Here’s an alternative way on how Pokemon card collectors can make use of the items in their collection. While some would not want their cards to be touched and edited, Instagram user pokesats takes these cards and repaints them, adding details to the art placed on each card. From adding new surroundings on the Pokemon art to just expanding the details from the original art, the creations breathe new life and detail into these beloved cards!
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Off-White, a popular clothing label has announced a collaboration with the Louvre museum. This collaboration yields a collection inspired by the museum’s Leonardo da Vinci’s exhibit, to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the famed artist’s death. This surprising collaboration is the culmination of fashion and high art, as Virgil Abloh, the man behind Off-White, told Paper magazine;
"I want to crash together these two worlds that are seemingly different: fashion and high art," Abloh said in a statement. "It's a crucial part of my overall body of work to prove that any place, no matter how exclusive it seems, is accessible to everyone. That you can be interested in expressing yourself through more than one practice and that creativity does not have to be tied to just one discipline. I think that Leonardo da Vinci was maybe the first artist to live by that principle, and I am trying to as well."
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Sometimes, we think that our voice sounds terrible. We refuse to record ourselves speaking, and also refuse to hear other people’s recording of our voice. This hatred we have towards the sound of our voice isn’t exactly unusual, as Rebecca Kleinberger explained:
According to Kleinberger, because our own voice is one of the sounds we hear most in daily life, we actually perceive it at a lower frequency than we do other sounds, in what is called a habituation effect. In other words, we hear our own voice but we don’t hear it the way people around us do—so it’s jarring when we hear the way it does actually sound to others.
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Nir Meiri Design Studio has launched a lamp collection shedding light on the possibilities of materiality and sustainability. The collection, named veggie lights, used a material called fiber flats. Fiber flats are developed from thin layers of red cabbage, soaked in water-based adhesives and sustainable color preservatives. Plain magazine has the details:
Shaped into a lampshade, the cabbage’s translucent material lends its amazing depth and texture to the object. Warm hues of oranges and reds are filtered through the lamp, the light exposing the organic material’s visible membranes. This innovative project delves into the creative boundaries between form and function, successfully explored and executed by the designers.
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Scientists have found a slice of the world’s oldest fossilised forest. The slice was found in an abandoned quarry in Cairo, New York. These rare webs of fossilised roots are nearly 11 meters wide, and mark the spot where the first trees once stood. While the discovery of these fossils weren’t exactly that recent, as they were discovered by chance in 2009, scientists of today believe that these fossils are actually part of the first plants to capture and store carbon dioxide, as ScienceAlert detailed:
Many of these long woody roots are thought to belong to plants of the Archaeopteris genus, an ancestor of today's modern trees and one of the first to capture and store carbon dioxide from the air with its flat green leaves.
This sort of activity would have dramatically shifted our planet's climate, potentially adding more oxygen to the atmosphere and providing lush habitats for primitive insects and millipede-like creatures. It would be many more years before birds and other large animals made their home in the trees.
"By the end of the Devonian period [360 million years ago], the amount of carbon dioxide was coming down to what we know it is today," explained Berry to New Scientist.
The international team of researchers has so far mapped over 3,000 square metres of this fossilised forest (over 32,000 square feet), which includes two other types of ancient tree; one of them belongs to a fossil plant group known as cladoxylopsids, and the other is yet to be identified.
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A Queensland household has enlisted the help of snake catcher Stuart McKenzie to catch a snake that was slithering across their floor. McKenzie had a hard time catching the snake, as he can’t see it amidst all the shoes lying on the floor. He was still able to catch the yellow-faced whip snake at the end, managing to root it out of its hiding place under a shoe.
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People lie most of the time, from lying to save themselves from shame or harm, or the subtle lies that they just happen to blurt out. Regardless of the type of lie, there is the underlying question on the inner mechanisms of lying. Allure enlists the help of Robert Feldman, a professor of psychology and brain sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Michael Slepian, a social psychologist and professor at Columbia Business School, and Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, a journalist who has written about lying, talk about truth, lies, and the gray matter in between to further understand the concept of lying:
Lying is so much a part of everyday discourse that we do it without thinking about it. What’s really interesting is you can ask somebody to look back on a conversation, and invariably they’ll say, “I was totally truthful.” Show them a video, and they’ll find that’s just not the case. In 10 minutes you probably tell three lies to someone you’re just getting to know. We lie less to the people we know the best, but those tend to be very big lies—usually lies about fidelity.
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Instagram influencer Rossi Lorathio Adams II was sentenced to 14 years in prison after trying to steal a domain name by force. The domain name was doitforstate.com, owned by Ethan Deyo who refused to sell it for anything less than $20,000. Since intimidation tactics did not work on Deyo, Adams enlisted the help of his cousin, Sherman Hopkins Jr., to try a different way to convince Deyo. Peta Pixel has the details:
According to The Verge, one of his Instagram accounts had accrued over 1.5 million followers.
Adams and his followers regularly used the slogan Do It for State! (#doitforstatesnaps) as a sort of “rallying cry,” but despite trying to purchase the domain several times over the course of two years, the domain’s owner Ethan Deyo refused to sell for anything less than $20,000. So Adams decided to take a different approach.
Adams enlisted the help of his cousin, convicted felon Sherman Hopkins, Jr., to break into Deyo’s home and force him to transfer ownership of the domain to Adams at gunpoint. After Hopkins forced his way into Deyo’s home, wrestled him into his home office, pistol whipped him several times, and presented him with the demand note
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The world’s first 3D-printed houses will be built in Mexico, and for a good cause. Nonprofit organization New Story established a housing project, teaming up with ICON and ECHALE to build fifty 500 square-foot 3D homes in Tabasco, Mexico. The families that will be given the house will be selected based on need, as USA Today details:
The nonprofit teamed up with ICON, which developed the 3D-printing robotics, and ÉCHALE, a nonprofit in Mexico, which is helping identify local families living in extreme poverty and "makeshift, unsafe shelter" to live in the homes, New Story says.
Families are selected based on need. The median family income in the Mexican community is $76.50 a month and the community has some of the lowest-income families in Mexico as a whole.
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On an extremely hot day in Australia, Stu Pengelly has managed to cook a slab of pork in a baking tin on the car seat of his car in Perth, Western Australia. The pork roast stayed and cooked in the car seat for about 10 hours, and it was a perfect treat! Pengelly, while reminding people to not leave their pets and children in a car during a heatwave, also jokes that he will try to cook beef on the next Australian heatwave.
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Tarot card readings are all over the Internet recently, such as Twitter threads of daily tarot card readings. Some people wait and rely on these threads for understanding their lives, even if there’s no certainty of its validity. While tarot readings and astrology aren’t really empirically based, they do give people the framework of understanding the reason behind someone’s worries or dismay, as the Huffington Post details:
It’s also no surprise that practices like tarot and astrology are increasingly coupled with mental health advice. Therapeutic guidance (sometimes from actual therapists) has a bigger platform thanks to social media, which has arguably made talking about and understanding mental health more possible for the general population.
Plus, many people can’t afford professional help or need a supplement to therapy, so they turn to the internet and social media for advice on dealing with daily stress, Dore said. There are numerous barriers to getting mental health treatment, including high cost, insufficient insurance coverage and a lack of options. Recent data found that 1 in 4 Americans said they had to choose between paying for daily necessities and paying for mental health care.
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Gerald Tautenhahn was kicked off his return flight to Texas with JetBlue airlines because his pet opossum, Zatara, was refused to board the plane. This left Tautenhahn frustrated, as they were able to fly from Texas to California without any altercations. He was able to clear with the Department of Transportation and JetBlue a month in advance, he told FOX7. Travel and Leisure has the details:
A representative for JetBlue told the station that the airline “gladly accepts small dogs and cats only in an approved pet carrier.” The representative added that the opossum came out of its carrier and crew members noticed it was decidedly not a cat or dog.
“The crewmembers informed the customer that the opossum would not be able to travel on the flight and worked to assist the customer with his options,” the representative said.
Tautenhahn chose loyalty to his pet and booked a second flight home on United a few days later. When he boarded that flight, Tautenhahn told the New York Post the flight attendants “didn’t even ask” about the somewhat strange pet
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Stromboli, Italy, is one of the seven volcanic islands in the Aeolian archipelago. The island near Sicily’s northern coast is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. Regardless of the danger posed by its volcanic activity, tourists actually visit the island. However, the recent summer eruptions have decreased the volcano tours for safety. National Geographic travels to Stromboli, “the lighthouse of the Meditterrenean” to look further into the island, far from the mountaintop views and beyond the volcanic attractions to examine other aspects of Stromboli.
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The British royal family give memorable gifts, from leather toilet seat covers to an actual grow-your-own-girlfriend kit (for Prince Harry). Princess Diana gave her then-husband Prince Charles a gift that while full of thought and effort, it was something that her husband did not like at all. In 1985, Princess Diana presented him with a dance number in a Christmas gala, giving tribute to her then-husband. Reader’s Digest has the details:
When the big night came, Diana slipped quietly out of her seat next to Charles, who was watching the stage and likely thought she was just running to the bathroom, Sleep told 48 Hours in 2017. Sleep danced solo for the intro, then Diana strutted on stage. When she turned to face the house, the audience gave a collective gasp. No one—not even Charles—saw that coming!
The applause was endless from most of the audience, but the surprise “slightly backfired,” as Charles didn’t take too well to the fact that his wife performed in front of 2,000 people without telling him, says Daily Mail editor-at-large Richard Kay, who was friends with Diana. “Charles wasn’t terribly impressed, because he thought she was showing off,” Kay said in the documentary. “But in fact, it was incredibly courageous of her to go onstage.”
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There might be a vampire living near you, or at least, that’s what Louisiana State University academic researcher John Edgar Browning claims! According to Browning, there at least fifty vampires in New Orleans, and a whopping 5,000 vampires living across the United States. Vampires don’t meet casually over at your local coffee shop. Browning says that they meet through witchcraft-related and pagan groups, and goth clubs. Oddee has the details:
These social gatherings included Dark Shadows conventions and other vampire fiction and film fan organizations; bondage and S&M events, which were frequented by blood fetishists and others whom real vampires found to be willing blood donors,” Browning said according to Anomalien.com. “Vampire feeding, whether on blood or psychic energy, is always consensual, and generally always medically safe. The vampire and donor will each have their blood tested beforehand.
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