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The Motherfucking Pterodactyl Sing Along Video by The Oatmeal
The Oatmeal has made its first animated video and, of course, it’s awesome. It’s called The Motherfucking Pterodactyl Sing Along Video! and it features music…
Draw Bridge
Here’s our friend Alex Pardee accepting the “Draw Bridge” challenge presented to him on the street. Of course we love his addition of the tentacle…
Little Free Library, Worldwide Effort to Build Tiny Community Libraries
Little Free Library is a grassroots initiative to build more libraries around the world than philanthropist Andrew Carnegie did (he built 2,510). The libraries in…
ABC Monsters, A Film That Quizzes Your Movie Monster Knowledge
ABC Monsters by La Pompadour is a short animated film that quizzes your knowledge about movie monsters and villain types. Everything you wanted to know…
A Suspended Train Replica by Jeff Koons Proposed for the High Line
A design rendering of Jeff Koons’ Train at the High Line. Artist Jeff Koons has proposed bringing his art piece titled Train to suspend over…
Chi-Noceros by Octophant
Chi-Noceros, a new limited edition of screenprints by Octophant.
Colonel Ostomy by Nemo Gould
“Colonel Ostomy” (aka “Col. Ostomy”) is a wonderfully creepy kinetic sculpture by artist Nemo Gould (video). Col. Ostomy is a casualty of war. His injuries…
Google Street View Tour of the Amazon
View Larger Map View Larger Map Last August, Google sent a team to Brazil to create Street View maps of some of the waterways, forests,…
Incarnate, A Human Skull Carved Into Old Software Manuals by Maskull Lasserre
“Incarnate (Three Degrees of Certainty II)” is a sculpture of a human skull that is carved into a stack of old software manuals. The sculpture…
Things That Seem Normal When You Live Alone
The weirdest roommate ever: yourself. Melinda Taub made her directorial debut with the short humorous film, titled Things That Seem Normal When You Live Alone.…