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Backpacker Gets Giant World Map Tattoo on His Back, Colors In the Countries He Visits on His Travels
In 2010, backpacking enthusiast and travel blogger Bill Passman decided to get a tattoo of a world map on his back after seeing a similar…
Two Adorable ‘Star Wars’ Statues Based on Best-Selling Children’s Books by Jeffrey Brown
Darth Vader’s Little Princess Maquette Box Set Gentle Giant Studios and Chronicle Books teamed up to create two adorable statues based on scenes from best-selling…
Three Ways to Destroy the Universe, A Look Into How Everything Might End
The video “Three Ways to Destroy the Universe” by Munich-based KurzGesagt examines, as the name suggests, three ways in which it is commonly thought that…
Pussy Riot Members Make First American Television Appearance on The Colbert Report
Two members of the political punk rock band Pussy Riot, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina, were guests on The Colbert Report last night, their first…
A Parody Movie Trailer Based on DC Comics’ Winged Superhero “Hawkman” by Rhett & Link
Comedy duo Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal of Rhett & Link have created a parody movie trailer based on DC Comics‘ winged superhero Hawkman (Carter…
Rock Band Young Rival Creates Magic Eye-Style Music Video Using Random Dot Autostereograms
Rock band Young Rival collaborated with director Jared Raab and artist Tomasz Dysinski to create a set of eye-crossing music videos for their song “Black…
What It Might Look Like If New York City Hosted the Winter Olympics
Ski Jumping The New York Times imagines what New York City might have looked like if, instead of failing in their 2012 Summer Olympics bid,…
Hannah Hart Hilariously Dispels Common Misconceptions About Alcohol Consumption
Hannah Hart of My Drunk Kitchen recently hosted an episode of Mental Floss where she hilariously dispelled common misconceptions and rumors pertaining to the consumption…
Intersections, A Wooden Cube Art Installation That Explores Boundaries Through Patterns of Light and Shadow
Created by Indianapolis-based professor and artist Anila Quayyum Agha, Intersections consists of a heavily patterned hollow 6.5′ wooden cube hung from the ceiling that casts…
The Notebook Remade with Cute Kittens
The Pet Collective has created a fun remake of Nick Cassavetes’ 2004 romantic drama The Notebook using cute kittens. Previously, we wrote about their feline…