Life on the mini mean streets: Sculptor puts New York cityscapes under the microscope to produce incredibly detailed dioramas. Updated: 06:58 GMT, 29 April 2011 New York City - with its crowded sidewalks, creeping, honking traffic jams and endless streams of awe-struck tourists - can sometimes feel a little claustrophobic. In the world created by Alan Wolfson, New York is even smaller... to a mind-blowing degree. The 62-year-old artist creates handmade miniature sculptures of Manhattan street scenes, down to the finest of detail and complete with complex interior views and lighting effects. For scale: A $1 bill lies on the pavement to show how intricate Alan Wolfson creations are. This is a detail of Peepworld (2007), which is 17in x 22in x 26in New York in a box: Peepworld shows the grotty and grubby streets of New York in the 1970s.
Room with a view: A detail of Times Square Hotel Room (1982, 13in x 18in x 20in) shows not only the neon and vice of the outside world, but the lonely life of a writer Canal Street Pizza: Some of Wolfson's work is taken straight from real life and real locations. Your source of daily updated funny pictures and gifs. Stripes.
10 Creepy Plants That Shouldn't Exist. The porcupine tomato is one of the crops you'll find growing in Pinhead's vegetable patch after he retires from abstract horror and turns to horticulture.
It hails from Madagascar, the island nation that brought us the Hellbeast lemur and Dracula ants, earning it the Cracked.com nickname "Little Australia. " Quick, take a picture of the word "pain. " Good job. Aside from being sharp and poisonous, the porcupine tomato is a potentially invasive species, since it is difficult to kill, even in drought.
Among the features you don't want in a poisonous dagger monster, "hard to kill" has to be way up there. Did we mention that it spreads quickly, and can reach 8 feet tall by 8 feet wide in a relatively short amount of time? Cedar-Apple Rust Fungus What looks like a piece of rotting fruit giving birth to either a family of worms or a single, tentatcled horror? CARF is a fungal infection that attacks, you guessed it, cedar and apple trees. Or what happens when slugs mate with mac and cheese. Duplicate Records Through Casting.
Eye See You. Man Meets God. An epic story about meeting god on a train.Written by Harry Stottle @ fullmoon.nu Talking to God I met god the other day.
I know what you’re thinking. How the hell did you know it was god? Well, I’ll explain as we go along, but basically he convinced me by having all, and I do mean ALL, the answers. Which is odd, because I’m still an atheist and we even agree on that! It all started on the 8.20 back from Paddington. What did he look like? Well not what you might have expected that’s for sure. ‘Anyone sitting here?’ ‘Help yourself’ I replied.
Sits down, relaxes, I ignore and back to the correspondence on genetic foods entering the food chain… Train pulls out and a few minutes later he speaks. ‘Can I ask you a question?’ Fighting to restrain my left eyebrow I replied ‘Yes’ in a tone which was intended to convey that I might not mind one question, and possibly a supplementary, but I really wasn’t in the mood for a conversation. .. ‘Why don’t you believe in god?’ The Bastard! But then I thought ‘Odd!