Talent + Fetish = This
This artist Carole A. Feuerman makes absolutely stunningly lifelike sculptures of people, but it was hard for me to find ones I could show you that were SFW.
That’s amazing, huh?
And this is super realistic! I’m genuinely not sure if the tiny (regular sized) person on the back of the regular (huge) person is a person or not.
Ooookay!
I just imagine this artist having to really sculpt the shit out of those nipples, but you know, it’s art, so you gotta do that kinda stuff.
See more of her work here at Buzzfeed, and be sure to put it in your realistic mannequin spank bank!
Gynomite’s Reading Room!
People are really into supporting “Caylee’s Law”, an idea for a bill that would charge parents with a felony if they fail to report a missing child within 24 hours, or if they fail to report the death of a child within an hour. Radley Balko thinks it’s a terrible idea, and here’s why. A must read.
The top 50 R&B fails will take you back through the ages, if you’re bored at work.
15 cartoon characters voiced by the opposite sex is a fun read. Also, the woman who did Popeye’s voice couldn’t look more like a flapper if she tried. Holy shit. Also, bonus rad woman from Louie is Bobby Hill!
A long but interesting read on the differences between Japanese and American animation styles.
FYI, the girl from the Hairspray remake is working at a shoe store.
An odd piece at Slate that’s half about the trend of fur in fashion, half about how cute is the new porn. Guess which half I want you to read?
Who is teaching creationism to kids? The Flintstones? A great story (with pictures!) at Sociological Images!
Everyone’s been talking about the Steve Buscemi dress:
But I’m kinda more excited about The Shining dress:
Both are available at Black Milk.
Brain cake.
I have this analogy I use in describing friendships, romances- just relationships in general. It’s a bit infantile, but somehow it clicks with me in ways that no self-help book ever has. It’s about Angelfood cake.
As people, we only possess a certain amount of Angelfood cake at any point in time. When we interact with other people, we give them our cake- some people take a lot of your cake, and some people take very little. The key is to hang around with people that give you the ingredients to make your cake. Hang out with people that nourish you with eggs, flour, and whatever else goes into Angelfood cake. This may seem obvious for a lot of people, but you’d be surprised at how many people I used to hang out with that were just exhausting to be around and never asked how I was doing. I try not to do that anymore.
The point of this is that recently I’ve realized the same thing is true of creative energy. Stay with me, this may get a little dorkily metaphysical. I have two jobs right now that I love very much, but they require a lot of my brain. I happily give my brain over to the NerdMelt theater and to G4, but the same thing applies- if I’m giving out all of my brain cake, I don’t have any materials left to make more. And I always need more brain cake, and for me, brain cake is made by writing essays about relationships, writing silly pop culture things, and just writing for me.
This is just a PSA to remind you all to make sure, no matter how much you love your job, that you’re saving some of your brain cake for yourself. You need it.
Feedback!
If you have 45 or so minutes and really like video games, please watch me hanging out with Adam Sessler, Steve Johnson, and Jake Gaskill for G4tv.com’s Feedback!
Gynomite’s Reading Room!
A fun recounting of the horrors of your first online handle. Mine was WednesdayGirl and WeAre138. I needed two.
Diet soft drinks still make you fat. Sorry kids.
You can now DM Twitter accounts that don’t follow you, as long as they’re verified. Let my constant messaging of Rob Zombie begin.
Here are the 27th Amendments explained in movies. Enjoy.
Time traveling HIMYM characters, or sneaky advertising in CBS reruns? This story is fascinating to me.
This guy went around NYC doing Bill Pullman’s big speech from Independence Day, one of the finest cheesy blockbusters of all time. I love this speech, and I love this idea.
Ghosts Explained
I just finished reading Mary Roach’s book Spook, where she investigates the holy shit out of everything related to ghost phenomena, and I’d like to introduce you to my favorite part of the book: infrasound. What is infrasound? Take it away, Wikipedia!
Infrasound is sound that is lower in frequency than 20 Hz (Hertz) or cycles per second, the “normal” limit of human hearing. Hearing becomes gradually less sensitive as frequency decreases, so for humans to perceive infrasound, the sound pressure must be sufficiently high. The ear is the primary organ for sensing infrasound, but at higher levels it is possible to feel infrasound vibrations in various parts of the body. Infrasound is characterized by an ability to cover long distances and get around obstacles with little dissapation.
Animals like whales, birds, alligators, and tigers are known to use infrasonic communication to warn each other of danger or alert each other to food, and for a time, our military was researching using infrasonic waves as a weapon. We only got as far as the Allies using infrasonic waves to locate weapon stashes during WWI.
So what does infrasound have to do with ghosts?
Things that will never happen.
Emmanuelle Chiriqui, was recently asked if she had any thoughts about her character Sloan’s story arc in the final season of Entourage.
You could do the same show with the women on the show and explore their characters. I’d love to know more about who Sloan is and who here dad is and how she’s been raised in this business. There would be stories for days.
Yup, but do they involve sex, cocaine and needing to obtain some really hot sneakers?
