Slight, 2014
Toronto-based artist Winnie Truong created her artwork using nothing but pencil crayons, paper, and awesomeness. We love her Rites of Passages series, which depicted two mane things she loves to draw: skulls and hair. What unbeweavable talent!
Mature Buds, 2014
Pearl, 2014
Oblivion, 2014
Debutante, 2014
View more of Truong's excellent artwork over at her website and Facebook, but let's knot get tied up in all the hair puns, eh?
Just in case you missed it, the Department of Redundancy Department, Traffic Subdivision, would like to point out that the sign is a Stop Sign.
Take off your shoes, ya filthy humans! Do I have to do everything around here? Would it pawsibly kill you to pick up the mop and clean up a bit here? Help meow-t ... What am I a cat or the cleaning lady? So pre-paw-sterous!
Watch this cat mop the floor and complain about it throughout - via Cute Overload
Photo: WLWT
Last week, a semitrailer carrying two thousands pigs suffered a big bad crash on Ohio's Highway 35 in Xenia. Recently, are residents came across a touching memorial to the pigs on the side of the road that look straight out of the fairy tales!
The Dayton Daily News reported that the houses, modeled out of the Three Little Pigs fable, are made from straw, sticks, and bricks were discovered early Monday morning and have been slowing down traffic and attracting on-lookers.
Even though the Big Bad Wolf huffed and puffed and couldn't blow these houses down, the local police department did. They removed the houses to avoid traffic accidents and people crossing the highway to take pictures of the houses.
The police and the media wanted to know who built the fairy tale houses, but so far, no one's squealed.
(Photos: Dayton Daily News)
Lisa posted about Andy Stattmiller's amazingly cool The Big Lebowski nesting dolls before on Neatorama, but the rest of his nesting doll series are so awesome that we can't resist another post. Behold, Andy Stattmiller's pop culture-inspired nesting dolls:
That Hulk? Smashingly awesome! Stattmiller assembled the Avengers Nesting Dolls together with the following heroes: The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Vision, The Scarlet Witch, and The Wasp.
Stattmiller followed up his Avengers set with the villains version: Dr. Doom, Thanos, Kang the Conqueror, Ultron, Red Skull, Loki and The Leader.
Who has the power ... to create awesome He-Man Nesting Dolls? Andy Stattmiller, that's who. Here are Skeletor, He-Man, Battlecat, She-Ra and Orko.
These Pulp Fiction Nesting Dolls are much, much better than Royale with Cheese. From left to right: Marcellus Wallace, Vincent Vega, Jules Winnfield, Mia Wallace, Butch Coolidge, The Wolf and The Gimp.
Priced at $3,000 a set over at Gallery 1988, the only way we could afford one is to start a high-tech superlab! Featured are Walter White, Jesse Pinkman, Mike Ehrmantraut, Saul Goodman, Skylar White with Baby Holly, Hank Schrader, Gustavo Fring, and Pink Teddy Bear.
The Pekingese make cute lap dogs, but did you know that they were also bred as personal guard dogs to royalties in Imperial China?
The smallest and most ferocious ones were called "Sleeve" Pekingese or just "Sleeves" because emperors and courtiers would carry the dogs around in their sleeves. When their owners felt threatened, they'd release the dogs to attack and scare off the unfortunate fellow. According to the Pekingese Club of America, the dogs were "the ancient Chinese version of mace."
And if you've ever seen a Pekingese, you'd know how protective and aggressive it can be. So the next time you see a cute Pekingese, you'd know that it's actually a descendant of vicious imperial guard dogs of ancient China!
Artwork: Robotic Dad by Naolito
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Image: Homeward Bound Pet Shelter/Facebook
Maybe instead of downward dog, that should be called downward cat!
We know that cats are very limber creatures so perhaps it's natural that they'd belong in a yoga studio.
Last week, no-kill animal shelter Homeward Bound partnered with Yoga at Connie's of Decatur, Illinois to raise awareness for the cat adoption month of June, and perhaps even find new homes for some of the shelter's cats.
"Now, no screaming if a cat jumps on you," said studio owner Connie Pease, who led the human-cat yoga class last week. "The ones that were really active really made the class a lot of fun. They jumped on the students and kissed them. One had their butt in my face, but we had so much fun with them."
The whole thing got started when a 12-year-old cat named Oreo jumped on shelter volunteer Jeanette Skaluba's shoulder when she was doing yoga. "Cats rule the internet," Skaluba told Herald & Review, so why not see if they can also bring some fun into a yoga class, raise some funds and perhaps find some of them a new home.
"A lot of people find shelters depressing, Skaluba told The Dodo, "By taking the cats to something like a yoga class, people have the opportunity to see and interact with them outside the shelter. It gives these cats exposure and shows their personality. I think people can envision these pets in their home easier because they're outside the shelter."
Image: Richard Jones
There's a joke in here somewhere!
Richard Jones of Palatka, Florida, and his family were walking along the Oaklawaha River in the Ocala National Forest, when he spotted a racoon on top of an alligator.
Jones told WFTV that his son had startled a raccoon, which stumbled into the water and hopped on top of the alligator nearby. "I snapped a lucky picture right when the gator slipped into the water and before the raccoon jumped off and scurried away. Without the context you'd think the raccoon was hitching a ride across the river. Pretty amazing."
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Backyard Chickens
Actually, the chicken's born that way. It's a rare Vietnamese breed called the Dong Tao chicken, which is prized for its meat and leggy looks. A male adult with big feet could fetch hundreds of dollars.
And yes, they do eat the feet. It's a delicacy:
Photo: melissa_scottish/Instagram
Russian photographer Alina Esther has a super cute Scottish Fold cat named Melissa that's been dubbed the Einstein of Cats. And you can surely see why: Melissa has a super long tongue that sticks out most of the time. Add a dash of perplexed look, and ... Nailed it! (Or maybe we should say, licked it!)
Photo: Danielle Taylor/Facebook
When her school decided this year's prom theme was "Sweet Dreams" or "Candy Land," high school student Danielle Taylor said "Prom, you have failed this high school" and proceeded to design and wear this awesome Green Arrow-inspired prom dress.
I'd say that Danielle really hit the target!
Summer is coming, and in many hot places, cat owners often shave their felines to keep them cool, reduce shedding and hairballs. And if you're a Game of Thrones fan, you can humiliate, er, turn your cat into a dragon with this Dragon Cut trim by The Main Lion cat grooming salon of Paoli, Pennsylvania.
But if you choose to go this route, be wary as the night is dark and full of terror. A cat always pays its debt.
Photo: Carrie Doig/Facebook
Every school has a rock star. For the kids at Alan Shepard Elementary School in Bourbonnais, Illinois, that rock star is Steve Weidner. He's so popular that each and every second grade student lined up near the school's playground to get him to sign their yearbooks.
But Weidner, or "Mr. Steve" as the kids called him, is not the Principal or a teacher. He's actually the school's janitor!
"He pays attention to the kids ... he knows who they are," Principal Shirley Padera said about Weidner to WGNTV, "The kids know if anything happens, Mr. Steve is going to take care of it."
"I walked through the playground to get through the building and they saw me and started running," Weidner told ABC Good Morning America, "You get one, you get them all. Once they got a line I sat down." Weidner signed all 104 of the second grader's yearbooks after lunch, and 200 more from other classes that day.
After the school district posted the photo of kids lining up for Weidner's autograph on Facebook, the image was posted to reddit and went viral.
When interviewed by MTV, Weidner professed to be caught by surprise at his Internet fame. "I’ve been signing yearbooks for years, but this is the first time that a picture had been taken. This was also the first year it’s been this crazy, because it was later in the day and the kids were already done. But I didn’t expect more then a few comments from parents on the Facebook page," Weidner said, "It gives a lot of positive exposure to custodians and shows you don’t have have to be a teacher to play a big part in a kid’s life. That’s all I’m trying to do."
Photo: Alien Cat Matilda
Is that an adorable cat or our new alien overlord so cute that she's out of this world?
Meet Matilda, a regular terrestrial tabby with a mysterious condition that caused her eyes to grow into large, dark alien-like orbs. Matilda's owners adopted the cat from a rescue group that removed her from a hoarder's home as a kitten. Back then, her eyes were normal.
One day, her right eye went black. "The regular vets were for the most part stumped," Matilda's owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, told PEOPLE, "After she saw a specialist we learned that it is a spontaneous lens luxation, which means that the lens detached from the rest of the eye for no known reason. This is the mysterious part of the problem since she is an otherwise healthy cat."
Eventually, Matilda's other eye also developed the same condition, and both of her eyes grew larger, giving the cat her distinct alien look.
"Unfortunately for Matilda ... she is developing glaucoma and will inevitably have to have surgery despite the difficult healing process," the cat's owner added.
Read more about Matilda' story over at her website and Instagram.
