Skaters know that breaking your deck, or dozens of decks depending on how hard you grind, is an inevitable part of the pastime.

But what do you do with all those broken wooden boards? Some keep them as a record of their skateboarding adventures, but one radical dude named Derek Keenan has come up with a totally gnarly way to recycle those busted decks- he created a large AT-AT sculpture out of the wreckage.

Derek created this incredibly cool wooden AT-AT for an art show put on by Vans shoes and Santa Cruz Skateboards to promote their new Star Wars themed lines, complete with an $1980 price tag that only a Sith lord can afford!

-Via GeekTyrant

Game of Rogues by Ninjaink

When you play a game of chess you try to think three moves ahead, play a game involving thrones and you try to outwit those who would usurp you, but when you play a game of rogues it's all wild cards, riddles and jokers trying to bring your empire of justice down.

Add a little darkness to your geeky wardrobe with this Game of Rogues t-shirt by Ninjaink and show your support for your favorite brooding superhero's war against crime.

Visit Ninjaink's Facebook page, official website and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more superheroic designs:

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YES, Now Quit Asking Me! by Tom Bancroft

"Do you wanna build a snowman?" sounds like a really benign, normal question, but when you ask the same person the same question over and over again, like a CD frozen on the same song lyric, you just want to grab them by the shoulders and yell "YES, now quit asking me!", but all that seems to come out is "Let it go..."

Stay cool this summer and make a bold statement at the same time with this Yes, Now Quit Asking Me! t-shirt by Tom Bancroft, it's stone cold hilarious!

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Most of us start our discovery of the power of shadow by making shadow puppets on the wall, and for some this leads to an artistic exploration of how shadows work, which helps us add a degree of realism to our artwork.

But for some artists merely incorporating shadows into the overall work just isn’t enough, and these admirers of the shady side of life go on to create works which rely on light and shadow for full visual effect.

Some works come out looking sketchy, others cast shadows that are simply perfect representations of real life, and all the shadow art works in this collection will blow your mind!

-Via Amazing Things On Earth

Kitchen scrubbers come in all shapes, sizes and colors, and many household objects are available in all sorts of fun colors these days, which means very little when you’re just trying to buy a plunger or a new mop.

However, when you’re a creative minded individual like artist Lynn Aldrich you see colorful household objects as potential pieces of a work of art, and her fantastic series of coral reef sculptures bring oceanic fun to the gallery floor.

Lynn is no stranger to creating art with found objects, and you can see more of her fantastically creative sculptures at her website.

-Via Laughing Squid

For some reason the bootleggers who made these painfully fake DVDs, and assorted pop culture themed merchandise, didn’t bother with silly things like realism or authenticity, they didn’t even bother getting the names right on most of these “unofficial” releases.

Who wouldn’t want to watch a show called Break So Bad, featuring a shrugging Walter White that looks suspiciously like the dad Hal from Malcolm in the Middle? How about Game of Thrones featuring a guest appearance by Thor?

Explore all the bad this collection of Blatantly Bogo Bootlegs has to offer, brought to you by the comedy minded folks at The Soup.

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Game of Thrones is such a totally righteous show that no soundtrack has ever been gnarly enough to properly match the show…until now.

Thanks to the musical efforts of Greig Stewart, aka Theremin Hero, and his fancy 8-bit NESKeytar everybody’s favorite show starring Hodor finally has the shredding opening credit theme it deserves, now with more lasers!

Greig’s amazing hacked instrument, made out of an NES and a Guitar Hero controller among other components, may make a sound that doesn’t appeal to those who don’t dig chiptunes, but it really is a wonder in its own right:

-Via Nerd Approved

The Star Trek universe is home to some seriously badass villains like the assimilating Borgs, the fierce warrior Klingons and the treacherous Romulans, but for every worthy adversary the Federation faces there are many far less intimidating foes facing Starship crews from the Enterprise and beyond.

In fact, the Star Trek universe is home to some of the most ridiculous villains to ever grace the small screen. Remember those fornicating fuzzballs the Tribbles? Well, they only made this list of The Top 10 Least Threatening Star Trek Villains thanks to a reader comment, but the villains who made the list are no less hoaky, and not much more intimidating, than those terrible Tribbles.

Here’s one of the latest scientific “discovery” stories which will make you shrug and say “okay then science”- scientists have trained microbes to act out classic 80s video games like Pac-Man and Brick Breaker, the microbes desperately seeking a high score so their scientific overlords would be pleased with their performance.

Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, a bioengineer from Stanford, uses electric fields to control the microbes and move them in various directions, adding a single cell pond-dwelling paramecia as an avatar. Here’s how it works:

Changes in an electrical field can cause some species to alter their steering (a behavior called galvanotaxis). The microbes selected for the video games swim toward electricity using cilia that cover their bodies.

Object-detecting software turns the physical setup into a game by locating paramecia as they move around the chamber. Meanwhile, a video overlay enables the organisms to interact with digital images. In the game PAC-mecium, microbes “eat” pellets as they swim past them, and in soccer they “kick” the ball when they come into contact with its cartoon image.

-Via AnimalNY

The silence of the lambs was caused by hungry Hannibal Lecter hosting a dinner party, but what's causing the silence of the crickets on the island of Kauai?

A researcher named Marlene Zuk first noticed the silence of the crickets in 2003, a very noticeable silence compared to when she first started studying the crickets on the island back in 1991, and she knew something was wrong because she continued to see the crickets everywhere despite their vow of silence.

After dissecting a few of the insects she discovered the source of their silence- the male crickets had developed flat wings that didn’t make a sound to avoid being eaten by a parasitic fly.

Here’s more on this interesting evolution to silence:

Zuk’s team discovered that the crickets were targeted by a parasitic fly, whose larvae burrow inside them and devour them alive. The flies finds the crickets by listening out for their songs and they’re so effective that, in the early 90s, they had parasitised a third of the males. In 2002, the cricket population had fallen dramatically, and Zuk thought that they were done for.

But the silent males escaped the attention of the fly. As they bred and spread, they carried the flatwing mutation with them. By 2003, the cricket population had rebounded. And in fewer than 20 generations, they had gone from almost all-singing to almost all-silent. The crickets have become a classic textbook example of rapid evolution.

-Via National Geographic

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You may not know the name Unarius, but most people who grew up in San Diego are familiar with our friendly neighborhood cult because of their zany UFO themed public access shows, their strange visitor’s center and the fact that they’ve been spreading their word of their "interdimensional science of life" since the 1950s.

They were founded in 1954 by Ernest and Ruth Norman, and they refer to themselves as The Unarius Academy of Science, Unarius being an acronym for Universal Articulate Interdimensional Understanding of Science, and if you think the Heaven's Gate crew were nutty wait 'til you get a load of these guys!

Thankfully theirs is a peaceful tribe, and not suicidal, but their story is rather far out, and writer Richard Metzger and Jello Biafra (of Dead Kennedys fame) traveled down to El Cajon, California to find out more about these kooky UFO lovin' folks back in 1992.

This is their story...(cue the Law & Order theme song)

Read more about The Unarius Society over at Dangerous Minds

Karl Lagerfeld has a unique vision of the world, to say the least, and he has often proven himself to be a visionary and trend setter in the world of fashion since he started desiging in the 1950s.

These days he has a lot more similarly “inspired” fashion designers to contend with, and you may think he has softened a bit in his age, but this statue proves that he hasn’t lost one bit of his unique vision.

Lagerfeld commissioned chocolate artist Anya Gallaccio to create a life sized chocolate statue that looks just like his favorite model/muse Baptise Giabiconi, who is wearing nothing but his underwear and a pouty face.

This deliciously tasteless work of chocolate art was created in 2011 and shown in Paris to promote the ice cream brand Magnum, but did this statue scare people away from the brand or make them hungry for more?

-Via Beautiful/Decay

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The fact that Godzilla has come back yet again proves that, for a giant scaly green dinosaur looking kaiju, he’s got some staying power in the world of pop culture, but with all the awesome cosplay out there where’s the costumed love for Godzilla?

Right here, thanks to this amazingly detailed costume created and worn by Sean Sumagaysay. The suit appears to be made out of hundreds of foam pieces, and it looks absolutely perfect even when he’s waving his tail and stomping around.

You can almost imagine the tiny model cities being crushed beneath his foamy feet, and it seems like the only thing the suit is missing is Godzilla's signature atomic breath, but maybe Sean is saving that for his 2.0 version of the suit!

-Via Kotaku

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Here’s a fine animated short for all you salty dogs out there, a short about seafaring men and the epic yarns they spin to their fellow sailors.

It’s called The Incredible Marrec, and it was created by a team of directors/animators: Regis Aillet, Alexandre Bass, Clement Chaudat, Etienne Devillée, and Maxime Moreira.

These five fish fancyin’ folks have managed to bring an oceanic tale to life that looks good and tells a mighty fine tale to boot, and you won’t need to strap on your sea legs, or take any Dramamine, to enjoy this salt water story because you can watch it from the comfort of your own home!

-Via GeekTyrant

It’s generally assumed that what lies inside letters is nothing but ink, or wood or foam or pixels when they make the jump to 3d, but as it turns out their insides look a lot like ours.

They’re full of muscles, veins, nerves and bones just like humans, but their lack of facial features makes it okay to perform surgery on them because you’ll never know when they’re in pain!

Just ask sculptor Andreas Scheiger, he is very familiar with the inside of a letter, and his series Evolution of Type reveals to the world what lies beneath the surface of a letter’s skin, and lemme tell ya- it ain’t pretty!

-Via Beautiful/Decay