Dyeing art

Nice job with these painted pop culture Easter eggs that are a standard deviation or so from the mean.

And a Tumblr, terrible photos of real estate for sale.

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Automation domination

Allegory abounds in "Monsieur COK", a dark and beautiful tale of totalitarian industrialism in a post-World War society.

And is this man's spreadsheet-based ranking system for his friends just a bit over the top?

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." - Desmond Tutu

Junkyard parts

Go back to 1930 and you'll find this stop-motion short of a metal-eating bird, with some outstanding effects created way before anyone dreamt of CGI.

And for no particular reason, Shakespeare’s works in three-panel comic strips.

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Not safe for perch

Living your days chained to a post probably would be enough to make you say it, too.

And check out "lol my thesis", where graduate students try to describe their theses in one short sentence.

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn

Hairitage

Some of the worst hairstyles from the 60s and 70s, soon to be on display in Brooklyn or SF. [Devour]

And the question: Should you take a selfie? This infographic has the answers.

"I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain." - Anne Lamott

Half-past two

The answer to "What time is it?" in the Italian countryside is an old joke but a good one.

Inattextive (incessant phone use during social situations) and other such neologisms from the Emotionary, a place for "words that don't exist for feelings that do".

"There are as many opinions as there are experts." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yippee kayay

Something of a remake, "Die Hard With Pugs" makes up for in pug-ness what it lacks in production quality.

"Discontent is the first necessity of progress." - Thomas A. Edison

Plain sight

Holy crap, this parrot is actually a woman in bodypaint posing for a mind's eye trip. Incredibly impressive attention to detail.




You can see more work from this remarkable artist, Johannes Stoetter, in this video:

"There is an optical illusion about every person we meet." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unlucky brake

Home security camera captured this incredible scene of a FedEx delivery gone terribly wrong. (Though granted things could have turned out far worse.)

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." - Andrew Carnegie

A star is born

Man in a TV show studio audience catches wind that he's on camera and becomes an instant legend.

And actual celebrities that look like mattresses.

"Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie

When pushpin comes to shove

A good run of stop-motion fun with office supplies, A Girl Named Elastika looks like more work than work.

"Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else." - George Halas

Morphing

Transcendental transitions in this quirky little hand-drawn animation that'll make you feel like you inhaled.

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - Michelangelo

What the puck?

Days of human dominance at the arcade are over with the arrival of this 3D-printed, airhockey-playing robot on the scene. Machines eventually take all the fun out of everything.

"One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." - Robert A. Heinlein

Brand spanking

The world's most generic brand ad corrals the worst of today's tech TV spot cliches in one convenient place.

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket." - George Orwell

Morph Simpson

Observe as a human model gets turned into a creepy and unnerving real-life Marge Simpson in about a minute.

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." - Virginia Woolf

But now am found

"I'm just 1 of the 12 lip balms that you own & don't use," exclaims an entry in Little Lost Project, a Tumblr that tells the stories of the little objects that we lose all the time.

And a fairly engaging tool for visualizing cultural production across various disciplines throughout history.

"Art is never finished, only abandoned." - Leonardo da Vinci

Seasoning

Pop-culture references from The Office, by year, on demand, if you plug in The Office Time Machine.

"Most people have to talk so they won't hear." - May Sarton

Out of tune

Classical music interrupted by trombonist sneezing makes for classic performance.

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Berthold Auerbach