Call me cynical, but I'm beginning to suspect that the "Disney Princesses as..." meme may be played out. That's the point that Artist Kevin Bolk appears to be making with these six illustrations. He writes:
You’ve never seen them like this before. Mind blown!
I can think of a few other directions artists could take the meme. Artists could draw the Disney Princesses as:
-via Travis Falligant
(Photo: 64Olds)
I admire this ice cream parlor for offering a different take on cones. Maybe it could also offer retinal, volcanic, and traffic. Now place your order.
-via Tastefully Offensive
Communication at work or home would be very different for us if we took the canine approach. I'm not sure that it would be better. But I'm certain that blog comments would be even more interesting to experience.
(Photo: Portland Superheroes Coalition)
Kirk Damato of BuzzFeed had a brilliant idea. He recently attended the Rose City Comic Con in Portland, Oregon. While there, he asked artists to participate in a game that would result in a comic book story.
The process were simple: an artist drew on the whiteboard. Damato then gave the whiteboard to the next artist, who erased it and added his or her own content. As a result, each artist saw only the previous panel, resulting in a bizarre but amusing story:
(Image: Aubrey Aiese)
(Image: Wook Jin Clark)
(Photo: Zachary Sterling)
(Image: Kel McDonald)
You can read the other 22 panels at BuzzFeed.
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Now I have a new goal in life. It is to be cooler than this guy. I'm not sure how I'll pull it off. But it has to be more awesome than having a haircut that makes your head look like a pineapple.
Here's a video that shows how this man pictured above--or possibly someone else--got his pineapple hairstyle. Jamie Jay Car Videos recorded Wayne Marshall visiting Kube Barbers in Clearwater, Florida to get pineappled.
If the photo shows someone other than Mr. Marshall getting a pineapple head, then there are at least two such gentlemen in the world, making my new life ambition even more challenging.
-via Flavorwire
How exactly is this armor supposed to protect a woman embarking on a dangerous quest in a fantasy universe? Well, you're missing the point. It is supposed to be, uh, a fantasy. It's not realistic, as Jeremy Whitley and M. Goodwin point out in this selection from Princeless Book 1: Save Yourself.
In this graphic novel series, Princess Adrienne plans to rescue herself instead of waiting for someone to save her. So she needs to be properly equipped for any contingency.
But she has no need to fear this armorer's wares. Stjepan Sejic has already explained how chainmail bikinis work.
Continue reading to read more from the scene.
It’s not necessarily the most popular food, but it’s the food that more people in that state are tweeting about than any other. In Texas, we talk about brisket because, well, brisket is awesome. Miss Cellania’s Kentucky is tacoland. In Wyoming, people want to share their thoughts about watercress.
The Twitter4Food research team at the University of Arizona published an online paper and a set of interactive data visualizations to share the results of their study of 3.5 million tweets published between October 2013 and May 2014.
You can search the United States to see who has an interest in particular foods, such as sheep brains (a traditional Southern delicacy).
You can also create heat maps for the entire world to see what regions are tweeting about foods, such as this map showing tweets about Scotch eggs.
-via First We Feast
Andy Clark saw a clock like this on a children’s television show and decided to build one. His Topsy Turvy Clock has stepper motors connected to two plastic gears which are guided by a microcontroller hooked into an electronic clock. When the Topsy Turvy Clock is turned on, the motors reset the time according to the electronic clock.
-via Hack A Day
Beardmaster James Myrick is an artist with his own facial hair. We’ve previously seen several of his truly beardly acts of beardism. Most recently, he inscribed the word “beard” into his beard, resulting in a beard beard. This inspired me to pose to him an even more beardly challenge:
@JohnCFarrier I'll think about it.
— James Myrick (@hospitalcup) September 22, 2014(Photo: Team Kanye Daily)
Rapper Kanye West is already the subject of a college course. Now he's teaching one. In March, he was sentenced to serve 250 hours of community service for beating a paparazzi photographer. To serve that time, he's chosen to teach a course on fashion at the Los Angeles Trade Technical College, a community college.
Professor West is discreet about his teaching, revealing little about his activities at the college. But a few photos from his students have leaked out.
-via College Insurrection
Redditor MDPPatrick snapped this photograph at just the right moment. His brother tossed the basketball into the air. When the camera shutter opened, the ball was blocking out the sun, creating the impression of a solar eclipse.
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It's a beautiful and grand statue that you walk by every day. You ignore it until it settles into the background of your life. But other people see great opportunities for hilarious photos. Abraham of 22 Words rounded up 34 pictures of people playing around with statues to great comedic effect.
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Vanja Vinter made this stroller that is perfect for a Gallifreyan baby. Both the outside and the inside (the latter of which is larger) are stylishly decorated in the colors and patterns you'd expect from a Whovian.
So take your baby out in the pram. It's chilly out, so wear a bonnet. Bonnets are cool.
-via Nerd Approved
(Bob Ross and one of his paintings by mcampbell1023)
(The monster under the bed by abbysamps)
Sure, you and your friend can go to the company Halloween party as Adam and Eve. But there are other, more inventive couple costumes that you can wear together. Alanna Okum of BuzzFeed rounded up 41 two-person costumes that show a flair for originality, including a cat and her litter box, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and the painting American Gothic.
Nash Ruin, The Vulgar Chef (content warning: foul language), made corn dogs over the weekend. He's turned this traditional county fair snack into a delicious breakfast. Ruin doesn't provide any details, but it appears that he garbed the dogs in layers of blueberry pancake mix and red velvet cake. Yummy!