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Baby I'm a nightmare dressed like a day dream~

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I love these cartoons done by Claude Combacau

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@marijncoertjens Hopes for Sweet Success at World Chocolate Masters

For more photos of Marijn’s chocolates, follow @marijncoertjens on Instagram.

World Chocolate Masters, currently underway in Paris, is the Olympics of chocolate competitions, and chef Marijn Coertjens (@marijncoertjens) intends to earn the equivalent of the gold medal. “I have competed in a lot of competitions, and this world championship will be my last,” he says. “So I have to win.” Born in Belgium, Marijn studied baking and pastry in school, and planned on working in a regular bakery shop in his hometown. But one day he came across a magazine that featured chocolate show pieces, and he immediately changed his course. “I wanted to be a part of the elite chefs of chocolate. And then I wanted to do competitions,” he says.

Check, check. Marijn is now master chocolatier for The Peninsula, a hotel in Hong Kong, and is among the finalists this week competing for the title “world chocolate master.” “Of course being the best in the world is great. If you’re best in the world in chocolate, you’re probably the best in the universe, because you can’t find chocolate on any other planet,” he says. “When I was a kid, I used to admire sport champions. They master a practice until they become the best. So now that I am quite good in chocolate I want to be the best.”

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Conjuring Monsters with @dominicqwek

For more of Dominic’s monsters and crazy alien warriors, follow @dominicqwek on Instagram.

Dominic Qwek’s (@dominicqwek) days and nights are filled with monsters — and he wouldn’t have it any other way. “Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated by monsters and scary-looking aliens,” Dominic says. Born in Singapore, Dominic, who’s 35, now lives with his wife (an artist and occasional creative collaborator) in Southern California, where he’s a character designer for the video game company Blizzard Entertainment. Inspired by the unforgettable creatures that slithered and munched their way through so many classic sci-fi thrillers, especially the Alien and Predator films, Dominic spent countless hours when he was younger filling notebooks with drawings of nightmarish, oddly beautiful beasts. Today, working with advanced software as well as old-school modeling techniques and 3-D printers, he designs eye-popping creatures for popular video games (Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and others) and for his own amusement — including the ultra-freaky inhabitants of what he calls a “holistic universe of crazy alien warriors.” In the end, Dominic seems at peace delving ever deeper into the darker realms of his own imagination. “Being in a career like this requires a lot of passion,” he says. “I can’t imagine someone who doesn’t love monsters doing this for a living.”

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Creepy-Crawly Clay Art with @dogzillalives

For more photos of Karen’s sculptures, follow @dogzillalives on Instagram.

Karen Main (@dogzillalives) can create one of her bewitching, multi-tentacle polymer clay pieces in one day, with another day to paint them. Not bad for an artist who only began working with polymer five years ago just for the fun of it. “I was doing beadwork for a while,” says Karen, who lives in Pawcatuck, Connecticut. “There were cool things online incorporating polymer clay, so I started trying it. It’s easy to work with.” However the glass eyes, which feature so prominently in her work, are a bit more of a challenge. Unable to find them inexpensively, Karen started making her own and strives to keep making them more detailed. As for the slithery tentacles? “I have a lot of love for weird sea creatures,” she explains. Yet, while her sculptures might give some people goose bumps, she has no plans for Halloween. “I’m just normally very quiet and I don’t like to talk to people,” she says. “I sit in my own little world and make monsters.”

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How We Treat Mental Illness Vs. How We Treat Physical Illness

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Truth, and it's bull shit.

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We the haunted souls, the waltzing ghosts still wishing to dance together.

Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

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#persona4 #teddy

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Arizona weeds and rain...

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The beautiful outdoors... #raindrops (at Kingman Arizona 86409)

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#deepthoughtsoftheday #nodoubt (at Kingman, Arizona)

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Wearing my Mom's favorite hair pins today. The first time I have ever touched them since she gave them to me.

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I think I'm in love... #fatkidatheart

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The dinner plate for kings!!

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#bored

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off your doorstep and into the street

the night doesn’t die and the day doesn’t die they just switch places for a while and when the sun is hiding behind your apartment building and after they ring the last church bell,

before they go in to meditate and pray and do the laundry there is something that hangs in the air, a holy thing that slides between the midnight cars and unloads the loneliest kisses onto the loneliest people

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northernwatersglass x  spillerwoods

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