🍾 Bottle Ballet

#1 – Ten Fingers, Ten Brushes: Meet Artist Serge Feeleenger

The self-taught artist who turned a minor annoyance into a signature style!

Most painters spend a surprising amount of studio time doing something that isn't painting: setting one brush down, rinsing it, picking up another, and finding the rhythm again. Serge Feeleenger decided he was done with all of that.

His solution? Stop putting brushes down. Period...

#2 – Bekah Burke Dances "En-Pointe" on Glass Bottles

One photo from 1958 sent Bekah Burke up onto a row of champagne bottles!

Bekah Burke steps onto the neck of a champagne bottle. Then another. Then a third. She's on her toes, in pointe shoes, on glass... and nothing wobbles.

Believe It or Not!, Bekah is a ballet dancer who also performs circus arts. Bottle walking wasn't in her training; in fact, it all came from a photograph...

#3 – Welcome to Sloth Valley: Meet Rico and Cleo at Ripley's Aquarium of Myrtle Beach

An immersive rainforest habitat brings you toe-to-toe with these amazing animals!

Some animals have impressive speed. Others can fly at incredible heights. Sloths? They take their sweet time, and they've made an art of it. Believe It or Not!, a wild sloth climbs down from the treetops only about once a week, spending nearly its entire life hanging upside-down in the rainforest canopy.

You don't have to trek deep into a South American jungle to meet one. At Ripley's Aquarium of Myrtle Beach, Sloth Valley is home to two resident two-toed sloths who are always ready for their close-up...

#4 – Do Sunflowers Always Face the Sun?

For older sunflowers, heliotropism isn’t all that. 

Ah, sunflowers! They’ve been the muse of countless artists, including Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh. They remain the breezy favorite of Farmhouse Country décor, appearing on countless kitchen towels, oven mitts, and cookie jars. And they’ve contributed to Hip-Hop/R&B history, too.

But artists, interior decorators, and musicians aren’t the only ones fascinated by these colorful plants. Scientists continue to study the golden blooms, too. Particularly the sunflower’s tendency to track the sun throughout the day, a quality known as heliotropism.  

But do sunflowers always face the sun? The short answer is “no.” ...

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