Helen Ahpornsiri is an artist in East Sussex, UK. She makes beautiful mosaics of animals by pressing fern leaves flat, then cutting and arranging them into different shapes and colors. For many of her pieces, she adds gold to the leaves, creating a a vibrant luster that make her creatures look enchanted.
This time-lapse video shows her creative process.
There are two baby girls, but only one pacifier. They're sisters. But, come on, this is no ordinary pacifier. This is the Purple Pacifier.
King Solomon would offer the dad solution: cut the pacifier in half, then offer one half to each child. Then the problem is over.
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This is Mabel (left) with her imaginary friend Chloe (right). Mabel drew a picture of her special friend. Then professional artists made a full-size plush toy of her.
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It's a project led by the ad agency AMV BBDO. They worked with the best artists, so you'll recognize the names: Tsuneo Goda, who developed the character Domo, Becky and Joe, who created Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared, and Aardman Studios, which developed Wallace and Gromit.
The results are extraodinary. You can see more photos of the kids with their now-real imaginary friends at My Modern Met.
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These are trdelník. They are pastries from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Street Food around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture describes them as a sweet dough made into long strands, then wrapped around wood or metal rods, then baked while rotating over an open fire. They're often coated with sugar, cinnamon, or nuts after baking.
In this case, an unknown genius has filled the hollow pastry with chocolate sauce and soft serve ice cream!
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(Photo: MacBook Selfie Stick)
Sure, selfie sticks are an essential tool for independent life. Every home needs, at minimum, a toilet plunger, a pair of pliers, and a selfie stick.
But what if you don't have a cellphone? Then that selfie stick won't be useful. You need a way to take photos of yourself with your laptop computer. That's why artists Moises, John Yuyi, and Tom Galle made a laptop selfie stick. Specifically, it's a selfie stick for a MacBook. They call it the MacBook Selfie Stick.
Do you see Tom Galle with his MacBook in Times Square? He's cool. You know why? Because he has a selfie stick for his MacBook. And you don't.
I don't have a laptop--just a desktop computer. Can I get a selfie stick for it?
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Ariel from The Little Mermaid
For Saraswati, a makeup artist in Malaysia, the head scarf isn't an obstacle to effective cosplay. In fact, without it, she wouldn't be nearly as effective. She uses a wide variety of colors, fabrics, and arrangements to depict her characters perfectly.
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It's a fashion and a snack! Donut hair is the latest style for men, women, and long-haired dogs. I prefer mine jelly-filled, but icing and sprinkles are also good. Head to your local donut/barber shop and buy your own.
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Sure, in a legal sense, redditor schizophrenicwheel owns Magnus the tarantula. But they're actually just friends--bros, really. In the past, she gave him a birthday hat for an iguana's birthday party.
Then, a year ago, she gave him a plush stuffed tarantula as a toy. He responded affectionately with a brofist. That's a polite spider who stays up on modern etiquette.
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A few months ago, Allen Pan wowed the internet with a Mjölnir that only he (and, presumably, Thor) could pick up. It was a clever illusion that worked thanks to a powerful electromagnet and a fingerprint scanner keyed to Pan's thumb.
Now Pan is back with a new stunt. He built a sword out of ice. It's strong enough to chop through a watermelon, as well as decapitate helpless snowmen.
Pan made of his sword out of Pykrete, which is a composite material of water ice and sawdust. It's a tremendously tough material--so much so that during World War II, the Allies considering building warships out of it.
Pan used toilet paper instead of sawdust for the wood component. His mix was 86% water and 14% toilet paper.
He shaped the Pykrete into a sword mold. It's a blunt object without an edge, but it's still strong enough to do a lot of damage. Just imagine that watermelon is a human head and you can see what Pykrete can do.
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You've got liquor. You've got sugary pastries. You've got deep frying.
This is a photo of human civilization.
Amy of the food blog Oh, Bite It loves her liquor and her deep fryer. She puts them together in this wonderful concoction called the Pop-Tart Tequila Shot. First, she prepared a batter of tequila and pancake mix. She dipped Pop-Tarts into batter, then deep fried them. Finally, she topped the traditional breakfast food with a glaze of lemon juice and sprinkles. Yummy! This will make getting the kids to eat breakfast so much easier.
It's not that I don't like you. It's just that I don't like being so close to other people. Good fences make good neighbors, you know.
Michael Pederson, a street artist in Sydney, Australia, makes signs and leaves them in public places. For his most recent project, he printed these helpful cards and left them available for people to use. They would no doubt be helpful for dealing with strangers who get a bit too close.
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Add a scoop of ice cream on top and you've got all 3 food groups covered!
Anthony Calleo operates the Pi Pizza Truck, a food truck in Houston, Texas that serves gourmet pizzas. He's now offering a fresh take on his most popular dish, which is a pizza with soppressata salami. He wraps it around a hamburger, then adds olive tapenade. There's no need for further condiments because the pizza bun itself has them inside.
Calleo calls it the Jumping the Shark Burger. Each one costs $16 because, well, it is a gourmet pizza.
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Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a version of you that did not eat that entire box of cookies. But there's only one because that's a surprisingly uncommon choice for you to make. It's almost like you were fated to get this big.
How do you make modern art? Ethan Klein went to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to find out. He examined how seemingly ordinary objects are actually thoughtful expressions of meaning for which you should pay the artists large amounts of money.
Then Klein, though not a trained artist himself, set about the task of creating his own modern art. He placed his red beanie cap in a frame and put it on eBay for sale. He is willing to part with it in exchange for $1,000,000.
Klein's framed knit cap is a work of genius. No, really, it is! Here's how you can tell: the bidding on eBay stands at $2,000,100.
Okay, so maybe the framed beanie is not itself brilliant. But if Klein can actually sell it for that amount, then he is a genius.
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Content warning: foul language, pelvic thrusting.
In the 1970s, French artist Jacques Duval-Brasseur produced a series of brass and glass tables that look like animals. Pleasant birds were among them. But for the super classy look, I would have gone straight for his scorpion table. There's a light in the tail to illuminate the surface of the table. It would be a perfect accompaniment for the scorpion office chair!
Other incredibly neat designs that are, oddly, no longer in production include tables that look like a frilled-neck lizard and a giant crab:
