Arts & Design

If you’ve ever attempted to design a set of chronological portraits of Michael Jackson, you know that keeping up with this ever-evolving color scheme was nearly impossible. The Michael Jackson Pantone Color Guide follows the various colors of MJ’s skin tones throughout the decades. Sure, it might not be the classiest memorial ever, but you gotta take the good and ...

Two things can be expected when watching an episode of South Park. One, you’re bound to laugh at something, even if it’s in disgust. Two, a heavily jacketed boy by the name of Kenny McCormick is going to die in some gory manner, every time without fail. This OMG! They Killed Kenny! LEGO Brick Sculpture was created by Dirk VH. ...

I grew up with the Peanuts, even if they were way before my time. My dad had all of his old Charlie Brown comic strip books and I read through all of them hundreds of times. So, I was sort of well acquainted with Charlie Brown as a kid. Tim O’Brien’s untooned Charlie Brown shows what the wishy-washiest bald kid ...

Some taxidermists can really go over the top with their mounted pieces. And a few, I believe are certifiably insane. “WTF Taxidermy” is a LiveJournal community dedicated to the most bizarre of bizarre taxidermy. Included are such classics as the Flying Jackalope, the R2-D2 Rats and really, just a whole crap load of oddities. The best part is that most ...

No, not “pop,” you friggen mid-westerners. SODA! This dragon was made entirely out of SODA, yes, SODA can pull tabs. Measuring 14 inches long and 8 inches tall, the Soda Can Pull Tab Dragon was produced by gluing an undisclosed number of pull tabs to each other with standard epoxy. The creator of the dragon named it shinkonryuu, and its ...

I’m not sure how comfortable you would be using a hair comb adorned with a taxidermy guinea pig. On one hand, these taxidermy rodent accessories are unique, not as dirty as living rodents and won’t leave a trail of rice sized turds. And on the other hand, it’s a fucking dead rodent. And these particular rodents aren’t even cute compared ...

Designer Vadim Kibardin’s Black & White Clock concept is a series of four OLED numerals, each with independent sources of power. The really neat part about this concept, other than looking really cool, is that the clock will automatically sense the lighting in the room, switching to white digits in dark conditions and black digits when it’s bright. Not only ...

The Twitter Fail Whale, now clearly a cultural phenomenon, has earned itself quite a fan base. Pieces of art, clothing and gadgets are popping up around the web, dedicated to the most famous internet whale that never lived. “What is Fail Whale?” is a site devoted to everything Fail Whale. Fail Whale products, Fail Whale DIYs, Fail Whale appreciation. It’s ...

Some books have a way of pulling you in, grabbing your attention and never letting go. Apparently mini-people have a harder time resisting the urge to be physically sucked in to the book. The Help! Bookmark is a fun bookmark design which simulates the demise of the world’s tiniest man, stuck between the pages and begging for his way out. ...

We thought that the wristwatch piercing was pretty damn intense, but anything implanted completely under your skin has got to win in the extreme category. The Subdermal Implant Watch Tattoo, also called an “electric tattoo” is a special LED screen which is implanted under your skin. Powered by your own kinetic energy, the electric tattoo watch illuminates when you turn ...