3-year-old Arianna Ysabel Ramos used her very young talent in painting to help sick kids from Philippine General Hospital (PGH).
She held a one-day exhibit showcasing her 40 artworks and donate the proceeds to the pediatric ward of PGH. She thought of this after seeing an advertisement from the hospital seeking donations.
Arianna casually told her mom, "I want to help them get well."
3-year-old Shylah Silbery from Wellington, New Zealand lived alone for 2 days after her mom dies unexpectedly. She survived eating cheese, leftover lasagna and milk from the fridge and comforted herself with a teddy bear. Her mom, Lauren Silbery was only 28-years old. Her relatives began calling neighbors two days after they haven’t heard from Lauren. Police then coaxed Shylah to leverage herself on a table to reach and unlock the door.
Authorities believe there was no foul play involved and are waiting for the autopsy results. The little girl spent several days in the hospital from dehydration and diaper rash.
Herbert Chavez, 35, is so obsessed with Superman that he wants to transform his looks into that his comic book hero. He has gone repeatedly under the knife in order to copy Superman’s facial looks. He also had silicone implants and injections to achieve more muscular looks. To whose artwork or Superman image he is trying to imitate was not clear though. But as far as I see it, I’ m not sure he’s even close.
A parade of 357 bikini-clad women walked 1.6 km along the streets and beach of Surfer’s Paradise in Gold Coast City, Australia set a new Guinness World Record for the longest bikini parade. The women who participated had to be at least 18 years old and has to pay $25 registration fee. The proceeds of the event will be donated to charity.
Jonathan Mark from Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University School of Design displays his own tribute to the late former Apple CEO. The design spread like wildfire in the internet making him and his creation an overnight web sensation.
Reality TV star Holly Madison takes an insurance policy with Lloyd’s of London on her breasts, which she refers to as her primary “moneymakers”. She was quoted saying, "If anything happened to my boobs, I'd be out for a few months and I'd probably be out a million dollars”. The Peepshow star realized the value of her bosoms when she started appearing half-naked in the Las Vegas production.
20-month old Tha Sophat from Cambodia learned to suckle directly from a mother cow. He started doing it after watching a baby calf do the same. His grandfather tried to dissuade him from doing it but he persisted and wailed aloud so he just let him and has suckled from the cow twice a day ever since. The boy has lived with his grandparents since his parents moved to Thailand for work.
Yoandri Hernandez Garrido from Cuba has six perfectly formed fingers on each hands and six toes on each foot which is why they call him “24”. He says that those extra digits are blessings which earn him extra money when tourists pay him for pictures. The condition is called polydactyly but his is well-formed instead of just extra soft protruding tissues.
Natalie Irish, a child art prodigy, creates amazing paintings not with regular brushes but with her lips or her thumb prints. She simply puckers on her canvass and a beautiful portrait comes to life. See her works and how she does it.
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| Elvis by Natalie Irish with her thumb prints. |
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| Natalie at work. |
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| The finished product. |
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| Natalie and Jimi Hendrix. |
The Mares-Agbeko IBF Bantamweight Fight displayed the most horrible referee I’ve ever seen. All over the ring, Mares is riddling Agbeko left and right low-blows but the referee, Russell Mora, apparently saw legal punches. The officiating was so horrendous that the IBF ordered a rematch.
Meet Narisawa, a 99-year-old grandmother who plays Bomberman on the original 8-bit NES (Nintendo Entertainment System aka Nintendo Family Computer) game console. She started playing 26 years ago and has been playing it daily, clearing all 50 levels a number of times. She says playing the game sharpens her memory.
Forming a seemingly “symbiotic” relationship, an Ivy plant and a computer exists in mutuality around the concept designed and created by Israeli designer Omer Deutsch. The computer is designed such that it serves as the pot for the plant while the computer uses the moisture as the cooling system. “All of the components of the computer are designed so it would know how to evolve with the changing ivy. The components can be easily replaced since they are mounted outside the box and the computer is floating in the air from the ceiling in order to let the ivy cover it in its natural way of growing,” Deutsch said.
The Secondary Growth Project envisions a hybrid of house plant and computer which serves as an organic ornament as well as a workstation at the same time.
One of the last maps that documented how the earth really looked like – a flat-squared-stationary slab guarded by four angels was drawn by Orlando Ferguson in 1893. Don Homuth who kept the map since eighth grade donated it to the Library of Congress. As absurd as it sounds, there exists a modern day Flat Earth Society, which was founded by Daniel Shenton last 2004. As of May 2011, 265 believers have become a member.
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| The modern day Flat-Earth Society Logo |
The last Harry Potter film has been released. Fans will not likely to let go of “The Boy who Lived” just easily. Shaping his cornfield into a maze that forms two nearly identical Potter portraits, farmer Top Pearcy of York, England provides a one heck of a Potter memorabilia. The two portraits also serve as a giant spot the difference puzzle.
Measuring just 23.5 inches (59.9cm), Junrey Balawing has been officially declared by Guinness as the World’s Shortest Man.
Junrey bested Khagendra Tharpa Magar from Nepal who measured 26 inches (67.08cm) and who was the previous title holder.
Junrey just turned 18 which made him eligible for the record. Local doctors have not been able to determine the cause of his condition which is why the Guinness record will play a vital role in attracting worldwide attention from medical professionals around the world who would be able to help him.
"The previous record holder had been given medical care... He even had free surgery provided by the U.S.A. So there are benefits to being a record holder," says Guinness editor-in-chief Craig Glenday.
Junrey lives in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte.
A stunning time-lapse video of the night sky made by astrophotographer Daniel Lopez from Tenerife, Spain. The scenes were taken from Canary Islands where a spectacular view of the heavens, stars and clouds is found in various colors and shades. He titled this work as Canary Sky or El Cielo De Canarias.
According to Daniel, here are some of the scenes you can find in the video:
- "The Cathedral" in the plain of Ucanca, night shot with the planet Jupiter across the scene.
- El Arbol de Piedra (Roque Cinchado) with a Tajinaste pointing to Polaris.
- Tajinastes "night", The Red Tajinaste, endemism Canario blooming in spring.
- The "hat" in the Teide. Formation of a cloud known as cap at the peak of Teide.
- "Waterfalls of clouds crossing the mountains and rivers of multicolored clouds.
- Sea of clouds crashing against the mountains as it did the sea.
- Large pool of water in the plain of Ucanca lenticular clouds where stars are reflected.
- Tajinastes night with the Milky Way taken out on the horizon with a dolly track.
- Video of the sun setting and a double green flash. "
- Pleiades and the Andromeda galaxy between rocks in the mines of San Jose.
- Scenes spectacular sunset in the Teide National Park with clouds and moving dolly.
- ArcoIris from the Teide National Park.
- Multicolor Halos around the moon.
- Clouds remain stationary hours at the site are changing their colors as the sunset
El Cielo de Canarias / Canary sky - Tenerife from Daniel López on Vimeo.
Don Gorske, a retired prison guard has eaten his 25000th Big Mac, 39 years after eating his first. If I’m not mistaken, that would be 641 burgers in a year, or 53 burgers each month. That would mean he has been eating almost 2 Big Macs everyday ever since! Guinness has already recognized his feat 3 years ago but still he kept on going. Now at 57 years old, Gorske said he has no plan on stopping. 16 bites – that’s all it takes for him to gobble up one Big Mac. And in spite of this unusual diet, he maintains that his cholesterol is low and that he is in good health. Nevertheless, dietitians don’t recommend such eating habits and that they attributed his continued prime health to good genes.
Nowadays, people will do anything to get through hardships. At least 513 individuals willed themselves to be squeezed inside two trailer trucks and be smuggled into the United States. But they were stopped at a checkpoint in Chiapas, Mexico when they were discovered by police who used x-ray on the trucks. The migrants said they paid smugglers at least $7,000 to get to the US.
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