Karina from Virginia made this tasty dress for an art project. It's wonderful! She made it with 196 packets of ramen and a few chopsticks. Matt Fischer, who has another photo of it, estimates that the entire dress might have cost only $20 in materials.
If that hat is a cooking pot, she could equip herself to eat well for a month.
-via That's Nerdalicious!
You're going to need a bigger boat. And probably one with a steel hull.
Heck, I'm just going to stay on land from now on.
Filmmakers with MaxAnimal were shooting off the coast of South Africa when a great white shark attacked their boat. It repeatedly bit into one of the inflatable pontoons. Fortunately, they were able to get back to shore without sinking.
-via Gizmodo
(Photos: Ackbar 24)
A man in Hail, Saudi Arabia wanted poor people in his town to acquire food without feeling shame from begging. So he installed a refrigerator outside his home. People can donate food if they have an excess or take food if they need it. This act of kindness is inspiring other people in the region:
Salah, a Bahraini national, said that the idea should be implemented in Bahrain as the fasting month of Ramadan is about to start in the summer.
“It is a great act of charity that can make many people happy and satisfied,” he said. “There is the food factor, but there is also the spiritual dimension, especially during the sacred month when people engage deeply in acts of charily,” he said.
Ramadan, the month during which Muslim adults abstain from food, drink and sex from sunrise until sunset to test their patience, is expected to start on June 28.
-via Huffington Post
François Dourlen, a photographer in France, pulls up on his cell phone iconic scenes from movies and television shows, holds the phone up to appropriate backgrounds, then snaps pictures. The results are both striking and funny. Fantasy becomes reality all because you chose to watch the right or terribly wrong show.
You can see more photos in the series here.
-via 22 Words
According to biologist Robert Sapolsky, what makes you you--that is, your DNA--isn't a 50/50 split between your mother and father. He says that, "you get a disproportionate share of your DNA coming from your mom."
Biologist and YouTube member cadamole explains how in this touching homage to his mother:
I got so much more from you mom
Than just half a set of genes
I got nutrients and transcription factors
and nearly everything that matters
plus my prenatal environment (transplacental inheritance)
mRNA, mitochondria,
That back in the day once belonged to ya (theyre cytoplasmic)
and I just want to thank for supplying themJust like two strands of DNA are spirally entwined
Your nature and your nurture are inspiringly combined
Scientists remind me and I find that it is true
Slightly more than half of everything I am is thanks to you
You can read the complete lyrics here.
-via VA Viper
You can have coffee. There's a pot over there. Or you can have one of those frou-frou drinks that costs $6 and has no actual coffee in it.
Oh, you don't like black coffee? I can add whiskey to it, if you like. But that's it.
I can't find any information about these boots, or else I would be wearing a pair right now. They are cobra skin boots, and thus the greatest possible boots.
They should be used as the premise of a great action movie: The Man with the Cobra Boots. He doesn't carry a gun or a sword. He is armed with only his boots, which bite anyone who gets in his way.
The title role would, of course, go to Gilbert Gottfried. It's the role he was born to play.
-via Incredible Things
California Highway Patrol and Elk Grove Police Department officers shut down a section of Highway 50 in the Sacramento, California area on Thursday. They did so when they noticed motorists slowing down and pulling over to avoid hitting a stray dog on the highway. Police got out and pursued the suspect on foot, but he escaped.
(Photo: Fox 40)
They were, however, more successful on Wednesday. Then the two law enforcement agencies chased a stray cow. After a 4 hour pursuit, they captured her with the assistance of a lasso-wielding cowboy on horseback.
(Photo: CBS 13)
-via Ed Driscoll
Oops. Just deleted my last Tweet. & would like to apologize to seniors & sufferers of Lyme disease. I was out of bounds.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 7, 2014Twitter is an incredibly useful publishing medium. It lets you instantly shout across the world any poorly-considered thought that can bridge the gap between your brain and your computer keyboard. Are you angry? Drunk? Twitter is definitely the medium for you if your judgment is even slightly impaired.
We all say terrible things sometimes. But if you're a celebrity on Twitter, you can be sure that a lot of people will know about those terrible things.
You can't edit a tweet. You can only delete it. So if you've been caught with an offensive tweet, it may be a good idea to apologize in a subsequent tweet.
Yesterday, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt showed his skill with the medium by tweeting out apologies for deleted, horrifically offensive tweets. Except those deleted tweets never existed.
Yikes. Had to delete another Tweet. I crossed a line on that one. Also, I thought 12 YEARS A SLAVE and THE BUTLER were brilliant.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 7, 2014PLEASE disregard last Tweet. Already deleted. Transphobia is hurtful, and I'm a big fan of HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 7, 2014Previous Tweet very hurtful. Already deleted. @KimKardashian & @JoeBiden are national treasures. As are our Native American friends.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 7, 2014Some of his followers expressed great outrage as they attempted to reverse-engineer his jokes from the apologies. Oswalt was, of course, just trolling them.
Anyone else witnessing @pattonoswalt troll out everyone's inner demons? There needs to be a word for this. #Twitception maybe?
— Kevin Fenix(-Dy) (@FenixDy) May 7, 2014Tamago, a photographer in France, created images of four My Little Pony characters using splashes of paint. They're lovely pieces of fan art that hopefully didn't require a lot of clean up.
P.S. If My Little Pony isn't your thing, then you may enjoy this melted crayon image inspired by the classic anime movie My Neighbor Totoro.
Takeoff in the Morning
Domenic Bahmann is an art director, photographer, and illustrator in Melbourne, Australia. His site is entitled "Stop, Think, Make," which seems just about right. He stops, looks at the world around him, and makes immediately recognizable images from common objects. His combinations work: if you feel like a snail in the morning, turn on your caffeine-powered jet engines.
You can see more of Bahmann's work here.
Music to My Ears
Good Morning
Cupcake Skirt
-via Fubiz
Two of the most popular superheroes work in journalism. Peter Parker (Spider-Man), is a photojournalist with the Daily Bugle of New York City. Clark Kent (Superman) is a reporter for the Daily Planet of Metropolis. It's a good industry for superheroes to work in. Journalists often get access to information first. When there's a crisis, Peter Parker and Clark Kent often learn of it quickly because they work in that field.
But are they good journalists? That profession has certain ethical standards. When there's a conflict between their two occupations, Spider-Man and Superman often compromise their public jobs to advance their superhero work. That's the argument that Daniel J. Snyder, a writer for The Atlantic, makes:
Up until a few years ago, and for the majority of his 50-year existence, Peter Parker committed repeated acts of fraud against his employer, The Daily Bugle and its editor-in-chief, J. Jonah Jameson (who would later, as the mayor of New York, employ Parker as a photographer). He sold staged photos of himself as Spider-Man and used his position in the media to influence the public's perception of his actions. Meanwhile, Superman, as award-winning Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent, has reported on himself and given privileged information to his girlfriend, Lois Lane, whose relationship with Superman remains undisclosed.
Hypocritically, Snyder does not disclose how his own secret identity compromises his objectivity on this story.
-via But Not Simpler | Images: Marvel, DC
An elderly woman joined a street soccer game in the suburbs of Rome. Don’t tell her that she’s too old to play. She’ll show you up hard. Watch her dribble, pass, and keep the ball in the air.
-via Huffington Post
In the hit anime series Attack on Titan, what’s left of the world’s human population lives behind enormous stone walls that keep out zombie-like giants known as titans. These titans, which range from 3-60 meters tall, regenerate. They have only one vulnerable spot: the back of the neck. To kill a titan, you must get up high enough to strike the back of the neck and cut that part of the body away from the titan.
Human soldiers use compressed air jets known as 3d maneuver gear to get up high, then swords to hack away at a titan’s neck. These blades often get stuck in titan flesh, so it’s necessary to make the blades detachable. Soldiers typically carry 4 pairs of blades into battle. These snap in and out of handles with trigger pulls.
That’s the way that these swords work in the cartoon. Is it possible to make real ones? One YouTube user thinks so. He designed and milled battle-ready swords that function just like those in the television series.
Are you going to spend your evening Netflixing? You don’t need to get up to put away your snack bowl. You can just eat it if you follow the instructions provided by Beth Jackson Klosterboer. She made a popcorn bowl that is itself made of popcorn.
You could use glue to hold the bowl together. But Beth sensibly used white chocolate candy melts as an alternative. She lined a bowl with a mixture of those candy melts and popcorn, then refrigerated it.
Beth filled hers with her special recipe of peanut butter Twix bites popcorn, which sounds a lot better than plain butter and salt. I suggest topping it with chocolate sauce and queuing up Season 4 of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.