A list of intriguing things
One: British artist Nick Hornby’s sculptures are like visual puns on perspective. You see something very different based on where you’re standing. For example: ‘Do It All’. It looks like a miniature version of the Albert Memorial from one angle–as you can see in the lead image. But flip your position—and voila! Say hello to a profile view of Egyptian queen Nefertiti:
Or the silhouette of a man with a walking stick who transforms into Laurence Sterne’s iconic squiggle from the novel ‘Tristram Shandy’. (Londonist)
Two: Breaking up over text is so passé—when you can do it with yummy food. ‘Insomnia Cookies’ offers a $30 gift box to break up with someone—with messages such as "It’s not me, it’s you," "You’re sweet, but not my taste," "Have the hots for your roommate," and "We’re done. Have a nice life." See delicious examples below. (Fox Business News)
Not a fan of cookies? Fret not, we present to you Pizza Hut’s ‘Goodbye Pies’—which has an equally colourful name: Hot Honey. You can write your very own rude message on the delivery box—or use the very handy “excuse generator” on the website (CNN)
Three: Sticking with the weird… A UK company called Sent Into Space has found great profit in shooting stuff into space. By ‘stuff’ we mean a baby stroller, Tic Tacs, Jameson whiskey, a 7-Eleven Slurpee, a wedding dress and a portrait of Shakespeare! Here’s who it works:
They use polyethylene balloons with a cargo attachment containing a camera system and communications technology to track the vessel. After the camera captures images of an item sent up, ground-based technology sends a radio signal command to the contraption to fall back to Earth. The whole journey takes two or three hours.
And it can cost thousands of dollars. But hey, you get a photo of your beloved object against “the blackness of space, the thin blue line of the atmosphere and the curvature of the Earth.” You can see the team launching a chicken nugget here. We prefer the pic of the wedding dress sailing eerily in the vast nothingness. We think there is a V-day message somewhere in there. (Wall Street Journal)
