Tag: fun
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Friday Funnies: Which Childhood Toys Are Worth an Absolute Fortune Now?
If you’re a 1980s or 1990s child (or the parent of one of these children), the following toys will be very familiar to you. What might not be so familiar, however, is how much some of these toys now command in mint condition on ebay! So before you head to the closet to see what…
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The Cutest Hospital In Australia That Takes In Abandoned Baby Bats!
If you think bats are terrifying, vampiric creatures of the night, you’ve got them all wrong. The abandoned bat pups being taken care of at the Tolga Bat Hospital in Atherton, Australia are proof that baby bats can be just as adorable as any kitten or puppy. The fruit bat pups at the Tolga Bat…
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The Death Of Conversation: Photographing People Obsessed With Their Phones
Photographer Baby Cakes Romero doesn’t have a problem with portable tech specifically, because our devices facilitate our lives, but he believes it is making people seriously dull. He started to photograph people in company on their phones as there was a certain symmetry to them and it appealed on a visual level, but as he continued he noticed an…
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Pimping Out Snail’s Shells to Prevent Them Getting Squashed
Snails are adored by photographers and kids alike, perhaps because of the beautiful homes they carry on their backs all the time. Unfortunately, even those sturdy homes can’t protect them from people who unknowingly step on them. Some improved visibility might save their lives! To save these creatures from our boots, some compassionate people started…
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The Scariest Pumpkin Carvings Ever by Jon Neill!
If you’ve never given any thought to where your Halloween pumpkin carving skills might take you, you might not have heard of Jon Neill, a famous sculptor and pumpkin carving master who creates some of the best Halloween pumpkin carvings we’ve ever seen. Neill, who is now a member of the Laguna College of Art…
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Enormous Sculpture Crawls Out of the Ground in Budapest!
Artist Ervin Loránth Hervé created an impressive sculpture called “Popped Up” that depicts a giant man crawling out of the earth. The polystyrene sculpture is located at Széchenyi Square in Budapest, Hungary, and was one of the highlights for the Art Market Budapest 2014 international contemporary art fair. Art Market Budapest is an annual exhibition and…
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An Origami a Day for a Year by Ross Symons!
Following on from the very popular blog we posted on the amazing kinetic origami by Jo Nakashima HERE, we also stumbled across an amazing 365 day origami project from Ross Symons. Ross decided to fold one origami model every day for a year. He described how this obsession with origami started on Instagram’s blog: “I started with the crane…
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Fabulously Surrealist World of Little People in Pictures
Surreal scenarios are commonplace in the world of artist and macro photographer David Gilliver. The Guernsey-based photographer, who began producing the little people series at the tail end of 2011, uses a DSLR camera and a macro lens to capture his unique snapshots of life in Smallville. He sources most of the figurines from the internet, many…
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Do-It-Yourself Kinetic Origami That Will Blow Your Mind!
Brazil-based origami artist Jo Nakashima has created a method for building an amazing origami object using a system of 40 paper cubes. For those of you ambitious enough to give it a try he shared a set of instructions on Instructables. Just 45 steps! If you’re not familiar with Nakashima, he runs the most popular instructional origami channel on YouTube, with…
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Artist Doodles with Sharpie Pen on Husband’s Nissan Skyline GTR
While tuning up his Nissan Skyline GTR sports car, one auto enthusiast, together with his talented and artist wife, accidentally stumbled upon an amazing way to give their sleek silver vehicle an unforgettable paintjob. The car enthusiast, who is a member of the U.S. Military, hated the car’s silver color. One evening, his wife surprised…