The Carina Nebula.

In this week’s “around the web” segment, ThisBlogRules ventures out into the furthest reaches of our galaxy, and other galaxies, by way of a trusty telescope; it turns out our universe can be pretty spectacular. We also take a look at some creepy abandoned water parks, one particularly nasty tattoo, and we examine the undying connection between nerds and spectacles. It’s all right here in our “around the web” special; just don’t stare at that tattoo for too long – it’ll give you nightmares.

British street artist Boxi is becoming more popular everyday as he takes over the streets of Germany, one wall at a time. He is most commonly known for his haunting, post-apocalyptic work, but now his work more often shows the charming touches of humanity.

A creepy morgue via Environmental Graffiti

For a new TBR (This Blog Rules) segment, the TBR staff hopped on a TBR-branded plane and traveled around the web in search of intriguing blog posts. They searched near and far, and what they uncovered amazed even them. So, cozy up on your favorite couch, open an ice cold bottle of Pepsi (we’re a Pepsi nation here at TBR), grab a bag of steaming, buttered popcorn, and take a gander at the links below. Oh, one more thing: be sure to dip each kernel of popcorn into an Arnold Palmer before you eat it. Sounds kind of gross, but trust me–it’s delectable.

The work of Italian artist Filippo Minelli can be described as something between work of art and reality. It’s not exactly street art, but something similar to that. He definitely draws attention with his painted words and logos that pop out from almost nowhere.

There is a lot of fancy and impressive graffiti art out there, so much that you can’t separate them anymore, but have you ever seen a 3D graffiti before? Italian street artist called Peeta has been decorating street walls since 1993, so lack of skills is obviously not an issue here. Now he is hand painting three dimensional graffiti art both indoor and outdoor.