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Picture yourself lying on the beach, soaking up the last of the afternoon sunshine when suddenly an ocean-soaked individual rises slowly from the water walking toward you – with bite marks down to the muscle showing on his arm and all over his chillingly realistic chewed-looking wetsuit.

Most wetsuits, designed to be sleek, functional and protective, are created to be stylish and simple – but there is nothing that says they have to be. These creative wetsuit designs by Diddo utilize custom inks and unique printing techniques to map original and lifelike textures onto suits that range from playful to historical and downright scary.

The first editions in the series include a rusted-looking pattern, reminding one of classic tales of deep-ocean diving, as well as a human musculature outfit as well as other naturalistic and high-tech patterns.

For now, these ingenius designs are available as limited editions and only by request but they will be in more complete production soon – including the creepy shark-chewed look.

Beer. A sweet nectar from the gods themselves. A 8,000 year old process of refinement culminated into 12 oz of sublime libation. More than milk, coffee, or even bottle water, beer is the drink of choice for thirsty Americans of age. Yes, we Americans grease the wheels of human emotion with this social lubricant like no other. Some 200 million barrels a year go down our collective hatches. But instead of a string of numbers, lets visualize our way to grasping the United States’ yearly beer consumption.

Only China is has a greater thirst, but they also have an extra billion people’s thirst to quench so with only one fourth of the population, we certainly hold our own.

Of course the US beer industry is a juggernaught. Ranking around 35th on the global GDP list, our beer sales rival nations.

War is expensive, and so is free beer. Although it’s though unlikely to ever see a politician campaign with a “Make beer, not war” slogan, it is good to know that the economics are there to make it happen.

While we are day dreaming about free beer, have you ever wanted a swimming pool full of the stuff? I sure hope not. The logistics of keeping a beer pool fresh and cold, not to mention making sure your drunk buddies don’t pee in it, are mind boggling. But for 4% of the pool owners out there, this dream could be made a reality.

With moon-landing levels of public support, cooperation and diligence, we could get this lasting testament to the wonders of Beer created, and filled too. OK, still day dreaming here, but if you just wanted to visualize 30 teragrams of liquid, here you go. What’s a teragram? It’s a scientific way of saying “that’s fucking heavy!”

Speaking of the moon, where would a visualization attempt be without some reference to the distance to the moon? If its too big for “around the earth x times”‘ then its “to the moon and back x times”. Well this one was quite short of making it to our nearest neighbor, Mars, but this stack of cans tops out at a respectable 4.8 million miles of space. And just for you terrestrial types, that’s around the earth 185 times. But really, what a waste of beer.

Here we go, socialism I can support. Seriously though, here is our yearly consumption as it relates to you. You don’t drink, well that’s two beers a day for your neighbor. Your wife doesn’t drink? Three beers a day for your neighbor. Grandma never touches the stuff? Well then you get the idea. You might want to check in on your neighbor though, he may have a problem.

And finally, here is our yearly consumption and how it related those less fortunate. It’s all about resources, though I doubt even the starving could choke down malted meals five nights a week. Yes the United States is wealthy and enjoys the good life, but just imagine the destruction and carnage that would occur with a nation full of sober and serious people. The hungry masses just might agree.

A super-master of miniatures Nikolay Aldunin is going to have a museum of his worksin Moscow. He was born in Tula, but after becoming popular all over the country and abroad for his fabulous works, he moved to the capitaland continued creating his tiny things there. He managed to shoe a flea, carved portraits of Russian authorson rice grains and constructed a microscopic miniature of the Eiffel Tower, and lots of other awesome things, which seem to be just impossible to make without special hi-tech equipment. But he can do that!

Of course, Aldunin sells most of his works, but still there are some items in his collection, which he will never agree to put up to sale. These ones are the flea and the Kalashnikov.

He has about one hundred works as for now. Creating some of them takes him just a few hours, but making certain items takes half a year, like it was with the Kalashnikov. He works only with a microscope, and says that all his imagination and vision is within it.

Aldunin started his art a decade ago, when he bought a microscope and decided to shoe a flea, like Levsha, a fictional characterfrom a Russian satirical fairy-tale, who managed to do it “150 years ago”. He took the fleafrom a cat, and dried it. After the flea was ready, he de-fuzzed its legs, cut the tiny claws and only then started his main work. He shoed the dried insect and attached a saddle and a stirrup to it, all made of pure gold.

He believes that the most prominent thing he’s ever done the T-34, a Soviet medium tank, 0.078-inch length and made of 257 details, the contraction is placed on an apple seed and is a exact copy of the real tank. He also has a camelcade in the eye of a needle and a 0.078-inch length bike.

This works proves to be time-consuming not only when it comes to creating things, but also when you’re getting the instruments ready for it. Aldunin spends long hours on sharpening his special tiny tools.

One flea-shoe made by Aldunin weights 0.00000004419 grams, so if you have just one gram of gold, you get 11,314,772 pairs of these insect footwear, not a very expensive thing, really. So, if you want your cats and dogs have really trendy parasites, you know whom to call now.

A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) is any hand-held, shoulder-launched anti-tank weapons capable of firing an unguided rocket equipped with an explosive warhead.

RPGs are very effective against lightly-armoured vehicles such as armoured personnel carriers (APCs) or unarmoured wheeled vehicles, as well as against buildings and bunkers.

Some of you may have heard of Tony Alleyne, the Star Trek home creator who went bankrupt. Well now, he’s started his own renovation business, called 24th Century Design. His latest project involved turning a studio apartment into the Star Trek: Voyager. Unsurprisingly, he managed to sell this masterpiece for a nice sum on eBay last year.

This one is the most strange accident probably of those that were featured here.