Tag: gift
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Artist Turns Found Stones Into Animals That You Can Fit in the Palm of Your Hand
To me, stones are not simple materials or canvases for painting pictures on. Among all those numerous stones on a river bank, one stone, looking like an animal, catches my eye. When I find a stone, I feel that stone has found me too. Stones have their own intentions, and I consider my encounters with…
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Artist Creates Miniature Tree Houses Meticulously Sculpted Around Potted Plants
Artist Jedediah Corwyn Voltz constructs miniature treehouses wrapped around common houseplants or bonsai trees in his new sculptural series titled Somewhere Small. He relies on over a decade of commercial prop making for film and other projects to craft each structure from scratch using small bits of wood, silk fabric, miniature artworks, and semi precious…
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This Is What Happened When A Girl Accidentally Wrote A Letter To Satan Instead Of Santa
Typos and autocorrects can be pretty bad, but have you ever wondered what would happen if you accidentally mis-spelled "Santa" for "Satan"? Scroll down to find out! [zombify_post]
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The Most Beautiful Chickens on the Planet
Chic!Ken is a photographic project that features professional portraits of this underrated animal.
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The Art of Drinking: Check Out These Creepy-Cool Wine Decanters
French designer Etienne Meneau’s hand-blown wine decanters go way beyond the basic function of aerating your vino — they’re sculptural pieces of art. Made from borosilicate (a low-melting-grade glass), the twisted, sinewy vessels in Meneau’s “Strange Carafes” series resemble tree branches, veins and even hearts (even more when they’re filled with red wine). Each carafe…
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Artists Create “The Worst Alphabet Book Ever” And You’ll Have A Hard Time Reading It
Raj Haldar and Chris Carpenter have just published what they describe to be “the worst alphabet book ever,” and it’s so ridiculously hilarious, even adults would have an interesting time reading it. “We were hanging out with our mutual friends and their kid, playing with these alphabet flashcards,” Chris said. “We both got a laugh…
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Elf Earbuds That Will Turn Your Children Into An Elf
Looking for something totally unique for your elf and fairy loving children this Christmas? Why not get them a pair of elf earphones?! Sold on Taobao for about $14USD, these elf earphones connect via 3.5mm jack and are just like normal earbuds, despite the pointy silicone ears that slide on top of yours when listening to music.…
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A Dinosaur Egg Candle Hatches Into a Baby Raptor When it Melts
If you’re like us, your first ‘encounter’ with a Raptor was in Stephen Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, with the critters terrorizing the park with their intelligence, speed and thirst to kill anything and everything in their path. Fortunately for us (and unfortunately for the dinosaurs), a Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event occurred which effectively wiped all dinosaurs off the…
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A Mesmerizing Alarm Clock That Works Using Magnetic Fluids
Ferrolic is a mesmerizing clock which relies on the manipulation of magnetic fluids to display the time. Invented by Zelf Koelman, the clock uses ferrofluid – a liquid that becomes strongly magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field – to display recognizable shapes in response to magnets embedded inside the clock’s aluminum frame. The moving blobs look almost alive, a…
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10 Reasons Valentine’s Day Is Better When You’re Single
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, many of you will be stressing about what to give that special someone to show them how much you love them. A dozen red roses? Diamonds? Chocolates? The list goes on and one. When February 14 rolls around, many of you won’t be stressed at all… because believe…