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Strange Foreign Objects in Dog Feces
"Almost finished scooping. Wait! What's that shiny thing over there? Bending down, I see a dog turd. Looking closer (but not too close), I am amazed at what I see: An entire strand of purple Mardi Gras beads that I had caught a few weeks before at the Galveston Mardi Gras celebration. And the strand is intact."

Toast Portraits of Famous People
"Portraits created from toast. The portraits require many thousands of slices of bread, toasted to different tones to create skin highlights and shadow. They measure many meters in height and width, and are displayed as billboards or in public spaces as the best view is gained from being some distance from the work."

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