Even though it's considered embarrassing and rude to fall asleep during an opera, play or orchestral performance it happens to even the biggest fans from time to time, and nobody minds as long as you're not snoring.
But the orchestra and the audience alike will be quite peeved about your snoozing if you awaken with a scream, as an unseen audience member did in this video featuring Redding, California's North State Symphony playing Stravinsky.
-Via HuffPost
Black Mirror is one of the most thought provoking, cutting edge and depressing TV shows ever made, and even though the show is overall very popular some episodes have been too much for viewers to handle.
So, in an effort to make the show a bit friendlier for first-time viewers, here are the six episodes of season 4 reimagined by Brazilian artist Butcher Billy as cover art for a comic book called Tales Of The Black Mirrors.
The best part about Butcher Billy's Black Mirror comic book covers is they're virtually spoiler free, so if you haven't seen season 4 yet you'll have that "aha!" moment after you've watched them all!
Of course, if it's a Butcher Billy t-shirt you're looking for, say one with a New Wave superhero on the front here's a link to his NeatoShop page.
-Via Laughing Squid
(-Via JessJackdaw)
The only difference between a Pokemon and a Fakemon is the Fakemon weren't created by Satoshi and Tajiri, but fans have created plenty of Fakemon who would make perfect additions to the roster.
There's the Super Soaker swordfish hybrid above, which could lead to a whole new story factor involving trainers armed with Poke-weapons, and this cool looking character that may actually be too cool to be a Pokemon.
(-Via Graph1te)
These Fakemon are as good, if not better, than non-fake Pokemon, and the artists who create them are doing a great job of breathing new life into a roster of creatures who were starting to feel a bit formulaic.
(Woolcub/Howoolf-Via Sims76)
See 15 Fakemon That You'll Wish Were Real and keep scrolling to see 23 Incredible Fake Pokemon Nintendo Should Use ASAP here
Before Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch became a controversial place it was a place of wonder, with its own zoo, amusement park rides, and two trains, not to mention Michael's magical 13,000 sq. ft. mansion.
The 3,000 acre Ranch was worth an estimated $100 million dollars before Michael abandoned the property after it was searched by police officers during the People V. Jackson trial back in 2003, and in 2006 the property went into foreclosure.
Michael left most of his stuff behind when he abandoned the property, and all that stuff plus the strange and sordid history of the place made Neverland Ranch a very enticing place for urban explorers to visit.
Four such urban explorers (nicknamed after the TMNT by VICE) broke in to the place repeatedly between December 2007 and March 2008, and the stuff they found there really adds to the MJ mystique:
Donatello: The other thing was that he collected memorabilia that had him on it, he had Pepsi bottles and books and other promotional material in boxes. He also had stacks and stacks of fan mail, and one of the ones that really grabbed me was some fan had drawn the prosecuting attorney of his molestation case with devil's horns. That was just laying on a tabletop – maybe a Pac-Man table?
Raphael: You were reading his fan mail?
Donatello: We were flipping through some of it.Raphael: One thing that really sticks out in my memory was drinking his grape soda from that walk-in kitchen storage area and then very carefully wiping the fingerprints off the bottle and hiding it in the bushes.
Was it actual grape soda?
Raphael: Yeah! It was actual grape soda! In the kitchen there was this "Children of the World" menu. Everything in there was geared toward children. I'm not sure he had any, but...He did.
Raphael: Having that menu there, on a permanently printed chalkboard it had peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches and macaroni and cheese or something, that sticks out in my mind. The general strange hodgepodge of s#%t that he had bought that didn't have any relation to his house. His entire house was filled with these really expensive looking one-off random, semi-artistic things.
Read Four Photographers Sneaked Into And Explored Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch at VICE (NSFW language)
When we're kids we think all kinds of maladies can happen to us and others simply due to a misstep, because as the old schoolyard rhyme goes "step on a crack, break your mother's back".
There are even times when kids believe the floor is covered with invisible lava, so it's not hard to imagine a kid thinking their ghost would get knocked out of their body if they fell down hard enough...oh wait, the kid in this Rustled Jimmies comic actually dies of a broken neck after slipping on a banana peel...
Man, that's some dark and twisted stuff they got goin' on there!
-Via Geeks Are Sexy
Music superstars like Madonna, Billy Joel and Bob Marley used to be the top of the pop culture heap, but now thanks to the internet the human stars have fallen so the kitty stars can rise.
And it's on that note that graphic designer Alfra Martini created The Kitten Covers- iconic album covers with the tired old human stars replaced by cute cats.
The Kitten Covers Tumblr seems to be defunct, since their last post is from May of 2016, but if you like the concept then it's definitely worthwhile to dig through their digital crates and see what you find!
Food art is usually too pretty and too detailed to eat, and the more intricately detailed pieces are often made out of a combination of ingredients that don't taste as good as they look together.
But the fun fried egg art pieces cooked up by Michele Baldini are detailed enough to be impressive but not something you'd feel bad about eating, plus some of them actually look delicious.
Michele fries up the egg whites and yolks separately so he can use that splash of bright yolky color in fun ways in each piece, and he shares his breakfast creations with the world via his Instagram account @the_eggshibit. It's strictly for lovers of tasteful art.
-Via Geeks Are Sexy
You may have heard you're not supposed to flush your old medications down the toilet, and you may have heard that doing so is bad for the environment, but very few people seem to know exactly why it's so bad.
So here's one reason why you shouldn't flush your pills down the toilet, especially antidepressants- because they can end up in the ocean, thereby affecting the wildlife.
Researchers at Portland State University are studying how flushed antidepressants that end up in the ocean affect wildlife like Oregon shore crabs, and their tests revealed that fluoxetine had a dramatic effect on these crabs:
The authors introduced fluoxetine, the main ingredient in Prozac, into a laboratory body of water inhabited by Oregon shore crabs, or Hemigrapsus oregonensis. Normally, the crabs are nocturnal foragers, avoiding confrontation and hiding in sediment when predators appear.
After being exposed to the drug, the crabs exhibited a dramatic change in behavior. Instead of shying away from predators—in the lab study, the larger red rock crab—they became more confrontational, increasing the risk of an early death. They also became more active during the day and displayed aggression towards other crabs, engaging in fights.
a USGS study published earlier this year found antidepressants in the brains of fish living downstream from wastewater treatment plants. The study's authors warn that increased populations near coastal regions may worsen the issue. It's also unknown how concentrations of several different drugs can combine to alter behavior. Right now, it looks like our solution to one problem—depression—may have a host of ecological repercussions.
-Via Mental Floss
If a show has the words "Muppets" or "Jim Henson" in the title you know it's going to feature some really awesome puppets, and the late 90s successor to The Muppet Show called Muppets Tonight was no exception.
Muppets Tonight introduced us to cool characters like the Nine Inch Snails, an all-gastropod grunge band who sing a morbid little song that includes the line "give me some salt and turn me to gel" and put on one shell of a show.
-Via Laughing Squid
Chicago was a gritty city in the early 20th century, when the Mob ran the city, racial tensions ran so high Chicago erupted in a race riot, and crime turned the streets into a battleground.
But as dark as those early 20th century days were for the residents Chicago began to bounce back and undergo a revitalization after World War II, and by the 1960s office buildings were rising and the city's economy was booming once again.
Photographer and Chicagoland resident Mark Susina collects found photos from estate sales and such and shares his finds via Flickr, including these snapshots from the 1960s showing people and places around Chicago.
There are pics of people taking in a parade and an artfair, shots of cool buildings around the city, and a few photos of a guy clearing snow from the street in a Bobcat included almost as a reminder of how cold it can get in the Windy City.
See 29 Color Found Snaps Of Chicago In The 1960s at Vintage Everyday
The blanket term "collector" appeals to most people when it's left alone than when you add a noun before it, as in toy collector, antique collector or rock memorabilia collector. See how much cooler "the collector" sounds than any of those more specific designations?
The thing is most collectors don't care if people think their collection is cool, because that's not why they do it- they collect stuff because they're passionate about the stuff they collect.
So whether they're collecting vintage Smurf toys, beer cans or tiny erasers shaped like food there's something about the objects they gather that makes their heart sing.
As a lifelong collector of toys, comic books and vintage t-shirts I know how passion can quickly turn into obsession, but the way I see it all that cool stuff out there ain't gonna collect itself!
See more from People Are Sharing Their Weirdest Collections at Bored Panda
Carole and Serge, 1982 | Carole and Serge, 1988 | Serge and Carole, 2014
When a couple is together for decades they go through all kinds of different phases together, especially when they're together from their younger days until they're old and gray, or bald as the case may be.
And while these changes aren't obvious to the rest of the world one look at photos taken in different decades of a person's life tells the whole story of how much they've changed, and how life has changed them, as time goes by.
Bianca and Ernesto, 1982 | Bianca and Ernesto, 1997 | Bianca and Carlo 2014
Photographer Barbara Davatz started her portrait series As Time Goes By back in 1982 and continued it until 2014, but originally she didn't intend the photos to become part of a series:
“As the years passed, I began thinking about the work again,” she told Slate, “becoming very curious about the diverse biographical and physical changes I imagined could have occurred in the meantime and gaining confidence in the potential strength of the new work.” She decided to continue the series, photographing it in irregular intervals, with each new session doubling as a small reunion. “I have always thought of them fondly, as my ‘photographic family,'” she explained, “and I have always been very curious to see what kind of people they brought into the new series (into the family!) each time.”
Fabian and Regula, 1982 | Vimbai, Regula, and Lukas, 1997 | Fabian, 2014
People usually say they want to see big animals like the elephants, big cats and gorillas when they go to the zoo, but when they get there they find the little critters like the meerkats are a lot more fun than the big beasts.
That's because smaller critters are more active and therefore more fun to watch, and if you're ever at the Symbio Wildlife Park in Sydney, Australia during feeding time you'll see a really funny sight- meerkats lining up and waiting patiently to get some food from Beth the zookeeper.
-Via Laughing Squid
Andy Warhol and Nico were cool, they were eccentric and underground and enjoyed wearing costumes on occasion, all of which made them the perfect characters to play Batman and Robin in a photo shoot for Esquire.
The shoot happened in 1966 when Batmania was in full swing thanks to the Adam West TV show, so Nico posed as Batman and Andy as Robin for photographer Frank Bez's seriously hip photo spread meant to draw in younger, hipper readers for Esquire.
Andy was a big fan of Batman, and comic books in general, so he was probably pretty jazzed about the shoot, and Warhol's 1964 film Batman Dracula is considered the first appearance of a campy version of Batman.
Read a written pun and it will make you smile at the thought of it, and puns make great text messages and tweets, but a visual pun is one you can share with your social media circle and the offline folks when they come over to visit.
And once you've seen how your circle reacts to those clever visual puns you've been sharing you'll want to find and post more, and believe you me they're out there...
But the real beauty of visual puns is how easy they are to create on your own, and since we always have a camera in our pocket nowadays we can snap pics of puns in the wild- or use our phone to take a screen shot.
