The kids may be back to school and Labor Day may already have passed, but summer doesn't technically end until September 22. So if you're one of those procrastinators that still needs to get out to the beach, maybe these awesome Disney sand sculptures will give you the motivation you need to enjoy a little more summer before the season crawls to a close.

Brave

To announce the release of Brave back in 2012, Disney World made this impressive sculpture. Keys to the Magic Travel even noted that she knew the sculpture was real because after it rained that day, the art already needed a little repair.

Wall-E

Hans Veneman spotted this impressive Wall-E tribute at the Disney-themed European Sand Sculptures Festival in Noordwijk.

Sleeping Beauty

You'd have to be asleep to not appreciate the beauty of this amazing creation displayed at the European Sand Sculptures Festival in Noordwijk also photographed by Hans Veneman.

Fantasia

Comics have a consistent release schedule that leaves a lot of room for mistakes, and yet a surprisingly low number of errors make it into print.

It's easy to assume syndicated comics would be full of errors since they're (generally) released daily, but errors that occur are usually the publisher's fault and not the creator's, even though it's the creators who feel the backlash in the end.

Garfield's Jim Davis felt this backlash back in 2010 when a strip he'd drawn nearly a year earlier was released on Veteran's Day and taken out of context as an insult against veterans.

In the world of comic books screw-ups are usually a result of an artist or writer's poor judgment, since errors are generally caught by editors before the issue is printed.

Stan Lee was working as editor when he allowed Marvel's Tales Of Suspense #92 to be printed with a terrible joke told by Captain America, a guy not generally known for his clever quips.

The joke was seen as "one of the funniest lines of dialogue in cartooning history", and later reprints feature a "corrected" version of the joke.

Read 8 Memorable Comics Screw-Ups at mental_floss

Producers have to adhere to a strict budget and milestone timeline to get their film completed per studio standards, and if a film seems like it's going over budget they pull the plug and move on to the next project.

But many crafty filmmakers have figured out ways to work around budget constraints, and their movie making on the cheap became the stuff of Hollywood legend.

Take the Monty Python crew for instance- they wanted to have real life horses in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but they were shooting on a budget and simply could not afford them.

So they resurrected an old time foley trick and turned two coconut halves into the clop of a horse's hooves, and one of the most iconic gags in comedy history was born.

Read 7 Times Being Totally Cheap Resulted In Movie Magic here

Anthony Bourdain has bridged the gap between the culinary and entertainment industries, and his various projects have always been on the cutting edge of cool, so you know his new show will be a cut above the rest.

He teamed up with The Balvenie Distillery for the new web series Raw Craft with Anthony Bourdain, which will showcase some of the world's most gifted craftspeople.

For episode 4 he paid a visit to the studio of Bob Kramer, a master bladesmith who uses the Japanese stacking technique used to create katanas to turn meteorite into a beautiful, and remarkably sharp, knife that left Bourdain in awe.

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Read more about Bourdain's trip to Bob Kramer's workshop at Nerdist

Redditor SecondSuitor has good taste. He likes sloths and he likes movies. That's why it only made sense for him to combine the two in his amazing tattoos. He even has a whole sleeve of them including The Labyrinth, Ghostbusters, The Goonies, Friday the 13th and more.

While the tattoos are all pretty incredible, there's something so fitting and perfect about seeing Sloth as an actual sloth.

Via Nerd Approved

The Instagram self portrait posting craze is so out of control that even Barbie, the vainest doll of them all, has begun making fun of the self obsessed via social media.

The Instagram account @socalitybarbie shares images of the plastic fashion icon sporting a hipster style and going through the social media selfie motions, including the obligatory bathtub shot

The “I'm just out exploring the world and being totally happy with my life, and this candid photo proves it” shot

And the “here's what I'm having for lunch” shot that never gets old (if only we could outline sarcasm like we do links)

Maybe if the selfie obsessed see a Barbie doll demonstrating how artificial these shots look it will persuade these portrait posters to find a new way to fill that void in their lives. May I suggest starting a Barbie doll collection?

-Via DesignYouTrust

When you're trying to add some imaginative elements to your home by painting a mural on the wall it doesn't hurt to paint in a few visual surprises, some hidden elements that delight the viewer upon discovery.

And if you really want to transport visitors and residents alike to a world of wonder you should take a note from artist Giorgi Makharashvili and add some black light reactive paint to the piece.

Giorgi was recruited to paint a transforming mural on friend Keti Sidamonidze's bedroom wall, and he delivered a piece that goes from sitting cat and simple landscape in the light to fierce tiger face and magical moonlight dreamscape under the black light.

See more pics of the painting process and finished piece at Nerd Approved

Defining what is or isn't "punk" is a very subjective matter, with people throwing in opinions ranging from "who gives a crap?" to "mohawks and hair spray and studded leather, oh my!" or "punk is punk, eff off!"

But you know what absolutely is not, and will never be, punk?

Posing for a series of stock photos dressed up like prototypical “punkers”, that's what, which is why these stock photos of "punks" and "punkers" are so darn funny.

They are visually crafted to scream PUNK! loud and clear, whether you're looking for an image of punks hanging around in a board room discussing punk business type stuff:

Or when you need a pic of a young punk couple enjoying a night out the Sid and Nancy way. Whatever the punk pic need there's a stock photo available that will prove you're hep to that punker jive!

See Nothing Says Anarchy Like These Hilarious Stock Photos of 'Punkers' at Dangerous Minds

Pop culture themed cereals are still around today, but the 80s and 90s were truly the heyday for geeky cereals, when the cereal aisle was full of sugary bits in boxes sporting our favorite characters.

These cereals were created to appeal to pop culture obsessed kids and give the Saturday morning cartoon crowd a way to link breakfast to the shows and movies they were watching and the games they were playing.

Knowing these cereals will probably never come back gives me a wistful feeling, but articles created by geeks like me let me relive those sugary sweet days of devouring pop culture by the bowlful.

GeekTyrant's 21 Awesome Cereals From The 80s And 90s That Our Kids Will Never Enjoy will make you feel like a kid again one bowl at a time, and every entry includes the original TV commercial!

Adam Savage generally has a good idea of what the outcome will be when he tests fictional science concepts with real world science, and he loves taking a major part of a pop culture franchise and putting it to the test.

This time around he's tackling the issue of blasters in Star Wars, which he says people have been wrongly referring to as "laser blasters" for decades.

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Star Wars fans know the blasters actually fire particle beam energy which is referred to as a "bolt", but others assume these colorful bolts are lasers, which spurred Adam to prove once and for all that they can't be lasers.

He also proves something rather unexpected during the test- those blaster bolts were mighty slow,  no wonder the Stormtroopers can't hit the broad side of a Star Destroyer!

-Via Boing Boing

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George Lucas intended for his films to, in a way, rhyme. This inspired Pablo Fernández Eyre to find the similarities in visual narrative between the original trilogy and the new trilogy. Lucas intended to tell a very old story--not simply one that set long ago--but one intimately familiar to people. Star Wars resonates with people for that reason. In this video, Eyre shows Lucas did that in often small ways.

-via Nerd Approved

The National Air and Space Museum in Washington is restoring the 11-foot model of the USS Enterprise that was used in the TV series Star Trek from 1966 to 1969. It was donated to the Smithsonian in 1974, and was on display until 2014. But the ship doesn’t look the way it did when the series first aired in 1966, and the museum wants your help to make it so.  

The ship has been modified eight times since it was built in 1964. But the studio model's 1967 appearance in the episode “Trouble with Tribbles” was the last time the Enterprise was modified during the original "Star Trek" television series.

Fans are encouraged to submit firsthand, original images or film of the ship under construction, during filming or on public display at any time before 1976. For more information about submitting material, contact StarshipEnterprise@si.edu and look for updates about the project on social media channels using #MilestonesofFlight.

The plan is to put the restored Enterprise back on display in 2016 in the new Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall.

(Image credit: Flickr user Paolo Rosa)

The Death Star may have been constructed for nefarious purposes but that doesn't mean it wasn't a masterfully crafted work of militaristic architecture, that is, except for that gaping exhaust port.

How was the architect to know the Rebels would have a farm boy turned magic space wizard flying for them?

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Dorkly created this hilarious lo-rez look at what the Death Star's architect had to say about the exhaust port fiasco, and to his credit he certainly seems to know how an exhaust port works!

There are all kinds wedding cakes that incorporate the couple’s favorite geek interest, from comic book superheroes to TV shows to movies to video games. But what if you like them all? Here’s a cake, which may have been for a pre-wedding event, that splits open to show a variety of fandoms inside. There’s Batman, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars, and …please help me out with the rest. This lovely cake from Divine Cakes was featured in Cake Wreck’s Sunday roundup of beautiful and well-made cakes, this week called Geek Chic Wedding Cakes. The rest of the cakes are pretty neat, too!

(Photo: Little Free Library, UK)

The Little Free Library is a public service concept that began in Wisconsin and has swept across the world. People are building birdhouse-sized libraries, filling them with books, and leaving them in public places. Take a book, read it, and leave a book.

The UK's Little Free Library Project grew (you don't build a TARDIS, but grow one) this suprisingly roomy library. Despite its Gallifreyan orgin, most books inside are in English. It will tour Britain, bringing reading experiences across the country. Just listen for the signature womping sound of it materializing near you.

-via Bookshelf