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Will You Please Be My Mayor, A Website That Asks Celebrities to Run For NYC Mayor
Will You Please Be My Mayor? is a website created by Studio Rodrigo and Shift Lab “because the current candidates for mayor of New York…

MGMT Releases Cinematic Trailer For Upcoming Self-Titled Album
MGMT has released a cinematic trailer for their upcoming eponymous album set to release on September 17th, 2013. Previously, we wrote about the band’s animated…

David Bowie the Hamster Plays Dress Up With Colorful Cardboard Cutouts
David Bowie the hamster plays dress up, trying out a mermaid, a pretty princess, the Cheshire Cat, and a clown by sticking his head through…

Cat Scoots Around in Circles While Upside Down Underneath Chairs
A black cat scoots around upside down in circles underneath six dining room chairs in this video by Trish Pentecost. According to the video’s description,…

Artist Creates Full Iron Man Suit Using 500 Balloons
Blinkbox hired Ohio balloon artist Jeff Wright of Wright Entertainment to create a full Iron Man suit using 500 balloons.

Artist HOTTEA Installs Yarn Rainbow on New York City’s Williamsburg Bridge
Minneapolis-based street artist HOTTEA recently installed a festive yarn rainbow on a pedestrian walkway of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City. via Hyperallergic, ANIMAL…

The Evolution of Bicycles by Pop Chart Lab
(larger) Pop Chart Lab has created an “evolutionary tree” with over 75 different bikes ranging from 1780 to modern day in their new illustration, “The…

LG Pranks Unsuspecting Job Applicants With a Fake Meteor Crash to Promote New Ultra HD TV
To show off the image clarity of their new 84 inch Ultra HD TV, LG frightened unsuspecting job applicants in Chile by staging a fake…

Cloud Paintings Made from Collected Raindrops
In the watercolor series “therainpaintings,” Brazilian artist Gustavo Sousa collects raindrops and uses them to make watercolors of the very clouds that created the rain…

Japanese Man Spends 11 Years Building Giant Beetle Robot
Back in 1997, Japanese machine shop owner Hitoshi Takahashi, then 50 years old, decided to build a giant beetle robot. For the next 11 years,…
