17 Photos With The Creepiest Backstories…. WARNING You Might Have Trouble Sleeping After #12

Usually we don’t like to post thing like this  but we found these to be extremely interesting. But I must warn you that these are extremely creepy and not for everyone. Enter if you dare. I promise you that you won’t be able to sleep.


-Pansy Panda

Best of 2014: Chewbaaca Shares Amazing Behind-The-Scene Pics

Peter Mayhew, otherwise sometimes known as the man behind Chewbacca, has released some pretty epic behind-the-scenes pics from Star Wars on his Twitter account, @TheWookieeRoars. Among the first images he shared, on January 7th, is a group shot of Mayhew himself with Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. The caption: “#nostalgic so Im going to post some pics tonight. Like this 1 of Harrison, Anthony, Carrie & I sharing a laugh... [sic].”

-Juxtapoz

The Spooky Side of Christmas Lights

What do you see when you look at your town’s Christmas lights? Probably not what Markus Henttonen does. Last year, Jordan Teicher wrote about his series “Silent Night,” which focuses on the darkness instead of the light.


-Slate 

The most awkward sex ever? 8 epic holiday hookup tales

It happens to the best of us: Home for the holidays, overwhelmed by clucking family members, one thing leads to another, and we hook up with people. Exes. Old friends. New friends. Neighbors. These sexual experiences happen for any number of reasons — curiosity, stress, desperation or straight-up opportunism — and are, so often, totally regrettable. But they are almost always hilarious.


-Salon

Ninja Tune Staff Picks - Best of 2014

You may or may not have known that we like to impart the office stereo selections. In any case, here's our run-down of 2014's Top 20 Albums and Top 20 Singles, in no particular order...
Listen to tracks from all of this year's Ninja Tune (and extended family) releases.

All My Sexts Live In Texas

I put on a high-cut plaid one-piece swimsuit that was probably too small for me; it sliced my ass into quarters. The past two weeks I’d kept my hotel room at a temperature permitting the least amount of clothing. Fluorescent-kissed cheeks were constant, most of my nights spent swimming laps in the indoor pool and then writhing alone, wet atop a milky white and freshly laundered comforter, to whatever FKA Twigs song turned me on most that day. It was Texas in August, which basically means it was hot.

-The Hairpin

Le matin de Noël vu par Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Kubrick, Lars Von Trier…

Ça donnerait quoi, le matin de Noël filmé par Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Eisenstein, Wes Anderson, Michael Moore, Stanley Kubrick ou Werner Herzog ? Le groupe de vidéastes Fourground s’est glissé dans la peau de chacun de ces réalisateurs (et d’autres encore) pour imaginer leur vision du 25 décembre, et le résultat est plus que convaincant.

Le legs toxique de la consommation effrénée

La consommation effrénée d’appareils électroniques à faible durabilité génère de plus en plus de déchets. Or, ces produits contenant des ressources précieuses et des substances toxiques sont toujours très peu recyclés. Et quand ils le sont, c’est le plus souvent dans des pays du tiers-monde, dans des conditions déplorables. En 2015, l’humanité devrait consommer plus de 75 millions de tonnes de produits électroniques, si on se base sur la moyenne des données compilées par Le Devoir. Cette consommation représente une hausse de plus de 125 % par rapport à l’an 2000.

-Le Devoir

25 Of The Most Picturesque Small Towns From Around The World

Manarola, Italy is one of the famed Cinque Terre towns, filled with an array of vibrant rainbow-colored homes carved right into an impenetrable wall of stone along the Mediterranean coast. This charming fishing town is famous for its fabulous wine, particularly Sciacchetra, and the paintings of Antonio Discovolors, an artist who fell in love with Manarola and devoted much of his later works to the region. There are no cars here, no traffic lights, no screeching of tires, and no blasting horns.

-Design Maz

The Italian Hotel built inside Abandoned Medieval Grottos

Okay come with me, we’re going to explore every inch of this hotel built inside the deserted grottos of an Italian mountain village from the Middle Ages. The cliffs of the Gravina River Valley in Matera Italy are believed to be the site of the first human settlements in the country. So let’s begin our tour of this extremely off-beat, no doubt unique and very chic hotel, La Grotta della Civita…

-Messy Nessy Chic

André Martins De Barros, 1942 ~ Fantastic Realism painter

"I grew up in Pau, a small town located in the foothills of the Pyrenees. At a very early age I discovered my passion and talent for drawing and painting. Today I paint in mystudio located in the renowned Montmartre district of Paris, just a few blocks from the Moulin Rouge. The conflict of man fighting his fellow man, the role of nature, and the struggle for existence are all constant themes in my imaginative paintings: from simple joys and beauty to troubling scenes of apocalyptic proportions. Yet, in each piece, a sense of optimism and even whimsy is readily apparent. In recent years there has been increased interest in this style, and the ‘Fantastic Realism’ genre has become extremely popular: vibrant images that elevate reality to the realm of the fantastic".

-Tutt'Art@

The Best Hotel on Skid Row from Obsidian Obelisk on Vimeo.

"The Best Hotel on Skid Row" takes the viewer into the Madison Hotel in Los Angeles, where for about $8.20 a night, 200 loners and losers get a place to sleep -- no pets, no hot plates, bath down the hall. This documentary drifts to the bluesy, boozy rhythms of people who exist on pension checks or welfare checks or, in a few cases, paychecks from pickup jobs. Not all are old, but nobody seems ever to have been young. Charles Bukowski, known as the poet of skid row, does the narrating for what he calls "an ode to the fixed-income blues." The script is hard boiled: "If you can't pay, you can't stay."

As Robots Grow Smarter, American Workers Struggle to Keep Up

A machine that administers sedatives recently began treating patients at a Seattle hospital. At a Silicon Valley hotel, a bellhop robot delivers items to people’s rooms. Last spring, a software algorithm wrote a breaking news article about an earthquake that The Los Angeles Times published.

Although fears that technology will displace jobs are at least as old as the Luddites, there are signs that this time may really be different. The technological breakthroughs of recent years — allowing machines to mimic the human mind — are enabling machines to do knowledge jobs and service jobs, in addition to factory and clerical work.

-NY Times

Amy Winehouse -Back To Black

11 Tracks.

10 Notorious Last Words from Prisoners on Death Row

Death Row Last Words: from jokes to baddass remarks, check out some amazing final comments from people who were about to be executed.


-ODDE

Absurd Creature of the Week: The Adorable Mexican Mole Lizard Has a Disgusting Reputation

Down in Baja California there crawls a beast so bizarre, so cruel, so foul, that the mere mention of it sends locals scurrying. It’s an opportunist, said to attack humans at their most vulnerable moment: potty time.
Should you be foolish enough to drop trou and answer the call of nature in the wilderness, you’ll find the beast will “enter your body by the most unspeakable means,” said Carl Franklin, a herpetologist at the University of Texas at Arlington. “And it’ll rip your guts, shred them to pieces.” The death is slow, not to mention embarrassing.
 

-Wired

15 Fun Facts About Fruitcake

Loved or hated, but very rarely anything in between, fruitcake has long been the holiday season’s favorite neon-dotted loaf, joke, and re-gift. But in addition to being the baked good that never dies (literally—there are a couple century-old fruitcakes in existence), it has also traveled to space, become some towns’ claims to fame (“Fruitcake Capital of the World,” Home of the “Great Fruitcake Toss”), and, somewhat recently, suddenly gave an 89-year-old woman a brand new career.


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The Psychology of 'Backburner' Relationships

One episode in season five of How I Met Your Mother, called “Hooked,” revolves around people being kept “on the hook,” romantically speaking, by members of the show’s central gang of friends. “I can’t be with you … right now” is the phrase the pals keep using to string these people along, the “right now” leaving the door cracked open just enough that apparently some poor guy is willing to continue to do Robin’s laundry and rub her feet for the vague possibility of a someday relationship.
This does not make the friends look very good, obviously, but keeping track of and keeping in touch with alternative romantic prospects is a common thing for humans to do, even if it is rarely in such an exaggerated, sitcommy way.

-The Atlantic