• Taxi Fabric, A New Form of Exhibiting Art
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    Taxi Fabric, A New Form of Exhibiting Art

    Based in Mumbai and created by founder Sanket Avlani. The Taxi Fabric project is a unique approach to exhibiting visual arts and providing exposure to young artists. The taxi seat covers are each different with separate stories and styles fitting the individual artist/designer. The high use of taxi’s in Mumbai almost guarantees the upcoming artists the proper observational attention needed.  

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    How We Laugh on Facebook

    Facebook collected information from a week in May to see how we laugh on Facebook. Collected from monitored comments, posts, etc. we have the main contenders broken up into graphs. The graph Facebook created says 15% of people include laughter in a post at least once a week. The most used laugh is “haha” with 51.4%, followed by emojis with 33.7%, following “hehe” with 12.7%. The least common is “lol”, which only makes up 1.9% of laugher online. See more sassy graphs on the Facebook blog.

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    Woah, The Worst Special Effects Ever Compilation

    When these came out they seemed pretty innovative, now looking back it’s easy to see how far we’ve come even in the last few years. Here is a video created by worldwideinterweb highlighting some the worst special effects to hit the silver screen. Sometimes awkward to watch, but you just can’t not. The Worst Movie Special Effects Ever Compilation by worldwideinterweb

  • CULTURE,  Misc.

    Gone are the days of 301+ Views on YouTube

    If you are on YouTube as frequently as everyone else you’ve become familiar with the 301+ views that appears under new videos that exceed that amount. There use to be a huge problem with fake views in the earlier days and ever since then the 301+ views has become a fixture of the YouTube community. YouTube is constantly updated, but now the option of view counts as they are happening is a new feature we aren’t accustom with, but have always wanted. Either they have improved security against fake views or they just don’t mind anymore.   Sidenote: Subscribe to Graveravens on YouTube here  

  • CULTURE,  MUSIC

    Lenny Kravitz’s Crotch Busts Out on Stage

    Being a gyrating rock star with tight pants comes with the occasional clothing malfunction. While performing on stage at a Stockholm show Lenny Kravitz’s pants gave out revealing EVERYTHING. With a single squat his genitalia was flailing around for all to see. The show must go on, and Lenny kept on playing. Very Janet Jackson at the Superbowl of him.     SEE THE UNCENSORED NSFW GIF HERE He kept the funny situation light hearted and stated this on twitter: #penisgate pic.twitter.com/jEafrIXdBh — Lenny Kravitz (@LennyKravitz) August 4, 2015

  • Catching a Duck – Photo by Sarah Wouters
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    The 10 Photographs that Won the National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 2015

    The well-respected and famous National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 2015 has officially announced the 10 winning photographs of 2015. Over 17,000 photograph submissions had to be whittled down to find these few. The four categories included Spontaneous Moments, Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes et Sense of Place. Images © National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 2015

  • ART,  CULTURE,  Misc.

    Get YOUR OWN Mermaid Tail!

    The mermaid/merman fantasy lifestyle is more obtainable than you might think. No there still isn’t a way to have gills BUT you can now have your custom beautifully mad mermaid tail. Founded by Mermaid enthusiast Eric Ducharme Mertailor provides all his customers with his passion and appreciation for the aquatic creature.  Resulting in the best of Mertails and more. Mertailor offers: Mermaid Flippers Custom Designs Merch Options  

  • CULTURE,  Misc.

    3D Hologram Projector on Your Smartphone

    A technology we’ve been waiting for since the famous Star Wars Princess Leia message, the ability to have a hand-held 3D Hologram Projector. You would think with all the latest innovations this is something that should have already been mastered. Sadly Apple and other phone developing companies are just not offering the projection option. What to do? You can actually make it yourself! Watch how the 3D Hologram Projector turns out and also how to make it below:

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    Sushi Soap!

    It seems everyday the line between edible and non edible is blurred. However unidentifiable things may get they do make things such as products a lot more interesting. Here we have Sushi Soap. Is it soap you can eat? or sushi you wash yourself with? It’s the ladder. Created and sold by soapopotamus at their etsy store you can Sushify your bathing with unique (and well made) soaps that completely resemble the fishy food.

  • CULTURE,  MUSIC

    Jay Z Done with TIDAL?

    The super hyped and still pretty new music streaming company TIDAL seems to have now worried its front-runner Jay Z with its almost immediate struggling start. He has put so much time and effort into this project that sources say he is now losing millions out-of-pocket. On the other side fellow TIDAL co-owners Madonna and Beyoncé are still holding out hope and believe a difficult start with any company is completely expected. “It’s just the beginning, so we’re working out a lot of kinks and hopefully we’re going to build something unique and amazing that’s going to attract a lot of people,” – Madonna “It’s important that people understand we didn’t create…