OK, the top image is from Avatar. But the other one’s real.
Aspiring conservation biologist and Reddit user Biophilia_curiosus photographed these tiny, but nonetheless pretty extraordinary gliding lizards on a recent trip to Indonesia.
‘We were only able to catch females, as they were laying their eggs. All we could do is watch as the males soared overhead.”
Trippy.
Twitter user Molly23‘s celebrated hipster-meme, conjoured up with the aid of dinosaur colouring-books and her own field-observation skills.
Mmmm. Authenticity.
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Can we say both?
(Via Clarke Hazard)
Chairs. They’re so boring. You sit down. You get up. Where’s the joy?
Well how about a Tetris Chair from Mexican industial designer Gabriel Cañas? Tweak your cheeks at all?
Or, more engaging still, the Vuzzle Chair (above right), which consists of 59 small detachable, magnetised cushions which you can arrange according to, eh, your physiology.
Now, that’s a lot of sit.
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Walk Like An Egyptian.
Who has just sank 15 pints.
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Launched in March, 2007, at a party attended by Louise and Jamie Redknapp and Alan Hughes, the Belmayne estate in North Dublin was promoted as the last word in hi-tech, horny living. Absurd billboards appeared showing how your life would change once you dropped the necessary folding stuff. It now lies half empty and the firm behind it has gone bust. But what of the poster children? How are they getting on now?
“How do I tell these chicks that this the only occupied house within half a mile?”
“We’ve been waiting on someone to fix our water supply since 9am.”
“Fire away there Mick, no neighbours to see you after all.”
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It’s given the dancing Guinness guy and the surfing horses a run for their money.
Well, we’ve always been partial to a double rainbow.
And, my! Doesn’t Dublin look swell?
(Directed by Steve Green for DDFHB JWT QWERTY)
The fine art of un-tooning: transforming cartoon characters into real-life, or at least digitally re-rendered versions of themselves. Painstaking stuff, as ace-untooner Pixeloo makes clear in his work on Jessica Rabbit (above).
Click the arrows for 25 more examples, from Pikachu to Barney Rubble.
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Pam: “I’ve just remembered. I’m a metaphor for Ireland’s ills.
Bobby: “What does that make me?”
Pam: “Germany.”
Speaking for Broadsheet, we’ve always seen ourselves more like Sue “Drinking up a storm” Ellen.
