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🎃 I’m starting Halloween early with a horror movie night with friends this weekend. We’ll be watching Netflix’s new horror, Mr Harrigan’s Phone, based on the Stephen King novella of the same name.
Viral British artist Mr Doodle completed his biggest project to date, covering every inch of his 12-room $1.54m mansion in Tenterden, near Kent in England, with his signature black and white doodles.
- Mr Doodle, real name Sam Cox, bought the house in 2020 and has covered every possible surface with his art — even the toilet and oven.
- This is to the dismay of the previous owners, who apparently pleaded with him not to doodle in the house.
- The massive project took two years to complete.
- Cox used 900 liters of white paint, 401 cans of black spray paint for the exterior, 286 bottles of black paint for the inside walls, and 2,296 pen nibs.
Mr Doodle’s success is all down to his social media accounts. To date, he has 2.7 million Instagram followers and over 95,000 YouTube subscribers.
- Cox has collaborated with brands like Puma and MTV Europe.
- And by March 2021, he’d made almost $4.7 million in sales in just over nine months.
- The artist made a two-minute stop-motion video of the process, which he shared in a now-viral Tweet.
We don’t recommend you try this at home, but if you’re looking to update your living space, you might want to consider setting up a smart home. Check out some of the best smart home devices, or read up on 5 things you should know before building an advanced smart home. We’ve even got the best budget devices for building a starter smart home, if you’re cash-strapped.
