Japanese artist creates series of mind-blowing hyper-realistic illusions painted on bodies of models

Japanese artist Chooo-San, a student at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan, has created a series of hyper-realistic illusions painted with acrylic paints on the bodies of models. The illusions include a model with zippers on her back, light switches and electrical outlets attached to the skin, buttons on a belly, a mouth growing…

The Anti-Defamation League has been monitoring Middle Eastern cartoons in newspaper media during the 2012 presidential campaign and found the Arab and Muslim cartoons have been depicting the candidates – President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney – as subservient to Israel and the Jews. The anti-Semitic cartoons featured here an example of what they…

Amazon is reporting an outage in its Service Health dashboard which is affecting several big-name sites including Reddit, Coursera, Imgur, Flipboard, FastCompany, Heroku, Airbnb, Github, VYou and many more.

On April 26, 1986, reactor four in the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in Ukraine suffered a catastrophic power increase which lead to explosions in its core. This dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere. Unprotected workers near the accident received fatal doses of radiation within minutes. Residents of nearby Prypait began…

We’re not sure why these unbelievable tree houses were built but we guess the owners never had one as a kid and are making up for lost childhood memories. Here’s a collection of the wildest, coolest tree houses you’ve ever seen.

If you thought you could carve a mean pumpkin, you might want to check out Ray Villafane’s pumpkin carvings. Ray’s Halloween pumpkins are so hauntingly lifelike that they often inspire stunned silence and awe. Not bad for a guy who’s allergic to pumpkin. (His skin and eyes get really itchy after a couple of days…

UFO Casebook is reporting that military personnel arrested a BBC film crew at the secret Area 51 military base in Nevada. The 12-member crew were trying to sneak onto the base during the filming of a documentary, UFO: Conspiracy Road Trip.

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What we have here is a sequence of pictures showing a bubble being popped. Beautiful!

The James Bond film series is one of the longest running film series in history and has seen ongoing production from 1962 to the present day. Grossing over 5 billion dollars, Eon Productions releases a new James Bond movie about one every two years.

Oyster announced today that they have secured $3 million in funding for a new startup that will provide unlimited access to a library of books for a flat monthly price. The company is developing an application geared specifically for mobile use.