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- Anime-Faced Chinese Model Will Freak You Out
- Artist Creates Gigantic Snow Artworks Using Only His Feet
- Guy Fakes His Own Death to Make Girlfriend See Life Would Be Empty without Him
| Anime-Faced Chinese Model Will Freak You Out Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:44 AM PDT
Meet Tina Leopard, a Chinese blogger and model who earlier this year sparked controversy among Internet users after photos showing her extremely sharp chin and large anime-like eyes went viral on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. Apparently, there’s a new fashion trend sweeping across China – the anime look. The country’s most popular social media sites are practically flooded with tons of photos of young people clearly going out of their way to look as much like an anime character as possible. The trend took off last summer, when a girl going by the name of KOKO uploaded photos and videos showing her thin body, pointy chin and disproportionately large eyes. It turned out she used all kinds of makeup tricks to achieve her anime look, and her photos were apparently also altered in Photoshop, but that didn’t seem to matter much to people who wanted to look like the characters in popular Japanese cartoons. And while some of them actually look pretty cool, others are just plain freaky. Case in point, Tina Leopard, a young Chinese model whose extreme facial features have often been compared to those of an alien. It’s not clear whether Tina has had any plastic surgery to get that sharp a chin, but just look at it, if she fell on her face that thing would probably stick in the ground. And to further emphasize her bizarre look, Ms. Leopard also uses fake eyelashes, contact lenses and buckets of makeup. She then posts photos of her on her Weibo microblog and gets thousands of comments from both her fans and people calling her an ugly alien or a monster.
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| Artist Creates Gigantic Snow Artworks Using Only His Feet Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:32 AM PDT
They look like something aliens might have created, but the large-scale snow circles spread around the Les Arcs sky resort, in the French Alps, are actually the work of one man – British artist Simon Beck. Using an orienteering compass, measuring tape and a pair of snowshoes, 54-year-old Simon Beck turns the hills and frozen lakes around Les Arcs into geometrically-perfect immaculate masterpieces. His intricate prints are huge, often spanning the equivalent size of six football fields, but while you’d be tempted to think Beck needs at least several days to complete just one of these patterns, he really only needs about 10 hours, on average. Hard to believe, considering they’re all done by walking with snow shoes, but Mr. Beck doesn’t mind the exercise. In fact, that’s what made him take up the unusual habit. Because of some problems with his feet, the artist cannot run anymore, so plodding on level snow was the least painful way of getting some exercise. And he’s not one to hold back, walking around in the snow until he’s completely exhausted, and using a headlamp if it gets dark first. When they see his geometrical and abstract works, most people think they are inspired by crop circles, but in reality, Simon Beck draws inspiration for his art from the rakings left in the sand gardens of Kyoto temples. Ever since the winter of 2004, when he first started making his large-scale snow circles, Simon Beck has created hundreds of patterns, most of which are posted on his Facebook page. ”It just seemed a natural thing to do,” Beck says about his first ever snow print. He didn’t have snow shoes on, but walking in the snow he created a five-point star. After it was covered with snow, he made a bigger ten-pointed star, and soon he found a frozen lake where he could create an even bigger design, but the snow was too deep, so he decided to use snowshoes. Beck’s art gradually evolved from that point on and now the creative process has become a ritual of sorts. The 54-year old starts out by drawing a sketch of what he wants his snow artwork to look like. Then he starts looking for wide snow-covered areas where tourists won’t ruin his work before he gets a chance to take a photo of it. He makes sure the area has a low risk of avalanches, and if it’s a frozen lake that the ice is thick enough to trample on. He uses a orienteering compass and measuring tape to make sure his artworks are as accurate as possible, and counts his paces. Simon says the process is as enjoyable as it is exhausting, and compares completing one of his works to climbing halfway up Mont Blanc. Simon Beck has big plans for 2013. After making his art around Les Arcs for the last 8 years, he plans to travel to Norway and leave his (foot)mark on the frozen landscape there, as well. You can check out more of his magnificent creations on Facebook.
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| Guy Fakes His Own Death to Make Girlfriend See Life Would Be Empty without Him Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:14 AM PDT
In what may very well be the worst wedding proposal in history, a Russian man hired a whole film crew to stage a deadly car crash and see if the woman he wanted to marry really loved him to death. Most people already know, or at least think they know the person they want to marry truly loves them, before they pop the big question, but 30-year-old Alexey Bykov, from Omsk, Russia, wanted to make absolutely sure. Instead of taking the easy route, like making his girlfriend Irina take a lie detector test, he decided to fake his own gruesome death to see what her reaction would be. So the young Russian hired a movie director, stuntmen, make-up artists, and even a script writer to stage a car crash in which he lost his life. They made sure everything looked as realistic as possible, by using crashed cars, smoke, ambulances and carnage, so the poor girl didn’t for a minute think she was the victim of a very creepy prank. Photo: Europics Once all the details of his plan were discussed with the film crew, Alexey arranged to meat Irina in a certain place, only when she arrived she found mangled cars and her beloved’s body lying on the road all covered in blood. A paramedic told her he was dead and she immediately broke into tears. Once the “romantic” prankster got the reaction he was waiting for, he got up from the pavement and proposed. You can imagine Irina’s reaction, can’t you? Well, although she admits at first she “almost killed him again, but for real this time”, in the end she accepted to be this crazy man’s wife for the rest of her life.
Asked why he planned such a macabre wedding proposal, Alexey Bykov said: ”I wanted her to realise how empty her life would be without me and how life would have no meaning without me.” Very romantic stuff, I must say. He did promise this was the last time he pulled such a stunt. via Life.ru Guy Fakes His Own Death to Make Girlfriend See Life Would Be Empty without Him was originally posted at OddityCentral.com  |
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