Would you survive?

These are instructions on how to make the world’s best hookah. It all seems so simple. All you need is some hardware that can be found in a local hardware store, and a large tank. Smoke until your heart’s content.

Take a real close look at it.

This is the legendary Home Alone house that is located in Winnetka, Illinois. It is for sale for $2,000,000. It was made famous by the movie Home Alone that made Macaulay Culkin a movie star.

That’s the true distance from the Earth to the Moon, which seems so deceptively close. The scale is saved.

Apparently, the retailers are trying to get rich selling dead Osama Bin Laden merchandise. They have come up with anything and everything that you can imagine. It seems as though people are buying it.

It’s officially blockbuster summer movie season with the open of Thor in the US. Here is what the summer’s movie posters would look like if they were done Lego style. They are rather interesting.

Thor

This 40’ mechanical machine is called the Sultan’s elephant and is made quite a stir as it made it way through the streets of London. It was designed by Francois Delarozière, and commissioned to celebrate the death of Jules Verne. The elephant is operated by a crew of 22 and is powered by a mixture of lever, motors and hydraulics. Its trunk even sprays water.

This little spider monkey named Little Estella has fluffy hair and big doe eyes. Her and her mother failed to bond at birth and so she was abandoned. To ensure her survival, the primate keepers at the Melbourne Zoo stepped in and take care of her around the clock. Just look how cute she is.

If you have some used tyres from your car, don’t hurry to throw them away.

Here’s a little set of what can be done out of them.

Have you ever wondered what Natalie Portman, Drew Barrymore or Brad Pitt would look like living in the Renaissance era? These beautiful renderings of modern actors and singers inhabiting the 14th through 17th centuries might make you wish you had lived during those times.

Jennifer Aniston

If you have kids hope and pray that they don’t decide to let their hair go unwashed and twist it into dreadlocks. This collection of confused young people, and a few older ones, will likely make you keep plenty of shampoo on hand.

The same British hat designer, Phillip Treacy, behind Princess Beatrice’s royal wedding hat created this collection of mostly hideous but absolutely fabulous hats. Not surprisingly Lady Gaga is quite a fan of his astonishing creations, but any woman with a love for outrageous headwear would love to don one of his masterpieces.

The actual house that was used for the filming of the Iron Man movie is finally up for sale, and it’s a steal at $25 million. This stunning house only has four bedrooms and six bathrooms but more glass and ocean views than you will know what to do with.

Are you tired of the same old boring sandwiches that look like two slices of bread with some meat and veggies crammed between them? Luckily, someone has created these unique and entertaining sandwiches that are so fun to look at you would never consider eating them.

Driving one of these classic rally cars meant you would be facing a great deal of breakdowns and malfunctioning car parts. Crashes were the norm, and pit crews were non-existent, but brave men continued to race these rattling death vehicles all over the country.

Tilt-shift miniature faking is the term used to describe pictures of life size areas that appear to be much smaller. These images taken from the 200-meter tall Federation Tower were manipulated to make Moscow look very tiny, an effect Putin no doubt would not find amusing.

Architect and photographer Kirsten Hively started Project Neon to document, in her humble opinion, the best neon signs throughout NYC. She has taken several hundred photos already and is trying to create an iPhone app that will direct visitors to the best neon signs in the city.

Some of these advertisements seem more like works of art than boring ads trying to sell us a product or sear a brand into our brain. Not only are these ads creative but also some of them are hard to follow. Perhaps they should keep things simple, for the general consuming masses.