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I don't know what's more adorable: Jacques Pépin talking about how he turned olives and grapes into edible bunnies so his daughter would eat them, or the actual product itself. Watch this simple tutorial and make them at home immediately.

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Jenn Fujikawa posted a recipe to make these fantastic-looking taunton cookies with candy guts spilling out. "I thought they smelled good, on the outside!" Read the rest

Want to own a piece of Mad Men? An auction of over 1,300 items from the series' seven seasons goes live today.

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If you have programming or design skills, you can use that talent to help improve communities by working on projects for city governments.

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NPH and David Burtka are raising their adorable twins in a Harlem brownstone built in 1904. Architectural Digest famously featured photos of their home in its pages and now, they are sharing a video featuring the couple, their architect and their designer. It gives the scoop on the stories behind the renovation, decoration and the special hidden surprises and touches that make the space so much fun.

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Israeli-American artist Daniel Rozin defies the laws of technology again with new robotic “mirrors” at bitforms gallery in New York. Like his exhibition featured here two years ago, Rozin uses objects as physical pixels, each moving on an individual motor to “reflect” whatever stands in front of them. The result is a low-resolution, non-digital video screen made of objects.

Photographs don’t do the magic of these high-tech artworks justice, so enjoy a video of each artwork after the still images.

In PomPom Mirror above, Rozin uses 928 “faux fur pom poms” that push in front or behind each other to create a high-contrast, black and white image of the viewer. The expansion of the “pixels” feels like ink soaking through the back of a paper towel.

Below, Penguins Mirror contains 450 plush toys that rotate 360 degrees to cast your shadow with their white bellies. Step away from either sculpture for a moment, and they will enter a sort-of “screen saver” mode that’s equally entrancing.

I’ve been viewing Rozin’s work for nearly 10 years now, watching a progression from wood, to rust, and now fuzz.  These new softer sculptures hit me differently – and not just because of the material. These new works are significantly slower/delayed than early works with far lower “resolution”. My immediate thought was that he was moving backwards, losing the magic of instant and accurate reflection. Standing in front of them however, I found myself interacting with them differently and seeing more. The delay encouraged me to stand motionless for a second, waiting to be captured and watching the process as much as the result. Though no more than 1 or 2 seconds delayed, I suddenly felt like I was sitting for a portrait at a time when cameras took hours to capture a sitter and when taking a “selfie” was an event and a privilege in itself.

The show also contains a couple of fully digital works that “reflect” you on flat-screen monitors. Sketching you slowly with strange algorithms of charcoal-esque lines, these require you to stand motionless for about 8 seconds, or simply play with the abstraction of your own movement.

Daniel Rozin’s works look at you as much as you look at them. They don’t simply capture your movement, they affect and modify it. If you’re in New York, go experience these in person. And I hate to say it, but bring your iPhone, because these make for some amazing selfies.

What: Daniel Rozin: Decent With Modification
Where: bitforms gallery, 131 Allen Street, New York
When: May 13 – July 1, 2015

All Photographs courtesy bitforms gallery, New York. Photographed by John Berens.

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When Baltimore's Julie Baker hung some rainbow-colored solar lights in her yard, a helpful neighbor slipped a charming note through her door chastising her for her "Relentlessly Gay" yard, threatening to call the police unless it came into compliance with the "Christian" neighborhood ethic. Read the rest

As highlighted in pretty much every trailer for the film, a big part of Jurassic World involves Chris Pratt training a "raptor squad." Now real-life zookeepers and trainers across the country are recreating that scene with their own animals Read the rest

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NPR’s Science Tumblr “Skunk Bear” shared these awesome gifs that demonstrate how long it takes each planet in our solar system to travel around the sun Read the rest

WaPo: "The GOP field has become so large and unwieldy that Fox News is only allowing 10 candidates to participate in the first debate."

A snorkeler dragged in this 18-foot dead oarfish he found just off Catalina Island near Los Angeles on Sunday. Oarfish are rarely seen this large and usually found in deep open ocean waters. Read the rest

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WE WILL RIDE THROUGH THE GATES OF VALHALLA SHINY AND CHROME! WITNESS ME! (more…)

Mad Max meets The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt in a mashup video with some important news: Females are strong as hell.

Richard Brody of the New Yorker sure did hate the movie Whiplash ("a work of petty didacticism that shows off petty mastery") but I loved it. Amazon is offering Whiplash as a streaming rental for just $1, so you can experience the film's "grotesque and ludicrous caricature" of jazz without your insulting your wallet along with your sensibility.

Kevin O’Leary, unofficial star of the capitalist-utopian propaganda TV show Shark Tank, is known for dropping vicious entrepreneurial truth bombs of the highest caliber: “You’re dead to me,” he spits, at the slightest hint of future inconvenience. “Don’t cry about money, it never cries about you.” Recently, the metaphor-generating Canadian (nicknamed “Mr. Wonderful”) spoke to Business Insider about another truth he’s accumulated in his years of chasing millions: only the women-led companies are profitable.

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Almost exactly 5 years ago, in celebration us both signing contracts to write cookbooks, I met a friend* for lunch at a burger joint called The Stand on East 12th Street, and we finished the meal with something the menu declared a toasted marshmallow milkshake. I don’t remember a thing about the burger, but I do know that pretty much every conversation I had in the weeks that followed went like this: “The weather is so nice today!” “It would be perfect for a toasted marshmallow milkshake, don’t you think?” “How is your son sleeping these days?” “Did I tell you about this toasted marshmallow milkshake I had? Let me tell you about this toasted marshmallow milkshake I had.” “Can you believe this Deepwater Horizon mess?” “Toasted marshmallow milkshake, toasted marshmallow milkshake toasted marshmallow milkshake.” You could argue it had some impact on me.

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The Avengers: Age Of Ultron press tour may be over, but there’s still plenty of time to enjoy all the ridiculous things the always-charming cast were asked to do (more…)

How many times must the world be reminded that rabbits are not adorable fluffbots from planet AWWW but arbiters of pure evil , sent here from hell to bring pain and suffering upon the good and wicked indiscriminately? Perhaps this video of a monster bunny taking food from the mouth of a baby will finally make you understand.

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St. Vincent appeared on The Tonight Show last night to perform her new single “Teenage Talk”—which debuted during the credits of Girls back in March—with the help of a group of female teen backup dancers.

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Mikaila Ulmer, a 10-year-old girl from Texas, is the face of a thriving lemonade business. No, it's not just a well-trafficked stand in her parents front yard, but a full-fledged company—BeeSweet Lemonade—that just got a $60K investment on Shark Tank.

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Maybe they need fewer fans. "The next innovative ballpark food is set to hit Miller Park this season, as Milwaukee Brewers fans will have a chance to take a bite of the Inside The Park Nachos." (via ESPN)

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The secret lives of superheroes are far more mundane than you might imagine, with the Black Widow helping the Hulk trim his armpit hair, Spiderman scrubbing Captain America’s shield, Thor taking selfies and Wolverine getting fresh with the ladies. Indonesian photographer Edy Hardjo uses high-quality action figures and minimal Photoshop to create funny lifelike scenes of characters from the worlds of DC Comics, Marvel and beyond.

Intrigued by how closely some of the figures resemble the actors that play the characters on film, Hardjo began to wonder whether he could use them to tell some new stories of his own.

The figures are posed in comedic little scenes that play on each character’s personality.

Hardjo relies mostly on the lifelike qualities of the figures themselves, but also uses Photoshop just enough to digitally remove stands and obvious joints.

Behind-the-scene photos showing how each scene is posed can be seen on the artist’s Facebook page.

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Until this morning at 3am, I was not a fan of the Ellie Kemper-powered new show The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. But something about watching a music video making fun of the Countess Luann school of singing while being about dicks just broke me. And it will break you, too. Troll the respawn, Jeremy! And trust in Titus Andromedon.

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Dear Lifehacker,
Services like Venmo, Square Cash and other instant money-transfer services make sending a money to friends, splitting a check, or paying the rent easy. However, Venmo was just called out for its lax security, and now I'm spooked. Which of these apps are secure? Can I trust them?

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Renato Garcia, 50, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, enjoyed sporting a Green Lantern costume. So when he died last week, his family dressed up his embalmed body in the suit one last time and propped him up at his wake.

"I know he would have liked it,” his sister said.

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From keeping warm in chilly weather to adding panache to your outfit, there are many reasons why you'd want to wear a scarf. Because men and women's fashion and style of scarves often differs, check out this video for five ways to tie a man's scarf.

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