Paul Villinski takes discarded beer cans from the streets of New York City and turns them into beautiful butterflies and birds. I find this one particularly striking because it suggests that the guitar, like a cocoon, is sheltering emerging life.
Scenes from Planet of the Apes. Glow sticks. Mirror ball underpants. Electronic dance music. It makes no sense, and yet feels right. Brad Hasse, the madman behind it, writes:
...I couldn't help but try to make it for the fun of it to see what it would look like if Charlton Heston found a few glowsticks, turntables, and an insatiable urge to dance.
True geeks, Kevin "Wash" Pratt and Tashi King watched Serenity on their first date. Watchmen, Doctor Who, steampunk and conventions soon followed. Then, shortly after they married, Kevin was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. He has endured for two years an illness that kills most victims of it within one. He is, Tashi says, "the Browncoat who *never* gives up."
But now Kevin is in hospice, and is making his preparations. He'd like for part of his ashes to be buried in an urn shaped like the TARDIS from Doctor Who. So Tashi is asking for help from the good people of Regretsy:
I am writing to you to try and fulfill a wish of his; after he passes my husband wants to have a portion of his cremains kept in a TARDIS urn. (The rest will be shot off in rockets he has built over the years with his friends.)
This has proven to be a bit of a challenge for me. I am only 25 and have not been able to work for the past two years to be his full-time caregiver; so hiring someone to make a custom urn is a bit out of my price-range.
The Doctor normally eschews weapons, but sometimes you need a tool that works on wood. DeviantART user Drombyb has a gallery of impressive Doctor Who fan art, including this crossover idea that we must hide from George Lucas by any means necessary.
When it comes to violence, "...better a pointed stick and a furious anger than a death ray and the soul of a rabbit." Christopher Baird tried to rob Euan Brown, a store clerk in Finstown, Orkney Islands, UK. Baird had only a knife, but Brown was armed with a tape dispenser and, more importantly, moxie.
Do you want to see horses dressed like Hogwarts students? Buzzfeed can supply them in large quantities. Because that's what horse owners are doing these days, I guess. See this one? It's not a custom, one-of-a-kind job. You can buy it from an online retailer that specializes in horse costumes.
Valérie Valad's clever handbag finds a new use for a worn out basketball. This and other works by her were on exhibit at the La Galerie Végétal in Paris during the past month.
Jill said, "No, John, not that slice. You want this one." I should have known that something was wrong. Hell Kitchen, a pizzeria chain in New Zealand, now offers pizzas which include a slice that is covered with pepper juice:
The company brags the single scorching slice contains the culinary equivalent of a blast of police pepper spray.
In food terms, the heat-treated piece of pie is roughly 1,000 times stronger than the average jalapeno pepper. [...]
There’s no charge from Hell Pizza for turning your dinner into a torture session — and hence their motto:
It's a frog croacking, but more! Hit play, then the following sequence of keys: 6 6 6 8 56 8 56, 3 3 3 2 56 8 56 8 56. You'll hear "The Imperial March" from Star Wars. Then contemplate how small and petty our lives would be without the wonders of the Internet.
Instructables user Tim Anderson calls his approach to crafts a "Reverse Peace Corps". He takes crafting traditions from developing nations and brings them to the United States. For a recent project, he learned the Chinese craft of growing gourds into shapes using molds. Zhang Cairi, a master of the technique, made the one pictured above. Learn how to make your own at the link.
Remember the luxury, high-tech hunting rig called the Critter Gitter? This isn't it. This beautiful work of folk art, currently on sale at eBay, is a Ford Aerostar minivan welded to the top of a Chevrolet Suburban. You drive it from the top level.
Not the way you hunt? That's okay. Just use it as a commuter vehicle.
What hath science wrought?! If geneticists can create fish that are bioluminescent under black light, then it's not much of a leap to make sushi that glows. Zach Denfeld and Cat Kramer of the Center for Genomic Gastronomy have a cooking show devoted to that task. Watch the video at the link to learn how to make a kryptonite roll (pictured above) and a stop-and-glow roll.
Etsy seller SouZou Creations makes fancy, elaborate meals very portable. Her tiny polymer clay food sculptures slip right onto your fingers. Several of her works, including this steak platter, include elements that appear to be suspended in midair.
Leprechauns were here! At least, that's the implication of a prank by kindergarten teacher Marsha M. Moffit McGuire. At the link, she provides instructions on how to make leprechaun footprints without an actual leprechaun (which are expensive).
Imagine a Girl Scout cookie the size of your head. Now smash your face into it and eat the entire thing.
Come on. I know that I'm not the only person fantasizing about it. Betsy Haley, the creator of this cake, can make it a reality. Read her recipe at the link.
