This Beyoncé Emoji Music Video Is Shockingly Well Done

The idea is simple. Take a hit song, make a music video using only emoji, wait for the lulz. In the case of the movie Jesse Hill recently uploaded to Vimeo, the hit song is Beyoncé, and the emoji are hilarious.

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Watch a crazy dude smoke 100 cigarettes at once with this contraption

Watch a crazy dude smoke 100 cigarettes at once with this contraption

Ah, that’s a good hit. 100 good hits, actually. Artist Wyatt Burns created a way to smoke 100 cigarettes at once with a crazy contraption and it looks, well, predictably suffocating. He lights up all the cigarettes with a torch and feeds all the smoke into a plastic bag. In his performance art piece, he basically becomes a smoke monster.

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This Artistic Armor Defends Against Everything but Funny Looks

This Artistic Armor Defends Against Everything but Funny Looks

It’s not easy being an artist these days, what with protesters smashing your art and Cossacks smashing your face . Thankfully, one Chicago area artist has devised an ideal solution for protecting performers: delightfully-psychedelic cloth armor suits that won’t inhibit the wearer’s artistic freedom. Freedom of movement is another matter, however.

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Imagine how cool it would be if buildings weren’t actually constructed above-ground; if instead we l

Imagine how cool it would be if buildings weren’t actually constructed above-ground; if instead we lived in a large-scale garden of growing structures where architecture emerged, fully-formed, from the earth. Landed, by Ian Strange, is a somewhat disconcerting sculptural installation outside the Art Gallery of South Australia, that gives the sense we caught a home as it slowly rises up like a submarine, or perhaps sinks back down into the depths. [Lustik]

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41 Beautiful Black & White Photos

Who needs color when good old black and photography is so simply beautiful? Here are the results from this week’s Shooting Challenge .

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China's Designating Graffiti-Friendly Sections of the Great Wall

China's Designating Graffiti-Friendly Sections of the Great Wall

What is it about going to a famous place that makes you feel like you need to "leave your mark by defiling the spot with your name?" It’s a particular problem, as you might imagine, at the Great Wall of China. China’s solution? Let people do it—in a few specific spots.

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A Whiteboard With a 3D Face Will Really Improve Office Doodles

A Whiteboard With a 3D Face Will Really Improve Office Doodles

Hilarious caricatures of bosses and uptight managers are a staple of any office. But unless you work in a design studio filled with artists, deciphering who a doodle is supposed to be can be tricky. Unless you’ve got this whiteboard featuring a 3D face relief that lets even number crunchers create erasable masterpieces.

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Magnetic Wallpaper Lets You Redecorate Your Room Every Day

Magnetic Wallpaper Lets You Redecorate Your Room Every Day

Designer Luis Pons may have just come up with the biggest innovation in home decorating since wall-to-wall carpeting. This large magnetic panel, which could be easily made to cover the walls of an entire room, is adorned with a metal mesh ‘fabric’ that can be rearranged, repositioned, and even completely replaced to match new decor.

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Most Beautiful Items: February 21 – 28, 2014

Most Beautiful Items: February 21 - 28, 2014

Perhaps you came here looking for the story of the guy who lived off pizza for an entire year. Or maybe you were more interested in the harrowing tale of the teen who banged a Hot Pocket. If so, you’re in the wrong place. You will, however, find some beautiful wonders from the worlds of art, design, and more within. Just no weird pizza sex.

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Animals in Unbelievable Detail Drawn Entirely in Pancake Batter

Animals in Unbelievable Detail Drawn Entirely in Pancake Batter

We’ve probably all made a few pancakes in amusingly shaped blobs, but Nathan Shields takes pancake to a whole new level of art. The illustrator, former math teacher, and stay-at-home dad makes pancakes with his kids that range from Star Wars tributes to portraits of Isaac Newton to animals painted in stunning species-level detail.

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