Today, in honor of Edward Gorey’s birthday, we asked lensmasters to seek out and find great lenses about things that were odd or unique.
Edward Gorey was an American writer, artist and illustrator who worked in a very odd and unique way which is most revered in the Goth community today.
Here on Squidoo we love unique content. In fact, we believe the more unique the better. Your content doesn’t have to be weird to be unique either. It just has to be unique to your topic.
Here’s a few of our favorite odd or unique lenses chosen from the many, many, MANY lenses that were submitted, so far, today. You’ll find everything from Bacon Roses to Ancient Roman Toilets. Enjoy!
The Ancient Romans were skilled sanitation engineers and they had something that the modern world didn’t achieve again till the seventeenth century. Toilets. If you came along with me on a time- travel trip to first century Rome, you would find the toilet…
2. Make a Bouquet of Bacon Roses
Roses are red, violets are blue. But BACON is DELICIOUS! For Valentine’s Day or any special occasion, put a savory spin on the traditional rose bouquet by making your own bacon roses. photo by Amy N.
We all have them. A bag or a basket, filled with odd socks lurks in the laundry room or behind a closet door. Filled with the lonely survivors of a relationship that ended recently or long ago when an adventurous mate took off for grander things,or perhaps…
4. Colorful Flowers and Sunset Paintings
I love flowers, and I love the sun. I have painted, I would say, hundreds of pieces featuring funky, abstract flowers and whimsical, sunset beach scenes. I am not a winter person, I tend to get cranky. Moving from NY to Florida when I was a teenager was a…
5. What is Katamari? A primer on the oddball and unique Japanese video game series
Katamari Damacy (or Katamari Damashii) roughly translates to ‘clump spirit’. It also refers to a successful Japanese video game created by Keita Takahashi that involves pushing and rolling a highly sticky ball around, collecting objects in its path, and th…
What an awesome animal the armadillo is. It comes in a range of sizes and species, from the tiny Fairy to the 130- pound Giant. It has few teeth, so it grabs dinner with a sticky tongue. And it has a suit of armor to protect itself when it needs to escape…
7. Little Apple Dolls – Welcome to the Inbetween
This page is all about Little Apple Dolls, how to collect them and where to find them. Little Apple Dolls are a series of cult dolls created by artist Ufuoma Urie. Both eerie and beautiful at once, the dolls are each essentially alike but dressed in differ…
8. A Gross, Gross Anatomy Party
Throwing an anatomy party at Halloween is a great excuse to have some fun making ‘edible’ body parts using different gelatin molds. It can also be an ultimate science geek party idea. An anatomy party can be fun and educational for children (and anatomy st…
9. Top 10 Weird Ice Cream Flavors
Weird ice cream flavors seem to be spreading. Around the world you can now find many really unusual, weird and sometimes downright horrible, ice cream flavors. I don’t know about you but I love my ice cream. I could have easily made a list of my favorites,…
