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• Wonderfully Realistic Sushi Art Painted on False Nails
• An Eerie Video Projection Mapped on a Giant Wooden Brain Sculpture in Russia
• Jack Vale Calls Well-Known Retail Stores and Exposes Bad Customer Service
• A Pair of Transit Maps Detailing What Rail Transport Might Look Like in the Lands From 'Game of Thrones'
• Chef Matty Matheson Shows How to Make Delicious Fluffy Pancakes
• Tool Pen, A Screwdriver Multi-Tool With the Slick Form Factor of a Ballpoint Pen
• 'No Choice Frozen Dinners', A Commercial Parody About the Sadness of Microwaved Meals
• A TED-Ed Animation Explaining How Bacteria Have Built Up a Resistance to Antibiotics
• A Three-Minute Video Exploring the Complete History of the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'
• Mashable Breaks Down the Popular Link-Sharing Site Reddit for the Uninitiated
• 'Kings', A Stunning Time-Lapse and Long Exposure Video of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
• The Musical Duo Garfunkel and Oates Bring Their Naughty and Fun Comedy to IFC for a New Self-Titled Show
• Larry King Talks About Snoop Dogg and Splits a Pot Brownie With Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter on 'Conan'
• 'The Theory of Everything', A Film Based on the Story of Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking's Life With Jane Hawking
• The Cast of 'The Lion King' Musical Performs 'The Circle of Life' in a Crowded New York City Subway Car

Wonderfully Realistic Sushi Art Painted on False Nails

Nagoya, Japan-based Twitter user Ayamon recently painted these wonderfully realistic sushi nails. She has more nail art on her blog.

photos by Ayamon

via entabe.jp, RocketNews24

An Eerie Video Projection Mapped on a Giant Wooden Brain Sculpture in Russia

Back in July, Russian design studio Radugadesign mapped an eerie 8-minute video projection on “Universe Mind,” a large scale wooden brain sculpture by Russian artist Nikolay Polissky. The projection mapping was part of the opening night of the New Media Night festival at Nikola-Lenivets park, about 120 miles outside Moscow.

photo via New Media Night

photo via Nikola-Lenivets

via The Creators Project, Colossal

Jack Vale Calls Well-Known Retail Stores and Exposes Bad Customer Service

Internet prankster Jack Vale conducts a new social experiment where he calls well-known retail stores and exposes bad costumer service. On a few occasions, Vale calls and asks if the store carries a certain item (a certain DVD set, a yoga mat, etc.) and the employee quickly says “no” without checking. After hanging up, he then walks into the store and quickly finds the item in question.

A Pair of Transit Maps Detailing What Rail Transport Might Look Like in the Lands From 'Game of Thrones'

Designer Michael Tyznik has created a pair of transit maps detailing what rail transport might look like in the lands from Game of Thrones. Specifically, one map covers Westeros, and another covers both Westeros and the rest of the known world. Both the Westeros and Known World maps are available for purchase online from Tyznik’s INPRNT store.

images via Michael Tyznik

via Kotaku

Chef Matty Matheson Shows How to Make Delicious Fluffy Pancakes

Parkdale, Toronto-based chef Matty Matheson shows how to make delicious fluffy pancakes in a recent video by Munchies, a relatively new food-related section of Vice. The recipe for Matheson’s yummy pancakes is available to browse through online.

via Digg

Tool Pen, A Screwdriver Multi-Tool With the Slick Form Factor of a Ballpoint Pen

Tool Pen is a new multi-tool by Taipei-based design team mininch with the form factor of a retractable ballpoint pen. The tool, which is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, features a number of removable bolt-fastening and screw-driving heads which are stored inside the Tool Pen's slim, hollowed-out alloy steel barrel.

images via Tool Pen

submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

'No Choice Frozen Dinners', A Commercial Parody About the Sadness of Microwaved Meals

"No Choice Frozen Dinners" is a commercial parody of TV dinners like Hungry-Man by YouTube comedy channel World Wide Interweb. Each of the meals come with a "self-persecuting life lesson."

No Choice Frozen Dinners are the number one choice of recent college graduates and men in their 30s and 40s who still don't have their shit together because, well, they have no choice.

via The Awesomer

A TED-Ed Animation Explaining How Bacteria Have Built Up a Resistance to Antibiotics

Educator Kevin Wu and animator Brett Underhill discuss the importance of antibiotics in 20th century health care, and how their overuse has led them to become less effective in the latest animation from TED-Ed. The issue is linked to one of Charles Darwin's most known concepts.

The problem is not in the antibiotics, but in the bacteria they were made to fight. And the reason lies in Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection. Just like any other organisms, bacteria can undergo random mutations. Many of the these mutations are harmful or useless, but every now and then, one comes along that gives its bacteria an edge in survival.

A Three-Minute Video Exploring the Complete History of the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

Vulture has created a three-minute video that explores the complete 31-year history of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They discuss how the idea of being the mutated turtles was born, why the turtles were named after famous Renaissance artists, and how they have changed throughout the years.

Mashable Breaks Down the Popular Link-Sharing Site Reddit for the Uninitiated

"The Beginner’s Guide to reddit" is a video by Mashable where host Armand Valdes briefly breaks down the popular link-sharing site for the the uninitiated, including the nature of the front page and subreddits.

If Facebook is your hometown, think of reddit as a foreign country. You don't speak the language, the customs are odd and you probably don't know what's going on.

The video is a distillation of the information provided in the recently released reddit 101 informational guide.

via Laughing Squid Tips

'Kings', A Stunning Time-Lapse and Long Exposure Video of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks

“Kings” is a collection of time-lapse and long exposure star trail video shot and edited by filmmaker Gavin Heffernan of Sunchaser Pictures that highlights the natural beauty of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. As Heffernan points out, naturalist John Muir called the Central California parks "A rival to Yosemite." Sunchaser has also posted a making-of video to show how the shots were captured. Heffernan has shot a number of similar videos, in places like Joshua Tree and Death Valley.

images via Sunchaser Pictures

via Boing Boing

The Musical Duo Garfunkel and Oates Bring Their Naughty and Fun Comedy to IFC for a New Self-Titled Show

Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci make up the witty female musical duo known as Garfunkel and Oates. The two comedians, actresses, and songwriters have now brought their naughty and fun humor to IFC to star in a a new self-titled comedy series directed by Fred Savage. The first episode premiered on August 7th, 2014, and it will continue to air Thursdays at 10 PM. Mike Hale of The New York Times gave the Garfunkel and Oates show a fantastic review.

‘Garfunkel and Oates’ centers on the aspirations and misadventures of the female comedy-folk duo Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel) and Kate Micucci (Oates), and will spotlight the personal and professional lives of the duo whose career choices – singing satirical and sometimes dirty songs – leaves them with little in common with their peers, and no one but each other to turn to for support and understanding.

Larry King Talks About Snoop Dogg and Splits a Pot Brownie With Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter on 'Conan'

Talk show host Larry King discussed his friendship with Snoop Dogg/Lion, and then Conan O'Brien pulled out a pot brownie for them to split along with sidekick Andy Richter in a clip from a recent episode of Conan.

Is this legal, are we allowed to do it? Our producer is telling us it’s not legal. Go ahead, do it, I don’t care.

The bit unfortunately doesn’t include any of the effects of the edible, though King does begin singing "I'm in Love Again" by Fats Domino moments after ingestion.

submitted via Laughing Squid Tips

'The Theory of Everything', A Film Based on the Story of Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking's Life With Jane Hawking

The Theory of Everything is a Focus Features film based on the story of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking‘s life with Jane Hawking. The movie specifically explores how the two met, how they fell in love, and how they dealt with Stephen’s life-changing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis. The film stars Eddie Redmayne as Stephen and Felicity Jones as Jane, and is based on Jane’s memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen from 2008. The Theory of Everything is scheduled to release in theaters on November 7th, 2014.

via Coudal Partners

The Cast of 'The Lion King' Musical Performs 'The Circle of Life' in a Crowded New York City Subway Car

New York City-based actor Jamal Lee Harris has posted a video of the Broadway cast of the "The Lion King" musical breaking out in a rendition of "The Circle of Life" on a crowded "A" subway car in Manhattan. The video follows a similar stunt by the Australian cast of the musical, who performed the same number on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney.

via Viral Viral Videos

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