A filthy toilet bowl is disgusting and dishonorable anywhere in the world but Japan seems to take the issue extra-seriously, if the country’s plethora of overly cute, overtly complex and over-engineered toilet brushes is any indication. These 10 weird & bizarre Japanese toilet brushes bristle with innovations designed to turn every bathroom in the nation into a cause for water-closet celebration.
I don’t care who you are – if you say that you don’t enjoy bubble wrap,
you just aren’t being honest enough with yourself. There is nothing
better than opening up a fun new purchase, and setting it aside so that
you can pop it at the most inappropriate moment. Or maybe, just maybe
it does get even better than that, because toting bubble wrap around
could not be more convenient than wearing it.
Juan Francisco Casas is an artist that creates life-like works of art by using just a blue Bic pen.
Hello Kitty Color Contact Lenses are the next best thing to getting Japan’s most popular anime character tattooed on your corneas. Actually ANYTHING is the next best thing to having one’s corneas tattooed but we digress.
Poo-pourri stops foul bathroom emissions before they have a chance to permeate
their surroundings. Talk about a new idea that’ll really make waves!
Marketing firms will stop at nothing to get the attention of consumers. This being the case, it should come as no surprise that they will play with any fetish (within the legal boundaries), no matter how bizarre, to turn heads. Today we’ll explore a few ad campaigns that focus on the southernmost parts of our bodies: feet.
Albert Einstein once said, "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Turkish artist Sakir Gokcebag tweaks that slightly with his common object art installations, clearly stating that there are two other ways to live your life, as though nothing is art, or as though everything is art. You can probably guess which perspective he holds.
Innovative new sleep technology helps keep sleepers more comfortable at night. Check out this new product to cool things down – or heat them up – in bed.
The next time a trendy hipster next to you says that they are "really into art", ask them if they would like to be inside some art. If so, they might be the perfect model for Marie-Lou Desmeules’ fascinating and slightly disturbing Living Sculptures, which take a shot at society and our standards of ‘beauty’ with their plastic facades of celebrities on top of actual people.
I’d say that the chances that you’d ever need a tennis ball with a one foot diameter, a five foot tall toothbrush or a gigantic polymer pickle are pretty slim, but hey- Why not, right?
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