This Home Baker’s Gorgeous Rye Bread Could Start A Revolution
When scoring bread, bakers use a small double-sided kitchen blade called a lame (pronounced lahm) to make precise, strategic cuts across the dough’s surface. These slashes allow moisture to escape and give the finished loaf that sought-after complex crust. The cutting process is mesmerizing to watch, and the post-bake result is even more so. What enters the oven as raw shaped bread with small gashes emerges as a fully formed loaf with crispy ridges and arcs in earthen hues of gold and brown. Continue reading »
People Are Recreating “High Fashion” Looks From Household Items While In Quarantine
Who would have thought that people will get so creative during COVID-19 quarantine? We’ve already featured Famous Painting Recreations and Australians In Costumes Taking Out Trash Bins. Now people have started to parody “high fashion”. You can follow their latest creations via #HomeCouture tag on Instagram. Featured below are the funniest examples. Continue reading »
Using An ‘Alien’ Facehugger As A Protective Face Mask
During these challenging times, people are getting very creative with their protective face masks. A curator of the Barcelona Alien Museum 3d-printed a mask that looks like the iconic “Facehugger” from the film Alien. Continue reading »
Boy Scout Creates Ear Guard For People Who Feel Pain From Wearing Face Masks All Day
It’s not just the medical workers that have to wear face masks all day to protect themselves – cashiers, delivery drivers, and all other workers rely on them too. And many of them are suffering from the same problem – ear pain from wearing the masks for prolonged periods of time. But that’s where Quinn Callander, a boy scout from Canada, came to help. Continue reading »
Someone Creates An Impossibly Difficult Transparent Jigsaw Puzzle, And It’s Evil
Jigsaw puzzles are a great way to pass time while you’re stuck in quarantine. However, someone came up with a way to make this fun and relaxing activity into a nightmare. We present to you – transparent jigsaw puzzles. Continue reading »
College Student Makes Masks For The Deaf & Hard Of Hearing Community
A college senior from Versailles, Woodford County, Kentucky, United States, put her stir-craziness to good use with a project that will help the deaf and hard of hearing community. Continue reading »
This Michigan Couple Couldn’t Have Friends and Family at Their Wedding. So They Had Cardboard Cutouts Instead
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Cardboard cutout wedding guests will make for a not-so-cookie-cutter wedding as a Michigan couple prepares to tie the knot during the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading »
2020 Fashion Novelties: Crocs Gloves And Ramen Handbag
So far 2020 has been a really crazy year. What better time for fashion designers to come up with outlandish ideas? Featured here is a Ramen handbag made by Rommy De Dommy and Crocs gloves made by Matt Benedetto. Continue reading »
Meet The Russian Who Walks Around The City During The Coronavirus Pandemic – Dressed As A Plague Doctor
A man in the costume of a plague doctor walks along the Kaliningrad streets, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea. It is sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania along the Baltic coast. The people look at the tall, thin figure in black with surprise. Continue reading »
Taxidermy Animal Hats: Bizarre Victorian Fashion Trend
This particular craze is perhaps an extension of the overall fascination with taxidermy, and the ways in which the Victorians pushed creative boundaries with the controversial practice. Continue reading »
Temporary Tattoos Are Back, And They’re Better Than Ever
If you were lucky enough to have grown up in the 90s, you probably remember transfer tattoos. Cut one, apply on clean skin, press down with a damp towel and hold for a few seconds – and there, you have a tattoo for the next seven to twelve days! They were all the rage back then, but then they sort of… vanished. These tattoos weren’t suitable for teens or adults – they were silly, childish, and their quality was questionable. Once the initial excitement was over, they simply weren’t good enough to last. Continue reading »
Land Art By Tanya Preminger Will Make You Lose Your Balance
Land art piece Round Balance by Tanya Preminger gives a new meaning to playing with earth. The project expresses, in a material form, the philosophical law of life, of the balance between the opposite sides of one entity. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Bags With Scary Faces On Them
Do you like wearing unique outfits and accessories? Well, artist Petra Banyai from Nottingham, UK can make your wish come true. The talented artist makes bags that will make people look twice. Continue reading »
Would You Wear This Portable Retractable Safety Mitt To Help You Not Touch Anything?
What do you get when you attach a silicone oven mitt to a retractable cord that’s attached to your hip? For one, you get a weirdo that you can spot from a mile away. Continue reading »
Boyfriend Lets His Quarantined Hairstylist GF Experiment With His Hair, Here’s The Result
The coronavirus has made Heidi Lee Oley from Atlanta, Georgia temporarily shut down her hair salon. During the pandemic, she and her boyfriend Geoff have been staying at her family’s cabin in north Georgia to escape the city. Continue reading »
Japanese Youtuber Makes Easy DIY Face Masks That Look Surprisingly Cool
In the days of COVID-19, masks are a must-have. However, retailers are struggling to meet demand as panic buying strikes consumers across Japan. Sharp has begun production but who knows when the average consumer will get them. Even when the wayward store clerk manages to stock the random shipment, they are instantly snatched. Continue reading »
Perfect Doormats For COVID-19 Social Isolation
Doormats are usually used as something to wipe your feet on, but if you really think about it, doormats hold a higher purpose during Coronavirus self-isolation. All of these are available on Etsy and Amazon for safe no-contact delivery. Direct links provided under each picture. Continue reading »
City Of Shenzhen Honors Medical Heroes Who Have Returned Home From The Front Line
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The facades of the most important buildings in Shenzhen (Guangdong Province, Southern China) featured portraits of the heroes, members of the medical teams involved in the fight against the epidemic in Hubei Province. Continue reading »
By Using Cereals, Toilet Paper And Matches Russian Street Artist Makes An Installation That Urges People To Stay Calm
Probably there is a new problem worse than coronavirus itself, it’s people who spread the panic about the virus. Loketski, a street artist from St. Petersburg decided to calm them down in his own creative method. He made an installation “Stay calm!” made from the most demanded products these days. The artist used 4 kg of his own domestic reserves – cereals, toilet paper, matches. Continue reading »
UK Artist Unveils COVID-19 Glass Sculpture, One Million Times The Size Of The Virus
Acclaimed artist Luke Jerram (previously) has unveiled a glass sculpture of COVID-19 in tribute to all the hardworking medical staff and scientists. Continue reading »
Artist Liz Sexton Turns Little Animals Into Human Scale
Anthropocentrism is the philosophy that man is the center of the world. It is this theory that Liz Sexton fights through her hybrid creatures. Continue reading »
Fan Yanting’s Minimalistic Ceramics Come With Adorable Faces
Everything gets much cuter when you add a face to it, don’t you think? Taiwanese artist Fan Yanting does just that to the minimalistic ceramic items he makes. His mugs, vases, and vessels gain emotion through faces he sculpts on them. The artist never tries to decide which emotion he will show on a certain item. Continue reading »
Artist Amy Victoria Marsh Creates Tiny And Playful Minimalistic Ceramics
Amy Victoria Marsh makes adorable minimalist ceramic items using a simple color palette and a lot of creativity. She lives and works in Manchester, England and her creations range from sculptures of women to tiny cups and glasses and many other things. Continue reading »
Fabulously Disconcerting Anthropomorphic Human Faces Baked Into Top Crusts Of Handmade Pot Pies
Horror artist Ashley Newman of “It Came From Under My Bed” has created a fabulously disconcerting series of pot pies with realistic, anthropomorphic faces that have a variety of expressions baked right into their top crusts. These pies and other fascinating handmade objects are available for purchase through Newman’s Etsy Store and business is booming. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Animal Sculptures From Flower Arrangements
Inspired by the ancient and traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement—Ikebana—Montreal-based artist and photographer Raku Inoue creates colorful portraits of insects and other animals using flowers, twigs, leaves, and stems from his garden. Each and every one of them is unique as he chooses his materials according to the seasons and what nature offers during them. Continue reading »
