Slovenian artist Miha Artnak added stickers to everyday objects and scenes that appear to reveal hidden realities beneath the surface. He seems to be saying that what you see is only an illusion.

Link (Google Translate) | Artist's Website

The industrialist Andrew Carnegie used his vast fortune to build 2,509 libraries around the world. The people of Little Free Library would like to continue that philanthropic tradition and make it accessible for people without Carnegie's wealth. So they sell birdhouse-sized libraries that you can fill with books that people in your neighborhood can read.

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YouTube user Timyodie did more than just talk into a microphone. He's made a set of two videos with funny and astonishingly accurate impersonations of thirty-four Star Wars characters and species, from Jango Fett to a Tusken raider. It's not just the voice work that makes these two videos great, but the facial expressions and occasional improvised costuming.

Part 2 -via io9

Ashley Ringrose made this Futurama-inspired Mr. Potato Head. Surely we all have a Dr. Zoidberg in our lives. Or at least wish that we do.

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If you have to get up in the morning -- and I don't recommend that for health reasons -- then you might as well do it in an exciting way. Michael Krumpus made a clock that looks like a bomb from the movies. Cut the right wire and you'll disarm it. Cut the wrong one, and either nothing will happen, or it will detonate immediately.

Link -via DVICE

Previously: Bomb Alarm Clock

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Michael Fishbach and his friends were in the Sea of Cortez on Valentine's Day this year when they found a humpback whale floating in the water. It appeared to be dead, having been trapped in a fishing net for a long time. Fishbach discovered that she was still alive -- but only barely. They worked hard for an hour with only one knife to cut the net away and free her. They were ultimately successful. Skip ahead to 6:20 to see the whale's joyful reaction.

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While being held in a Nazi prisoner of war camp, British officer Major Alexis Casdagli did everything he could to resist his captors. He was skilled with a needle and thread, so among other projects, Casdagli made an excellent cross-stitch sampler which told the Nazis in a coded message where to shove it:

Over the next four years his work was displayed at the four camps in Germany where he was imprisoned, and his Nazi captors never once deciphered the messages threaded in Morse code: "God Save the King" and "F*ck Hitler".

This subversive needling of the Nazis was a form of defiance that Casdagli, who was not freed from prison until 1945, believed was the duty of every PoW. "It used to give him pleasure when the Germans were doing their rounds," says his son, Tony, of his father's rebellious stitching. It also stopped him going mad. "He would say after the war that the Red Cross saved his life but his embroidery saved his sanity," says Tony.

Link -via Craft | Photo: Graham Turner | Quote edited for content

Maya Pixelkaya is an artist who specializes in video game and movie themes worked into fabric, paper, and fingernails. She has a gallery of neat fingernail polish designs that required her to remain still for hours at a time while individual layers dried. Follow the link to see nails with scenes from The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jaws, and more.

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Glen Robinson of Brisbane, Australia, initially didn't want to make a formal proposal, but when he saw that this distressed his girlfriend, he decided to make a grand, romantic, and rather permanent gesture. He had the words "will you marry me" (no question mark) tattooed on his wrists:

That evening, with the new tattoo still raw, Glen bent on one knee in the couple's living room with a ring in his open palms.

"Michelle wasn't feeling well that night ... she was lying on the couch," he said.

"I came home and sat down beside her on the knee and said, 'Hopefully, this will make you feel better'."

Michelle said, "Are you going to ask me something?"

Glen tactfully replied, "Surely you can read."

Michelle said 'yes'.

"I said, 'Yes! But I don't know what I think about that [tattoo]'."

Video at the link.

Link | Photo: Marissa Calligeros/Brisbane Times

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Mikey Mason, having listened to Allie Goertz's Dungeons & Dragons song "Tonight," decided to compose his own. It's about that time when your campaign was plagued by an idiot player who kept on getting his characters killed. But because he was the game master's brother, he stayed in the game, again and again. You know, that game.

For me, it was a Cyberpunk campaign and the game master's brother (who had just gotten out of jail) insisted on provoking gun fights with heavily-armed strangers as often as he could. He ran through three characters in that session, and never saw a causal relationship between his behavior and their mortality.

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Well, of course he did. It's all in the 'stache. And Dmitri Drjuchin did a fine job depicting this classical hagiographical event.

Link and Artist's Website -via Uniblog

The Dutch Stutter Foundation encourages you to be patient with people who have a stutter. Don't interrupt; just wait and let them finish.

Link -via Copyranter | Photo: Y&R Not Just Film

Graphic designer Stefan Asafti is fascinated by the history of brands and decided to play around with prominent ones this way. Among other logo mashups that you can find at the link are Firefox vs. Internet Explorer, Coke vs. Pepsi, and Canon vs. Nikon.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Greatest-Brandversations/1971913 -via reddit

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It's called the idolomantis diabolica or Devil's Flower Mantis. If you're going to be named after a flower, that's a pretty badass name to have.

If you ever meet one, don't be afraid. They get energy that way.

-via Geekologie | Previously: Glamorous Insects

Sure, you could rent a U-Haul truck, but those are expensive. And apparently this guy in Toronto hadn't thought ahead and installed a trailer hitch when he bought his Lamborghini Gallardo. That should be an automatic decision: buy a car, get a hitch.

-via Jalopnik