If you’ve ever looked at your cat and thought, ‘Yeah, she’s cute – but I just wish she looked a little more badass,’ then one woman has the answers to all your prayers. Airie McCready runs Etsy shop SimplySphynx, where you can get some tattoo sleeves, amongst other things, for your pet. Now, before you panic, of course these are not actual tattoos – the sleeve is part of a little top that you can pop on your cat, which makes your feline friend look as though they’re heavily tatted-up. What a time to be alive, eh? The Tattcat tops are available in a number of designs and styles; most importantly they’re bloody adorable. The tops are priced from…

Available online, these will turn your tea sessions into lessons on marine biology. Japanese tea bag maker Ocean-Teabag has been making waves by creating little parcels of aroma in the shape of marine animals. Luckily for us, their wide range of tea bags are available at online Japanese novetly retailer Village Vanguard, maker of such fine products as Space Tea and cat-shaped kitchen utensils. Ocean-Teabag’s earliest designs included beautiful dolphin tea bags filled with blue mallow tea leaves. Steeping them turns your otherwise normal pot of water into a tranquil ocean. Proving to be a hit among tea lovers, Ocean-Teabag expanded their repertoire to many other sea creatures including the…

The island of Montserrat in the West Indies became a Caribbean Pompeii when in 1995, the Soufrière Hills volcano woke up. The capital was buried in more than 12 metres of mud while the rest of the island was mostly wiped out except for a small unaffected area on the northern tip. Under a thin layer of earth, Monserrat is still burning underneath. Only a few thousand residents remain, rebuilding life on the northern tip, forbidden to visit their old homes in the restricted southern exclusion zone. Located right on the border of this exclusion zone, partially covered with ash and hardened mud, engulfed in tropical overgrowth, is the ruins of…

Imagine driving to work using the same route as always only to find that one of the drab overpasses along the way has been given a LEGO-lift! That is what happened to residents of Wuppertal, Germany when Martin Heuwold of Mgex painted a train overpass to appear like it had been fitted with a series of colorful LEGO bricks. . . It took Martin four weeks to complete the project, which required a lot of help from the municipality who cordoned off the space while the artist completed the vibrant transformation. As a result, the LEGO-lift wouldn’t have been a surprise for anyone who passes through on a daily basis, but it has to brighten…

Netflix has announced that the massively popular animated anthology show Love, Death & Robots will return for a second season. The streaming giant announced the good news via its See What’s Next Twitter account, also confirming that the director of two of the Kung Fu Panda movies and The Darkest Minds, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, will act as a supervising director for the forthcoming episodes. According to the Twitter post, Nelson will ‘oversee all episodes’. Whatever exactly that means isn’t clear, but it is exciting, nonetheless. That is pretty much all we know about this so far, to be fair. We’ll just have to wait and see what emerges over the coming months. The first series of Love, Death &…

A Japanese TV writer who decided to dress his 84-year-old grandfather in a host of designer clothes has revealed the pair now have 100,000 followers on Instagram. Naoya Kudo returned to his hometown of Akita Prefecture in Japan last month for ‘Golden Week’, a special time in the country’s calendar that contains a number of national holidays. During his week off work Mr Kudo visited his hardworking granddad Tetsuya, who lives in the rural region and still farms the land well into his 80s. The former chemistry teacher isn’t accustomed to designer brands celebrities and fashion-focused youths are wearing these days, so for fun, Mr Kudo decided to dress him up in…