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Twitter Is Laughing Out Loud At The Way Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” Looked From The Girl’s Perspective
Reading Time: 4 minutesMichael Jackson’s Thriller is a 14-minute horror-themed music video that was released in 1983, but comedian Roy Wood Jr. recently found a way to view it in a way nobody has likely thought of before. “What if ‘Thriller’ actually happened & Michael Jackson’s date Ola Ray tweeted about [it] the next day,”…
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Here’s How I Turned Our Formal Living Room Into A Home Office
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhen we purchased our home last year, we started out using one of our three bedrooms as a home office. Our plans were to eventually convert the unused formal living space in the front of the house to a home office down the road, as we have a bigger family room in…
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Genius Chinese Company Creates High-End Food Ads Using Super Low-Budget Items, And Result Is Amazing
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne way a filmmaker or photographer can prove they’re creative is making something wonderful with a low budget. We have already featured some photographers who tackled this subject, but now a collective of people are making the same point using video. Recently, one Chinese studio shared exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of their food…
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Halle Berry Turns 52 Today, Reveals How She Manages To Look Like 25
Reading Time: 5 minutesHalle Berry has had a remarkable career as an actress, starring in some truly unforgettable films and being recognized with an academy award. However it turns out that if she had chosen a different path, this yoga goddess could quite easily have become a professional athlete, such is her motivation and dedication…
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I Create Robots And Other Contraptions For Fun
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy name is Terry. I like to make things (constantly). Here are some of the things I have made over the years. I just make these things for fun, no other reason. I am interested in all the sciences, and sometimes incorporate those interests into my work. An example of this would…
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20+ Movie Plot Holes That You Won’t Be Able To Unsee
Reading Time: 29 minutesMovies often make us suspend our disbelief to take us on magical or futuristic journeys, where unicorns are real and humans have already explored more than just our solar system. And while usually those unrealistic events are explained by in-universe laws, there are times when we sit up, squint at the glimmering…
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What Seems Like An Awesome Tattoo On This Woman’s Back Is Not What It Seems
Reading Time: 3 minutesPolish artist Agnieszka Nienartowicz is tricking people into thinking she’s creating photographs. For example, when you look at one of her latest works, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights,’ you might think it’s a picture of a girl with the famous 15th-century painting tattooed on her back. But you’d be wrong. It’s a…
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New Banksy Artworks Keep Popping Up All Over New York City, And Here’s What People Found So Far
Reading Time: 3 minutesKnown for his satirical style and political remarks, Banksy never misses an opportunity to make a statement. Murals of this iconic graffiti artist have been popping up all around New York City for a while now, and 2018 is no exception. His latest piece rests on an abandoned gas station, located in…
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87-Year-Old Grandma Uses Microsoft Paint In A Way That Would Probably Surprise Even Its Developers
Reading Time: 3 minutesSome grandmas spend their time in the garden, some knit, but 87-year-old Concha Garcia Zaera enjoys a hobby that’s rather unusually among her friends. She draws. Using only MS Paint. She discovered the program after her children gave her a computer, and she hasn’t looked back ever since. “My husband fell ill…
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Artist Challenges Himself To Add One Character To Fight Scene A Day Until It Gets Too Big To Upload On Twitter
Reading Time: 5 minutesTo improve, artists need to step out of their comfort zones, to balance on the edge of failure. Bafta-winning writer, director, and animator Tom Gran has set out to do just that – he has been creating a fight scene since the beginning of 2018 by drawing one character per day, and…
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Finalists Of The 15th Smithsonian Photo Competition 2017 Have Been Announced, And They’re Stunning
Reading Time: 14 minutesIt’s that time of the year again, when The Smithsonian Magazine announces the finalists of their hotly contested photo contest. Year after year, the contest continues to blow us away with the quality of entrants, with only the cream of the crop qualifying as the 60 finalists, narrowed down from over 48,000…
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25 Celebrities Who Will Surprise You With Their Secret Talents
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCelebrities live under a microscope. Yet some of them have managed to hide a secret talent. Well, maybe they weren’t hiding it, the media just chose to focus on other things about them. Some of these people started painting before fame, some discovered art later in life. Some have been painting…
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Three Little Sisters Recreate Oscar-Nominated Movie Scenes With Their Mom, And We Can’t Get Enough
Reading Time: 5 minutes“One family’s journey through the best picture nominees.” This is how the author of “Don’t call me Oscar” herself describes the project. Seven years ago Maggie Storino, a mother-of-three, received a black tutu for her baby girl and took a picture of it, inspired by the Oscar-nominated movie “Black Swan.” The feedback…
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This Embroidery Artist Uses Thread Instead Of Paint To Create Amazing Landscape Scenes
Reading Time: 5 minutesRussian artist Vera Shimunia has truly mastered the art of embroidery painting. Instead of using paints to create masterful landscapes, Vera uses her embroidery skills to create intricate scenes that have to be seen to be believed. Using a vast array of colors, the richly textured works seem to jump out of…
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This Guy Continues To Paint Pop-Culture Characters Into Old Thrift-Store Paintings (New Pics)
Reading Time: 13 minutesDave Pollot (previously here and here) is a US painter who brings new life to old and forgotten art. He buys thrift store paintings and perfectly “enhances” them with pop culture symbols, giving a cool, nerdy spin to what’s dusting away inside cracked frames. “Most are prints or lithographs,” he told Bored…
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Meet Shudu, The Perfectly Beautiful Black ‘Model’ Whose Instagram Account Is Being Accused Of Racism
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are thousands of beautiful models on Instagram, but Shudu Gram is one of the kind. Cameron-James Wilson is a 28-year-old self-taught British photographer who is the man behind the stunning dark-skinned model. He created Shudu after teaching himself 3D, using online resources and YouTube videos. “Shudu represents what I’ve always seen…
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Illustrator Shows What Disney Princesses Would Look Like If They Were Chubby, And Here’s The Result
Reading Time: 2 minutesDisney princesses are so popular, they inspire a lot of crazy fan art. Some imagine them as mothers, some as hot dogs, but Russian artist Victoria Kosheleva has decided to make a project that’s dedicated to their appearance. Victoria has created versions of the beloved characters that aren’t tall and thin, and…
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Artists Reimagine Non-Human Cartoon Characters As Humans, And The Results Are Absolutely Awesome
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe beauty of cartoons is that the characters can be whatever the cartoonist wants them to be. Animals are a favourite, but there are also robots, cars, food, even sponges. The possibilities are endless! But what happens if we want to give our favourite non-human characters a human face? Compiled in a…
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30+ “DIY WHY” Projects That Probably Should Have Never Happened
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDo It Yourself projects allow people to reuse items lying around the house to create something cool instead of throwing them away. However, just because you can make anything it doesn’t mean you should. A subreddit with a pretty self-explanatory title (DiWHY) is collecting the worst DIY fails, and they are…
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This Artist Draws Whatever His Followers Ask Him, And The Results Are Unexpectedly Genius
Reading Time: 4 minutesA lot of us have loads of creative ideas but lack the artistic skills to fulfill them. One Belarusian comics artist, however, gives life to his followers’ thoughts in the best way. Chilik draws everything his fans request, and the images are so unexpected, he probably catches their sense of humor completely…
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I Make Camouflage Birdhouses To Keep The City Birds Out Of Sight
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve make hard to spot birdhouses as part of my ongoing street art project Happy City Birds. I made all the houses from recycled plywood and painted them using different techniques to make them blend in with their surroundings. More info: thomasdambo.com I make camouflage birdhouses to keep the city birds out…