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How To: Transform Old Books Into Holiday Pumpkins
Whenever I write an article about cutting up old books to recycle them into a new use, part of me cringes. I know that books are becoming more obsolete, and especially if they are damaged, many people throw them away or toss them in the recycle bin anyway, so I usually try to remind myself that givi ...
4 Original Superhero Costumes: Classic Creative Brilliance
Superhero costumes have changed a lot over the years. I wasn't alive when the first Batman and Robin television series ran from 1966 - 1968, but even many years later, there was usually a cable channel somewhere on the dial that was playing reruns of that show. The costumes that Batman and Robin wor ...
Retro Super Mario 8-Bit Wedding Invitations
These are the geekiest, most creative and fantastic wedding invitations I've seen in a long time. I remember last spring when Richard wrote about the guy who proposed to his girlfriend in a very Super Mario Bros way. The video went viral, and I'm curious to know if that happy couple is already marri ...
Role Reversal: Men In Classic Pin-Up Poses
We are all familiar with the classic pin-up girl pictures. We've seen them in retro Coca-Cola ads and in calendars and posters from way back when. I always think those photographs are so interesting, and there is a lot to learn about what life was like in those days by just looking at them. We've ev ...
Cereal Boxes Redesigned To Tell The Truth
Imagine it's a lazy Saturday morning, and you are at the grocery store doing your usual shopping. You are walking slowly, sipping a cup of hot tea and occasionally dropping items into your cart. Then, suddenly, you look on the shelf to see a cereal called Sugar Diabetic Bear, Sugar Frosted Fat and F ...
The 50 Best Steve Jobs Tributes From All Over The World
Today it's been exactly one week since the very sad and untimely death of Steve Jobs. Since then, people all over the world have posted tributes online and offline to honor the visionary who has transformed all our lives. Even the Apple store right down the street from my house has an entire shrine ...
Tin Can Mastery: The Art Of Creating Toys Out Of Cans
Although we usually throw away tin cans, aluminum is of course a whole different thing, and we go out of our way to recycle it. Not only is it good for the environment, but we can make a few bucks from doing so as well. There is nothing wrong with making a little money while saving the environment, ...
Disney Princesses Redesigned As Real Women
We've written about the Disney princesses a lot on Bit Rebels. We've seen them as Vogue magazine supermodels, we've seen them being naughty, and we've even seen them being badasses, but one way we've never seen them before is as real women.
I've seen so many little girls over the years love those ...
Pocket People: Carry A Handmade Friend In Your Pocket
Are you frustrated with your lack of real friends on Twitter and Facebook? Do you find it difficult to deal with high maintenance friends who require so much attention? I have the perfect solution for you. Now you can instantly get a bunch more friends, and they won't be a bother at all! As a matter ...
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Gallery1988: Weird Pop Culture Art Of ’80s Celebrities [8 Pics]
Technology progresses at an ever increasing speed, and the stuff that we use today is not exactly the stuff that we used to play around with as kids, right? It's almost like if you were to take apart a Nintendo NES base station, you would actually understand what was going on underneath the lid. I p ...
Illustration: IRL Angry Birds Right In Your Own Backyard
A few years ago, there was a clear distinction between our virtual lives and our IRL lives. People often spoke of them as two separate entities; however, that has changed. For the most part, since we are all so immersed in our social media and technology, our online and our offline lives have merged ...
8 Outrageous Hairstyles All For Charity
Woah! These are some wild and crazy hair designs. The best part is that they were part of an event to raise money for charity, so that makes them even better. My only question is, obviously these designs on top of these women's heads aren't all made out of hair. When do they become hats instead of h ...
Unusual Art: Darth Vader Portrait Created With Salt
If there is one thing that being a writer at Bit Rebels has taught me, it's that art can be created from absolutely anything. Where one person might see trash, another person creates a treasure. We've seen it countless times, and although I don't know the exact numbers, my guess would be that we've ...
Drooling Zombie Lips: A Photoshop Masterpiece
Now this is a way to put Photoshop to good use! I just love these creepy, drooling zombie lips. You may be familiar with artist Stuntkid since his work is all over the Internet. Out of everything he's created thus far; I think this is my favorite.
Not only has award-winning artist and illustrator ...
How It Was Coded: Evolution Of Web Development Techniques
Coding a website just isn't the same as what it used to be. When the Internet was young and still only served up text, coding a website was quite easy. Back then it was all about HTML tags. After a while came all the new add-on languages that helped inject things that HTML just could not do. We've c ...