Woodkopf, An Awkward Czech Sport Where Competitors Try to Knock a Wooden Board Off Their Opponent’s Head
Woodkopf (“wood head”) is a whimsical Czech sport in which two competitors, balancing wooden boards on their heads, try to knock their opponent’s board to…
Filipino Artist Creates Beautiful Burnt Wood Art With a Magnifying Glass and the Sun
Filipino artist Jordan Mang-osan burns beautiful illustrations into wood using a most unusual tool: the Sun. Mang-osan creates the illustrations with a magnifying glass and…
Hyperrealistic Sculptural Cakes by Debbie Does Cakes
San Francisco Bay Area cake designer Debbie Goard (see previously) creates wonderfully realistic sculptural cakes through her company, Debbie Does Cakes. Each cake is custom…
The 12th Annual San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibition, A Showcase of Creatively Altered Barbie Dolls
The 12th Annual San Francisco Altered Barbie Exhibition: Mission Barbie, a showcase of creatively altered Barbie dolls, takes place at Shotwell 50 Studio in San…
Remarkable Glass Sculptures That Look Like Knitted Yarn
Artist Carol Milne creates remarkable glass sculptures that look like knitted yarn. She achieves the effect by knitting with pliable wax, which she then turns…
Cyclists in Latvia Highlight the Road-Hogging Size of Cars by Wearing Life-Size Car Costumes in Traffic
To highlight how much more road a car requires than a bicycle, a group of cyclists recently donned car costumes and took to the streets…
An Interactive 2014 Fall Foliage Map That Tracks the Progression of Changing Leaves Across the United States
SmokyMountains.com has created an interactive 2014 Fall Foliage Map that tracks the changing of the leaves across the United States. The map, which covers the…
Timbuk2 x Blue Bottle Travel Kit, A Coffee-Making Kit That Fits in a Travel Bag
Timbuk2 and Blue Bottle Coffee have collaborated together to create the Timbuk2 x Blue Bottle Travel Kit, a portable coffee-making kit that includes everything needed…
Artist Creates Incredible Coffee Cup Art by Altering the Starbucks Mermaid Logo
Korean artist Soo Min Kim alters the iconic mermaid on Starbucks coffee cups, creating all manner of new characters out of the logo. Kim uses…
‘The San Francisco Bay Guardian’, A San Francisco Alternative Newspaper Since 1966, Is Shutting Down
The San Francisco Bay Guardian, an alternative weekly newspaper that has been published in San Francisco for the past 48 years, announced today that it…