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Best Of The Rest: GIF Parties, Jamaican Bobsleighers, Dogecoins, And Next Level Origami

The week in creativity.

This week…

*These artists took origami to new heights. [BeautifulDecay]

*Beccy McCray's waste-themed exhibit opened in England and it looked ridiculously fun. [Beccy McCray]

*Dazed Digital came up with a list of their 10 favorite "digifeminist" artists, featuring Petra Cortright and a few other familiar faces. [DazedDigital]

*Artists Olympia Scarry and Neville Wakefield teamed up to make rural Gstaad, Switzerland this winter's arts field trip destination. [ArtInfo]

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*London's V&A are going to put (online) the entirety of the Nazi's 'degenerate art' exhibit of banned works. It's springtime for Expressionism! [The Art Newspaper]

*We felt bad for China's web junkies. [NYTimes]

*This Icelandic singer got a CGI makeover. [Nowness]

*Sailor.Moon.Scenery.Tumblr. That is all. [SailorMoonScenery]

*We were introduced to modern stained glass. [DesignSponge]

*Artist Jim Hodges turned denim into landscape collages. [ArtNews]

*One entrepreneur hoped to fight gangs in El Salvador via artisanal knot bracelets. [Papermag]

*Two brothers recreated photos from their childhood, with…interesting results. [ItsNiceThat]

*Hieroglyphics got superhero makeovers. [123Inspiration]

*The Tate London announced their GIF party and ya'll are invited. [Tate.org]

*Speaking of the Tate, the museum may now allow you tour the facilities via robot. [TheVerge]

*We were pretty excited to see the German Olympic team's all rainbow uniforms and Putin's brain explode. [USAToday]

*The Jamaican bobsleigh team raised $25,000 in made up (and adorable) currency Dogecoin to go to Sochi. What? [TheGuardian]

*PSFK talked about the future of wearable tech. [PSFK]

*Noel Gallagher gave a hilarious rundown of old Oasis videos."If you needed a band to walk in slow motion, that was us…" [Jezebel]

*It was announced that a cat cafe would be coming to San Francisco. In other news, it was just announced that the next cat cafe would actually be coming to the Vice offices, right now. Let's make it happen.  [SFist]

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*It turned out that Rancid's "Time Bomb" video was filmed at Kickstarter's old office. Black coat, white Mac, Cadillac? [FredBenenson]

*Art Fag City wondered if Rhode Island was the next arts capital. Water fires for everyone! [Art Fag City]

*In Finland, an old silo was turned into a futuristic lighthouse. [BeautifulDecay]

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