Depressed Copywriter

In the new Tumblr ‘Depressed Copywriter’, copywriters Chris Sheldon, Mariana Oliveira, Whitney Ruef and Tedd Wood have altered some pretty standard, altogether bland , print ads morphing them into hilarious, topical, poetic messages. As a copywriter myself, I find this highly entertaining.

Manhole Cover Art in Japan

Manholes aren’t really artists’s first choice. However 95% of Japan’s 1,780 municipalities you will find artistic manhole covers unique to each city and town. It has become apart of the country’s national culture and it’s fascinating to see the different designs and styles that each town and city has chosen to represent them. With over 6,000 manhole cover artworks, it’s no surprise that spotting and photographing them has become a hobby for many.

Before I Die I Want to...

"Before I die, I want to...." is the brain child of photographers KS Rives and Nicole Kenney where they asked the simple question: What do you want to do before you die? Both started the project with the news that Polaroid would be discontinuing products, allowing a symbolic death of this iconic product. I loved reading the different responses - some were silly while others were incredibly honest.

Angry Birds Theme Park Opens In Finland

The world’s first Angry Birds theme park will officially open inside Finland’s Särkänniemi Adventure Park on June 8 2012. Angry Birds developer Rovio Entertainment helped the park's staff design the experience.

Behind the Scenes of "Back to the Future" Trilogy

If you love Robert Zemekis classic film Back to the Future, but you’ve never understood how they filmed the hoverboard scene, or made cars fly through the air, then this set of behind the scene photos might help.

Crazy Coffin Designs

These days, a lot of designer coffins are being made which are innovative and reflect a part of today. The folks at Crazy Coffins have customized caskets to give you some great ideas, because it’s never too early to start planning for the inevitable.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Stuntman's Parachute-free Skydive [VIDEO]



A stuntman, Gary Connery, has become the first man to leap 2,400 feet and safely land without using a parachute. The 42-year-old daredevil plunged from a helicopter wearing only a wing suit, in a death-defying feat before landing in an area containing 18,600 cardboard boxes.


Via SkyNews

Teen Stars Then and Now

These people used to be the TV-stars when they were teens, but as years have gone by many of them have changed completely. In the recent months, we've learned that Alicia Silverstone is bird-feeding her kid, Mayim Bialik is still breast-feeding her three-year-old kid, and that Lark Voorhies looks absolutely nothing like she used to. I guess that means it's time to figure out which of our other fan favorites are doing weird things in 2012.

Alicia Silverstone


Kel Mitchell


Mayim Bialik


Danny Tamberelli


Lark Voorhies


Michael Bower


Amanda Bynes


Frankie Muniz


Robin Kelly


Taran Noah Smith


Tara Reid


Eddie (Edward) Furlong


Amy Jo Johnson


Jason Frank


Jennifer Love Hewitt


Jeremy Jackson


Pamela Anderson


Eric Nies


Jenny McCarthy


Macaulay Culkin


Tori Spelling


Jamie Walters


Claire Danes


Jared Leto


Jodie Sweetin


Damon Sharpe


Rebecca Gayheart


Kirk Cameron


Tia and Tamera Mowry


Blake McIver Ewing


Lindsay Lohan

Via Buzzfeed

Homemade Magnetic Levitating Bed

Reddit user with the nickname ‘mememetatata’ built this awesome levitating bed using plywood and hockey puck sized rare earth magnets. With $1,000, he built this floating bed that can comfortably sleep one person upto 250 pounds due to the fact that two people would make the rig collapse.

Building the frame of the levitating part of the bed. Fits a twin sized mattress. It's 74 inches long and 38 inches wide.


Another angle


Put in the slats that will keep the magnets in place


Put the magnets in and closed it up


Highly technical drawing of one of the corners of the main thing


Making the frame of the lower platform. It is 8 feet long and 7 feet wide


Another angle


Due to bad packaging in the magnet shipment, two of the magnets got stuck together. This is incredibly bad news because there are several hundred pounds of force holding these together now. After a lot of raging and angrily emailing the company that I got the magnets from, I realized that a rubber glove I was handling the magnets with was stuck between them. It provided a gap of around 2mm. I used scissors to pry this open and stick successively larger things inside.


Got a pen in (I taped around the pen so that the splinters wouldn't get everywhere if the pen shattered, which it did ;D)


Three pens and a spacer


Two spacers and a pen


I was worried that the pens would fall out and I would lose all of my prying progress, or that all of my spacing would fall out and they would be entirely stuck together with no gap, in which case they would be entirely and impossibly stuck together (many hundreds of pounds of force holding them together, these are solid neodymium rare earth magnets the size of hockey pucks). I used screws, which since they are magnetic, stood no chance of falling out! They also worked pretty well to prop them apart.


Two spacers


I stomped on the spacers to jam them and a pen in. I then replaced the pen with a third spacer and got them unstuck!


Slight damage. Essentially only aesthetic. Tests I did confirmed that the magnets were for all intents and purposes entirely functional.


Finishing up the base.


Put it all together. Steel cable tethers the top bed to the bottom base. Had to do some math to determine how long the cable needed with how high I calculated that the bed would float. I got this stabilization system (and most of the idea of the bed!) from this bed which is a much larger scale, much more expensive version http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hgI5jSC3NwY#t=94s


View underneath the platform


The steel cable goes into the platform where it is attached and screwed in.


Complete bed! Although I haven't yet put on the trim and nice looking parts, or put on a clear coat of paint to make it shinier/cleaner looking.