There are so many 30 day challenges out there it's hard to keep track of them all, but if you've got a black metal heart and a fetish for facepainting the only one you should care about is the 30 Day Corpse Paint Challenge.
And if you want to see a prime example of how to do this challenge right you've gotta watch Modern Valkyrie's "metalhead fantasy-nerd" Lady LeananSidhe kill it with 30 different dark looks that will keep you up at night.
It must be fun for photographers to take photos for stock photography sites, because they get to set up and shoot hundreds, if not thousands, of different shots just to make sure they're supplying stuff for every possible demand.
And since they're fulfilling a visual media need stock photographers get away with shooting stuff no other photographer could, like pics of smoking babies, suicidal Santa fans and teens posing for assault rifle selfies.
How much do you pay a baby to pose for photos anyway? Do you pay them more if they bring their own cigarettes?
Video game journalist Andy Kelly can't answer those questions, but he does have a knack for finding the darkest and most bizarre stock photos on the 'net, which he shares via his Dark Stock Photos Twitter feed. Give it a follow then sit back and watch the strange and demented photos roll in!
Bob Ross proved it can be very soothing to watch someone paint, and painting can be an extremely relaxing activity and a great stress reliever for the artistically inclined.
But watching art dealer Philip Mould remove layers of ancient varnish from a painting is like watching art magic in the making, as the subject is restored to her former beauty bit-by-bit.
People are so obsessed with Philip's classical painting clean ups that they begged him to start doing a live stream of his restorations, which probably won't happen, but at least Philip has begun posting short videos of the process.
A last smear from the chin removed. I will post an image of the completed picture as soon as it is ready. pic.twitter.com/K7TSl2XdqE
And just so you can see how important Philip's work is, and what a drastic difference a little varnish removal makes here's a before and after of a fully restored painting. It's like washing your windows after driving through the desert!
What the mysterious 400 year old Prince Henry looked like before (with cleaning tests) and after cleaning. Mastic varnish - which is made from tree resin - biodegrades and turns yellow brown over time, and can almost completely hide a painting if left long enough. pic.twitter.com/taLUuy5cO4
Foods that are too cute to eat are fine if you're on a diet, but foods that are too cute and eat themselves- now that's a dish everyone can enjoy! Spughetti goes great with a pupperoni pizza and an antipawsto salad, and the best part is you get to eat two adorable little tiny pugs for dessert! Disclaimer- eating dogs isn't cool, and eating little tiny dogs is the uncoolest, so don't be a dweeb- let the doggies be the eaters and not the eatees!
Stay in a nom-nom-nom state of mind with this sPUGhetti t-shirt by Vincent Trinidad, it's deliciously delightful and a surefire way to make people want to hang out with you more just to be near your sweet shirt!
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Everyone has a limit to their patience, a button that can be pushed that activates our rage mode and makes us totally flip out, and for Eleven that button is pushed whenever someone refuses to leggo her Eggo. Those frozen waffles are more than just a meal for young El- they're a comfort food that helps remind her that she's not such a stranger to normalcy after all, and they're the only food that truly makes her happy. So if you want to stay on Eleven's good side keep your mitts off her Eggos, or you might end up with a splitting headache...
Show the world what happens when you mess with a psychic kid's favorite breakfast food with this Leggo My Eggo! t-shirt by Diablo Productions, it's one totally bitchin' design that's sure to blow people's minds wherever you go!
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Sending a message in a bottle is seen as something only castaways and the wrongly imprisoned do as a last ditch effort to be saved, but in reality people most often stick notes in bottles and toss them into the sea for fun.
And while none of the senders actually expect to receive a response to their letters many of the bottles sent off are actually found by people like Wim Kruiswijk of the Netherlands, who has found over 1,200 of them so far.
Wim has been collecting bottled messages since 1983, and apparently the Netherlands' Zandvoort coast is a prime spot to find stuff washed up on the shore because that's where Wim has found his entire collection.
Like most Impressionists Vincent Van Gogh liked to paint outdoors, setting up his easel in front of the very landscape he was painting in order to properly capture it's splendor.
And since Van Gogh applied a liberal amount of paint to the canvas to create the signature textural look of his paintings bugs would often get stuck in the globs of paint while they dried.
Van Gogh once wrote in an 1885 letter to his brother "I must have picked up a good hundred flies and more off the four canvases that you’ll be getting", so he was obviously used to having insects add their impression to his paintings.
Conservator Mary Schaefer discovered the insect, which she hoped University of Kansas entomologist and paleontologist Michael Engel could use to identify the exact season when the painting was created.
Sadly the insect didn't yield any clues to when the painting was created, but I bet conservators around the world will start poring over their paintings looking for embedded bugs!
People used to risk their virtual lives along the Oregon Trail, facing wild bears, broken axles, starvation and the ever present threat of dysentery, all so the survivors of the trip could live a better life.
But now it's easy to move to Oregon and live the good life, and instead of risking death by dysentery gamers can risk death by kombucha overdose in Travel Oregon: The Game.
The semi-independent Oregon tourism group Travel Oregon created their homage to Oregon Trail as a way to engage potential visitors and show off all the amazing culinary adventures found in Oregon:
"The impetus for creating the game was to help educate folks about the range of winter activities in Oregon," Katie Meeker, Travel Oregon's Global Marketing Manager, told MUNCHIES over phone Monday. "We wanted to try to find a way to do that in an engaging way."
Travel Oregon: The Game comes with a pretty robust food and drink component, which is pretty cardinal to the real-life experience of Oregon as a tourist. "Portland's known for its food and drink," Meeker told MUNCHIES. "In terms of thinking about what makes an experience in Oregon great, that comes up a lot. It's sort of part of who we are. You will eat and drink very well."
Within the game, you can play the role of an apple farmer or winemaker (along with such vocations as yoga teacher, ski pro, rancher, fly fisherman, or, uh, surfer). You're then given the option of journeying to one of seven territories within the state and partaking in a number of activities such as foraging for truffles, getting ice cream at Salt & Straw, catching and cooking Dungeness crab, or even becoming an accidental sommelier. The list goes on.
At a variety of stores in different parts of the state, you can also purchase craft beer or artisanal coffee. Potential causes of death along your journey include falling victim to a food coma or ingesting too much kombucha. Choose your own adventure, baby!
Practitioners of the Dark Arts utilize the skills they've learned in various ways, from casting spells to scrying to communicating with the dead, but only the bravest black magic users attempt a ritual of summoning.
Summoning opens a doorway to our world and there's no way of knowing what sort of creature will come storming through that doorway, but Claire the witch knows exactly what kind of demon she wants to import. If only she hadn't run out of troll fat...
Robert Crumb is a comic art pioneer, a trailblazer in the world of indie comix and one of America's most famous illustrators, but before he became the Big Cheese R. Crumb had to join the rat race just like everyone else.
At nineteen Crumb's art skills landed him a job designing cards at the American Greetings company in Cleveland, Ohio, where he met Harvey Pekar and other artists who inspired him to get out there and try to get paid for his comics.
Crumb's cards feature his signature art style minus all the pervy and drug-themed material found in his underground comix, and even though he didn't really dig the job the experience helped shape him as an artist:
Of all the big cities I’ve been in, Cleveland’s about the deadest or something. But that’s only in certain ways. In other ways I really like Cleveland, ya know? It’s like the lowest common denominator or something. Like you can get right down to basics here or something. Like in Chicago, Milwaukee, or Detroit or Denver or a lot of other towns, I can get a lot of attention from people who appreciate artists. Like I get a lot of ego build-up that way, but Cleveland’s a big dumb town.
I was here off and on for three or four years. I came here when I was nineteen after I left home to look for a job and to live with my friend Marty Pahls, and I was here like two weeks and got a job with American Greetings doing color separations. So I worked in the color separations department for about a year and then I was promoted to the Hi Brow department for about a year and then I got married and went to Europe and came back and worked American greetings again for about two months and then I decided to f@#k Cleveland and went to New York to try to make it big in New York.
I was there for nine months and I said f@#k New York and came back to Cleveland. Worked in Cleveland for about another eight months or something and then I went to San Francisco.
The boss kept telling me my drawing was too grotesque. He got me to draw this cute stuff, which influenced by technique, and even now my work has this cuteness about it.
The holiday season is all about getting together with friends and family, enjoying the company of others and having a good old time- in other words the holidays are all about partying!
If you're a party animal who likes to show up in a shirt that makes a statement then you should head to the NeatoShop and grab a fun new shirt or hoodie that'll make you the toast of the town!
Ever since Jack cracked the Christmas code he's been looking for something new to obsess about, and as if he'd read Mr. Skellington's mind the Doctor appeared in Halloweentown. He didn't make himself known at first, since the inhabitants looked a little too scary for a casual meet and greet, but he left plenty of clues for Jack to follow knowing his curious mind would force him to follow the trail. And follow the trail is exactly what Jack did, discovering a fez, a striped scarf and a sonic screwdriver before coming across a curious blue police box sitting among the trees...
Turn a wardrobe nightmare into a geeky fashion dream with this Who's This? t-shirt by Karen Hallion, featuring a magical design that's sure to make your fellow fans grin with delight!
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One of the initial goals of all recycling programs is the minimization of waste entering the landfills, because if you remove all recyclable materials from the trash you've got a whole lot less mess to deal with.
Most recycling programs have changed the waste management game quite a bit, reducing the amount of trash that ends up in landfills by 50 percent or more and giving us an abundant supply of recycled materials such as paper pulp, aluminum and glass.
But Sweden, never to be outdone, has made their recycling programs so efficient the country is actually running out of rubbish, so they've begun importing trash from other EU countries to keep their recycling plants going:
Over time, Sweden has implemented a cohesive national recycling policy so that even though private companies undertake most of the business of importing and burning waste, the energy goes into a national heating network to heat homes through the freezing Swedish winter. “That’s a key reason that we have this district network, so we can make use of the heating from the waste plants. In the southern part of Europe they don’t make use of the heating from the waste, it just goes out the chimney. Here we use it as a substitute for fossil fuel,” Ms Gripwell says.
Ms Gripwall says the aim in Sweden is still to stop people sending waste to recycling in the first place. A national campaign called the “Miljönär-vänlig” movement has for several years promoted the notion that there is much to be gained through repairing, sharing and reusing.
She describes Sweden’s policy of importing waste to recycle from other countries as a temporary situation. “There’s a ban on landfill in EU countries, so instead of paying the fine they send it to us as a service. They should and will build their own plants, to reduce their own waste, as we are working hard to do in Sweden,” Ms Gripwall says.
“Hopefully there will be less waste and the waste that has to go to incineration should be incinerated in each country. But to use recycling for heating you have to have district heating or cooling systems, so you have to build the infrastructure for that, and that takes time,” she adds.
Most people who claim to have the perfect hangover cure will tell you some old wives' tale about an odd combination of foods, some herbs you're supposed to eat or a drink concoction made with raw eggs that is "guaranteed" to cure a hangover.
But when veteran rock 'n' roll madman Ozzy Osbourne tells you he's got a cure for a hangover you'd better pull out your pad and pen and take notes- because his cure is sure to be a doozy and work like a charm.
You can't hit the bottle as hard or as long as Ozzy without picking up a trick or two for coping with the pain of the day after, but if you're looking for a booze-free hangover cure you'd better keep on looking:
Warning: Ozzy Osbourne is not a qualified medical professional. Caution is advised
Rod from Canterbury wrote in to ask what kind of booze produced the least painful hangover. Dr. Ozzy told Rod drinking was drinking, “and after the third glass, any rule you’ve made for yourself is gonna go straight out of the window,” so the real question is what to do the day after:
Over the years, I developed a fail-safe cure. Basically, I’d mix four tablespoons of brandy with four tablespoons of port, throw in some milk, a few egg yolks, and — if I was in a festive mood — some nutmeg. The second I woke, I’d mix it up and down it. The way it works is very clever: it gets you instantly blasted again, so you don’t feel a thing. The only drawback is that, unless you keep drinking, the hangover that eventually catches up with you is about a thousand times worse than it would have otherwise been.
Perhaps it's passion that drives us to do our lovers wrong, or maybe it's because the wounds inflicted by our partners are deep and never seem to heal, since we let our guard down and invited them into our hearts.
Wife moved out on my birthday and in with her boyfriend...3 years later I was a collector for a bank and found out that they both were hiding their cars so they would not be repossessed. I worked with their lender to have both of their cars repo'ed at the same time in two different cities. Yes, I hold grudges for a while....
