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Makeup Artist Uses Her Amazing Skills to Transform Ordinary People Into Mighty Superheroes
Talented Calgary, Canada-based makeup artist Lianne Moseley uses her amazing skills to turn normal, everyday people into superheroes. Moseley, a self-trained artist who usually does…
AvoSeedo, A Handy Tool to Make Growing Avocado Trees at Home Easier
Growing avocado trees at home sounds like a tricky process, but a new product is in the works to make it a little easier. The…
Pomplamoose Covers ‘Uptown Funk’ by Mark Ronson in a Music Video Featuring Delightfully Bizarre Puppets
Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte of Pomplamoose perform a cover of “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson (which also features some incredible vocals by Bruno Mars)…
San Francisco Woman Seeks Boyfriend With 54-Foot Street Mural Personal Ad and Hand-Lettered Flyers
photo via Looking For In an effort to find a boyfriend, an anonymous 26-year-old San Francisco woman has launched Looking For, a bold (or odd)…
Vsauce Shines a Light on the Complicated Answer to the Question, ‘Would Headlights Work at Light Speed?’
If a car is driving at light speed and the headlights turn on, what happens? In a recent video by Vsauce, host Michael Stevens attempts to…
‘PBS Idea Channel’ Explores Boredom, Overly Sensitive Americans, and Teleporters
PBS Idea Channel host Mike Rugnetta explores boredom, overly sensitive Americans, and teleporters in a recent episode that breaks the typical format by looking at…
Charles Darwin’s Children’s Doodles and Paintings on Original Handwritten ‘On the Origin of Species’ Pages
A watercolor on the back of a page of the original On the Origin of Species manuscript A vast collection of digitizations and transcriptions of…
The Hippopotamus Chair, A Massive Black Chair Shaped Like a Life-Sized Adult Male Hippo
Spanish artist Maximo Riera has created the Hippopotamus Chair, a life-sized sculptural replica of an adult male hippopotamus that also happens to be a chair.…
‘Werewolf House’, A Modified Version of the Classic Party Game Mafia Featuring Pop Culture Character Illustrations
Werewolf House is a modified version of the classic party game Mafia by Los Angeles-based creative agency who ate my teeth that features illustrations of…
A Little White Kitten and a Big Fluffy Chicken Take Turns Playfully Teasing Each Other
Unaware that they should probably be enemies, a little white kitten named Dash and a big fluffy Frizzle chicken named Mora take turns playfully teasing…