Emojis are the cute little symbols that are replacing their simpler cousins the emoticons, and even though they're cute when viewed on a screen they're downright horrifying to look at in real life.

These real life emojis were created by ad agency Rosapark for a program called Innocence en Danger, a campaign to raise awareness about who our children are chatting with online, and they're supposed to represent some of the weirdos and predators who could be out there sending out messages full of smiley faces to innocent kids.

While constant preaching about the dangers of online predators may not be effective, one look at these scary emoji faced freaks and your kids will never look at those cute little emojis the same way again!

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Virginia Wade is the pen name of a stay-at-home mom from Parker, Colorado who makes a really good living writing some rather peculiar Romance novels about that elusive ape-man Bigfoot.

Okay, that was a nice way of saying Virginia writes monster porn novels, cryptozoological erotica books that mostly star Bigfoot, which she is having tons of success selling via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.

Virginia reports making as much as $30k a month selling sasquatch smut, making at least $6k during slow months, and she even has her family helping her put these hair raising tales together:

“I started cranking them out,” she says. “If there was a market there for monster sex, I was gonna give it to them.” She even brought in her family to help with the workload. “My dad, who’s an English instructor, was my editor,” Wade says. “My mom did the German translations” — including the equally popular “Komm für Bigfoot.”

[...] “I was putting my daughter through college with the profits,” Wade says. “I used to joke with her, ‘Bigfoot smut is paying for your school.’”

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Maybe it's all the smog and a fear of skin cancer, maybe they're trying to conceal their top secret identities from the prying eyes of the paparazzi- whatever the reason behind the masks and crazy beach getups, these Chinese women look like they're ready to drop flying elbows from the top rope when they go to the beach.

Photographer Peng Yangjun documented these wild beach styles in her series called BEACH, which captures the bathing beauties in their most comfortable, and extremely protective, seaside attire.

They might not look like extras from an episode of Baywatch, but when everybody else is wearing the same kind of bathing costume the lady with a mask that matches her wetsuit gets all the attention.

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The city of Detroit has been home to a legendary graffiti art scene since the early days of aerosol art, so it’s not surprising that Detroit has been the focus of many documentaries about the outlaw art form.

Here's an indie documentary from MOCAtv called Building Detroit- Revok, Nekst, Pose that pays tribute to the artist known as NEKST, who started his artistic adventures in Houston and passed away in December 2012 of an overdose.

NEKST made friends and influenced the underground art world in cities across the globe, and in a city full of abandoned buildings just begging to be brightened up with a splash of spray painted color called Detroit his friends REVOK and POSE are going to make sure that his legacy lives on.

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Here's a digital 8 bit improvement  on the harmonica created by YouTube user basami sentaku, and while it may not be the sonic improvement that harmonicaholics hoped for it makes sweet video game sounds when you blow into the cartridge, and playing this instrument will feel like you're trying to get an old school console cartridge to work- just like the good old days!

He created this digital music marvel with a NES sound chip housed inside a Famicon cartridge case, and it even has a Mario coin sound setting so you can add that colorful ba-ding to your next video game themed blues band performance.

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The ridiculous anti-smoking campaigns that air these days act like you’re a baby killing monster for wanting to smoke, but initially the anti-smoking PSAs took a gentler approach to getting people to quit- by telling them that they have a choice whether to smoke or not.

This animated short/PSA from 1981 is believed to have been made in New Zealand by Disney animator John Ewing and his company Freelance Animators Ltd, though it's uncertain because there aren't any studio credits attached to the film.

Smoking- The Choice Is Yours was made to appeal to adults and kids alike, showing us the dangers of smoking from the perspective of a cowpoke named Edgar, and unlike those awful Truth ads we're stuck with nowadays it skips the scare tactics in favor of some good old fashioned animated appeal.

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The sad history of terrible Bible themed video games started with the Atari 2600, and one of the rarest games ever made for the console called Red Sea Crossing.

In it you play Moses, who has to dodge snakes and snapping clams while crossing the Red Sea, and even though it seems like one of the most pointless games ever made it’s now considered the “Holy Grail” of Atari cartridges due to the fact that in 1983 you could only buy a copy of the game direct from the manufacturer.

From the look of the gameplay you'd be better off saving up for a copy of E.T.!

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Finally there’s something better to do with all those selfies you snap every time you’re out eating, drinking or just hanging with friends. Don’t post them to Facebook, nobody wants to see them anyway, and don’t send them out to everyone on your contact list- put them all together and create a stop motion animation!

That’s what Kyle Warfield did, and his year worth of selfies animation is really fun to watch. He may have done a bit of planning, and added a little digital manipulation here and there, to get the whole thing to turn out so perfectly, but if you’ve got the time to constantly take pictures of yourself wherever you go then you have time to plan ahead and create something which justifies your obsession with selfies.

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If you happen to be strolling around New York City, and you come across an unattended baby stroller, chances are you're going to take a peek inside just to make sure all is well, but after you watch this video you may want to re-think your policy on stroller snooping!

A demon baby is taking the city by storm, terrorizing unsuspecting do-gooders in the name of pranky laughs and promotion for an upcoming movie called Devil's Due.

The group behind this pranky publicity stunt is Thinkmodo, and they previously pulled off a similar stunt starring a girl with superpowers who freaked out a bunch of people in a cafe. Is this the future of movie advertising? We certainly hope so!

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You may not be familiar with the term Kabe-don, but chances are you’ve seen the pose in movies, TV shows, comic books and animation. It’s the way tough guys show their love, by pinning the object of their affection up against the wall using arms or legs or both, and kabe-don poses are an internet sensation in Japan.

People love to stage pictures of themselves posing kabe-don style with a pet or loved one, or else they create wacked out illustrated versions of the pose which would be impossible to do in real life.

They also love adding a bit of wordplay to the pose phenomenon, changing words like gyudon (a type of beef bowl) into a bull posing kabe-don style over his intended "victim". And don’t forget Neko-don, kitty style kabe-don pics which are all the rage because, you know, the internet.

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Recently we showed you what life was like inside Brooklyn apartments circa 1978, and now thanks to the Museum of the City of New York you can see what life was like all over the Big Apple during the 70s and 80s by perusing the 1200 historical photos taken by Edmund V. Gillon which they recently added to their collection.

The images capture everyday moments, structures that are probably long gone by now, and give an overall feel of life in NYC from a street photographer's point of view. Whether you love the city so nice they named it twice, love vintage photography or dig old school style do your eyeballs a favor and check out these cool pics!

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People often complain that Hollywood uses too many CGI effects in their movies these days, finding a place for a CGI character in every genre from action to drama, but what audiences don’t know, or notice, is where the real CGI magic happens in a movie.

Take Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street, for example-I bet you didn’t know that many of the shots were filmed in front of a green screen then composited into the beautiful, scenic shots you see in the movie.

It’s amazing what digital compositing and creative use of a green screen can add to a motion picture, and it’s so subtle audiences will be amazed at what they didn’t see.

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Classical sculptors generally used hard materials like marble and bronze to create their masterpieces, but artist Dylan Shields has shown us that it’s not about the material you use, it’s how you use it, in his new series of classically inspired works which are made out of cardboard and packing tape.

Dylan may have gotten his start when the Amazon and Ebay packaging materials started piling up in his garage, but whatever the backstory his corrugated sculptures are quite stylish despite the low cost of materials.

His goal is to reflect classical artistic ideals in his works while using modern materials, and while these papercraft works may not stand the test of time like their marble predecessors they are a fitting tribute to the art of sculpture.

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Since street art has become far more acceptable, and garnered a lot more fans due to media coverage of artists like Banksy, the pieces just keep getting bigger and bigger. The scene has gone from simple stencils painted on walls and sidewalks to full blown installations as big as a fueling station, like this incredibly colorful piece in Limerick City, Ireland.

An abandoned petrol station was turned into a public art installation, complete with candy striped mini cars, by street artist Maser entitled "No.27- A Nod To Ed Ruscha".

Here's the story behind this bold installation:

I converted a derelict petrol station in Limerick city into an interactive installation, as part of a transformative urban art project. My work often boldly juxtaposes old and new, past and present in the architectural elements, the visual grammar and choice of pallet. I hope to create work that surprises people and questions their relationship with the familiar and the norm and also how dissociated we are from the space around us. -Maser

Edward Joseph Ruscha is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film.

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Fans of the J.K. Rowling fantasy phenomenon known as Harry Potter have read the books, seen the movies, and possibly even visited the Wizarding World of Harry Potter inside the Universal Orlando theme park.

Potterheads have taken their imagination for a flight around the grounds of the Hogwarts School, or high above a Quidditch match to watch the action, so these Harry Potter themed travel posters by Caroline Hadilaksono may seem like a bunch of been there, done that.

But to those who haven’t experienced the fantasy adventure for themselves these cool illustrated posters with a retro style may be just the inspiration they need to get out of their mundane reality and into an imagination vacation!

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