Dealing with a polite vampire really sucks because they make you feel bad about wanting to get straight to the point and stake them dead, forcing you to find a more polite way to knock them off.
Should you ever encounter a polite vampire in the wild it's best you know garlic merely repels vampires and won't finish them off, oh, and they like their steaks extra bloody. (Comic by Napalm Soda Comics)
-Via Geeks Are Sexy
Cats are strange and inscrutable creatures, and trying to figure out their behavior or what they're thinking is like trying to solve the problem of world peace- it may be possible but nobody has done it yet.
But it appears the vet who came up with these clever explanations for cat behavior is on to something, and their explanations seem way closer to the truth than the opinions of so-called cat "Experts".
Imgur user ItsJayOrDan was visiting his local vet one day when he noticed some comics by Adam Ellis pinned to the cork board, and under each pic was an explanation of common cat behaviors which prove this vet really knows their stuff.
Now that this brilliant vet has begun revealing the secrets of felinekind we may someday truly understand the furry little savages living in our homes, but until then we need to keep our kittehs happy and avoid their traps at all cost.
See more from This Vet Put Explanations Of 15 Common Cat Behaviors On His Cork Board here
People assume all counterfeit clothing comes from China, where creating bootleg couture is a proud tradition dating back decades, but the bootleg clothing biz is booming so manufacturers in other countries have joined in on the fun.
In Seoul streetwear rules the counterfit clothing scene, and clothing obsessed Korean consumers are always hungry for new designers to step up and get weird.
This short documentary by Highsnobiety discusses the rise of K-fashion, the Korean youth obsession with streetwear, and the ever-growing global market for counterfit clothing:
-Via Boing Boing
Carving animals and tiki gods into tree trunks with a chainsaw is an impressive way to sculpt wood, but chainsaw artists who are able to carve trees into realistic and free flowing organic shapes are a cut above the rest.
American chainsaw artist Jeffrey Michael Samudosky got his hands on a fallen redwood snag he saw as the perfect medium for a giant sculpture, and after staring at the wood for a while he started to see tentacles.
After hours of carving and sanding the tentacles started to take shape, as Jeffrey freed the giant octopus hidden inside the chunk of redwood tree provided to him by Redwood Burl.
Now the fallen redwood has been given a new life as a massive work of art, and Jeffrey is now the proud owner of a giant octopus that won't try to gobble him up!
-Via My Modern Met
While it has been proven that birds like parrots and cockatoos understand the difference between human words and mere noises they still don't understand why humans feel the need to mess with their heads.
And yet Onni the cockatoo seems to genuinely enjoy having his human Chet mess with his mind by making all kinds of strange noises with his mouth, noises that totally blow little Onni's mind.
The duo have a strange yet extremely endearing relationship, which mom Rebecca Stout captures on video, and I'm pretty sure Onni thinks Chet is a bird too- a large, hideously deformed bird with no feathers whose beak fell off, but a bird nevertheless.
-Via Laughing Squid
Stranger Things is the ultimate homage to 80s movies like Goonies, Firestarter and Poltergeist, and directors the Duffer Brothers aren't shy about including easy to spot nods to their favorite 80s movies in each episode.
But in case you didn't catch them all the first time around, or you're just looking for a fun way to get in the mood for season 2, check out this video by Looper showing the Easter eggs from Stranger Things season 1 you may have missed.
And in case you missed it- last year the Duffer Brothers revealed the one movie-related Easter egg that everyone missed in this very revealing interview with Esquire:
There's a scene in the second episode of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things in which Eleven is in Mike's bedroom looking at an old photograph of Will. She leans forward and points to the photo, somehow identifying the missing child. This scene, one of the few non-sci-fi or horror homages in the '80s referencing Stranger Things, is also among the only Easter Eggs in the series the Internet has missed, according to its directors the Duffer brothers.
It's a reference to the 1985 Harrison Ford movie Witness, directed by Peter Weir. In the original scene, a young Amish boy is walking through a police station when he sees the photograph of the man whom he identifies as the perpetrator of a murder investigation.
You may think you hate fidget spinners more than anyone else on the planet, but do you know who hates the spinner trend more than any human ever could?
The fidget spinners themselves, and even though they're riding high right now because they're the hot new toy they know they'll someday go the way of the yo-yo, only worse- because we still enjoy watching people do yo-yo tricks. Fidget spinner tricks? Not so much... (comic by Sephko)
-Via Geeks Are Sexy
People don't give much thought to the way they walk these days, and unless you're a runway model or you're trying to master a silly walk most people just walk the way they walk and talk the way they talk.
But back in the Middle Ages people had a ball heavy way of walking that looks a bit odd by today's standards, like a catburglar creeping silently across the floor or a ballerina about to kick up into a pirouette.
If those descriptions don't paint enough of a picture for you then watch historical reenactor Roland Warzecha from Hamburg, Germany demonstrate how to "Walk Medieval!":
The way that you walk is a very natural one. You put the ball of the foot onto the ground first. …the reason for this is pretty simple because… you sense your way, you feel your way. So like when I walk through grass I do it the same when I’m barefoot, if there’s a wasp or a slug or whatever, you sense it before your whole body weight is on falling onto it, as opposed to walking heel first.
-Via Laughing Squid
(Images via Kinpatsu Cosplay)
Cosplayers who get serious about their craft never stop improving and refining their costuming skills, and after a few years of making costumes they look back at their first cosplay creations and have a good laugh.
(Image via maimai_cosplay)
It's fun to see how far a cosplayer has come with their costuming and prop building skills over the years, and the difference is night and day when their old and new costumes are presented side-by-side.
Some show marked improvement after only a few years, while others spent over a decade honing their skills so they can take the Cons by storm in their amazing costume.
(Image via Bethiichan Cosplay)
And while not every cosplayer will improve their skills so dramatically those who do prove they've got what it takes to make screen worthy costumes that stand up to scrutiny.
(Image via Alyson Tabbitha)
See 10+ Cosplay Artists Reveal How They Improved Over The Years here
The most anticipated video game of 2016 and 2017 wasn't causing buzz because of its cutting edge 3D graphics or VR rig compatibility- because the buzz was all about the hand drawn animated graphics.
Cuphead was made to look like a classic cartoon from the 1930s, containing a mind-boggling amount of animated sequences that were lovingly drawn frame-by-frame as an homage to cartoon icons like Max Fleischer and Ub Iwerks.
In fact, animation historian Steve Stanchfield traced Cuphead's inspiration back to one particular animated short from 1935- Van Beuren's The Picnic Panic.
-Via Cartoon Research
Have you ever sold your car and forgotten to include the full-sized spare tire you had sitting in your garage?
Or maybe you've acquired a rimmed tire in some other totally legit way but don't know what the hell to do with it, happens to me all the time!
Which is why I found this used DIY Tire Ottoman tutorial so appealing, because those tires in my garage ain't worth a damn and they ain't going anywhere, so I might as well turn them into something useful!
With a wooden plate, some screws and a bunch of rope that dirty old tire was turned into this super swanky looking ottoman, a piece which really ties a room together.
Taking the search a little further led me to this DIY Tire Table tutorial which turned the same rope covered tire into a little table, expanding the uses for an old tire and adding even more swankitude to our pads.
-Via Boredom Therapy and Hometalk
Overwatch is a fun game and all, but I find myself going back to each character's animated trailer more often than I actually play the game- because they're so much fun to watch that Blizzard should make an animated Overwatch movie.
In each trailer we get an idea of what each character is capable of, their motivations in life, and how they fit in to the overall story of Overwatch which many players simply skip over so they can get to the action.
If you enjoy animated shorts, and don't particularly care to play a multiplayer shooter with a bunch of people you don't know, then you're not missing a thing by skipping the game and watching all the trailers instead. Thanks GameCin!
Believe it or not people are starting to live in shipping containers by choice, and as the Stacks from Ready Player One become a reality the humble shipping container proves it can do more than just carry goods.
Most shipping container homes are located in urban areas, but when architect James Whitaker was hired to design an unique shipping container house in the California desert his designs proved they look cool no matter where they're built.
London-based architect James Whitaker was hired by an unnamed Hollywood film producer to design a 200-square meter home that would fit in with the beautiful desert terrain near Joshua Tree National Park.
He succeeded in creating some incredibly realistic renders of a desert flower of a home he's calling The Joshua Tree Residence:
The 200-square metre house, which includes a kitchen, a living room, and three en-suite bedrooms, is made from several conjoined shipping containers set at various different angles, creating the illusion of a flower blooming in the desert or a structure more akin to another world entirely.
See more Architect Designs Incredible House Out Of Shipping Containers here
Social media is pretty impersonal if you think about it, since you're just staring at a screen reading something a person wrote without seeing their face or hearing their voice.
And as people begin to spend less time communicating with their friends in person and more time chatting with them via text online our bonds are becoming weaker, as we start to forget what our FB friends actually look like in person.
The New Mexico-based art collective Meow Wolf has figured out a clever way to fix all that- the Experience Tube, a "revolutionary analog device which connects one experience to another", worn to make sharing and liking personal again:
Using only soft striped fabric and the most sophisticated facial recognition technology ever developed (installed standard in current model human brains) the tube replaces all peripheral distractions with an unbridled visual feast of stripes and laughter! Simply upload a couple of faces into each end and make your own internet, instantaneously! Immediate vivid connection, with no subscriptions, user agreements, invasive advertisements, or spotty service!
-Via Boing Boing
If you think about it Pennywise chose the hardest group of kids to terrorize- pre-teen boys, who actually enjoy being scared, think blood and gore are cool, and whose rising hormone levels leave them eternally horny.
That's not to say pre-teen boys aren't easily haunted, but the hauntings would have to pertain to being embarrassed in front of a girl at school, or getting an "over eager visitor" during class, and Pennywise does sewers, not schools. (comic by JHALL)
-Via Dorkly
