I posted about Ndeur yesterday, a company that made custom painted shoes. Here’s a bunch more, from today’s buzzfeed.

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Improveverywhere make the day for those little league kids: The best game ever

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Consolidated aesthetics: “I like the idea of a consolidated aesthetic totality; what you make looks like what you listen to, sounds like what you wear, and speaks like what you believe in. In simpler terms, my girlfriend might look like she’s in a band I’d listen to, my haircut looks like it belongs in the chair I’m sitting in, and the work I’m designing might be written about in a book that I would read.”

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“ ‘Bolero’ is an exercise in compulsivity, structure and perseveration,” Dr. Miller said. It builds without a key change until the 326th bar. Then it accelerates into a collapsing finale.Ravel [was] in the early stages of a rare disease called FTD, or frontotemporal dementia, when [he was] working on “Bolero”. The disease apparently altered circuits in their brains, changing the connections between the front and back parts and resulting in a torrent of creativity.

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Scratch beginnings: A guy moves to a randomly selected city with $25 and plans to have a place to live, a car, and $2,500 in the bank—all within one year.

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Americans and Europeans on religion, happiness, government, and war. Some surprising facts: French believes in God at 27% (73% in the U.S.) and think believing in God is necessary to have good values at 13% (58% in the U.S.)

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I’ve been building personas lately for projects at work and while searching for some infos I stumble upon this: “Personas are an extremely valuable tool for marketers in any field. If you’re not familiar with the term, personas are representations of your target audience based on research and interviews. From PR to digital to advertising, any marketing team or agency can benefit from developing client- and/or brand-specific personas.” A great graph explanation here.