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In about 1925, the Parisian perfumer Parfums de Marcy packaged its perfume in this unique arrangement. Each bottle takes the shape of a segment of the orange.
Parfums de Marcy was noted for its clever bottle designs. You can see more of them at Cleopatra's Boudoir.
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Comedian Seth Meyers is one of Immortan Joe's War Boys from Mad Max: Fury Road. Joe has ordered his War Boys to prepare for an expedition from the Citadel to Gas Town to get gasoline.
Meyers has an important point to make: these expeditions--of which there have been so many--waste vast amounts of gas on heavy vehicles that literally shoot fire. They are extremely fuel inefficient. There can be and in fact are more sustainable alternative forms of transportation that make best use of scarce resources to build a better society.
The other War Boys are, as you can expect, tired of listening to this killjoy.
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You will exercise your middle fingers a lot while participating in Rage Yoga. Seriously, that's a major part of the movements.
Lindsay Istace developed the practice and teaches it at her studio in Calgary, Alberta. In the dimly lit pub basement that serves as her studio, she blasts loud heavy metal music. It helps set the mood for her students. She says that the music and the movements help her students vent their anger. CBC News reports:
Istace says she developed Rage Yoga while dealing with a painful breakup. According to her website, combining swearing and screaming with her yoga practice helped her overcome addiction and anger issues.
"When you create a space for yourself to be angry and to shout and swear and scream, suddenly it's hard to take yourself so seriously.
"So it goes from anger to laughter pretty quickly. And we have a lot of that going on here."
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"Manhunt," an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, featured two characters belonging to the Antedean species. Worf referred to them as a "handsome race" -- and with reason. Beneath that makeup was Mick Fleetwood of the rock band Fleetwood Mac.
He's one of many celebrities that has appeared on Star Trek, often under heavy makeup. Uproxx has a round up of 40 of them, including King Hussein of Jordan, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Iggy Pop, and Kirsten Dunst.
Helen Stephenson is an artist in Edinburgh. One day, while walking from her apartment to her studio, she saw 2 old bathtubs dumped on the street for disposal. She realized that they could be cut and made into chairs. After all, they're already made to fit the shape of the human body.
Stephenson used an angle grinder to trim the sharp edges, then decorated them with tiles to add color and flair. Some are especially vibrant:
Sanja Jankovic is a Serbian artist who uses wine to paint beautiful watercolor-like scenes. You can almost smell the wine off the images of her work.
Many of her works are recreations of other famous works of art, such as this one showing The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
When she was 90 years old, Norma's husband died. Then she was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors recommended a regimen of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation to treat it.
Norma had a better idea:
"I'm 90 years old," she said, according her daughter-in-law, Ramie. "I'm not doing that."
Since then, she's been driving across the United States, seeing everything that she always wanted to see. Her son and daughter-in-law have been taking her on the journey and documenting it on their Facebook page Driving Miss Norma.
Last August, Norma sold her home and bought a 36-foot long motorhome for the trip. Norma has since seen many natural wonders, including Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon. She's been to the National World War II Museum, which is fitting, as she served in the Navy during that war. She's even ridden in a hot air balloon.
You can read more about Norma's extraordinary ongoing journey at the Today show.
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Cats are naturally tidy. They know that if they need to cough up something, such as a hairball or a dead bird, then they need to dispose of it properly in your sneakers. Dogs, in contrast, will just barf anywhere.
(Historically accurate image of Washington crossing the Delaware River by Jason Heuser)
History teaches us that Washington once threw a knife into Heaven and could kill with a stare (NSFW). He was the superhero of the American Revolutionary War.
Naturally, these facts inspire Zach Snyder, the director of the movie Batman v. Superman. He'd like to make a biographical movie about George Washington in the style of 300, the story of the Spartans at Thermoplyae and one of the great movies of all time. Bloomberg Business has the scoop:
One of these days, he’d like to make one about George Washington in the style of 300. He has a picture in his office of the Revolutionary War hero crossing the icy Delaware on his way to decimate the British in the Battle of Trenton. “We were talking about it,” Snyder says. “The first thing we asked was, well, how are we going to make it look? I pointed at this painting. It looks like 300. It’s not that hard.”
It was actually the Hessians at Trenton. But Snyder can later make a sequel about how Washington outsmarted Cornwallis during the Princeton campaign a week later. Spoiler: it involved riger tigers.
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Richie the cat doesn't think that cats and dogs can't be friends. When his humans brought long-haired Chihuahua puppies into their home, he welcomed them. He doesn't hesitate to snuggle with them and provide care. Together, they're the Yuta Family.
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7th Heaven, a beauty product line in the UK, is offering a pop-up day spa in London from March 12 to 14. Humans can stop by and receive massages and facial treatments from qualified professionals. While they do so, rabbits from Greenwich Rabbit Rescue will freely hop about the facility, providing a calming atmosphere with their top-tier cuteness. The tabloid Metro reports:
‘At 7th Heaven we love animals as much as we love humans and this is the perfect way to combine the two,’ said spokesperson Steven Van Hemmen.
He explained that the spa isn’t just for the humans: ‘The rabbits will be pampered, too, with plenty of food, a huge run to explore, with plenty of human interaction, which they love.’
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You can grind up cricket bodies and turn them into flour. You can then use this flour to make pasta. That's how you end up with this delicious-looking radiatori. It's high in protein that the human body can easily digest.
The Independent describes how one artisanal pasta shop in Thiefosse, France is using cricket flour to revive its business:
“The name of the ingredient may be a turnoff, but it's really delicious, especially with game meat,” smiles Alain Limon as he spreads cricket-flavoured fusilli on a drying rack. […]
His boss Stephanie Richard began her homemade pasta business in 2012, and is now hiring again thanks to the success of her latest creations made from insect flour.
“The insect is the protein of the future,” Richard says. “It's protein of high quality that is well digested by the body.” […]
For Richard's unique pastas, she uses pulverised crickets and grasshoppers, sometimes mixing the two, and sometimes mixing ground cepes with cricket flour.
“There's a kind of nutty taste thanks to the cepes, making it taste more like whole wheat pasta,” Richard says.
If you want to buy some cricket pasta for yourself, the online store Bugsolutely appears to have you covered. Of course, if you're more sporting, you'd try to catch the crickets yourself.
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Do you see it? It's right there in the picture.
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Eric Vekeman of Zegelsem, Belgium wanted to build a garage into his house. The local government said no. He did it anyway. The result is a garage that seamlessly blends in with the wall. It's an incredible piece of engineering and craftsmanship. You can see more photos here and a video of Vekeman opening it at Het Nieuwsblad.
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The pizza slice on the paper plate--it's the universal symbol of hospitality. If you want to create a sense of welcoming and comfort, this is what you present to guests.
So it's a good model for a night light. Steph Mantis, a designer, loves pizza. Gaze upon her Tumblr to get a sense of the scale of her affection for it.
In the past, she immortalized slices of pizza in lucite. More recently, she created a night light that looks just like a warm slice of cheese pizza. It almost looks edible!
-via Home Geekonomics
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George Kennedy passed away yesterday at the age of 91.
Kennedy came from a family of actors and was a child actor himself. Then World War II came along. He served in the Army and then, after the war, stayed in. He served for 15 years before returning to Hollywood. His first big screen role was as a rebel soldier in the 1960 movie Spartacus. He became famous with a supporting role in the 1967 Paul Newman film Cool Hand Luke. I remember him best in the Zucker brothers' series The Naked Gun.
Kennedy's obituary in the Washington Post quotes him on his love for his craft:
“Acting is beautiful,” he said. “If I’m prejudiced toward doing it, it is because of the joy that I derive from it. Add that to the fact that I didn’t have any other choices. I either talked to myself, or I didn’t talk to anybody.”
I've always liked George Kennedy. He always conveyed his characters in a relatable way. He came across as just the sort of guy you'd want to have a beer with.
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