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    Yummy Edible Chocolate LEGOs by Akihiro Mizuuchi!

    Illustrator and designer Akihiro Mizuuchi designed a modular system for creating edible chocolate LEGO bricks. Chocolate is first poured into precisely designed moulds that after cooling can be popped out and used as regular LEGOs. It’s hard to determine exactly how functional they are, it seems like he had success in building a number of...
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    These Were Made With a Simple Pair of Scissors!

    Hina Aoyama is an artist from Yokohama, Japan. Currently living in Ferney-Voltaire, France, Aoyama began exploring ‘ultra-fine lacy paper cuttings’ in 2000. Using a simple pair of scissors, Aoyama creates intricately delicate works of art. Her steady hand and incredible patience has earned her a variety of awards and her artwork has been exhibited around the...
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    Playful Paper Masks by Lobulo Studio for Barcelona’s Grec Festival

    For the 2018 marketing of Barcelona’s long-running Grec Festival, which includes dance, theater, circus, and music, the London-based Lobulo Studio was tapped to create a series of unusual paper masks. Using the prompt “new species,” Lobulo explains on their website that they were “playing with the concept of new rare species that nobody has seen before” in order...
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    Woman Photoshops Her Face In 25 Countries To Compare Their Beauty Standards

    U.S.-based journalist and photographer Esther Honig came up with an interesting photo project that answers a difficult question in an ingenious way – how can we compare standards of women’s beauty world-wide? Honig’s solution was brilliantly simple: she sent a portrait photo of herself to freelance Photoshoppers in countries around the world with one request...
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    Time to Bake With The Coolest Rolling Pins Ever!

    When we last showed you Polish designer Zuzia Kozerska‘s awesome series of laser-engraved rolling pins (see HERE), there was so much interest in them that the resultant traffic crashed her site!  (sorry Zuzia!) So with the Holiday Season/Christmas/Festivous/New Year period fast approaching, why not consider one of Zuzia’s amazing rolling pins to bring a little bit of extra sparkle to your baking...
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    The Mesmerizing Art of Hand Making Pasta!

    If you’re into your cooking as much as us, you’ll know there’s nothing more satisfying than sitting down to a home cooked meal that you’ve slaved over the stove for hours to prepare. There is definitely an art to cooking, as you are about to see from food artist Miyuki Adachi. Adachi is one of a shrinking number...
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    These Spaceship Inspired Cat Beds Are Out of This World

    Does your cat actually sleep in the bed you bought them? Or do they like to sleep in boxes, on your counter, on your bookcase, or just about anywhere that isn’t their bed? Cats are finicky like that. They do enjoy soft, plush beds, but they don’t always want us to know that they like...
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    There Are 2 Types of People. Which One are You?

    According to Joao Rocha, an art director from Lisbon, Portugal, there are only ‘2 Kinds Of People’ in this world.  To prove his point, Rocha has created a fun Tumblr account featuring illustrations that reduce some of our quirks to simple everyday decisions. “There are only 2 kinds of people in this world, those that find this...
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    Female Cosplayer Can Transform Herself Into Literally Anyone

    There’s literally no character cosplayer Alyson Tabbitha couldn’t turn herself into, and if you have doubts, then you’re already in the right place to clear those out. Since Alyson was a baby, her mom, a professional character performer, would make her Halloween costumes, putting the seed of cosplay into Alyson’s head. So not too surprisingly,...
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    This Photo Shows a 65-Foot-Tall Lava Dome in Hawaii

    Here’s a strange and beautiful photo of a lava dome during a volcanic eruption. It’s not just any bubble, though: the dome pictured is rising a whopping 65 feet (20m) into the air. The United States Geological Survey writes that the photo was captured between October 10 and 13 in 1969 during the eruption of...
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    Artists Create the unFappening: Re-Dressing Nude Celebrities (NSFW)

    As celeb nudes continue to leak in the recently coined ‘The Fappening’, one movement is bringing decency to its victims. A project named The UNFappening is seeking to cover up the goodies exposed, while showcasing the works of artists at the same time. And it is amazing. Taking submissions form the public, the site publishes celeb nudes...
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    Amazing Steampunk Sculptures Made from Old Watch Parts

    Susan Beatrice is an artist and sculptor based out of Glassboro, New Jersey, USA. She started All Natural Arts as a celebration of nature in the form of jewelry and other whimsical items. The designs are created with the environment in mind. Recycled, upcycled and repurposed objects are combined with natural elements into unique, Earth-friendly items. In the...
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    Woman Hilariously Recreates Celebrity Instagram Photos

    Celeste Barber isn’t your ordinary comedian. Her ongoing series #CelesteChallengeAccepted parodies the weird and outlandish ‘selfies’ of celebrities, in Barber’s own style. According to Barber: “People are really supporting it – I didn’t really care for how it would be perceived, I just started it for my friends who I knew would love it. I continued it...
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    15 Of The Most Majestic Caves In The World

    These stunning caves aren’t part of some fairy-tale world or horror movie – they can be found in some of the world’s most remote places in Asia, North America and Europe. Some of these caves form when water seeps down through cracks in limestone rock. The limestone rock dissolves into the water bit by bit,...