Because who can resist a photo with a tasteful nude, a 50-year old Austrian man was recently identified after he laid on the 1804 plaster cast model of Paolina Bnaparte by Antonio Canova at the Gipsoteca Museum in Possagno, Italy, and broke three toes off the statue in the process,
This is a short video from some poor bastard after spilling an entire bucket of paint in the passenger seat of his car. I’m not entirely sure how it happened, but my guess is poor decision making. Personally, I would have just driven the car into a river, but that’s
This is a video released by Banksy of the artist disguised as a deep cleaner so he can apply some pro-mask graffiti to a London Underground subway car without incident. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that you can go anywhere and do anything you want if you’re
These are several shots of the alphabet pencil painstakingly carved by artist Fouad Kebdani. Could you imagine the lead breaking when you were carving X? I would rage quit so hard. Shoot, I’d rage quit if the lead broke when I was working on B. But if I was working
To celebrate his 76th birthday, this is a video of Rubik’s Cube artist BigWendy creating a portrait of Erno Rubik while blindfolded, using those tactile Rubik’s Cubes. That’s nice, I bought him cupcakes. Well, I bought me cupcakes. Some more info: As a Happy Birthday, I dedicated my first blindfolded
This is a video of Pixar director (Monsters, Inc., Up, Inside Out, and the coming-this-fall Soul) Pete Docter discussing and demonstrating how to make flip books from the comfort of his closet (what is all that stuff blowing around? You need to invest in a HEPA filter, bro. Also, who
These are a few examples of the comic book cover stained glass art (plus BONUS Victorian/gothic Wolverine and Cyclops stained glass portraits) produced by artist Jesse Olwen (pieces available in his Etsy shop, Cyclops portrait $730). Obviously, they all include some glass painting as well because of all the too-small-to-cut-glass-for
This is a video of fifth generation tatami (traditional Japanese woven straw mat) craftsman Kenji Yamada producing a giant dragon design for a room. How awesome is that? If you take martial arts lessons in a dojo with a floor that looks like this, there’s no way your sensei doesn’t