“This little guy was attached to the plastic wrap of a bouquet of flowers at Trader Joe’s. I got him off the wrapping and he instantly came out of his shell then proceeded to snail around my hand and my friend’s hand!” -Leigh Z. (Who also came up with the headline after some prompting!)
Clams... seriously, they lick.
Read on to watch the video of the clam licking salt off itself.
Paris-based artist Annastassia Elias (previously here) continues to amaze with her intricate toilet paper art, which she recently published as a book titled Rouleaux. Anastassia who usually works in the fields of painting and illustration started this unusual project a couple of years ago, and now it has almost become her signature.
“One day I looked at an empty roll and wondered if I can do something with it,” says the artist.
Each piece takes up to few hours to complete because of the small scale of the project.
“I use tweezers to manipulate the paper shapes. I select the paper of the same color as the roll. It gives the illusion that the paper figures make part of the roll,” says Elias. Check out some of her new creations below!
Website: anastassia-elias.com
Related posts:
New Toilet Paper Roll Art by Anastassia Ellias originally appeared on DeMilked on June 20, 2013.
Artist Mike Roshuk has a pretty unique take on Disney Princesses. Beautiful and badass. Sure, the armor may be useless in actual battle, but Disney Princesses have small woodland creatures and fairly godmothers to help in a pinch, right?
Also, the tiger with Jasmine is frickin’ gorgeous and I want one.
Check out more pics after the break.
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Buying a regular screw-top wine bottle can mean a number of things in some circles: 1) you have no appreciation of good wine; 2) you are cheap; 3) you are an efficient drinker (read: alcoholic). Overplayed (and possibly inaccurate) stereotypes aside, there’s a stigma to metal screw-tops that’s only redeemed by the typically lower cost of the wine they contain. It’s an often difficult choice at the liquor store, a tradeoff between class and pice. But the Helix cork pictured above could bridge that gap. In testing for about four years, the product is a result of a collaboration between “cork manufacturer Amorim and those at bottle-making company O-I. The new threaded, resealable design (and matching threaded bottle neck) is aimed at the “popular premium” wine market, which includes bottles that retail for between $8-$15, roughly.” Yes, this does mean these types of new corks will only work with matching bottles, since the grooves must fit in the treads to create a tight seal. You do, however, end up with an easily resealable bottle of wine, sold at a reasonable price, that doesn’t come with the common stigma of metal screw-tops.
And why spend 4 years testing a cork? Well, the companies were making sure the “agglomerated cork” material used didn’t end up affecting the taste, colour or aroma of the wine. It doesn’t. And even though the product was unveiled yesterday at the Vinexpo in Bordeaux, it’s going to be a couple of years before you see it in shelves.
VIA [ Gizmodo ]
Monday morning, heading to work, after a weekend in Chalkidiki
Hot weather is here and ICE COLD drinks are now a requirement for living! Freshen up your drinks with really cool and fun ice cubes using these trays. The cool thing is, most of these trays are made of flexible silicone, so you can actually use them to mold anything, and not just ice!
As we end the work week, here is a very sound piece of advice from comedian Whitney Cummings.
Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they truly are.
[Whitney Cummings on Twitter | Via]
A great comic by artist Pablo Stanley. I’ve seen a few of these people around, both male and female, but fortunately for me, there’s none among my friends and family!
[Source: Stanley Colors - Comics and stuff by Pablo Stanley | Pablo Stanley (Facebook Fan Page)]
How strange… in at least half of these situations, these little guys remind me of my kids.
[Source: Nedesem – Memecenter | Via MUO]
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What is this magic?! Avatar? Scuba Havok? Watch this guy blow a perfect underwater bubble ring and then force push it at a tower of rocks.
Spoiler: The rocks get DESTROYED.
Thomas Broome from Malmo, Sweden, uses words to build rooms: the artist employs typography and shapes various objects by repeatedly writing the names of these objects. In Thomas’ pen and ink series, called Modern Mantra, objects like bed is drawn by writing “bed” multiple times, and perspective is achieved by altering the size of the letters. Through these 18 text illustrations, Thomas tries to convey the message about how deeply rooted the brands and the logos are in our lives, and how much this phenomena objectives life. Check out his detailed illustrations below!
Website: thomasbroome.se
Related posts:
Modern Mantra: Room Drawings Made Out of Names of the Objects originally appeared on DeMilked on June 14, 2013.
Curious about how people use "geek" and "nerd" to describe themselves and if there was any difference between the two terms, Burr Settles analyzed words used in tweets that contained the two. Settles used pointwise mutual information (PMI), which essentially provided a measure of the geekness or nerdiness of a term. The plot above shows the results.
In broad strokes, it seems to me that geeky words are more about stuff (e.g., “#stuff”), while nerdy words are more about ideas (e.g., “hypothesis”). Geeks are fans, and fans collect stuff; nerds are practitioners, and practitioners play with ideas. Of course, geeks can collect ideas and nerds play with stuff, too. Plus, they aren’t two distinct personalities as much as different aspects of personality. Generally, the data seem to affirm my thinking.
Or maybe pop culture (geek) versus education (nerd).
A natural wonder of the world, stretching more than 1,600 miles, the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest organically formed structure. Last month, after years of dreaming about it, I had the opportunity to dive the reef and come face to face with some of the most beautiful underwater landscapes I’ve ever seen.
The experience has a way of spontaneously filling memory cards. In that spirit, here are 44 images I took during my time on the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
[Note: Scott's visit to the GBR was sponsored by Tourism and Events Queensland. Learn more about Queensland on their blog.]
Congratulations to Ann and Dennis, who are embarking on the most romantic love affair the planet has ever seen.
She said YES :D
This, ladies and gentlegeeks, is a Honda Civic B series engine painted to look like a NES controller. It even features the Konami Code on its side! Now how awesome is that?
Up up down down left right left right B A start. BOOM. Hyperdrive engaged!
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FOR ME, the real Ireland is on the back roads. That’s the green isle I envision when I close my eyes, winding around its rocky coastline on tiny lanes lined with centuries-old stone fences. And that’s exactly what my fellow MatadorU faculty member Candice Walsh and I did this spring on a quest to uncover her Irish heritage.
For nearly two weeks we made our way across the southern coast, bobbing and weaving through tiny hillside towns all the way to County Sligo. What follows is a photo-album-worth of images from the trip. 
[Note: Scott and Candice's visit was sponsored by Tourism Ireland.]
