Devon made a silicone mask for her boyfriend Peter as part of a sculpting class at Make Up Designory NYC. The finished product is jaw-dropping! She posted the process of the mask being made, which meant making a mold and model of his whole head. See how she did it, plus more pictures of the finished product, at Unreality.
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Have you ever wondered how artificial intelligence becomes intelligent? It learns. Jacob Werner caught a machine doing it.
The secret behind machine learning. This is how machines collect data. There isn't and won't be a more efficient way to gather information for machines. This is how artificial intelligence works and is created.
And now you know how it’s done. -via the Presurfer
In the latest video from Simon Tofield, Simon’s Cat encounters a horrifying monster! A cat’s ultimate nemesis. The most terrifying thing in a house cat’s life.
But we all know Simon’s Cat can be particularly brave when he’s angry. -via Laughing Squid
Have you ever dreamed of living in a haunted house? Making that dream come true is as easy as believing the home you are in is haunted. But if you want a haunted house that has been scaring other people for years, you can certainly purchase one. For example, there’s the Priestly House in Canton, Mississippi.
Originally built by physician James Priestley in the 1950s, this Greek Revival home stayed in the Priestley family until the 1990s. When new owner Frankie McMillan moved in, she became concerned that Priestley’s wife, Susan, hadn’t gotten the message to clear the premises. McMillan claimed to have seen Susan in hallways and in the bedroom where the woman is believed to have died. The home was restored in 2004 and is listed for $699,000.
There are a range of locations, prices, and ages among the eight haunted houses on the market right now that you can check out at mental_floss.
A 26-year-old man in the University area of Tucson locked himself out of his house on Sunday morning. He tried to get back in by climbing down the chimney. He almost made it, too, except that the chimney is narrower at the bottom, and he became stuck just as his feet touched the floor. A neighbor eventually heard him yelling for help, and called the fire department. The Tucson Fire Department lowered a rope and pulled the unnamed man out. He had been stuck in the chimney for four hours. You can see additional photographs of the rescue at Facebook. -via Arbroath
(Image credit: Tucson Fire Department)
A new gadget lets you drink wine straight out of the bottle without looking like a wino. Well, you’ll still look like a wino, just one with a bit of class. It’s a glass wine goblet with a tube for a stem, wrapped in rubber in order to screw it into the neck of the bottle. I didn’t laugh until I saw the name of the product: the Guzzle Buddy. “Plug it and chug it.” Seems like a lot of people don’t mind looking like a classy wino, because Amazon is temporarily sold out. -via Laughing Squid
Scientists study families a lot, because it’s an extremely important human unit both socially and genetically. How different or alike are siblings? How does birth order affect your life? Studies like this help to determine which traits are genetic and which are learned. Sometimes those things are hard to separate, since families not only share genes, but also learn from each other. We also have new research about how families have changed over time. John Green has some really interesting findings about families this week’s episode of the mental_floss List Show.
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website.
Holiday songs are nothing new. Whenever Christmas approaches, we will all be bombarded on our radios and at the malls we visit, by various Christmas carols, classic songs and novelty tunes. “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" sung by Alvin and the Chipmunks is as expected at Yuletide as electric razor commercials for Dad or diamond ring commercials for your girlfriend.
More recently, we have Randy Brooks' “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.” Even Hanukkah now has Adam Sandler's recent classic “The Hanukkah Song.” These are all categorized as "holiday novelty songs.”
But for Halloween, for the past almost 50-odd years, we've all become accustomed to listening to the musical strains of a man named Bobby "Boris" Pickett and his main contribution to musical immortality. It is almost impossible for most of us (especially those of us who grew up in the '60's) to think of Halloween novelty songs without immediately thinking of "The Monster Mash."
Robert George Pickett grew up in a movie theater in Massachusetts where his father was the manager. Like countless millions of kids before and after him, he fell in love with the movies and dreamed of growing up and becoming a movie star. Bobby started doing impressions of the various movie stars he'd see on the silver screen. He did various impressions of the stars he loved, but by far, his favorite movie star was horror movie icon Boris Karloff.
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website.
(Image credit: Taph Madison)
Death. The great equalizer.
Life may be infinitely unfair, but in death, we're all in the same boat. Here are tombstone inscriptions from the graves of famous people. Some funny, others clever, some insightful, others angry, some sad, others optimistic.
Winston Churchill: “I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another question.”
Rodney Dangerfield: “There goes the neighborhood.”
(Image credit: Alan Light)
Merv Griffin: “I will not be right back after this message.”
If you want to sell a leather couch in Boston, there are worse ways of doing it. This Craigslist ad has since been deleted. I’d like to think that it was because someone bought it, but the ad itself is a work of art that should be preserved. Luckily it was.
Before purchasing this piece of furniture from me, please be aware of the following:
-The couch is very comfortable, and it will make you want to watch 12 hours of football on Saturdays and Sundays in the Fall. If you’re married, and a homeowner, divorce will probably be eminent as you will not complete any tasks on your Honey Do List. I accept no responsibility for this.
-Boston sports teams are undefeated in championship games when watched on a television in front of this couch. I know a good luck charm when I see one, and the fact of the matter is that the Bruins, Celtics, and Patriots would each have another championship if I had opted to stay home instead of watching the games at a bar.
-I’ve had several mutli-million dollar ideas strike me while on this couch. Granted I’ve been too lazy to implement them, but this couch will probably pay for itself within a week of sitting on it. I won’t be surprised if Harvard or MIT wants to buy it to help out their students that seem to be lacking inspiration.
But that’s not even the best part. The seller goes into detail about who has sat on the couch and the story of the guy who slept on it for an entire month. You might be able to guess who it is. Read the complete archived version of the ad (but with only one remaining picture).
“Don’t tell Mom!”
Oklahoma redditor hinkster81 has five children. Here he is with the three youngest. He’s learned a bit about parenting by now, specifically how fun it can be. Or maybe he is trying to convince his wife to never leave him alone with the children again. -via reddit
Dr. Oscar Ruiz of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center won top honors today at the annual Nikon Small World competition with this image of a four-day-old zebrafish. The story of why he took it is as fascinating as the image. The Nikon Small World contest honors the beauty and technical skill shown in the tiniest parts of our world found through microphotography. See the top twenty photographs from the competition right here.
It’s rare that Screen Junkies puts out an Honest Trailer for a movie that’s this recent, but their fans really bugged them about it. The movie is not yet available on home video, so if you plan to watch it, you’ll want to skip this for possible spoilers. What am I talking about? It’s Ghostbusters. You already know the story.
Ghostbusters seemed to be set up for failure, since the 1984 movie was a masterpiece and still doesn’t feel outdated. It sold a lot of tickets this summer, but didn’t make a profit since it was expensive to make. The reviews were okay. The planned sequels probably won’t materialize anytime soon. -Thanks, Andrew Valdes!
A stray cat secretly enters local studio, pops up on TV show in Denizli province, surprising the presenter, audiencehttps://t.co/7IOd1Q6gT7 pic.twitter.com/Wwe9QbyV22
— DAILY SABAH (@DailySabah) October 18, 2016
Kudret Celebioglu kept his cool when a strange cat jumped up on the news desk as he was live on air. The cat even sat down on the computer keyboard like he owned the place! Celebioglu finished the story he was doing, but took a moment to announce that it was getting colder outside, and people should take in the stray cats that roam the streets. Afterward, the TV station adopted this cat. -via Buzzfeed
Remember twenty years ago, when we thought dinosaurs were terrifying reptile monsters that we could make movies about? In such a short time, we’ve learned they were feathered, not as cold-blooded as once thought, and they couldn’t even sing. What else are we going to find out that will ruin our childhoods? This analogy is the latest from Randall Munroe at xkcd. See the hovertext punch line there.
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