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This Coffee Ring Portrait will Blow Your Mind 【Video】

This Coffee Ring Portrait will Blow Your Mind 【Video】

Being both a huge coffee addict and a minor clean freak, I can’t stand spilling even a drop of my precious black liquid. Drops of tea of coffee in a saucer annoy me so much that I’ve been known to decant my drink into a fresh cup and start over. Similarly, if I’m in a restaurant and the condensation from my glass leaves wet marks on the table I’m forever cleaning them up with paper napkins.

Not this artist. Where most of us see annoying table-cloth-ruining stains and wet patches to soak our sleeves, Malaysian artist Hong Yi, also known simply as Red, sees a tool to paint with. By spilling a little coffee into a saucer, dipping her cup into it and pressing it down onto a canvas over and over again, she has created this portrait.

The entire mesmerizing process in video format after the jump!

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Malaysian Apartment Tenants Pissed Off by Woman Who Pissed On the Elevator

Malaysian Apartment Tenants Pissed Off by Woman Who Pissed On the Elevator

Residents of the Sri Saujana Flat in Penang, Malaysia are up in arms after a security camera caught a young woman urinating in their elevator.  However, they are unable to identify the woman who just couldn’t hold it.

On the video, the woman is seen boarding the elevator.  Then after quickly glancing straight into the camera, pulls down her shorts, squats down and lets it all out over the floor of the lift.

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Lost in Translation: a different kind of relief

Lost in Translation: a different kind of relief

One day, while walking around in downtown Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, with an empty stomach, I found a tiny hamburger stand. Considering that I flew all the way to Malaysia specifically to experience the exotic, I decided that eating a hamburger would be boring. However, as I was passing the stand my eyes locked onto a word on the menu board. Read More