Things I Think Are Kinda Cool

The next time you’re in a boring meeting, instead of physically forcing your eyelids open, or chugging a cup of coffee, just give in to the waves of sleepiness by blowing up your Pillow Tie and catch some Z’s! For $20, you can’t really go wrong – just don’t drool on it, ok?
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Eve Fielding, from Kent in the UK, didn’t think anything was special about the little sunflower growing in her garden…until it kept growing…and growing…and growing. Now this monster is 23 feet tall, about to break the world record of 26 feet 4 inches.  I know it’s technically a beautiful flower, but it’s only a matter of time until it screams “Feed me, Seymour!” and starts belting out show-tunes.

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If you’ve never seen what 1100 matchbox cars zooming around an infinitely looping endless track looks like, now’s your chance. Check out Chris Burden’s kinetic sculpture, “Metropolis II”:

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Does anyone else just want to stare at this thing all day long, or is it just me?

Mayor Arturas Zoukas doesn’t like when cars park in the bike lanes of his town of Vilnius, Lithuania. Don’t believe him? Watch him demonstrate what he wishes he could do to all these offending vehicles. And most importantly, he does it all with a smile…now that’s a leader.

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To get in the spirit of the recent Summer Solstice, the people of Poznan in Poland decided to break their country’s record and release 8000 paper lanterns into the air. This is what it looked like:

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This is outrageous and completely fascinating. This guy built a HUGE model of San Francisco out of toothpicks that doubles as a rolling path for ping pong balls. Have a look as he takes you on a tour of his massive creation –

-via Random Good Stuff

Click here to meet some more crazies with too much time on their hands…

In the original design of Mount Rushmore, the presidents were supposed to be more than just huge floating heads!  Unfortunately, the project was over budget so the fashionably-dressed bodies ended up in the scrap heap of history.

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It’s a good thing I wasn’t anywhere near this 102 ft tall Lego tower in Brazil…my destructive tendencies would have taken over and I would have knocked that sucker over, creating a rainshower of Lego blocks for all the little Brazilian children to enjoy!

-via Bit Rebels

Burberry’s latest fashion show in Beijing got rid of emaciated, miserable models and replaced them with emaciated, miserable holograms! I love the future!

-via @BuzzEdition

The Salsa Hat! I fully advocate this sexy Spring look.

Make your own and impress your hungry friends…just watch their greedy little hands as they lunge towards your head with pointy tortilla chips:

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