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You don't need to be strapped with cash in order to have beautiful, clear skin. While we'd all love to get monthly facials and microdermabrasion treatments, these procedures are very expensive and a luxury that few of us get to experience.

Stunning selection of photographs from French photographer Cedric Pollet's new book, Bark: An Intimate Look at the World's Trees. The photographer traveled across five continents to capture the the exquisite patterns and textures of the world's many varieties of tree bark.

See a burning building? Hold all calls to the fire department. Canadian artist Isabelle Hayeur fools passerbyers with her installation, "Fire with Fire", an artwork that creates the illusion of a fire-swept four-story heritage building in the downtown eastside of Vancouver.

In "Cigarette Ash Landscape", Chinese artist and photographer Yang Yongliang suspends a huge cigarette sculpture above a pile of black and white photos, fake grass and artificial flowers. Upon closer examination, the tip of the cigarette reveals a tiny city made of fastidiously layered, paper-cut urban skylines.

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The costume I mentioned in my last post is taking longer than I thought it would be, but it's almost done! I'm hoping to finish it either this evening or tomorrow. All the little mods I've added have taken up more time than I thought... but isn't that always the way it goes? It seems like every time I plan out a project, it always takes me at least an hour or so more than I originally planned, usually more.

Below are a few images shot with an Olympus Stylus 1010 and edited with the program picnik. All these are my images and not to be copied or used for personal use without permission.

When I used to play Magic every day during 7th grade, one of my regular opponents was a kid named Eddie. He played an all-Blue, deck, the first I'd ever seen. At that point I was even more creature-obsessed than I am now and my deck were unwieldy hulks practically begging to be shamed by an all-Blue deck. I couldn't hurt him. Every time I tried to do something he had a response, a way to negate what I was doing. He would barely ever hurt me. He would win games just by making me play for so long...

Angry Birds is so popular now that it's getting its own animated TV series!  When and where?  Who knows?  But if it's any bit as popular as the iPhone game, it's sure to be a huge success.  But it's unlikely to attract any of the older Angry Birds gamers that actually own iPhones.

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A DIY most worthy of the archives: a magnificent skull constructed entirely of Mickey D's fries. Now if only it weren't just some anonymous web image, but a real DIY project complete with instructions. Anyone wanna step up to the plate?

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Imagine the movie "The Lost Boys" and now imagine a new movie comprised of every moment they say michael from that film.