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Japanese Craftsman Masterfully Restores Old Books Nobody ever doubts Japanese craftsmanship. And this Japanese craftsman demonstrates his skills by restoring an old dictionary to a near mint condition. Appearing on the Shuri, Bakaseru (Fascinating Craftsman) shows that features people doing all sorts of restorative work, Nobuo Okano is a Tokyo based artisan who deals with old books. As we see in the episode, a man brings him an old pocket dictionary....

Japanese LEGO Artist Recreates Hokusai’s “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” Using LEGO Bricks Jumpei Mitsui is a Japanese LEGO artist and the youngest LEGO Certified Professional in the world. In one of his latest projects, the artist created a 3D replica of Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa using LEGO bricks, and the end result turned out absolutely incredible. According to LEGO, Jumpei became a professional builder while he was still a student at the University of Tokyo....

Kids Read To Cats In Adorable “Book Buddies” Animal Shelter Program The Animal Rescue League in Berks County, Pennsylvania has come up with a touching program called “Book Buddies” in which children volunteer to pair up with shelter cats and read to them. “ Children in grades 1-8 who are able to read at any level may come into the shelter to read to the cats in our adoption room....

Korean Chef Competes With Nature By Creating Incredibly Realistic Floral Cakes We’ve been on the Internet for so long, it seems sometimes that we’ve literally seen it all. From really beautiful cakes to extremely bad ones, we might think there’s no more space for a surprise in this confectionary industry. And yet we’re wrong because there’s always someone online that will manage to make your jaw drop. This Seoul-based chef creates the most beautiful cakes that she decorates with edible floral bouquets....

LEGO Can Be Used To Explain Math, And This Teacher Uses It To Teach Schoolchildren LEGO is great both for ambitious projects and lazy jokes about foot injury. But one insidious teacher is using it to teach math. Determined to pester the children with calculus, Alycia Zimmerman uses these tiny plastic blocks to explain fractions, adding and subtracting, dividing, and things like median and range. If you want to see another teacher who wants to inspire children, you can see his chalkboard drawings here ....

Lips Turned Into Playful Cartoon Character By Laura Jenkinson London-based hair and makeup artist Laura Jenkinson certainly has a thing for cartoon characters. However, she expresses her love for cartoon characters and cute animals in a different way than most artists – she paints them on her own mouth. Lips, tongue, teeth, cheeks, and chin – all have a particular role to play in bringing your favourite cartoon characters to life on her face in a quirky and hilarious way!...

Magical Unicorn Macarons Are The Most Adorable Dessert Ever No no no, these are too cute to eat! Macarons, a dessert beloved around the world just keeps getting better and better, with the latest development being its very own unicorn edition! The sweet tooths at Bored Panda have found most mouth-watering examples of these magical desserts for you to… look at. So scroll below to check those out, if you know you have the self-control not to start munching on your screen....

Man Turns A Creepy ‘Dungeon’ Into A Luxurious $592,000 Apartment Renovating a home is a job that not many are willing to take upon. Not only does it require skill and time, there are numerous unexpected things that pop up during the process that make the initial budget skyrocket. However, if you are willing to put in the effort, the end result more than makes up for all the hard work and hours you put in....

Miniature Tree Houses For Plants Is Perfect Home For Fairies Stop-motion artist Jedediah Corwyn Voltz has been mastering his skills after work by making these miniature tree houses around his houseplants. So far he’s made 25 and has no plan to stop! “ Building miniatures for stop motion always leaves me with a huge bin of scrap balsa, basswood, various fabrics, etc. and I found myself making little fantasy constructions out of that stuff during my downtime, ” Voltz told our friends at Bored Panda....

Minimiam: Playful Mini Dramas By Photographers Pierre Javelle And Akiko Ida Since 2002, gastronomy fanatics Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida have been photographing a series of playful dioramas, called MINIMIAM, combining miniature figurines and various kinds of food. MINIMIAM is an apt combination of the words miniature and “yummy“ (miam in French). The miniature dramas, featuring model train figurines and fruit, vegetables or sweets, introduce us to the lives of mini people of various vocations in their everyday situations....

Mom Creates Updated Food Pyramid That Shows What Her Kids Actually Want To Eat As a parent, you know that you can never predict what mood your kid will be in when it comes time to eat. Sometimes you can spend an hour preparing a delicious hearty meal for your kids only for them to not eat a single bite and ask for some chicken nuggets instead. It may sound frustrating but hey – that’s just how kids are and most of the time you have no other option but to deal with it....

New Beehive Invention Allows For Automatic Honey Extraction Without Disturbing Bees Extracting honey can be painful if you’re not prepared, and it stresses the bees as well. Fortunately, Australian father-and-son duo Stuart and Cedar Anderson have come up with a solution: an auto-harvesting beehive that doesn‘t disturb the bees. Aside from the blindingly obvious benefit of no more angry bees, it also means a lot less work for the beekeeper and a lot less stress for the bees, too!...

Pac-Man’s Creator Toru Iwatani Shows Original Concept Drawings From 1980 Pac-Man has been around longer than I have, so I always sort of just took it for granted. I never had a thought about Pac-Man going through the usual stages of video game development. That is until now, when images of Pac-Man concept art surfaced on Reddit . Those are the pages from Toru Iwatani’s sketchbook filled with the original drafts of Pac-Man....

People Are Grateful These 25 Things Are Still Absolutely Free-Of-Charge When I was younger a teacher asked us to write an essay about ‘the best things in life being free’. We each got to choose one thing and I chose music – because I couldn’t believe we got to listen to it absolutely free on the radio. Before all the streaming platforms stepped in and monetised it that is. However, if we pause to think about it, there are still many things that we get to enjoy for absolutely free....

People Are Sharing Stories That Took Unexpectedly Wholesome Turns (30 Pics) You know what they say – hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. And even though whatever can go wrong, does go wrong in many cases, there are times when things turn unexpectedly wholesome – and today we’re all about those times. People over at the r/UnexpectedlyWholesome subreddit are sharing all the instances where they were pleasantly surprised by the way things turned out, and their stories are as wholesome as they can get....

People Share 30 Movie Tropes That Have Been Done To Death It’s no surprise that movie writers like to exaggerate some things to make their films a little more interesting. However, sometimes they like to go a little too far with the tropes – to the point where it becomes almost unbearable to watch. A few days ago, one Reddit user asked people to share the movie tropes that they absolutely hate seeing, and the answers will make you realize how ridiculously overdone some of them are....

Photo Series Of Invisible People In New York – The Doormen I had this idea about the invisible people among us, who disappear within the crowds of bustling mega-cities like New York. And then I stumbled upon a perfect illustration of it by the Polish photographer, Sam Golanski, who made an insightful photo series featuring the doormen of New York City. Sam was fascinated by the idea of how much power these individuals possess and how little we pay attention to them....

Photographer Builds A Waterhole And Sets A Camera Trap To Capture African Wildlife (10 Pics) Will Burrard-Lucas , a wildlife photographer, has been shooting amazing photos for almost 20 years now. By making it his full-time job in 2010, the photographer has managed to capture a rich variety of wildlife through his lenses. In an interview with DeMilked , the photographer revealed that the main challenge in wildlife photography is finding and photographing very rare and shy creatures....

Photographer Captures Photos Of Signature Dishes Of Grandmas From Around The World (20 Pics) Italian photographer, Gabriele Galimberti was about to embark on a trip around the world. However, just before he left, his beloved Tuscan grandmother, Marisa, lovingly cooked him his favourite dish of ravioli as a parting gift. This inspired Gabriele to seek out grandmothers around the world and discover their signature dishes. During his travels to over 60 countries, he met over 100 grandmas, cooked and ate with them and documented everything through photography....

Photographer Shows That Breastfeeding In Public Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of Breastfeeding in public is causing quite the hubbub these days. Lithuanian born Ivette Ivens is doing her best to bring breastfeeding into public life. Her photography shows mothers feeding their children, anytime, anywhere. Different demographics and walks of life are represented. Ivens knows the realities of breastfeeding. “[Breastfeeding] can be messy, uncomfortable and even painful at times, but the mother’s inner consciousness tells another story,” she told Huffington Post , claiming that her photography aims to capture that inner feeling....