Having to ride the train home after work is bad enough, but when you are crammed so tightly into each car that your face is smashed up against the window the ride home becomes a trip straight to hell.

Photographer Michael Wolf decided to capture images of commuters at their most (de)pressed, all hope lost and face pressed to the glass, in his series entitled Tokyo Compression.

The images are at once uncomfortable and undeniably humanistic, and something anyone who has been forced to ride on public transportation in a major city during rush hour can relate to.

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Classic Nintendo characters, from NES games like Metroid, The Legend Of Zelda and MegaMan, explore their Japanese roots in this series of illustrations by Jed Henry.

Capturing the action of old school gaming with the style of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, these beautiful full color illustrations show us what Samus, Link and MegaMan would look like in an alternate Feudal Japan themed universe.

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This idyllic music video looks like it was filmed in a fantasy forest, and stars two beautiful harpists, Camille and Kennerly, who appear to be of Elvish ancestry.

And when the soothing sound of twin electric harps playing the theme to A Game Of Thrones sweeps over you, you'll believe that dragons can fly and feel the magic in the air. Or, maybe I had a few too many drinks with dinner...

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It doesn't get much kookier, or more twisted, than these strange drawings done in MS Paint by a friend of Redditor TheLittleClayroo over seven years ago.

If you're familiar with, and like, the Dolan meme then these will be right up your alley, if not then you may appreciate the sick, silly sense of humor contained in each colorful scrawl.

Otherwise, unwind and enjoy a laugh at the ridiculousness of it all, and try to figure out what the heck this guy was thinking when he made these ridiculous drawings!

Link  --via Geekosystem

Faces are hilariously flexible, and when they get blasted by air they stretch and ripple like liquid rubber.

Get a load of the mugs in these pictures by photographer Tadao Cern, whose faces are caught in the midst of a hurricane force wind.

Now that's what I call exercising your facial muscles, could this be the new cure for wrinkles?

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The makers of this fun vid took the expression "draw your weapons" and turned it into the premise for a short in which combatants must sketch their own arms out of chalk.

I really like the fact that they went out of their way to make the chalk weapons look super flat, and the 'splosions are a nice touch. Sidewalk chalk art has never seemed so dangerous!

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The world's largest LEGO tower resides in Seoul, Korea, where "it took 4,000 children 5 days and more than 50,000 bricks to build a record-breaking 105 ft Lego tower" all for the sake of world record fame.

Hopefully a stiff breeze doesn't knock the tower over and send LEGO bricks flying across Seoul, making for an unpleasant surprise for anyone walking around barefoot.

And if you were already coming up with child labor jokes in your head while reading this article, hit the video link and prepare to ROFL!

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The album is called Punk, and it's a CD compilation released in the early 90s which is chock full of hardcore hits like "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House and "I Want A New Drug" by Huey Lewis and the News.

Man, these songs make me want to dye my hair green and pierce my ears with safety pins! And the hosts in this infomercial are very angry, so it must be just what I need to become a real punk rocker!

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As a rule, movies based on video games tend to be just plain awful, so why would anyone bother making a video game based on a movie based on a video game? For the sake of profit, and so bloggers like myself can make fun of them, why else?!

Battleship the video game that's based neither on the blockbuster movie nor the board game? Mortal Kombat style video look for the Street Fighter movie game? Uggghh!

If you see these games at a store or in a friend's collection, do the world a favor and destroy them on sight!

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Jim Rugg explores pop culture as the subject matter in his ball point pen drawings, in the style of classroom doodles on sheets of lined paper.

His hilarious illustrations make great use of color, tongue in cheek humor and as many popular movie icons as he can fit in between the margins.

(1 NSFW drawing of Total Recall alien)

Link  --via Geek Tyrant

Creator of the Walking Dead comic book Robert Kirkman plans to unleash hordes of zombies on San Diego during Comic Con 2012.

In fact, there will be so many zombies that he plans on renting a nearby stadium in order to house them all, and those willing to pay for a bone chilling experience with the undead.

Here's more on this gruesome event:

So, what are these activities? According to THR, they include: “an obstacle course where participants can do one of three things: be a survivor and race through a zombie-infested evacuation zone; be a walker who joins the ranks of the undead; or a spectator who watches from the sidelines during an Escape Party.”

“Our fans have been reading about it, watching it and now they get to live it with The Walking Dead Escape. We are literally transforming Petco Park into the early days of society’s collapse and San Diego is just the first city to fall.” said Robert Kirkman via press release.

Sounds scarier than watching a Padres game!

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LEGO bricks have been used by artists and designers to create some rather spectacular works, from abstract to architectural, and what used to be considered mere child's play is now the preferred medium for square artists across the globe.

The PBS series Off Book sets its sights on artists that have chosen LEGO bricks as their medium, and the spectacular plastic works they create. It may inspire you to create some LEGO works of your own, and if you do please share!

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A woman in Orange County, California discovered that rock collecting can be a dangerous hobby, when the rocks she'd collected from the beach earlier that day suddenly ignited in her pocket!

Here's the scoop:

Orange County Fire Authority officials tell the newspaper that the woman collected the rocks on a nearby beach, returned home and "was standing in her kitchen ... when the pocket of her cargo shorts caught fire."
"I talked to the paramedic who treated her, and in his 27 years in responding to calls near the beach, he's never seen this," Fire Authority Capt. Marc Stone told the Register. "The rocks were still smoking when firefighters took them to the hospital."

Now, they're being tested. It's possible, Stone said, that phosphorus in the stones may have caused the combustion.

And they say hobbies like rock and shell collecting are a safe and relaxing activity.

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If you've wondered where rock god Prince has been hiding out for the last few years, it appears that he has been undergoing some radical anti-aging treatments.

But now he's back and looking even more youthful than when he started his career in the late 70s, ready to hit the stage complete with scooter and Purple Rain era wardrobe.

I'm glad to see that he's moved past that whole name change debacle and has chosen to embrace his roots. Now he just needs to hit the playgrounds and find a girl wearing a raspberry beret!

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Artist Ming Liang Lu has a rather unique way of creating portraits for customers that visit him in various subway platforms and tunnels throughout New York City-he cuts up small sheets of paper to look like his subjects, and the results are quite incredible.

The cut paper portraits are so small and delicate it's hard to imagine that such a clear likeness could be achieved in such a manner, but Ming has obviously been at this for a while (this video was posted in 2010), and his skills with the scissors are most impressive indeed.

Link  --via Laughing Squid