When Chelsea and Hudson first touched noses, the two dogs knew it was love at first sniff.
Or at least their owners did.
But sometimes just knowing
is not enough. Sometimes, you gotta let the whole wide world in on the
romance with a full-blown celebration and a wedding video to boot.
"...I mentioned (over wine) how funny it'd be if Hudson and [Chelsea] got married," one of the dogs' owners told Brooklyn-based wedding photographer Danni Rivera. "Like, really married. With flowers and an invitation and a ceremony and guests. The whole shebang."
And the whole shebang they did have. So be warned: the video above might make you mad that a couple of dogs had a nicer wedding than you did.
There
were invitations, centerpieces, an aisle lined with flowers, amazing
table settings with centerpieces and a gorgeous wedding cake.
Try not to be envious. Just try.
And, of course, there were lots of balloons for the guests to party with.
If you are in the midst of planning your own wedding, take cues from these guys, because they did it right.
If you're searching for a way to mellow out your salad, consider dressing it with a marijuana-infused white wine vinaigrette.
Mesmerizing
This Marijuana Mixed Greens Salad recipe, produced by The Savory,
incorporates both white wine vinegar soaked with marijuana and
crumbled, ground pot for texture and taste (the latter won't get you
high). If the dressing intrigues you, know that patience is required:
According to the chef, it's best to let the mixture set for two weeks.
With
or without weed, the dish sounds pretty fresh and tasty: The salad is a
mix of fennel, radicchio, carrots and bell peppers. And, in keeping
with the theme, it's all topped with some crunchy hemp seeds. If you're
still paying attention, watch the video below to see how it's made. Want to read more from HuffPost Taste? Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Tumblr.
The iconic book series "Where's Waldo?" portrays Waldo as a character with a knack for blending in with the crowd.
It's
a skill Waldo's real-life counterparts apparently have yet to learn, as
a bachelor party dressed in the character's signature red and white
stripes found itself captured on video amid a train-station brawl in
Manchester, England. The fight erupted after the characters exchanged choice words with another group of revelers, who were returning from watching a Manchester United soccer game from earlier in the day, reports The Mirror.
While
the fight occurred in March 2013, the paper adds, footage of the
bizarre fracas didn't appear online until Saturday, following the men's
trial in Manchester Crown Court. In the absurd video,
which lasts a little over a minute, one of the Manchester fans appears
to start the argument, leaning over the divider between two moving
walkways and pushing a Waldo, who responds with his own retaliatory
shove. From there, the argument grows more heated, with a second
Manchester fan smashing his crutch over the head of a second Waldo,
leading to an all-out brawl. Police rush into the scene shortly
thereafter. According to the Manchester Evening News,
only one of the Waldo impersonators, Stephen Hargreaves, was found
guilty, while all four members of the opposite group, John Eyre, Jack
Eyre, Rhys Eyre and Ross Hunter, were charged for their roles in the
incident.
As far as sullying childhood heroes goes, this isn't the first event of its kind. At least it wasn't another Santa street fight: WATCH the "Where's Waldo?" brawl above.
CANADENSIS, Pa. -- A man in the backwoods of Pennsylvania has turned the House of God into the House of Pogs.
There's
plenty of mystery surrounding the defunct Our Lady of Fatima Roman
Catholic church. Its front lawn boasts a gigantic, 24-hour-a-day yard
sale. There hasn't been a church service there since it closed down
about six years ago, but its doors are always open -- and they're
overflowing with VHS tapes, children's toys and old fishing wire.
If
you didn't know that everything inside the church was for sale, you
might think it was a squatter's den. Crusty plastic goggles hang off of a
church pew, an empty bottle of Polish vodka rolls around the confession
booth, and the stacks of encyclopedias give off a musky smell.
But
a lot of the time, there's nobody around to sell you anything. HuffPost
Weird News reporters failed several times Saturday trying to make
contact with anyone on the property. A "donation" box sat on the front
steps of the church, and passersby decided that throwing a few bucks in
the box for an old plush toy or baseball glove was fair, given that no
employees were available.
Later in the day, a woman who lived on
the property and declined to give her name said the church-cum-yard sale
has a more unsettling past than its adorable -- if not dilapidated --
facade lets on. She said her husband's original plan was to sell junk
and help the homeless with the profit. But he later broke ties with a
Brooklyn-based homeless program. Now it's just a church filled with
weird, worn miscellany that she's not fond of.
"My husband has a lot of exotic ideas," she told HuffPost Weird News. "We used to go to church here."
Still,
the property is an awesome display of beautiful architecture, stained
glass, boats, ATVs, kitchen equipment and even a limousine -- complete
with a mini bar. Inside, a piano sits on the pulpit alongside
televisions and a giant sign that reads, "GOD IS LOVE."
Check it out:
Being a model wasn't enough for Victoria Wild. She wanted to be a real-life sex doll.
To
that end, Wild, 30, has spent the last five years getting surgical
enhancements on her lips, hips and all points in between to make herself
into a Barbie doll with huge bazooms.
It's a dream she had since she was growing up in a small village in Latvia.
"I had a very normal childhood, living in a small village in the
countryside. I was very slim and blonde and people would call me Barbie.
But I hated my small A cup boobs. I didn't like myself or the way I
looked. I had an inferiority complex," she said, according to the Daily
Mail. "I didn't know about plastic surgery at that age but I would
always dream about resembling a sexy bimbo doll with huge breasts and insanely big lips.
"I loved the way dolls looked and how sexy they were. They are so bright and bold. It was this fantasy in my head," she said.
Fantasy started becoming reality when she was 25 and met her boyfriend, an Italian businessman named Simon.
He encouraged her dream of becoming a real-life sex doll and helped her fund $50,000 worth of cosmetic surgery.
With his help, along with money Wild earned modeling,
she's been able to afford permanent lip implants, botox, buttock
implants, a nose job and three rounds of breast surgery to increase her
bust size to a ginormous 32G.
Wild, who now lives in Cannes, France, is wild about the way she looks and so is her beau. "Simon loves my sex doll look.
I’m a bombshell now. People look at me in the street and men absolutely
adore me. Simon’s so proud of the attention I get," she said, according
to the Metro. "I get more glamour model work because how I look too. I
would love to become famous for being a sex doll."
Today in the word of
grotesque yet oddly intriguing artworks, we humbly present this giant
flesh cube atop a Swiss mountain. The massive hunk of faux organs is the
latest artistic creation from Swiss artist Andrea Hasler. Don't you wish more tourist postcards looked like this?
Hasler crafted two site-specific sculptures as part of a six-week artist residency in Verbier at Switzerland's 3-D Foundation.
The uncanny cubes comment on the excessive luxury tourism industry that
swallows the Swiss mountains up during the winter months.
To
depict the sudden change in the population as well as the atmosphere,
Hasler plopped two fleshy forms onto the landscape, both wrapped in luxe
gold chains. The juxtaposition of sleek gold bling and gloopy pink
insides mimics Hasler's masterful meshing of attraction and repulsion.
The chained up cubes also recall the emergency aid food pallets dropped
in disaster zones, a dark foil to Verbier's elite jet setters.
Although viewers have speculated that materials like chewing gum and meat
are responsible for Hasler's nauseatingly realistic sculptural works,
it's actually wax that gives them that spine-tinglingly human quality.
Somewhere between Madame Tussauds' wax figures and fast food's pink
slime, Hasler's chewed-up and spit-out insides are most certainly not
for everyone.
But if you get a sick satisfaction from that
particular kind of nastiness that keeps your stomach turning and your
eyes peeled, Hasler's human geometry will certainly do the trick. The
artsy innards will be on view until July 5, 2016 in the Swiss mountains.
We sure hope we didn't spoil anyone's plans to visit a Swiss luxury
resort in the near future.
Check out our previous coverage of Hasler's gutsy creations here and preview a clip of video installation "Avant/Après" below.
A Florida woman spent $20,000 to get a third boob surgically
implanted on her chest in a twisted attempt to look less attractive to
men.
"I don't want to date anymore," Jasmine Tridevil, 21, said in a recent radio broadcast when asked why she added the extra mammary complete with an artificial nipple and tattoo to resemble an areola.
But she's still proud of the triple nipple.
On her Facebook page, she thanks followers for sharing YouTube videos featuring her swiveling her hips in a tri-cup bikini. She also hired a camera crew to follow her around so she can pitch a reality show to MTV.
She
told Real Radio 104.1 that she reached out to more than 50 doctors
before one agreed to perform the surgery. The operation involved taking
skin tissue from her abdomen, adding a silicon implant and grafting it
between her two, natural breasts.
"It was really hard finding someone that would do it too because they’re breaking the code of ethics," she said. "But I got a breast implant and a mini implant to make it look like there’s a nipple poking out."
Tridevil -- a pseudonym -- says her parents aren't fond of the surgery.
Even in carnival sideshows, Tridevil's physique would strike many as out-of-this world.
"You couldn’t have done that in the early 20th century," Marc Hartzman, who literally wrote the book on American Sideshow,
told HuffPost Weird News. "That kind of cosmetic surgery wasn’t around.
People aren’t born that way, and I haven't even seen any sideshow
actors with three breasts that I can recall."
Our own HuffPost UK thinks Tridevil may have taking the idea from Total Recall, a film that made one woman with three breasts famous in 1990. And since Tridevil isn't revealing who her doctor is, the site also casts doubt on the boob's authenticity:
We
think you’ll agree [Total Recall's] prosthetics are pretty convincing
–- could it be that Tridevil simply followed suit and hasn’t been under
the knife after all?
Scientists have long known that the nearby galaxy Andromeda and our own Milky Way galaxy will collide in four to five billion years, but now a new computer simulation
(above) from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in
Western Australia shows what the colossal crash may look like.
The
simulation is part of new research showing that massive galaxies like
Andromeda tend to grow by snacking on smaller galaxies.
“All galaxies start off small and grow by collecting gas and quite efficiently turning it into stars,” lead researcher Dr. Aaron Robotham, an astronomer at the Centre's University of Western Australia node, said in a written statement. "Then every now and then they get completely cannibalized by some much larger galaxy."
An article describing the research was published online in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on September 18, 2014.
Looking for extraterrestrial life is akin to a search for a cosmic needle-in-a-haystack, as evidenced by the above incredible Hubble Space Telescope image showing approximately 10,000 galaxies.
In large part, thanks to NASA's Kepler spacecraft, more than 1,400 planets have been identified beyond Earth.
A
few days ago, NASA tried closing the gap between life on Earth and the
possibilities of life elsewhere. The space agency and the Library of
Congress (image below left) brought together scientists, historians,
philosophers and theologians from around the world for a two-day symposium, "Preparing For Discovery."
Their agenda: To explore how we prepare for the inevitable discovery of
extraterrestrial life, be it simple microbial organisms or intelligent
beings.
"We're
looking at all scenarios about finding life. If you find microbes,
that's one thing. If you find intelligence, it's another. And if they
communicate, it's something else, and depending on what they say, it's
something else!" said astronomer, symposium organizer and former chief
NASA historian, Steven J. Dick.
"The idea is not to wait until we
make a discovery, but to try and prepare the public for what the
implications might be when such a discovery is made," Dick told The
Huffington Post. "I think the reason that NASA is backing this is
because of all the recent activity in the discovery of exoplanets and
the advances in astrobiology in general.
"People just consider it
much more likely now that we're going to find something -- probably
microbes first and maybe intelligence later," he added. "The driving
force behind this is from a scientific point of view that it seems much
more likely now that we are going to find life at some point in the
future."
Among the many speakers at last week's astrobiology symposium, one has raised a few international eyebrows in recent years.
"I
believe [alien life exists], but I have no evidence. I would be really
excited and it would make my understanding of my religion deeper and
richer in ways that I can't even predict yet, which is why it would be
so exciting," Brother Guy Consolmagno, a Jesuit priest, astronomer and Vatican planetary scientist told HuffPost senior science editor David Freeman.
Consolmagno
has publicly stated his belief that "any entity -- no matter how many
tentacles it has -- has a soul," and he's suggested that he would be
happy to baptize any ETs, as long as they requested it.
"There has
to be freedom to do science. Being a good scientist means admitting we
never have the whole truth -- there's always more to learn." Consolmagno
also doesn't think the public would panic when or if it's revealed that
alien life has been found.
"I really think it would be a
three-day wonder and then we'd go back to worrying about reality TV or
the crazy things going on in Washington -- that's the way human beings
are. Because I think most people are like me: we expect it's out there.
And our reaction would be, 'Wow, thank heavens. It's about time."
Earth
is no longer the center of the universe, nor is it flat -- at least
that's the currently accepted thinking among most scientists. And we now
know, conclusively, that there are a lot more planets than the ones in
our own solar system.
"The number of habitable worlds in our
galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven't
even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see,
other than our own, is about 100 billion," Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at California's SETI Institute told HuffPost. Watch this video zooming and panning through the night sky to show 10,000 galaxies photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
At
the NASA/Library of Congress symposium, Shostak gave out some startling
numbers about how many stars there are in the part of the universe that
we can see. "It's a big number: 10,000 billion, billion. And we know
that most of those stars have planets -- 70 or 80 percent. If all of
those planets are sterile, and you're the only interesting thing
happening in the cosmos, then you are a miracle. That would be
exceptional in the extreme. So, the middle-of-the-road approach is to
say, 'You're not a miracle, you're just another duck in a row of
ducks.'"
"The bottom line of this," Shostak said, "is something
like one in five of all stars may have an analog to Earth. That's a lot
of habitable worlds, and, indeed, the number of Earths in our own galaxy
might be on the order of 50 billion."
Those are big numbers to ponder.
The
D.C. conference included a great deal of discussion about the upcoming
mission of the Hubble's long-anticipated successor: the James Webb Space Telescope.
As large as a tennis court, this deep space observatory is scheduled
for a 2018 launch and will orbit beyond our moon. The Webb telescope
will focus on new planetary discoveries and collect data from the
atmospheres of those planets, looking for certain things that might
point to what we would consider possible indicators of life.
HuffPost asked Dick, an astrobiologist, for his opinion on the continuing output of UFO reports around the world.
"I
try to keep an open mind on this. Ninety-some percent can be explained
by natural phenomena, etc. The question is what to do with the other 3
or 4 percent," Dick said. "My opinion is that they should be studied
further, on the one hand. By definition, they're something that we don't
know what they are. They could be some physical, psychological or
social phenomena that we don't know about. But I think it's jumping to a
conclusion that they're extraterrestrial. I don't see that evidence.
"I
haven't looked at the evidence close enough to say that there's
intelligence behind it. But I've seen enough to know that there are
unexplained things that we should look at more, and right now, the U.S.
government is not doing that."
Some dogs have a hard time communicating their emotions, but not Abby Doo the Great Dane.
Watch the video above to see her express how she's feeling through song.
While it may not be genuine doggy communication, we're still happy this video exists (and we know it).
A nice forest retreat turned into a Rambo-esque hunt for vengeance after a rabid bat bit a guitar-strumming man.
Oregon man Derrick Skou was jamming out with his bros last weekend at a campsite in Clackamas County when the attack occurred, KATU first reported.
Skou
told the station he wanted to record the music session on video because
he was really grooving when the rabid bat finally had enough and went
in for the bite.
Video shows the terrifying moment when the bat circles Skou and then clutches onto his shirt, climbing up to his neck, and biting him like a vampire reject.
"It
was like a cold dog nose,” Skou told KATU. “It was a cold bat nose,
mouth, whatever. It didn't sting. I wasn't injected with anything. It
was just a cold bite.”
Skou said the bat camped out in a tree
before swooping down at least two other times to finish off his prey.
Thankfully, it was no match for a BB gun, which quickly took the
creature down.
"[We wondered] whether we would get in trouble for
shooting it, and I said well, it drew first blood. We need to take care
of this thing,” he said.
Multnomah County health officials took the bat and confirmed that it had rabies.
Skou
will now have to get several painful shots to prevent him from
contracting the disease. Maybe he should write a little song about it.
Winter came a little too soon for some Americans this week, as an
early-season snow storm moved through parts of the western United
States.
And it’s more than just a dusting. The three day average
shows several areas of South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming received more
than seven inches of snow, according to the Weather Channel. Up to 18 inches was estimated to have fallen in the Bighorn Mountains in northern Wyoming. North Platte, Nebraska; Rapid City, South Dakota and Cody, Wyoming
all reported the earliest snowfall on record this week. Boulder,
Colorado also saw its first snow of the season, with less than an inch
reported on Friday morning.
Photos of what some are calling “Snowtember” appeared on social media and local news outlets. While some celebrated the first snow of the season, others lamented that the rest of the country was still enjoying summer while they froze.
Snow blankets the town of Cut Bank, Montana (mikeyg733/AccuWeather)
Snow falls in Cut Bank (mikeyg733/AccuWeather).
Thick snow obscures the road in Cut Bank (mikeyg733/AccuWeather)
This kid from Calgary, which saw heavy snow earlier this week, summed up what many are thinking about the early winter.
This pretty Persian kitten has more than just a case of sniffles.
And while your owner, Nick Cornelison,
chuckles empathetically at your plight, Romeo, we can only imagine how
many more sneezes you had coming your way after this 6-second Vine was
recorded. Trust us -- there's a "bless you" coming from us for each and
every one of them, and hey, at least you couldn't sneeze in a more
adorable way, paws raised and all.
Don't forget to breathe, cutie!
"Supervenus" is a short film by animator Frederic Doazan that manages
to capture all the horror and grotesque idolatry wrapped up in Western
beauty standards... in just under two and a half minutes.
WARNING:
This film is not for the weakhearted. It takes a tame sketch of a nude
woman and cuts, tweaks and snips at it until it resembles a zombie-like
figure. The plastic gloves, scalpel and precise trimming of body hair
only up the ante of this strange and captivating commentary on the
impossibility of female body expectations.
"Western society imposes standards of beauty inconsistent with
physical and psychological health," reads the YouTube description of the
video. "Disorders such as anorexia and addiction to cosmetic surgery
and body dysmorphic disorder in both men and women are encouraged. It is
imposing an image of physical care seeking eternal youth."
Feast your eyes on the illuminating horror above.
He's back in all his cardboard box-loving glory, everyone. (But did Maru the cat ever really leave?)
In this new Maru video,
Youtube's favorite feline encounters a new set of boxes to explore. He
regards them with as much curiosity as ever, until one breaks as he
climbs into it. The nerve of that box!
We hope the faulty construction doesn't deter him from future box endeavors. Play on, Maru -- we love you.
h/t Tastefully Offensive
What started out as an ordinary game of peekaboo turned into big surprise gone wrong.
Formerly
bearded dad Bradley Bailey was playing an innocent game of peekaboo
with his young daughter when he excused himself for a moment between
rounds. In a video he uploaded to YouTube, the little girl giggles as she pulls a cloth away from his face to reveal her smiling daddy, facial hair and all.
After
a few goes, Bailey tells his daughter he'll "be right back" and steps
away for a bit. He returns with his face covered again, ready for
another round of peekaboo. Only this time when the little girl starts to
pull the cloth away, she is stunned by what she sees -- her now
beardless daddy.
The child's reaction is an honest mix of shock, horror, and despair. RIP beard.
Designed by Christian Cowan-Sanluis
and tech product group Acer, the sparkling pink, wide-brim headgear
contains a dropdown tablet to snap selfies anywhere on the go.
The hat can also spin around (don't all hats?).
As Acer explains, "The sombrero style hat spins 360-degrees and has an
integrated Acer Iconia A1-840 tablet which enables struggling selfie
takers to find their best angle."
Don't get too excited just yet.
These saucer-like contraptions aren't hitting retailers anytime soon,
but will be on display during London Fashion Week. For those seriously
interested in the limited-edition hat, you'll have to set up a
consultation with Cowan-Sanluis first.
Cowan-Sanluis (pictured above) is also the designer behind many of Lady Gaga's outfits, which could explain the hat's more theatrical look.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's chronic shortages have begun to encroach on a cultural cornerstone: the boob job.
Beauty-obsessed
Venezuelans face a scarcity of brand-name breast implants, and women
are so desperate that they and their doctors are turning to devices that
are the wrong size or made in China, with less rigorous quality
standards.
Venezuelans once had easy access to implants approved
by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. But doctors say they are now
all-but impossible to find because restrictive currency controls have
deprived local businesses of the cash to import foreign goods. It may
not be the gravest shortfall facing the socialist South American
country, but surgeons say the issue cuts to the psyche of the
image-conscious Venezuelan woman.
"The women are complaining," said Ramon Zapata, president of the
Society of Plastic Surgeons. "Venezuelan women are very concerned with
their self-esteem."
Venezuela is thought to have one of the
world's highest plastic surgery rates, and the breast implant is the
seminal procedure. Doctors performed 85,000 implants here last year,
according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
Only the U.S., Brazil, Mexico and Germany — all with significantly
larger populations — saw more procedures.
There are no official
statistics on how many Venezuelans are walking around with enhanced
busts. But a stroll down any Caracas street reveals that the
augmentations are at least more conspicuous here than in other
surgery-loving places. Even the mannequins look they've gone under the
knife.
Until recently, women could enter raffles for implants held
by pharmacies, workplaces and even politicians on the campaign trail.
During this spring's anti-government street demonstrations, the
occasional sign protesting the rising price of breast implants mixed in
with posters railing against food shortages and currency devaluation.
"It's
a culture of 'I want to be more beautiful than you.' That's why even
people who live in the slums get implants," surgeon Daniel Slobodianik
said, fiddling with an FDA-approved pouch of saline solution no longer
on sale here.
Slobodianik used to perform several breast implants
each week, but now performs closer to two a month. He says women call
his office every day asking if he the implant size they're looking for.
When they can't find it, they choose a second-best option, almost always
a size up.
No one is giving the frustrated women much sympathy,
especially not the government. The consumerism of plastic surgery has
always jibed awkwardly with the rhetoric of socialist revolution. The
late President Hugo Chavez called the country's plastic surgery fixation
"monstrous," and railed against the practice of giving implants to
girls on their 15th birthdays.
On social media, some Venezuelans
take a judgmental tone, saying the panic over implants shows the real
shortage here is values. Others joke that the scarcity will force
Venezuelan women to start developing their personalities, using a
Twitter hashtag that riffs on the Colombian telenovela "Sin Tetas, No
Hay Paraiso" ("Without Boobs, There's No Paradise").
In the
absence of U.S. brands, plastic surgery has become an area dominated by
Venezuela's chief trading partner, China, whose goods are often given
priority for import over those from other countries. They're also a lot
cheaper. While a pair of implants approved by European regulators can
cost as much as $600 — about the same as the annual minimum wage here —
the Chinese equivalent goes for a third of that. Some Venezuelan doctors
refuse to use the Chinese devices, which are not subjected to random
government inspections or clinical studies.
"I'm not saying
they're not safe, but I've removed more than a few ruptured Chinese
implants. I just don't feel comfortable with them," Slobodianik said.
April
Lee, an analyst at the Massachusetts-based health care research company
Decision Resources Group, said the medical community frowns on the use
of non-FDA-approved implants.
Unable to find the devices in
doctors' offices, some women are turning to the Venezuelan equivalent of
the bartering website Craigslist, where sellers post pictures of black
market implants of unknown origin sitting in sealed packages on kitchen
tables, complete with stories of spouses who changed their minds and
reassurances that the pouches remain sterile.
It's not just women
looking for a more attention-getting silhouette who are struggling; some
patients are in urgent medical need. Lisette Arroyo, 46, waited two
months this summer to get her ruptured implants replaced, dealing with
intense itching while waiting for new devices to arrive from France. She
had to buy them directly from the manufacturer before they could be
shipped, spending the entire $300 in foreign currency the government
permits Venezuelans annually. The surgery can cost another $800.
"This country is not what it used to be," she said earlier this month as awaited surgery in a blue paper gown.
For
the doctors trying to manage their patients' expectations, the
shortages are no less grave than Venezuela's other hardships. Dr. Miguel
Angel Useche's, who performed Arroyo's delayed surgery, says women
sometimes save for years for their operations, and to be told they must
wait longer can be unbearable.
"Women call me up saying: 'I've made so many sacrifices for this. How can you not help me?'" he said.
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