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When riding the bus, YOU'RE the weirdo!

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“This is not a game” by artist Lorenzo Quinn is a large-scale sculptural installation of giant hands playing with a life-sized tank and toy soldiers. Exhibited on a floating platform at the 2011 Venice Bienalle, the installation featured a 37-ton Russian T-55 tank.

The human figure and especially hands show up frequently in Quinn’s work. In recent years he has created two other more playful installations of hands playing with life-sized toys. The 2010 installation “Vroom Vroom” features a giant hand playing with a Fiat Cinquecento car. “La Dolce Vita” is a 2011 installation of a giant hand playing with a Vespa scooter.

“Vroom Vroom”

“La Dolce Vita”

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Armadillo, Boy, Cat, Dove, Elephant, Frog

Girl, Handstand, Iguana, Jellyfish, Koala, Ladybug

Manatee, Nautilus, Owl, Penguin, Quail, Rabbit, Seahorse

Tiger, Urchin, Viper, Wolf, Xiphosura (Horseshoecrab), Yoga, Zebra

An artist’s medium is as varied as imagination allows and you’ll find hundreds, maybe even thousands of them here on Colossal. But occasionally a medium itself is altered to create an artwork, as is the case with Seattle artist Diem Chau (previously here and here) who works within the narrow confines of graphite pencil leads and colored crayons to carve her delicate sculptures of animals and people. A native of Vietnam, Chau and her family came to America as refugees in 1986 and would later receive a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts after which she began exhibiting her works in New York, Miami, Seattle and Los Angeles.

Luckily we’ll finally get a glimpse of Chau’s miniature carvings here in Chicago at Packer Schopf Gallery opening this Friday. Almost everything you see here will be on view and the artist will be giving a talk at 1pm the following day on April 6th, 2013. See more of her new A-Z series on Flickr and on her blog.

Guinea pigs are popular pets in the U.S., but in parts of South America, they're a delicacy. Some environmental and humanitarian groups are making a real push to encourage guinea pig farming as an eco-friendly alternative to beef. And the animals are also showing up in more U.S. restaurants.

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Rumor: Dihydrogen monoxide is a dangerous chemical that should be banned.

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If no one's supposed to see your passcode, why does it matter?

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for those not in the know, night witches were russian lady bombers who bombed the shit out of german lines in WW2. Thing is though, they had the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world. The engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid flight to restart the props. the planes were also so noisy that to stop germans from hearing them combing and starting up their anti aircraft guns, they’d climb up to a certain height, coast down to german positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair, and get the fuck out of dodge.

their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured.

how the fuck is this not taught in every single history class ever

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Why it is not taught?  Because women and their accomplishments have been systematically kept out of chronicles, pictures and other contemporary sources, and generations of historians have enjoyed not looking their way.

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As you scroll through these 34 exquisite hyperrealistic paintings, something strange will happen. You'll start doubting your eyes, then your brain, then these images. You'll become convinced that at least a few of them are photographs and not acrylic paint. They have to be.

But you know what? You'll be wrong.

Click on the images in order to take a closer look at the full paintings!

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Denis Peterson: Off the Track. Urethanes on wood panel.

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Robert Bechtle: Berkeley Pinto (John De Andrea and his Family next to Bechtles Car). 1976, oil on canvas.

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Gérard Gasiorowski: The approach. That's me, who needs to make enormous efforts to keep himself on the surface of things. 1970, oil on canvas.

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Don Eddy: Untitled (Volkswagen). 1971, acryl on canvas.

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Malcolm Morley: Portrait of Esses in Central Park. 1969-1970, liquitex on canvas.

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Tom Blackwell: Gap Outlet, Waterside Shops, Naples, FL. 2004, oil on canvas.

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Tjalf Sparnaay: Supersandwich!! 2013, oil on linen

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Anthony Brunelli: Monument Square (Troy). 1997, oil on linen.

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Peter Maier: 1908 Indian Racer. 2005.

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Allan Gorman: Macho Dream. 2013, oil on canvas.

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Richard Heisler: Shinjuku Sunset II (100 Views of Tokyo). 2010, oil on linen.

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Charles Hartley: Bahama Surf. 2012, oil on Polyester.

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Chris Jenkinson: Good Morning America. 2008, oil on board.

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Matteo Mezzetta: Dj #2. 2010, oil on canvas.

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Jerry Ott: Pretty Picture #1. 2011, acrylic on panel.

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Hilo Chen: Beach 125. 1996.

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Clive Head: 42nd Street, Sunday Morning. 2001, oil on linen.

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Ron Kleemann: Red Bull Sitting. 2011, oil on canvas.

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Richard McLean: Lynne's Brymar Shantytown. 1991, oil on linen.

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Bertrand Meniel: Breakfast at the Fairmont. 2009, acrylic on linen.

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David Parrish: Midway. 2007, oil on canvas.

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Richard Estes: The Plaza. 1991, oil on canvas.

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Méhes László: Lukewarm water I. 1970, Acrylic on canvas.

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John Salt: Blue Mobile Home. 1992-93, oil on linen.

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Audrey Flack: Shiva Blue. 1973, oil over acrylic on canvas.

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Ben Schonzeit: Hot Peppers. 2011, acrylic on polyester.

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Raphaella Spence: Empire State. 2012, oil on canvas.

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Robert Gniewek: Rosie's Diner #10. 2011, oil on canvas.

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Ralph Goings: Miss Albany Diner. 1993, oil on linen.

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Luigi Benedicenti: Autunno 2. 2011 , oil on panel.

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Sharon Moody: The Amazon Tricks Me. 2012 , oil on panel.

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Hubert De Lartigue: Sushi. 2010 , acrylic on canvas.

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Juan Cossio: Fortune's Wheel. 2012, acrylic on panel.

Top image: Marilyn Minter: Bazooka. 2009, enamel on metal.

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Do you have your favourite hyperrealistic artwork? Show us in the comments!

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World’s Roundest Object! (by 1veritasium)

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Composer and sound artist Diego Stocco released a brief clip today featuring his experiments with a new turntable and a few freshly gathered leaves. Leaves! More specifically all bass, kick and snare sounds heard in the video were made by alternating the leaf type, angle, pressure as it was applied against the turntable. If you’re unfamiliar with his work, Stocco is known for sampling audio from nature and other unexpected instruments in order to remix and modify them into music. My favorite piece is still Music from a Dry Cleaner.

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During a talk at Oxford University back in February, scientist Richard Dawkins was asked to justify his belief in the scientific method. In his brief but pointed response, Dawkins explained that he believes in science because it works, or as he put it: “It works, bitches.” His quote appears to be a reference to a classic 2006 web comic by xkcd:

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Extremely Decent Films pokes fun at the problem of oligopoly in the broadband Internet access industry with a clever parody commercial for "the first honest cable company."

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Jumpy the dog performs amazing flips, jumps, and even skateboard tricks in this video uploaded to YouTube by Omar Muller.

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From the brilliant mind of New Jersey artist Mike Doyle (I’ve previously featured his spooky victorian houses), comes Contact 1 the first in a series of grand scale LEGO works “celebrating extra terrestrial contact events, spiritual beings and unique worlds.” The towering world is the culmination of some 600 hours of work using 200,000 individual bricks and stands nearly 5 feet high by six feet wide. Doyle is offering limited edition prints and DIY instructions on how to create individual portions of Contact 1 over on Kickstarter.