YouTuber Khalid SM Shahin digitally added the voices of Beavis and Butt-Head from the cartoon of the same name to the 1989 Legend of Zelda cartoon. Beavis is obnoxiously eager to develop a deeper relationship with Princess Zelda, daughter of King Butt-Head.
Beavis, an incarnation of the Hero with a Thousand Faces, prevails and acquires his reward. It is, perhaps, not what he expected. Then, in the final two minutes of the cartoon, things get really weird.
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You can talk to Alexa. You can ask her questions and give her commands. But she doesn't have a physical body--or at least something even vaguely human.
But let's say that Alexa had a human body. Specifically, a hot, sensuously muscular male body that responds to your deepest desires. The advertising firm Lucky Generals tells the funny story of one Alexa owner and her beleaguered husband.
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Do you need to work from home, but don't have a good home office available? Japan, the nation that perfected the vending machine, has a solution. Sora News 24 tells us about the Telecube, which is a complete, portable office:
A Telecube has everything one person needs to work or study efficiently: a charging station, electrical outlets, a WiFi connection, and soundproof walls so you can get those Zoom meetings done. There’s even a ventilation option so you can change out the air, a much-appreciated option in these hazardous times.
The price is about $2.37 for 15 minutes of access.
Photo: Telecube
How is this a metaphor for love? Well, you've got to have the billiard balls to say how you really feel about someone you care for. And your execution must, sometimes, be perfect.
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Johan Martin, a master pastry chef, is a specialist in Viennoiserie, a particular type of puff pastry. The Cordon Bleu school describes it as:
[...] the 'bridge' between pâtisserie and French bread. These goods are typically made with white flour and active yeast cultures, which cause the dough to rise quickly and achieve the perfect flakiness. Some are instead made using an enriched puff pastry.
In an interview with So Good magazine, Martin insisted that "The perfect croissant does not exist." But his work, such as this astonishing chessboard, suggests otherwise.
Villu Jaanisoo is an Estonian sculptor who lives and teaches in Finland. His source materials include everyday discarded materials, such as tires. Elephant is a life-sized public sculpture made from them and erected in 2018.
Jaanisoo's current project is an even more ambitious build: a fully functional art studio and gallery that floats in Helsinki's harbor.
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Child prodigy Luca Yupanqui is launching her musical career early. She's 15 months old now, but her new album, Sounds of the Unborn, is a retrospective compilation from her time in the womb. Her parents, Elizabeth Hart and Iván Diaz Mathé, recorded her in-utero sounds and then digitally remixed them. CNN reports:
"The electrodes receive electromagnetic impulses that are translated into MIDI and then hooked up to synthesizers," Hart told CNN. The MIDI devices were placed on Hart's womb over 5 sessions, each one-hour long.[...]
In a release by Sacred Bones, Luca's music is defined as "the expression of life in its cosmic state -- pre-mind, pre-speculation, pre-influence, and pre-human."
Here's a sample from the album. As you can hear, Luca has a promising career ahead of her.
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In the middle of the Japanese countryside, there's a train station. You can exit the train, but you can't go anywhere. There are no roads or paths away from the station and no one lives in the area.
Why does it exist? Spoon & Tamago tells us that the Seiryū-Miharashi Station was built solely to allow people to enjoy the natural beauty of the Nishiki River flowing through the forest. After you disembark and breathe in the mountain air, the next train will pick you up in about 10-15 minutes.
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Food artist Erik Vernieuwe and photographer Kris De Smedt operate Burp, a food photography studio. Lately, they have been altering hot dogs to show famous scenes from movies and works of art. You'll recognize E.T., the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and others.
The full length nudes in the series are especially . . . strange.
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There is a single bright spot in this crisis: if you're going to die, it's not because of one of those profoundly annoying Liberty Mutual ads. So in the instant that your consciousness vaporizes with your body, it will retain a bit of dignity.
How would a centaur ride a bike? As the anime series A Centaur's Life teaches us, a lot of design modifications are necessary for centaurs who live in a bipedal-majority world. But those changes can be done. Kyle Scheele becomes the center and centaur of attention whenever he rides this two-person bicycle that becomes serves as a costume.
This is one of Scheele's many creations with cardboard. It is, perhaps, not his most extraordinary. When he turned 30 a few years ago, he held a Viking funeral for his 20s.
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Spock rocks. 🖖🤘
— Star Trek on CBS All Access (@startrekcbs) February 7, 2021
See what awaits our heroes at the peak of Paramount Mountain during today's big game. #ParamountPlus pic.twitter.com/LymkkMzZOm
I am informed that there was a significant football game last night. More importantly, the most prized television commercials of the year aired. CBS debuted a series of short ads featuring characters from Paramount's deep bench journeying together to the summit of the mountain on that company's logo.
The results are very funny, such as Spock jamming to SpongeBob SquarePants singing "Sweet Victory" by David Glen Eisley. Other stars appearing together include Patrick Stewart on air guitar, Stephen Colbert working the bar, Dora the Explorer, and Tom Selleck.
Oddity Central brings to our attention this amazing desert. It's called shiltarae bingsu. These fine noodles are actually made of shaved ice! Cafe Tiravento in Seoul, South Korea, makes it.
As I explored that restaurant's Instagram page, I found other amazing dishes that rival shiltarae bingsu as edible works of art.
My number #1 rule in life (Jordan Peterson has 12, but I have 20) is "Always wear shoes you can run in. You never know what the day may bring." That's why fashion designer Beate Karlsson now has my undivided attention.
What are your fashion needs? Do you need shorts that make you look like you have Kim Kardashian's posterior? Do you need shoes that look like giant human hands? Beate Karlsson has you covered.
Now I know that it's common to scoff at fashion designers' more... imaginative improvements to haute couture. They tantalize us with designs that never appear in stores. Well, I have good news! You can actually buy these shoes!
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