Pencil Color Crayon Art of Painting Artist By Christian Faur

Clip At first glance these pictures look like nothing more than pixelated photographs but closer inspection reveals the images are actually created using thousands of wax crayons.

Bored with paint and pencils, inventive artist, Christian Faur, turned to the childhood favourite for inspiration after seeing his young daughter using them.

Christian, from Granville, USA, starts each piece by scanning a photograph and breaking the image down into coloured blocks.

'The individual 'pixels' of wax are precisely packed into specific locations to produce something that uniquely balances both photography and sculpture'

He then places thousands of crayons into a grid - like coloured pixels on a television screen - before packing the finished piece into a wooden frame.

The result is a realistic image which only reveals it's humble Crayola roots on close inspection.

The Ohio artist said: 'My earliest memories of making art involve the use of wax crayons.

I can still remember the pleasure of opening a new box of crayons, the distinct smell of the wax, the beautifully coloured tips, everything still perfect and unused.

'Using the first crayon from a new box always gave me a slight pain. To the best of my knowledge this is unlike anything ever done before in art.

'The individual 'pixels' of wax are precisely packed into specific locations to produce something that uniquely balances both photography and sculpture.'

Scientists Claim Human Brain May Have Reached Full Capacity

Scientists claim the human brain is at capacity and is too tiring to get smarter

We've invented penicillin, space shuttles, computers and even artificial hearts, among many other wonders. So where will human intelligence go from here?



The answer, if certain scientists are correct, is nowhere.



Mankind’s brain power has reached its peak and it is physically impossible for us to become any smarter, they say.



They claim that in order to become any more intelligent the human brain would need vast amounts of extra energy and oxygen – and we simply cannot provide it.



Cambridge University researchers have analysed the structure of the brain and worked out how much energy its cells use up.



Simon Laughlin, professor of neurobiology, said: ‘We have demonstrated that brains must consume energy to function and that these requirements are sufficiently demanding to limit our performance and determine design.



'Far-reaching powers of deduction demand a lot of energy because for the brain to search out new relationships it must constantly correlate information from different sources.



‘Such energy demands mean there is a limit to the information we can process.’



Other scientists claim that the brain’s ‘wiring’ or network of fibres linking different areas to one another cannot get any better.



They have found that the cleverest people have the best wiring, with messages carried very quickly between different parts of the brain.



But scientists claim that the wiring would need vast amounts of extra energy to become more efficient. As before, they say it is impossible for humans to provide this, therefore we cannot get cleverer.



Ed Bullmore, professor of psychiatry at Cambridge, where he specialises in brain imaging, measured the efficiency with which different parts of the brain communicated with each other.



He found impulses travelled fastest in smarter people and slower in those who were less intelligent.



He said: ‘High integration of brain networks seems to be associated with high IQ.



‘You pay a price for intelligence. Becoming smarter means improving connections between different brain areas but this runs into tight limits on energy, along with space for the wiring.’



Martijn van den Heuvel, assistant professor of psychiatry at Utrecht medical centre in Holland, who also studies how differences in the wiring of human brains affects IQ, said: ‘Increasing the power of the brain would take a disproportionate increase in energy consumption.



'It is risky to predict the distant future but it is clear there are tight constraints on intelligence.’

Zhang Bin - Sword Pulled From Teen’s Skull

Zhang Bin - Sword Pulled From Teen’s Skull

The teenager had invited school friends to his house, but one guest brought the dangerous weapon.

Measuring 50cm, it's not known exactly how the sword penetrated 5cm deep into Zhang's forehead.

$190,000 Nightclub Receipt

“How’s this for a night out: here’s a receipt from the Las Vegas nightclub Tryst that comes to a grand total of $189,375.98, including tax and an amazing $29,581.20 tip. Some people are suggesting that the image — posted by Ben Reiter, a staff writer at Sports Illustrated — is possibly photoshopped. But we want to believe.”

Man drinks gasoline for 42 years

Man drinks gasoline for 42 years

Gasoline powers vehicles all around the world, but a sick Chinese man has been drinking the sticky liquid for 42 years under the illusion that it can relieve his physical pain.

Chen Dejun, 71, lives by himself in shabby thatched cottage on a hill in Shuijiang township, Nanchuan district of southwest China's Chongqing municipality. The short and bony man said he drinks 3 to 3.5 kilograms of gasoline every month, which he buys from a station at the foot of the hill.

Chen is known locally as a stonecutter and master of weaving bamboo with a good business sense. But he’s also known for his undying love of drinking gasoline.

He developed the habit back in 1969 when he suddenly began coughing and felt pain in his chest. Seeing no progress after trying some medicine, he took up the folk remedy of drinking kerosene, Chongqing Evening News reported.

It turned out to be helpful for him after the first sip, and he since became addicted to kerosene. Then he moved on to gasoline.

Chen said it is hard to calculate exactly how much gasoline he has swallowed throughout his life, but the newspaper reported Chen has consumed an estimated 1.5 tons over the past 42 years.

Chen's wife Yuan Huibi and their three sons tried many times to stop Chen's addiction to gasoline, but those efforts only made the family relations tense. Eight years ago Chen moved to the cottage to live alone.

Sources from Honglou Hospital in Chongqing said Chen‘s health is fine despite having symptoms of emphysema. Chen refused to receive free check ups from the hospital.

Feng Fu, an associate professor with the Second Hospital Affiliated to Chongqing Medical University, said Chen may have developed some resistance to gasoline. Otherwise, Feng said, it would be impossible for Chen to live. Feng also said gasoline may only work as anaesthetic for Chen but can’t cure his pain.

Man drinks gasoline for 42 years

Man drinks gasoline for 42 years

Lunch With Buffett Sells For $2.6M

Warren Buffett - Lunch With Buffett Sells For $2.6M

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch, at least not with Warren Buffett. An anonymous bidder paid $2,626,411 to eat lunch with the legendary Berkshire Hathaway investor, setting an eBay record – sort of. Bidding closed at $2,345,678, which would not have been a record, so once the auction closed, the bidder jacked up the price. Proceeds benefit go to the Glide Foundation, which provides social services to the poor and homeless in San Francisco. Buffett offers himself up as a lunch companion every year in an annually auction that has raised nearly $9 million in the last 12 years. Last year, an anonymous bidder paid $2.6 million, and in 2008, a Chinese investment fund manager paid $2.11 million. “I’ve met a lot of nice people through this,” Buffett said.”

Man Spends $271,000 At Night Club

Man Spends $271,000 At Night Club

“A bar bill that runs into six figures might cause more than a headache the next morning for most people. But when you’re a millionaire American gambler buying the world’s most expensive bottle of champagne it’s just a case of using up small change. Gambler Don Johnson, 49, broke the world record at a London nightclub for the most expensive bottle of bubbly ever bought during a night that saw him spend $271,000 on drinks.”