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Chinese Man Makes Power Bank Able To Charge 5,000 Smartphones

YouTuber Handy Geng noticed that all his buddies had bigger power banks than his. “I’m not so happy with that,” he writes. It bothered him! In the video below, he claims he could not sleep. So Handy Geng decided to change that by building the biggest power bank of all. Continue reading »

Artist Thirza Schaap Creates Beachcombed Sculptures Out of Plastic Ocean Trash

For the past five years, Thirza Schaap has been creating delicate sculptures out of plastic debris from beaches on the South African coastline. The artist, who divides her time between Cape Town and Amsterdam, has named the project Plastic Ocean. Continue reading »

Cool Photos Show Lifestyle of Swedish Youth in the Early 1970s

The decade of the 1970s was in many ways a continuation of the late 1960s with respect to social trends. Continue reading »

Belgium Introduces New Passport Featuring Cartoon Characters

The Belgian government on January 27 launched its new passport featuring comic characters as its design theme. The updated Belgian passport will include comics like The Smurfs, Lucky Luke and baroque buildings on its pages. People can request the new passport from 7 February 2022 at their municipality in Belgium or the consular post competent for their permanent residence abroad. Continue reading »

Spanish Photographer Creates Mind-Bending Images Will Give You A Different Perspective Of The World

Perspective is a wonderful thing, if you understand the below photographs you have to double-check. These photos will tell us that even simple things are extraordinary, and there’s always beauty in the most mundane things. Continue reading »

Dreamy and Cinematic New York City Photographs by Dimitri Guédé

According to a photographer: “I am a visual story teller, who aims to project new perspectives of the world. As a photographer based out of New York City, my photograhs are significantly influenced by “The city that never sleeps”!. My passion can be seen in my work. I strive to expose great detail with my editing style being heavily inspired by cinematic works, such as Joker, Blade runner 2049, and Altered Carbon.” Continue reading »

Amazing Cover Photos of the Famous Monsters of Filmland in the 1970s

Famous Monsters of Filmland is an American genre-specific film magazine, started in 1958 by publisher James Warren and editor Forrest J Ackerman. Continue reading »

Trapped In The 1930s: Artist Draws Popular Characters In Rubber Hose Style

Many of us feel nostalgia for certain things, be it old-school candy, clothing style, TV shows, cartoons, etc. It feels good to relive something that is remembered with a warm feeling once again. Some things, even if not experienced personally, are admired nonetheless and are wished to be brought back so that they can be enjoyed and appreciated by those who didn’t have the chance to do so. And that’s what Kev Craven does! Continue reading »

Artist Made Immature Search And Find Puzzles For Adults, And It’s As Stimulating To Both Your Brain And Your Funny Bone

According to Mike Bender: “My name is Mike, I’m the co-founder of AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com, and dad to a nine and seven-year-old. During many Covid quarantines, I have spent a lot of time doing search and find puzzles with my kids and I quickly became obsessed with them. Not only are they good for your brain (scientifically proven, actually), but they are also lots of fun. I wondered if anyone was making a more irreverent search and find for adults and was surprised to see that there wasn’t much out there. So, I thought, let’s make one… Continue reading »

This Artist Makes Witty And Funny Cartoons About Science, Literature, Pop Culture, And Many Other Things

If you’ve never stumbled upon John Atkinson’s work, chances are you are about to experience it. John makes funny and sometimes downright sarcastic cartoons about pretty much everything. Science? You got it. Literature? It’s there as well. Social media and pop culture? Don’t worry, John has you covered. Continue reading »

Artist Draws Creative Illustrations That Enhance The Original Picture In A Creative Way

Lack inspiration? Take a look at the world around you. It might not seem inspiring, but it is. How, you might ask? Well, the beauty of the world is in the eye of the beholder, not in the world itself. Continue reading »

The Unique Hairstyles of Jean-Michel Basquiat


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Jean-Michel Basquiat had a professional career that lasted just nine years, but in that time he managed to make himself one of the most significant painters of the 20th century and an enduring cultural icon. Continue reading »

The Beautifully Curvy Ladies of The Illustrator Kenron Toqueen

Kenron Toqueen is a comics artist from Chile who draws lush (and not only) girls with a nice anime look. He often draws them in the company of bizarre monsters, hell-monsters, and tentacles, but they’re pretty cute, too. Continue reading »

Woodstock Castle: One of The Craziest Homes We’ve Ever Seen


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With soaring turrets and a striking stone facade, 450 Brickyard Road in Woodstock, Connecticut, is a home fit for a king or queen – or at least anyone willing to shell out a royal sum. The estate, dubbed “Woodstock Castle,” or the “Chrismark Castle.” Continue reading »

Human Teeth Jewelry by Jana Miller

Jana Miller has been collecting and processing bones and other things of nature for 35 years. She has been making bone and teeth jewelry since the 1980s. After becoming unemployed during the 2008 recession, she decided to open Bone Lust Etsy store. Since then she has sold thousands of pieces of jewelry to customers all around the world. Would you buy and wear something like this, or is it just too creepy? Continue reading »

Medieval Branding: Famous Logos Recreated As Medieval Brands

Ilya Denisov aka Ilya Stallone created a series of works “Medieval Branding” where he reimagines what the logos of famous modern brands would look like during the middle ages. Continue reading »

The French Executioner, the Murderer of Kings, and The Subtle Dandy: Art by Shin-ichi Sakamoto

Shin-ichi Sakamoto is a famous Japanese mangaka, the author of the seinen series Kokou no Hito and the remarkable near-historical Innocent, a story about the difficult daily life of Charles-Henri Sanson, the executioner of the French Revolution. Continue reading »

Chun-Li, Tifa Lockhart, Blake Belladonna: Liang Xing’s Beauty Ladies

Liang Xing is a Chinese artist who masterfully draws seductive girls. Among his works are not only portraits of famous pop-cultural divas, but also a whole bunch of artworks devoted to young ladies that were invented by Xing himself. However, the legendary ladies, like Chun Li or Tifa from Final Fantasy, deserve special attention – the artist makes them incredibly charming. Continue reading »

Cheerful Photos of Teenage Girls in the 1940s

Teenage girls living in the 1940s enjoyed an independence that would make many modern teen envious. They had been raised by parents and teachers who encouraged them to dress prettily so they could find a young man to marry, and to work a part-time job so they could buy expensive wedding china. Continue reading »

The Ugly Glamour Cats by Gregory Jacobsen

Gregory Jacobsen is a Chicago-based artist who draws ugly, surreal cats. Of course, he draws not only them, but also ugly people, ugly everyday objects, and ugly natural phenomena-no matter how strange that may sound. In our opinion, however, he does it best when he draws cats with crazy faces. Continue reading »

Little Animals – Big Love: Cute Drawings by Illustrator Dric

Illustrator Dric knows well – often a small picture has much more visual power than a large one. Dric draws microscopic doodles, inserts them into the space of a huge sheet and – voila! – The resulting illustrations are cute and amusing. Continue reading »

The Apocalypse: The Colorful Medieval Illustrations About The End of The Days, 1330

The Dragon and the Beasts Cast into Hell

The Apocalypse, or Book of Revelation, was, according to European medieval tradition, written by John the Evangelist during his exile on the Greek island of Patmos. Continue reading »

Girl’s Dreams and Robots: Illustrations by Eri Cruz

Eri Cruz (EllieMapleFox aka Raw Sushi) is a Filipina artist who draws cute anime girls. We love anime girls, you love anime girls – what else do we need to be happy on this magical day? Continue reading »

The Melancholy of Dreams: Illustrations by Felicia Chiao

Felicia Chiao is an artist from California who sketches the life of a certain bald man. The little man is melancholic but sweet, and his existence is dull and sad, but his sadness is light and even cozy. Chiao’s illustrations suggest that she depicts the typical everyday life of each of us – drawn out like an old man’s daydreams. Continue reading »

Unicorns Are Jerks: Coloring and Activity Book by Theo Nicole

Unicorns are back and even bigger jerks than ever.

The coloring book that exposed the cold, hard, sparkly truth is back, this time with more shocking truths about unicorns. With twenty-seven new coloring and activity pages, Unicorns Are Jerks: Coloring and Activity Book is your ultimate guide to the wily ways of our single-horned friends. Continue reading »