If You Are In Manilla,

and have any old unwanted flip-flops, 

 give the to this guy, He has a special use for them, Elmer Padilla, a young construction worker from Manilla, Philippines, recently shot to internet fame after photos of his hand-made action figures went viral on multiple social networks,

 while being able to make your own action figures is an impressive talent in itself, what really caught people’s attention was the medium used by the Filipino amateur artist – old flip-flops, photos posted on a Facebook group dedicated to Filipino art show Elmer Padilla cutting colourful flip-flops on a sidewalk using knives and scissors, and assembling them into intricate toys like Transformers, Predator and Marvel superheroes,

 a father to 2 daughters, Elmer Padilla works as a construction worker in the village of Imus, but also supplements his income by making and selling these flip flop action figures, 

 impressed by his talent, his friend Adrian Soriano Bernabe shared photos of Elmer’s work on the GUHIT Pinas Facebook group, where they got nearly 3,000 likes in just a couple of days, from there, the photos wound up on the front page of Reddit, where they reached a whopping 86,000 upvotes, what a neat and novel way to make something out of an item that nobody wants.