Yehuda Devir (left) and his wife Maya (center) are the happy parents of Ariel (right) a growing baby. Yehuda and Maya are both artists and, appropriately, illustrate their adventures together in an ongoing comic series titled One of These Days. In it, the parents address the joys, anxieties, and tribulations of raising a baby.

You can follow their labors on Instagram or view a roundup of their babycare-related cartoons at My Modern Met.

Adam Hillman is an artist, but more humbly refers to himself as an "object arranger". Lately, the objects that he has been arranging into mosaics are colored paperclips. Here is his recreation of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night.

Japanese artist Marina Fujiwara busies herself with "wasted creations" -- inventions that serve little to no practical purpose. For example, she made a pair of nunchaku that, when flipped into one armpit, take her body temperature.

For those of you working from home, she also has tools that will let you fake a Zoom loading error or, nonetheless, motivate you to keep working.

You can view more of Fujiwara's work on YouTube and Instagram.

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There's a special surprise inside this cheesecake prepared by redditor cookingwithkatie: whole raspberry cream puffs! It's a dessert inside a dessert, so it's nearly a turducken version of cheesecake. This is apparently a no-bake cheesecake, which helps explain how the cream puffs stayed together so well.

Sora News 24 reports that Japanese-language Twitter is circulating a photo of a page from an English language textbook. The humorous practice dialogue features a heartless wife who's hungry and doesn't care what her supper costs her beleaguered husband. She has inspired fan art that will hopefully be placed in the next edition of the book.

Jim Bachor is a Chicago-based mosaic artist who often fills ugly potholes with his art. He writes that:

In the ancient world, mosaics were used to capture images of everyday life. These colorful pieces of stone or glass set in mortar were the photographs of empires long past. 

Appropriately, he recently filled several potholes in one street with images of supplies that have become especially important while in lockdown. You can view more at Colossal.

Graphic designer Josh Berta set to work digitally altering classic book covers for the Covid-19 era. Here, Earnest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises tells of a different lost generation.

Andy Murdock, the editor of The Statesider travel blog, has been fascinated by fonts since he first got a Macintosh computer in 1984 that offered different fonts, many of them named for places.

Bored while in quarantine, Murdock decided to find out how many fonts were named for places in the US. He stopped at 222, although he admits that he could have kept searching for more, and placed them at their correct locations on a map. You can view his zoomable image here.

In addition to the map, he provides a list of fonts by state. West Virginia has only 1, but California has 23. Miss Cellania's home state of Kentucky has 3, including the deliciously named Kentuckyfried.

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It looks just like a tiny zen rock garden! This is the work of Japanese artist and designer Manami Sasaki, who has lately been sculpting slices of toast into elaborate works of art. In this case, the sand substitute is sour cream carefully raked with a fork.

There has been a mill on the site of the Sturminster Newton Mill in Dorset, UK since 1016. The current structure dates back to the 18th Century. It continued to operate until 1970, when it was turned into a museum.

Since then, the old equipment operated sporadically for the amusement of tourists. During the current pandemic, that has turned into a very good thing indeed. The mill has now re-opened to mill flour for local stores. The BBC talked to its operator, Pete Loosmore:

Mr Loosmore said the mill usually gets through a tonne of grain during the tourist season but this increased when local shops started reporting shortages of flour.

"This year we have got through the whole of that tonne in two to three weeks and we're still chasing more and more grain," he said.

"It's been nice to bring the place truly back to life and back into something like it used to be when it was working six days a week."

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Gourd crafts can be fun, but the shapes are often impractical for daily usage. With The Gourd Project, Jun Aizaki of the CRÈME design house is trying to change that. To reduce waste from packaging, he's making completely biodegradable cups, jars, and vases from gourds.

From a farm in Pennsylvania, Aizaki is able to grow complete vessels in six weeks. He grows the gourds inside molds with optimal shapes.

Molding gourds is not new. What is new about Aizaki's project is his objective of making this process available for mass production. He writes:

We plan to initially invest money towards R+D, so we can grow the gourds in both indoor farming facilities and outdoor farms, allowing us to scale up the quantity and lower the price per gourd. The goal is to keep the high quality and quantity, so that The Gourd can be a viable challenger to the plastic waste industry.

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Redditor /u/kethtoper is a stained glass artist with a geeky soul. Lately, he's be recreating icons of the Star Wars universe as beautiful glass and wood lamps, such as this AT-ST.

February 14, 2019 was a beautiful day onboard the USS Momsen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. As she sailed in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Ensign Kathryn Hunter photographed the 5-inch/54 caliber Mark 45 gun framed by a rainbow.

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Jigsaw puzzles have faced a huge resurgence in popularity lately. If you want one to spike your anxiety levels (because we all need that right now), then try The Accident by Yelldesign. It looks like glass, but is actually a sheet of acrylic carefully cut to look like a shattered window pane.

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Inside the Puratos bakery in St. Vith, Belgium, is a carefully curated library of sourdough starters. Its librarian, Karl De Smedt, watches over now 84 distinct sourdough starters. He and his staff carefully tend to the living collection by refreshing the doughs every two months according to their original recipes. Some of those doughs are over a hundred years old.

You can take a virtual tour of the library here.

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