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This Movie Table-Flipping Supercut Is All The Gym Time You Need Today

June 4, 2014, 2:42 pm
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There are very few things as equally satisfying and badass as flipping a table when you're feeling hot -- honestly, you don't even need to be mad. Unfortunately, there are very few circumstances in which flipping a table is "socially acceptable," forever leaving us wanting.

However, video editor Roman Holiday conveniently put together a supercut of some of the best table flips in movie history a year ago, which resurfaced to satiate our rage. Not only is the video oddly mesmerizing, but it also basically fulfills a day's quota of hitting the gym. Watch the video above, and check out the 34 movies included in the compilation below.

00:05 - "Angel's In The Outfield" (1994)
00:12 - "A Clockwork Orange" (1971)
00:13 - "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1984)
00:15 - "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (2009)
00:16 - "Once Upon A Time In Mexico" (2003)
00:17 - "Taken" (2008)
00:18 - "Pulp Fiction" (1994)
00:20 - "Die Hard" (1988)
00:21 - "Citizen Kane" (1941)
00:22 - "Magnolia" (1999)
00:24 - "The King Of Kings" (1927)
00:25 - "Jesus Christ Superstar" (1973)
00:31 - "Jesus" (1999)
00:38 - "Happily Ever After" (2007)
00:46 - "Thor" (2011)
00:51 - "Moneyball" (2011)
00:56 - "Moonstruck" (1987)
00:58 - "The Sea Hawk" (1940)
01:00 - "The Gospel Of John" (2003)
01:01 - "Pollock" (2000)
01:03 - "Jesus Of Montreal" (1989)
01:04 - "P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!" (2002)
01:06 - "The Artist" (2011)
01:07 - "Raging Bull" (1980)
01:08 - "Son Of Frankenstein" (1939)
01:10 - "The Adventures Of Robin Hood" (1938)
01:11 - "Peter Pan" (1953)
01:13 - "Titanic" (1997)
01:14 - "Splice" (2009)
01:15 - "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965)
01:17 - "Red Lights" (2012)
01:18 - "Being John Malkovich" (1999)
01:21 - "Scum" (1979)
01:27 - "Take Shelter" (2011)

[h/t Laughing Squid]
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A Type House Divided

June 4, 2014, 10:08 pm
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Although he says now that the fonts were worth more than $3 million, he signed an agreement that transferred them to the Hoefler Type Foundry for a sale price of $10.
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MOCA Donors: We Gave To Museum, Not City Of North Miami

June 5, 2014, 5:21 am
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A handful of art collectors who have donated to the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami are seeking to clear up any confusion: They say they gave their art to the museum, not the city.
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Biddy, The Exploring Hedgehog Can't Stop, Won't Stop Traveling To Awe-Inspiring Places

June 5, 2014, 5:58 am
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Move over Millie the adventure cat, there's a new adorable exploring animal in town, and his name is Biddy the hedgehog.

Biddy is a 3-year-old male African pygmy hedgehog, and, according to his Instagram, he wants you to "get outside and explore!"

Biddy loves to travel with his owners and his sister, a beagle mix named Charlie. The little hedgehog's Instagram feed is a testament to all the wonderful things he's seen. Check it out!



































Here's Biddy in action!


We can't wait to see what adventures await this lil' hog in the future ...


... and what friends he'll make along the way.


h/t Distractify

To keep up with Biddy's adventures, follow him on Instagram.

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Who Is Your 'Orange Is The New Black' Prison Wife?

June 5, 2014, 6:08 am
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The second season of Netflix's "Orange Is the New Black" is almost here. Before you dive back behind bars, refresh your memory of Season 1 with our "OITNB" prison wife quiz -- because why not?

If you're in the mood for a mega binge-watching session, you can rewatch the first season on Netflix before Season 2 arrives at 3:01 a.m. EDT on Friday, June 6.

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11 African-American Artists Who Helped Shape The Civil Rights Movement

June 5, 2014, 6:39 am
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In the 1960s and 1970s the American nation was forever changed as the demand for civil rights inspired protest, unity and radical action. As with many periods of political and social upheaval, artists were at the forefront of the revolution, contributing vibrant imagery to document and inspire the country at large.

Amongst those artists were sculptors and painters and assemblagists, those working in figuration, abstraction and everything in between. Some were outwardly political while others expressed their empowerment through art-making for its own sake. The opinions expressed, in clay, paint, pen and wood, communicated the pains and truths of a crucial time in American history. Their hopeful and powerful messages remain as important as ever today.

An upcoming auction at Swann Galleries titled "The Shape of Things to Come: African-American Fine Art" will highlight the artists whose bravery and creativity left an indelible mark on history, in bold shapes and daring colors. The sale features over 90 pieces from African-American, civil rights-era artists, as well as contemporary black artists including Lorna Simpson and Kara Walker.

Below, see 11 artists whose visions became the visions of the American people. These are the artists who shaped the civil rights movement as we know it today.



"The Shape of Things to Come: African-American Fine Art" takes place on June 10.
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Malaysian Artist Turns Makeup Into Beautiful Masterpieces

June 5, 2014, 6:42 am
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Makeup is a set of tools that when masterfully wielded, it can create a masterpiece on a person's face. 'Red' Hong Yi sees the potential, but chose to use them on a slightly different canvas than these products are intended for.

In her series "Make-Up Meets Chinese Art," the Malaysian artist uses foundation, lipstick, eyeshadow, mascara and more to create works of art that mirror traditional Chinese ones. Yi uses a specific product and incorporates it into the picture, like drawing a crane with mascara and using the applicator wands as reeds.

This isn't the first time she's used unusual art supplies -- she's transformed chopsticks into a portrait of Jackie Chan and played with her food to make pictures on plates.

Among all the artist tools, makeup seems like a costly and bizarre choice of medium, but Yi notes that it is perfect for the subject of the pictures. "Chinese art requires a lot of precision and skill -- one stroke can make a huge difference, and many times, less is more. I felt that this is similar to how a woman carefully puts on her make-up," she explained on the project's page.

Check out some of these beautiful works created with makeup.

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Striking Photos Of Inked Individuals Who Proudly Don Face Tattoos

June 5, 2014, 7:00 am
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Getting a tattoo is quite a commitment. For photographer Mark Leaver, the move to get inked wasn't quite intense enough. Leaver chose to up the ante, capturing with his camera those who dared to make their permanent mark on a body part far more prominent than any.

Yes, we're talking about face tattoos.

The motivations behind face tattoos are as varied as the designs themselves. "Some wanted a radical transformation and facial tattoo becomes for them a kind of mask," Leaver explained to Skinked. "For others, it is just a rebellion against the system." Whatever the reasoning, once committed to bringing body art to the face, there is no turning back.

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Leaver, who by the way is in college, embarked on a striking series, simply titled "Tattoos," that captures those who have adorned their face with indelible ink. Capturing intimate close-ups of his tattooed subjects, he accesses an underlying layer of vulnerability beneath the outwardly intimidating exterior. "Historically facial tattoos have had a huge amount of taboos around them," Leaver explains in his statement.

"People associate facial tattoos with a number of negative things including suicide rates, criminality and depression. This couldn’t be further from the case now. Facial tattoos now represent creativity, aesthetics, transformation and spirituality." Leaver's subjects, who are mostly relatively young, share the highs and lows of their tatted lives. In his striking photos, Leaver challenges viewers to look beyond the face and see the person.

Check your assumptions and take a look at Leaver's bold and beautiful subjects below.

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Haunting Art Installation Traps You In A Labyrinth Of Mirrors

June 5, 2014, 7:04 am
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Great art can be disorienting. Normally, when we say this, we're referring to that slightly dizzy sensation in your head or the pit in your stomach, both spurred by jarring visuals and the looming truths they inspire. Sometimes, though, art physically traps you in a maze of mirrors and you just don't know how to get out.

New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery has transformed into a reflective, sci-fi wonderland, located somewhere between your utopian dreams and futuristic nightmares. Korean contemporary artist Lee Bul's installation "Via Negativa II" is an architectural puzzle that explores the limits of perception and the boundaries of consciousness, creating a physical space that somehow manages to transcend its physical limits.

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You enter the installation through a labyrinth adorned with reflective fragments. Multiplied visions of yourself, the other gallery-goers, and the installation itself reflect and reverberate off the narrow corridor walls. You may, and should, feel disoriented, afraid, and even not quite human. The hall then feeds feeds into a visual echo chamber covered in illuminated infinity mirrors, and that's where you lose yourself. The physical space gives way to a spiritual realm with no clear limits or boundaries. Where you are, and even who you are, can no longer be defined.

"You are obscured by the array of light bulbs running all around you, so that you seem to be only a memory of a human being," explained Aaron Betsky in Architect Magazine. "You lose yourself in the artist’s construction and find yourself dazzled by your own disappearance. Reality does not disappear: If you look down, you see the gallery floor, and always the limits of the construction are visible. For a moment you are in a threshold space where the world as you know it and the one the artist has imagined hover around you, making you wonder about where and what you are in that context."

Whether you find the space enchanting or terrifying, you'll be made painfully aware that there exists things beyond our bodies and our understandings -- whether divine, technological, or whatever else. As Bul herself told ARTINFO of the previous work, "Via Negativa": "It’s not possible to ask what is the meaning of this piece, it erases that process completely. It’s a different way than the classical way (of thinking about art)."

Bul's chamber of mirrors has, not surprisingly, already been compared to Yayoi Kusama's mirrored "Infinity Room" that brought massive lines to David Zwirner last summer. Indeed both artworks are mirror-filled infinite spaces -- and highly Instagram-able. See more shots of "Via Negativa II," and the remainder of the futuristic exhibition, below.



Lee Bul's exhibition runs until June 21, 2014 at Lehmann Maupin in New York.
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Burning Barricades, A Tiananmen Vigil And D-Day On Normandy's Beaches: Week In Photos, Jun. 1 - 8

June 7, 2014, 6:56 am
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Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this week.

1. Nepalese school children attempt to set a new world record for the largest tree hug for World Environment Day in Gokarna village, near Kathmandu on June 5, 2014.
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(PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)

2. Sikh activists clash with guards at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, on June 6, 2014, the 30th anniversary of a controversial military raid on the Indian holy site.
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(NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images)

3. People wearing British WWII uniforms stand in front of British flags during a D-Day ceremony on June 6, 2014 in Asnelles, France.
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(JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images)

4. People attend a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate China's 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters on June 4, 2014.
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(PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

5. A protester stands in front of a barricade in the Gezi district of Istanbul, Turkey, on June 1, 2014.
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(OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)

6. Afghan vendors unload watermelons from a truck at a fruit market in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, on June 5, 2014.
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(Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)

7. Syrian soldiers celebrate the re-election of President Bashar Assad in Damascus on June 4, 2014.
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(AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

8. A supporter of Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai chants slogans at an election campaign rally near Kabul on June 4, 2014.
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(SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)

9. Children attend a soccer class in the Mangueira slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 2, 2014.
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(AP Photo/Leo Correa)

10. A picture taken with a smart-phone shows a sandstorm engulfing the Iranian capital Tehran on June 2, 2014.
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Friends And Celebs Tweet Their Hopes And Prayers For Tracy Morgan's Recovery

June 7, 2014, 7:52 am
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Early Saturday morning, Tracy Morgan was in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. The "30 Rock" star is currently in critical condition in the hospital. Twitter has errupted with love and prayers for Morgan, with friends and fans tweeting out their best wishes for the actor's recovery.







































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After Dark: Meet NYC's Muffinhead, Artist And Nightlife Personality

June 7, 2014, 8:15 am
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This is the fourth installment in HuffPost Gay Voices Associate Editor James Nichols' ongoing series "After Dark: NYC Nightlife Today And Days Past" that examines the state of New York nightlife in the modern day, as well as the development and production of nightlife over the past several decades. Each featured individual in this series currently serves as a prominent person in the New York nightlife community or has made important contributions in the past that have sustained long-lasting impacts.

HuffPost Gay Voices believes that it is important and valuable to elevate the work, both today and in the past, of those engaged in the New York nightlife community, especially in an age where queer history seems to be increasingly forgotten. Nightlife not only creates spaces for queers and other marginalized groups to be artistically and authentically celebrated, but the work of those involved in nightlife creates and shapes the future of our culture as a whole. Visit Gay Voices regularly to learn not only about individuals currently making an impact in nightlife, but those whose legacy has previously contributed to the ways we understand queerness, art, identity and human experience today.

The Huffington Post: What did your journey to becoming a fixture in the New York nightlife scene entail? How did you come to embody Muffinhead as a persona?
Muffinhead: It was all a complete accident. I'm basically an artist with a thing for abstraction and total exaggeration which, in some way, places me creatively in the nightlife bullseye.

I started out going to parties like Club Makeup and Cherry in L.A., which were a riot in the early 2000's. My first night out I did ecstasy, saw an Oscar Wilde on stilts, got fondled on a dancefloor by hot strangers -- and realized that this was where I had to be.

Around the same time I started showing work in underground street art shows like "Cannibal Flower" and naturally brought my bizarro fashion sense along for the ride. For me it was all something of a silly pastime to gather attention for my artwork. I would work on a painting for a month and than maybe work on an outfit piece for two or three days and people would almost ignore the artwork entirely in favor of taking pictures with me in a showgirl headpiece and a suit made from aluminum foil -- which was as shocking to me then as it is now.

So, I'm a product of both environments, really. Upon moving to New York my ex-wife/burlesque star Amber Ray introduced me to Susanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny at their Happy Valley party, as well as Shane Savant at Webster Hall, and they have all supported me since. The rest is persistence. I have too many ideas rolling around upstairs and it all still feels so puckish.

There's something so perfectly devilish about pulling these concepts off. It feels like it should be illegal -- and I love that.

What kind of work do you tend to produce? Where do you find inspiration for your looks?
It's all a bit abnormal. Much like taking a piece of taffy and stretching it as far and in the most absurd, unexpected directions possible... that's my aesthetic.

Personally, I'm inspired by everything I see: a design on a packet of sugar, ornamental ironwork, people on the subway… I get a big Leigh Bowery reference poked at me by a lot of people, which is okay with me but I actually hadn't even heard of Leigh when I was in L.A. -- I did not have the New York/London Club Kid lexicon to influence me at all. My design influences go straight to Dali, Gustav Klimt and Aubrey Beardsley. My KaPOW! look actually came about because I was terribly depressed. My life had exploded and I was going through a divorce so I guess you could say, much like any artist, my toolbox consists simply of thoughts and feelings.



What is your creative process when it comes to conceptualizing and producing a piece of work or a look?
Well, if it's an idea that will drag me out of bed in the morning than that's the one for me. It's got to have that frantic thunderbolt quality to it or else I just can't be bothered... and that's the first step.

From the initial thought bubble I'll go on to sketch it out, take the design into Photoshop or Illustrator, adjust the dimensions, create and drop patterns into place and develop a color scheme. If it's a painting or a sculpted plexiglass piece I'll just keep going from there, and if it's an outfit piece I'll work with my longtime collaborator Hector Perez from AlieNation or with Garo Sparo until completion. I also work with Max Steiner on all laser-cut work.

How have psychedelics influenced the work that you produce?
Largely. My first experience with art was studying Jim Morrison so I was doomed from the start in that regard. I was brought up in a very religious household and I wanted to take a flamethrower to everything that I felt was holding me back. Psychedelics were a helpful one-way ticket. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure how necessary it was as I've always had too many visions to keep track of. I think if you have an awakened third eye than hallucinogenics will only take you so far. That being said, I think it's important to realize one's own personal space -- sort of like an astronaut, but not an aimless one. I've been fortunate enough to have my work colored by those experiences, but am hesitant to fully recommend it.

What purpose do you think nightlife serves in allowing queers and other marginalized groups to be creative and celebrated within safe, supportive spaces? Why is this important?
From a cultural standpoint that is its purpose exactly. Nightlife is a human art gallery for all types -- and, if not, it should be. It's important because without it we are a 9-to-5 planet that will turn grey and die without our fantasies and dreams to sustain us.

Even with its pomp and occasional pretension, there is something so sweet about seeing a CEO and a queen on the same dancefloor. In the grand scheme of things it can awaken a real and hopeful sense of community.



How do you see what is happening now in New York nightlife as building on a historical legacy of artists, performers, musicians and personalities over the past decades?
I think that at our best we continue to build the bridges. I also think there is failure in formula. It's easy to rely on your basic bar and go-go schematics and it can also get terribly boring if no one is pushing the boundaries.

We will only really be honoring the legacy of those before us by creating something new.

We have less limitation to deal with in this field than most and I feel that will remain our advantage unless we decide not to utilize it.

How have you seen technology augment and mold nightlife during your time in the scene? Do you think this is necessarily good or bad?
I was just thinking about this while listening to Depeche Mode last night thinking, "Wow, it sounds so much slower than dance music nowadays." Because of the Internet our pace in life is so much faster and music reflects that -- which I'm not sure is a good or a bad thing. We're all fed by the same vanilla wave of information, which makes me nervous because it has a flattening effect and dries out a lot of our dissidence and subculture.

In the future I think we'll have found a way to balance out the massive overload of information and communication by simply minimizing our time online, much like we've been able to do with television.

You've talked before about how art, fashion and nightlife make comfortable bedfellows -- do you think artists engaged in nightlife find it easy to tease their identities as artists and nightlife personalities apart from one another?
I think any artist will find a way to make their art, whether it's directly in the nightlife idiom or beyond it. If there is any sort of push to fuse art and nightlife it's out of necessity for clubland. The heavy pop art/surrealist aesthetic we have lends itself to concepts that are quickly outgrowing nightlife; plus it's really not fun to have someone spill their drink on a piece that you've just spent weeks working on… a lot of it is work that can and should have a light hitting it.

Art galleries can be very cold and sterile, which is challenging because it almost immediately makes a performance awkward. Nightclubs are alcohol and drugs in the bathroom stall… both could benefit from a slice of the other.



What is the most important thing you see coming out of the way nightlife has shifted and developed into what it is today?
For me it's always about the art and the artists. I think we're breaking more and more into building worlds that people can literally and figuratively escape to with our art. Along with things like Burning Man you see an unmistakeable evolution in concept, style and design. These things all represent an important shift in consciousness.

The worlds and the outfits and the scenes we create are primarily elaborate escape routes from a reality that we didn't create and most of us want less and less to deal with... so in time we build our own reality. In this type of expression there is also a subconscious push for truth and evolution. A lot of times it's hard to deduce men from women in a nightclub. And that's a wonderful thing because we are heading into a time in which we'll depart further from gender roles, which also gives way to compassion and acceptance. It's a microcosm that I'm happy to be part of.

During his feature earlier in this series, Michael Alig made this statement: "It seems like nightlife hasn’t really evolved in the past 15 years. I have a whole theory about that. My theory is that we are witnessing the end of our Western cultural dominance in the world and that we’ve gone as far as we can with our Western lifestyle as far as decadence, fashion, style, stuff like that. We’ve done every kind of fashion imaginable from miniskirts to maxi skirts, from peg leg pants to bell-bottoms, from black lipstick to glossy lipstick -- everywhere in-between. The only things we can do right now are kind of different variations of the same model and we’ve even done that already." -- How do you respond to this? Do you agree with him?
No, I completely disagree. If I agreed with that statement I would have to try not to throw myself off a building somewhere because it suggests that the work we've been doing is a shadow dominated by the past and is ultimately meaningless. It closes a lid on a lot of artists whose work is still in progress. In my opinion, it's impossible to look at the work of Darrell Thorne or Ryan Burke and say that it lacks the elegance of nightlife past. It's impossible to look at any Narcissister performance piece and say that it lacks originality.

When you take into consideration the enormous potential visuals that exist as far as technologically infused fashion is concerned, and as far as wearable art is concerned, we've only just begun.

The variations upon variations he was referring to can actually make for a kaleidoscope of practically endless possibility.

What projects are you currently working on?
Currently I'm very hard at work on a group show that I'm quite privileged to be a part of, curated by Susanne Bartsch for The Chelsea Hotel Gallery Storefront on June 26.

The work itself is coming from a really sad place with me, personally, but it's been so enjoyable to create work that I feel has elements of both fashion and truth.

Outside of that, I'm still desperately trying to wrap my brain around a 3D modeling program. I keep getting sidetracked but eventually it will happen… and I'm designing a large furball monster outfit for this year's chashama gala that will incorporate myself and a little person performer sitting on my shoulders for a few hours -- and an excellent workout on my part. I'm so excited to finally transform myself into a two-headed, four-armed monster!

I'm pretty sure my mother will be very proud.

For more from Muffinhead head here to visit the artist's website. Missed the previous installments in this series? Check out the slideshow below.
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Tom Cruise's Guide On Being Tom Cruise Is A Guide For Every Wannabe Action Hero

June 7, 2014, 9:19 am
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"The Edge of Tomorrow" just hit theaters, and now there's one thing on everyone's mind: How does Tom Cruise achieve the ultimate action hero persona, time and time (and time and time) and time again?

Fortunately, there is a very simple formula on how to be like Tom Cruise, as taught by none other than ... Tom Cruise.

Step One: RUN, Fast
In life, there will always be someone chasing you, shooting at you, or exploding something right behind you. If you don't want to end up in several pieces, you need to run exactly like this:



You should have started training yesterday.

Step Two: Perfect Your Street Fighting Moves
For some unknown crazy, insane, weird reason, Tom Cruise has an above average number of enemies. Luckily, he is always prepared to face a foe with pro street fighting moves.


Put up your dukes and learn to throw a punch.




Fall, With Style
The thing about running really, really fast is that you will inevitably (somehow) reach a cliff, the edge of a building or a crack in the Earth. For this reason, you need to learn to fall, gracefully.


Tom Cruise knows this skill is essential for action hero survival, and now you do too.

Drive Like A Baller
Once you have fallen, chances are you have landed perfectly on top of some vehicle. It's time to drive.


Tom Cruise not only can pedal to the metal, but he can look like a baller doing it.

The GAZE
Move over Zoolander. Your Blue Steel is nothing compared to Tom Cruise's signature gaze.


This look is basically a requirement after achieving something generally awesome.




Smile! (and maybe take off your shirt)
After a hard day's work, it's always important to #SmileSexy to let your enemies and fans know that everything's all cool. Tom Cruise is the master of the smirk, half smile and full-on grin. It's a bonus when he does this shirtless, which is very, very often.

After studying each of these steps, you will be well on your way to becoming an action hero master.



Video by Irina Dvalidze

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10 Surprisingly Stylish Reasons To Upgrade From Paper Plates To Melamine Dinnerware (PHOTOS)

June 7, 2014, 10:02 am
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Obviously, warmer weather means it's time to move the party outside. While few of us would bring our best dishes and glasses out to the patio, not every occasion seems right for disposable plates and red party cups. (Which can also seem wasteful, for those who frequently entertain.) Thankfully, melamine has created another option.

More affordable and durable than most ceramic dinnerware, but sturdier and more stylish than the paper option, a new generation of plastic dishware has finally emerged. And it's more fabulous than we could have hoped. Need proof? Look no further.





Editor's note: In response to questions about melamine migrating from dish to food, the FDA has thoroughly tested melamine dishes and found them safe. However, they discourage using melamine (or any other dishes NOT marked microwave-safe) in the microwave.


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Cartoon-Like Sea Slug Cannibalizes Another Sea Slug, In Slo-Mo (VIDEO)

June 7, 2014, 1:08 pm
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There is no honor among thieves. Nor is there among nudibranches, apparently.

It might not look like it in this video, but those two are cousins of sea slugs called nudibranches (pronounced NEW-dih-bronk), or nudis, and belong to the same order Nudibranchia. But that relationship won't keep one from eating the other.

Dustin Adamson, a Utah-based underwater videographer, captured the crazy undersea cannibalism between the two nudis, while diving in Anilao, Philippines, last year.

"I didn't even know they did this," Adamson wrote in the video's description. "The whole process took about 30 minutes."

According to National Geographic, this behavior isn't unusual. Found throughout the world's oceans, these squishy-bodied bottom dwellers use head-mounted sensory appendages to help them seek out food, which can include sponges, barnacles, small fish -- and obviously -- each other, particularly if it's another species. The hermaphroditic nudis can fertilize one another using either its male or female parts, a coupling which can also end with one of them getting eaten.

In his fascinating video, a seemingly benign nudibranch, the orange, spiky one (Gymnodoris aurita), sidles up to and then devours the other one (Marionia sp.) in what feels like a bad ending to an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants if it was directed by Federico Fellini.

But thankfully, Adamson edited the painfully slow consumption down to under three minutes. And since nudis' tiny eyes can't make out much more than light and dark, it's safe to say he didn't even see it coming.
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Calvin And Hobbes' Creator Bill Watterson Returns To The Comics Page -- To Offer A Few ‘Pearls' Gems

June 7, 2014, 1:17 pm
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At the end of 1995, the beloved “Calvin and Hobbes” sledded off the comics page for the final time, and its long-reclusive legendary creator, Bill Watterson, retired from the business, never to draw another syndicated newspaper strip.
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Little Benjamin, A Baby Lovebird, Took Overcoming Obstacles To New Heights

June 7, 2014, 3:46 pm
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This is the moving story of Little Benjamin, a lovebird chick suffering from splayed leg syndrome.

Little Benny survived only because his humans took good care of him and because his older brothers and sisters amazingly pitched in to feed the lil' guy, while his parents mostly ignored the runt. Talk about some serious sibling love.

Enjoy the heartwarming story above of the little-bird-that-could, and be reminded that despite our differences, we all deserve a chance to soar.

Go Benny, go!


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The Naked Bike Ride In Portland Showed Everyone's Vulnerabilities

June 7, 2014, 10:58 pm
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By Shelby Sebens
PORTLAND Oregon (Reuters) - Thousands of bicyclists, many of them stark naked, poured into the streets of Portland, Oregon on Saturday night for the 11th annual World Naked Bike Ride, a protest that promotes bike riding as an alternative to driving cars.
Nude cyclists with lights flashing in their tire spokes rang bells as they barreled down avenues lined with cheering spectators, while a naked, apparently pregnant woman rode in a bike trailer.
"This is a party, but it's also a protest," said Carl Larson, a ride spokesman. "It is about oil dependence, cycling vulnerability and body" image.
Cyclists showed up in Normandale Park an hour before the ride, shedding garments according to the ride theme "as bare as you dare".
The rides are held in more than 75 U.S. cities and in more than 20 other countries, but Portland's is believed to be the largest, with more than 8,000 participants last year.
But unlike events in other cities, the Portland ride works with local police, being considered as a protest. Officers direct traffic during what is generally a trouble-free event.
"We've had a few complaints from neighbors but overall not many issues of concern," said police spokesman Sgt. Peter Simpson before the ride, adding "for residents who don't want to see it, the best advice is to just not go outside."
Jennifer Young, 40, who was at the ride with her 16-year-old son and was painted blue head to toe with fairy wings on her back, saw the goal as showing cyclists' vulnerability, saying "I think it's a little more evident when we're naked."
Neighbors looked on as a marching band played and dancers kicked off the start. Later a naked punk band jammed from the sidelines as bikers rolled past.
Fred Tebo, 90, wasn't sure want to think of the hoards of naked people in the park across the street from the house he has lived in since 1971.
"It's entertaining and it's stupid at the same time," he said, sitting on his steps. But a few minutes later he let a young woman and man clad in their underwear use his bathroom.


(Editing by Chris Michaud; Editing by Michael Perry)
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Stunning Sculptures Carved From Books Predict The Death Of Literature

June 8, 2014, 12:55 am
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Sculpting a lifelike image out of clay or stone sounds like so great a challenge we can barely grasp it. But rendering such a likeness from a pile of recycled books? That's taking the challenge to a whole new, and quite literary, level.

Let artist Long-Bin Chen show you how it's done.

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The gifted book sculptor eschews clay in favor of more unorthodox materials such as telephone books, magazines and other used paperbacks. Chen transforms these recycled books from sites of information into purely physical entities, their words and messages becoming irrelevant in comparison to their soft pages and gentle texture.

Blending Western knowledge with Eastern tradition, Chen shapes his expired bookshelves as Buddhas, warriors and other Asian icons. The repetition of Buddha heads has a particularly important connotation. Explained the Hasley Institute of Contemporary Art: "The Buddha sculptures represent the missing heads of many ancient Buddha figures that have been looted from Asia and sold to Western museums and collectors. Since colonial times, Westerners have taken heads from the Buddha statues in Asia and brought them back to the West."

Chen's enchanting sculptures, which from afar look to be made of stone or wood, require a second, third or perhaps fourth look before truly revealing themselves. With each book creation, Chen acknowledges the wastefulness of contemporary western society as well as the looming omnipotence of the digital age. One day, Chen's busts seem to predict, technology will make paper books as obsolete as the ancient busts they imitate.

See Chen's transfixing book sculptures below and let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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Artist Heimo Zobernig Channels Picasso In The Digital Age

June 8, 2014, 12:55 am
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With an eye for sharp-edged abstraction and painterly self-awareness, artist Heimo Zobernig conjures the creative spirit of Pablo Picasso in the digital age. Working in painting, sculpture, video, architectural intervention, institutional critique, and performance, Zobernig explores the relationship between ideas and their artistic representation.

"Initially I painted wildly, in all imaginable styles, but later on I settled on radical geometric abstraction as my preferred technique," the artist explained in an interview with Kaleidoscope Press. "My sources back then often had nothing to do with art, which led to clear deviations from convention."

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Heimo Zobernig, Untitled, Acrylic on canvas, 2013, courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York
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Zobernig's current exhibition at Petzel Gallery, his third solo show, riffs off a 2012 Picasso exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich. This source exhibit was itself a re-creation of a 1932 Picasso show at the same space. In an email to The Huffington Post, Zobernig explained his inspiration with Picasso's "radical avant-gardism with which he precedes the conventions of developments in painting again and again." With neon streaks and an underlying rigid geometry, Zobernig remodels and remixes Picasso's iconically simple line and all the artistic freedom it embodies.

The show also features a series of mannequins donning tee shirts, tape and metal studs, creating a space where the human body and the geometric grid intersect. He recalled to Art Forum's Karin Bellmann when, as an art student, Zobernig wanted a dummy for his showroom for no apparent reason and subsequently felt like there was a living presence in the room with him. "It occurred to me that objects could appear alive," he said. "This is a moment where a sensation from the unconscious enters our consciousness. It really fascinated me, particularly because my approach to art usually is very sober."

Zobernig's exhibition combines theory, history and a dash of humor in a postmodern visual display which self-consciously reveals its modernist threads. When asked what modernism's titan would think of the contemporary art world, Zobernig replied: "Picasso was always committed to the present and informed about the current happening. That would be the same today."



Zobernig's exhibition runs until June 21, 2014 at Petzel Gallery in New York.
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