Wisdom comes with age and experience. Sometimes the elderly will pass down a snippet or two for the young to mull over. It can be helpful but also incredibly frustrating trying to wrap your mind around a bite of knowledge that comes from another life view. If you can identify with the words they can [...]
Norway has been known for its dark metal music for some time. The founders of black metal hail from the unforgiving Norwegian lands where demons roam the hills. The tortured souls escaped the only way they could. Through banging drums and heavy riffs they fly to the next dimensions.
These incredible paper pictures were cut by artist Bovey Lee from Hong Kong. Cutting art into rice paper has been a tradition in Chinese crafts. The cuts are made with 11 different sizes of knife.
These odd human sculptures were made by American artist Mark Jenkins. They look real, until you summon the courage for a closer inspection. Then they still look real, and you either run away or call the police.
Bulgarian artist Plamen Ignatov devoted six years of his life to meticulously construct this replica of the Rila Monastery, one of Bulgaria’s most important monuments. It was made with 6 million matches and other kinds of wood and gems.
There’s a farm known as “Fritzler’s Maze”. It’s a field of crops that changes into new images every year. Glen and Pam Fritzler operate the maze farm in LaSalle, Colorado, where they open it to visitors for 7 weeks each autumn. If you get lost you have to live on corn husks until you find [...]
Every episode of Conan begins with a title card. Here are 10 of the good ones.
Just came across this greatest geek movies list at Masters In IT, and it’s a doozy. Obviously everyone will have their favorites on this sort of list, but I liked this one because there were some surprises, and I agreed with much of the top 10. That being said, I personally would have bumped some [...]
These striking statues are not only impeccably crafted, they are also very big. The tallest in the world. They must have taken many people to complete. Now they stand with their heads in the clouds, watching over the world.
Only the best actors dedicate themselves to overeating for a role. They pack on the pounds to better fit the director’s vision and fully embody the character. The hard part is shedding the weight after filming. I’m still waiting for the actor that progressively goes after heavier and heavier roles over the course of their [...]
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