urban community sense but I think what artist Marco Mangione, aka Gue, has done with Darsena Popup Skatepark in Ravenna, Italy is even cooler.
Here's a bit more about this project:
gue’s abstract composition of colors, for the darsena popup skatepark, covers the entire park floor — adding a sensory dimension to the overall experience. the artist’s use of curvilinear lines mimic the moment of the skaters, and also highlight the features on the park’s surface — ‘offering an immediate ability to read volumes.’ this project continues gue’s experimentation with color as seen in the artist’s earlier work, a basketball court for carlo carra park in alessandria, italy.
"Go to Australia and see all the amazing sights" they said, "it'll be a life changing experience".
Little did I know there was all kinds of freaky stuff going on in Australia, stuff that will change your life forever but not necessarily in a good way. Stuff that involves marsupial swingers and Vegemite.
I wish I'd read this Mr. Lovenstein comic before I'd gone to Australia, and I wish I'd known my friends who love to travel were so freaky!
Don't you hate it when you fly off a cliff on your motorcycle?
The only good answer to this question is "I have no idea" because if you say "no, I don't hate it" then you have a death wish and if you say "yes" then you've ridden your bike off a cliff and lived to tell the tale- a very ugly tale.
Just ask motorcyclist Matthew Murray about riding off a cliff and he'll tell you- it hurts real bad, and he's got the GoPro footage to prove it.
Matthew is lucky he survived his plunge off the side of a 250-foot cliff in the Santa Monica Mountains, and his video is now a terrifying reminder to ride safely, because the less ugly tales you have to tell the better.
Frank Zappa had strong opinions about all kinds of stuff, and despite a common misconception that he was a "total druggie" Zappa was actually anti-drugs and a cantankerous buzzkill in real life. And when Zappa was interviewed by Howard Smith of The Village Voice in 1971 he did what Zappa often did best- he talked trash.
He called political consciousness, Grand Funk Railroad and feminism fleeting trends, and said living in New York was like doing time.
And even though he'd prove two of these statements were insincere by producing a Grand Funk album and adding female marimbist Ruth Underwood to The Mothers Of Invention fans knew to take Zappa's rants with a grain of salt.
Have you ever wondered what orange juice companies do with all the peels from the fruit they juice?
The tons of leftover pulp and peels are typically burned or tossed in a landfill, but in 1997 ecologists Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs came up with a better way to dispose of peels- dump them on deforested land:
In 1997, the pair approached the orange juice company and had a proposition for them. If they donated a piece of completely unspoiled, forested land to the Área de Conservación Guanacaste, then they could dump their discarded peels and pulp free of charge.
The place where they would dump the orange juice waste was a heavily grazed and deforested piece of land. The orange juice company agreed to the bargain. A year later, a thousand trucks came in and dumped over 12,000 metric tons of messy, sticky, orange-compost onto the land.
The agri-waste was supposed to act as compost and renew the stripped soil, but Daniel and Winnie wouldn't know how spot on their peel disposal proposal had been until decades later:
After 16 years, Janzen had a graduate student named Timothy Treuer take a look at the spot and report back with his findings. He gave him directions to the sign they created; there shouldn’t be any issues locating the plot.
He wandered around for half an hour, and without any luck, couldn’t find the sign that Janzen had him set out to locate. Treuer called Janzen for some more details about the sign’s location. He returned a week later to the exact spot that Janzen elaborated on — but still, there was no sign in sight. They knew, though, that this was the plot of land they had the company dump on so many years ago.
When they realized they were looking at the correct plot of land, they were shocked. It looked nothing like the surrounding area anymore.
Compared to the adjacent land, Treuer said the side-by-side comparison was like “night and day.”
“It was just hard to believe that the only difference between the two areas was a bunch of orange peels. They look like completely different ecosystems,” he says. The vegetation was so incredibly thick; they could still not locate the sign.
Hummingbirds are beautiful little birds and fun to watch flit about when they pay your house a visit, but they also like to tussle with each other, and other birds, which then becomes a different kind of spectacle.
So it seems really strange to see a whole bunch of hummingbirds, thirty to be exact, just hanging out together at a pool party without any drama, cool but strange. Oh wait, from the video description:
A record 30 hummingbirds bathe together at one time during this morning’s wash! You’d never know they will be harassing each other in five minutes’ time…
When cats and dogs and parrots and rabbits and rodents are all too ordinary to be your pets you're either very picky, very jaded from past experiences, or you just really like the idea of diversifying your pet interests.
The owner of the aardvark above says he doesn't make a very good pet but maybe a buffalo is a dream pet in a mighty large package, who am I to judge those who choose to dine with their bison?
Actually that looks like it would be really neat to do as long as the buffalo doesn't sneeze or spit on you while you're eating, and hangin' with a buffalo seems way more chill than hangin' with a kanga. I'll have no roughhousing under my roof!
Most guard dogs will follow their human around so they can keep an eye on them and sleep near their humans at night, but a dog that watches over people while they fall asleep is taking defense a bit too far.
But as the man discussed in this video discovered, his adoped golden retriever wasn't watching him from the doorway while he slept to guard him- the dog just wanted to make sure his new human wasn't going to abandon him in the middle of the night.
It's nice to be reminded that dogs have feelings too, and I don't know about you but this story gave me all the feels! *sniff* I wish my dog would watch me sleep at night...
It's a good idea to get a bit nicknamey when choosing a name for your personal email account, especially if you have a name that people will puzzle over when shortened.
For instance- if my name was Donald O. Treply I would name my account TrippinTreply6969 or 69Don69 or DonnyDonDon6969, because DONOTREPLY ain't gettin' no responses, man!
This comic from Pear-Shaped Comics applies to exactly five people named Donald O. Trepley, and if they're all reading this they should all change their email address at once so they don't get lonesome.
