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Guinness-rainbow.jpg (JPEG Image, 604 × 452 pixels) Laws Of Modern Man. What a dump! A beach that used to be covered in trash is now covered in sea glass as the waves have turned the garbage into natural art. By Meghan Keneally Updated: 03:12 GMT, 9 January 2012 Long before there were recycling bins in every household, the standards for where and how people can deposit their trash were much lower and less regulated.

What a dump! A beach that used to be covered in trash is now covered in sea glass as the waves have turned the garbage into natural art

While that was bad the environment in some parts of the country and may well have done years of irreparable damage to the atmosphere, there is one spot where shameful trash deposit practices lead to something rather beautiful. Glass Beach near Fort Bragg in Northern California used to be the spot where residents brought all forms of their trash- from their old cars to their kitchen leftovers- to a dump located on the beach starting in 1949. Meeting of two worlds: Sea glass now covered the surf on Glass Beach in Fort Bragg in Northern California Back to nature: Though the beach used to be the location of a town dump, the glass that was thrown away has been beaten down by the waves so now it is all sea glass Though that was nearly half a century ago, the remnants are still very clear. Amazing Pencil Carvings. Premium Funny: Reverse Trick or Treating.

2AM Chili. How to turn "water" into marbles. An Online Graphic Novel by Daniel Lieske - Chapter 1 - The Last Day Of School. "The Internet Justice League" by Caldwell Tanner. 17 things no one probably have told you yet (comics by alex noriega) Dumb Student Late Assignment [PIC] Glennz Tees Designs 2010-11 on the Behance Network. Horrible Cards. Horrible Cards are Copyright © 2012 Matthew Inman.

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Please don't steal. The Oatmeal. Split Family Faces. Cousins: Justine, 29, & Ulric, 29 How much do you and your family members really look alike?

Split Family Faces

Quebec, Canada-based graphic designer and photographer Ulric Collette has created a shockingly cool project where he's exploring the genetic similarities between different members of the same family. By splitting their faces in half and then splicing them together, he creates interesting new people that are sometimes quite normal looking and other times far from it. He calls this series Genetic Portraits. (Did you notice that Ulric, the photographer, is one-half of some of these pairings? Update 1: We got in touch with Ulric to ask him a few questions about this really intriguing series (that just happened to go viral).

Update 2: What happened after Split Family Faces went viral? Mother/Daughter: Francine, 56 & Catherine, 23 Sisters: Catherine, 23 & Veronica, 29 Daughter/Mother: Veronica, 29 & Francine, 56 Sister/Brother: Karine, Dany & XX years, 25 years Brothers, Christopher, 30 & Ulric, 29. The 7 Grossest Creatures To Ever Wash Up On Shore. Ahh, a romantic stroll on the beach.

The 7 Grossest Creatures To Ever Wash Up On Shore

There’s moonlight, a warm breeze, soft waves lapping at your toes and a putrid, rotting carcass that smells so bad you can’t help but throw up. So. Romantic. For some people, this is an unfortunate reality. All around the world, unlucky beachgoers have stumbled across the bodies of mysterious creatures that no one can explain. Montauk Monster Credit: Wikipedia.