Jacques of all Trades

8 Athletes Who Look Like Maurice Sendak ‘Wild Things’

via mtvclutch:

Not one, but two Pittsburgh Steelers on the list.

(Source: mtv2guycode, via ryanmckee)

Etsy seller TheBohemianWorkbench combines fine joinery with fine nerdery and comes up with a beautiful, handmade wooden coffee table that resembles a giant NES controller, and which functions as a NES controller as well. It’s available for $3,500 from his Venice, CA studio (pickup preferred). (via Handmade wooden coffee-table resembles giant NES controller, functions as same - Boing Boing)

Airplane Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style

pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:

misterhippity:

“To pass the time during long flights, artist Nina Katchadourian goes to the lavatory, adorns herself in tissue paper costume, and creates self-portrait photos in the style of Flemish Renaissance paintings.”

She’s obviously never heard about how fun and easy it is to use dental floss cutters to shape barf bags into entertaining 19th century Javanese shadow puppetry.

I guess everyone needs a hobby.

Twin Peaks—21st Century style

(Source: amajor7, via deliafrances)

afternoonsnoozebutton:

We’ve made a huge mistake.

kenyatta:

The Hungry Hungry Hunger Games

(Source: aiichu, via teachingliteracy)

I’m loving the rounds of “excavated book art” that I’ve been seeing lately, this included.

makeandmana:

Maya Lin, Altered Atlas. cjmcc-artistresearch

(via apoplecticskeptic)

Girl Scout cookies to be available year-round? (At least in candy bar form).

thedailywhat:

EXCLUSIVE Update of the Day: Tipster Autumn, who has a cousin in high places, sent in this sneak peek of a couple other flavors in the Nestle Crunch Girl Scout candy bar line that is expected to be unveiled this June.

As you can see, prayers have been answered: Samoa- and Tagalong-flavored Crunch bars are indeed in production.

Autumn writes: “I can say that they were as delicious as they look, but the Thin Mints flavor tasted most like the actual Girl Scout cookie. U jelly?”

Yes. Quite.

[thanks autumn!]

(Source: thedailywhat)

Mac’n’Cheese candle? I suppose it was a matter of time.

lickypickystickyfree:

uhmm…no.

(Source: lickypickystickyme)

Balloon art. Click photo for more.

(via nedhepburn)

thatluciegirl:

“The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut”

Dickens World, in other words, sounded less like a viable business than it did a mockumentary, or a George Saunders short story, or the thought experiment of a radical Marxist seeking to expose the terminal bankruptcy at the heart of consumerism. And yet it was real. Its existence raised a number of questions. Who was the park’s target audience? (“Dickens-loving flume-ride enthusiasts” seems like a small, sad demographic.) Was it a homage to, or a desecration of, the legacy of Charles Dickens? Was it the reinvention of, or the cheapening of, our culture’s relationship to literature? And even if it were possible to create a lavish simulacrum of 1850s London — with its typhus and cholera and clouds of toxic corpse gas, its sewage pouring into the Thames, its average life span of 27 years — why would anyone want to visit?