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A piece of art using 430 pounds of human hair 0

Made by artist Wenda Gu with 430 pounds of human hair collected from 42,350 free haircuts at Dartmouth university along with donations from barbershops and salons in area. Eighty feet long and 13 feet high, the curtain, called “united nations: the green house” (Dartmouth is also known, because of its school color, as the Big(…)

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The worst place on your body to get frost bite is… 0

A couple of months ago, we posted a request from Spencer Tunick for volunteers to strip off on a glacier in Switzerland. Well, the lucky people have gone and done it… They all froze their bits off on Saturday on Switzerland’s Aletsch glacier trying to raise awareness about climate change. via A Welsh View

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A stretchy business card. Genius 0

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The School of Martial Arts that you need to kick your way out of. 0

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Amazing liquid sculpture 0

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Bumblebee Transformer made enirely of paper! 0

This model of Bumblebee from the the recent Transformers movie is made entirely out of paper. via

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Scar artwork. Ouch! 0

This is actually carved into an arm. This type of art is called scarification which we have featured once before on about:blank. I still cant believe people do this, it just looks soo painful. Each to their own i suppose! Skillful work though! ModBlog via

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Your round! 0

Anyone who works in an office will know how much of a pain in the backside it is to make a large round. Back and forth to the kettle, large precarious trays, spilling hot coffee all over your boss. Not a good thing. Problem solved… Created by Jonathan Aspinall to halt the hot drinks down(…)

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The UNI modular computer. Genius! 0

What a great idea. This is a “UNI” which is a computer concept where by the important functions of a regular computer have been broken up into seperate modules so you only buy what you need. The main module is called “Think” and is where the main processing and data handling is done. Then you(…)

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Art exhibition featured chandelier of Tampons… 0

Yep, this tampon chandelier (unused i assume) appeared at the 2005 Venice Beinalle exhibition. via Madville

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