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- <i>Life</i> Magazine's 1947 Challenge to Comic Strip Artists: Draw Your Characters While Blindfolded
- One Night Cough Syrup
- Unsettling Trivia About Popular Movies
- The Wonders of The Blue Ball Machine
- Blood and Ice Cream - A Big Screen Scream
- TARDIS for Little Time Lords
- Groot's Grooves - Coming To An Arboretum Near You
- Stephen King's Novels Summarized In 140 Characters Or Less
- Pop Culture Action Figure Dioramas by Wake
- Dogs That Look Like Someone (or Something) Else
- Childish Priorities
- Pretty Crabby
- 34 People Having Fun with Statues
- Classic Legend Of Zelda Artwork By Katsuya Terada
- Top Ten Saddest Robot Deaths
- 41 Great Two-Person Costumes for Halloween
- States That Are Flatter Than Kansas
- Dog Tries to Not Get Caught Looking at His Human's Food
- C is for Counseling - The Dangers Of Cookie Addiction
- Toolbox Built into the Back of an Old Van
- Whodunit: The Pretender's Ball
- Dog Takes Toddler For a Roll
- The Call of the Wild
- The Luckiest Cyclist in Russia
- The 26 Feels Every Guy Goes Through When Shopping With His Girlfriend
- Twin Red Panda Cubs at Play
- Delightfully Geeky Stained Glass Lamps
- Apollos Hester Post-game Interview
- Artist Recreates Famous Photographs with John Malkovich
| Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:00 AM PDT This is a really simple game. You know that is a loaded statement. Just because a game is simple doesn’t mean it can’t be maddeningly difficult to win, or finish. I’m not sure this game even has a finishing, or winning, point. All you do is click the tile that is a different color. But the further you go, the less contrast there is in the tiles. Eventually you will be seeing waves of color and changing tiles, although that’s in your head. How far will you go? I made it to level 23 once, although I stumbled at 18 the first time around. -via Metafilter  | ||||||||
| <i>Life</i> Magazine's 1947 Challenge to Comic Strip Artists: Draw Your Characters While Blindfolded Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:00 AM PDT In 1947, Life magazine challenged some of the top comic strip artists of the day to draw their iconic characters while blindfolded. It seemed reasonable that the artists, having drawn their characters so many times, might have established total muscle memory for the task. | ||||||||
| Posted: 23 Sep 2014 02:00 AM PDT Back in the day, medicine didn't fool around, not even for a cough. This picture shows the alarming active ingredients in One Night Cough Syrup. I’m sure anyone that took this got their money’s worth. It would certainly stop your cough, or at least make you forget you had one. It’s nice that they assured us the alcohol was less than 1%, as if that was the scariest ingredient. -via Boing Boing | ||||||||
| Unsettling Trivia About Popular Movies Posted: 23 Sep 2014 01:00 AM PDT Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is largely considered to be a movie classic; a cautionary tale about ill-mannered children, among other things. While the story occasionally dips into darker territory, such as the harsh punishments for the childrens' infractions, mostly the sweetness of Charlie's relationship with his grandfather and the happy ending keep the overall picture light. Read more unsettling facts behind popular films here. | ||||||||
| The Wonders of The Blue Ball Machine Posted: 23 Sep 2014 12:00 AM PDT Image Credit: YouTube Do you ever find yourself looking at something, and somehow just losing yourself in its intricacies? It can be artwork, or a moment glimpsing at the sky, but it just grabs you, and in that moment, nothing else exists? That is how I feel about the Blue Ball Machine. I think that title sounds a little off-color, so we I will avoid using that expression again. Just trust me. Click the above link, and be prepared to be sucked in. A couple of pieces of advice before you do go there. It may seem old-school and overwhelming at first, but the way to find a flow to it all is watch just one ball is it runs its journey through the machine. Before you know it, you are sitting there, glued to your screen at this mesmerizing display. It may look old-school, and may seem archaic, but who cares? Once you get enraptured by the machine, little else will matter. At least for a minute or two, anyway. | ||||||||
| Blood and Ice Cream - A Big Screen Scream Posted: 22 Sep 2014 11:00 PM PDT Blood and Ice Cream by Tom Trager Simon served his own brand of leading man justice across three radically different films, smashing pints along the way, and in the end we were left with a multifaceted portrait of the man. He's a lover, a drinker, and he's no stranger to both giving and receiving a smackdown. He's a loyal friend, no matter how drunk he is, and aside from a few freakouts he stands brave in the face of unspeakable evil. He's quite the hero, ain't he?! Celebrate your favorite actor's finest films with this Blood and Ice Cream t-shirt by Tom Trager, it's the perfect attire to wear during movie night or a night spent fighting zombies and alien invaders... Visit Tom Trager's Facebook fan page, Twitter and Tumblr then head on over to his NeatoShop for more bloody good designs:
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| Posted: 22 Sep 2014 11:00 PM PDT Vanja Vinter made this stroller that is perfect for a Gallifreyan baby. Both the outside and the inside (the latter of which is larger) are stylishly decorated in the colors and patterns you'd expect from a Whovian. So take your baby out in the pram. It's chilly out, so wear a bonnet. Bonnets are cool. -via Nerd Approved | ||||||||
| Groot's Grooves - Coming To An Arboretum Near You Posted: 22 Sep 2014 10:03 PM PDT Groot's Grooves by Emilie Boisvert Guarding the galaxy doesn't really pay much, so when Groot is between missions he likes to flex his twiggy fingers and spin some deep roots grooves. He might not say much, or rock the mic like his boy Rocket, but when he lets his leafs down and gets the party started you'll discover another one of Groot's powers is the ability to make peope want to dance the night away! Add some fresh superheroic flavor to your geeky wardrobe with this Groot's Grooves t-shirt by Emilie Boisvert, and guard your wardrobe against the forces of boring fashion! Visit Emilie Boisvert's Facebook fan page, official website, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more fabulously far out designs:
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| Stephen King's Novels Summarized In 140 Characters Or Less Posted: 22 Sep 2014 10:00 PM PDT Stephen King is one of America’s most beloved authors, and his fan base has bridged the gap between horror aficionados and mainstream readers like nobody has before. But what about those who are new to King’s dark world? It could take them years to read every book King has ever written, and who has time to read full length books? Author and columnist Max Booth III took a note from Twitter and summarized each book in the Stephen King library using 140 characters or less, so people with short attention spans can catch up on their reading in about five minutes. Now you can tell your King fan friends that the plot to Carrie is actually "The tale of a brave girl with telekinesis taking the Ice Water Challenge during prom", and that The Shining is simply a story where "A writer fights his family". It's so easy! You can read all of Max's perfectly concise summarizations over at LitReactor | ||||||||
| Pop Culture Action Figure Dioramas by Wake Posted: 22 Sep 2014 09:00 PM PDT An artist who goes by the name Wake takes custom action figures and creates entire 1/6 scale scenes from movies and TV shows to showcase them. Some are pretty near indistinguishable from the source material! Wake posted many pictures of his dioramas at the action figure forum Sideshow Freaks. You’ll find an index with a photo from many of his collections here, and you can follow the page numbers to see more of each collection. However, as the forum thread grows, the page numbers are a bit skewed, and you may have to look around a bit to see them all. Because there are a lot of pictures. | ||||||||
| Dogs That Look Like Someone (or Something) Else Posted: 22 Sep 2014 08:00 PM PDT
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| Posted: 22 Sep 2014 07:00 PM PDT As a parent, it can be hard to remember that my kids aren't miniature adults with appropriate values. I must be patient with them. Eventually, they will come to appreciate my online personal branding. | ||||||||
| Posted: 22 Sep 2014 06:00 PM PDT Caspar Babypants makes music for children. “Pretty Crabby” is the first song from the new album Rise and Shine. The video is a wonderful stop-motion animation featuring yarn crafts, by Charlotte Blacker and Mark Taylor. About the song:
Well, it worked for me! -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| 34 People Having Fun with Statues Posted: 22 Sep 2014 05:00 PM PDT It's a beautiful and grand statue that you walk by every day. You ignore it until it settles into the background of your life. But other people see great opportunities for hilarious photos. Abraham of 22 Words rounded up 34 pictures of people playing around with statues to great comedic effect. Images: unknown | ||||||||
| Classic Legend Of Zelda Artwork By Katsuya Terada Posted: 22 Sep 2014 04:00 PM PDT The original version of The Legend of Zelda on the NES became a classic because of the fun action gameplay, the lengthy RPG storyline, and the many hidden secrets gamers delighted in uncovering as they played through the game. It didn’t become a classic because of the in-game artwork, because at the time of its release the 8-bit color palette was so limited that the game designers were simply doing the best with the amount of pixels they were given. However, Japanese illustrator Katsuya Terada was creating all kinds of simply beautiful artwork based on the Legend of Zelda universe, which could be found in game booklets, magazines like Nintendo Power and various art books released in the late 80s. These amazing illustrations show the land of Hyrule, and the adventures of a brave boy named Link, as they would've looked if games like The Legend of Zelda and A Link To The Past were released today. You can see a great collection of Katsuya Terada's artwork created for The Legend of Zelda here -Via Slightly Warped | ||||||||
| Posted: 22 Sep 2014 03:00 PM PDT Robots in cinema are awesome. Since most of us were children, we always wanted a cool, nice, tough robot to be our friend, and it never seems to happen. But that is the beauty of the magic of film. In film, robots can be awesome and friendly and cute. The other problem with cinema is that they love to kill things off in the end. It is like a painful lesson of life, squeezed into 90 minutes. Everything you ever love will die. Yet I digress, lest I depress myself and you even more than this list might. I figure now would be the best time to embrace the idea of "good robots", as it seems that our takeover at the hands of evil ones will be happening at some point in near the future, and when that happens, lists like this will be more positive to us than sad. But for now, while we still love them and they have yet to kill any of our families, this list is awesome (in a sad kind of way). Pardon me for a moment while I sob for the Iron Giant. If you dig this vid, WatchMojo has more like it over at their YouTube page. Go show them some love. | ||||||||
| 41 Great Two-Person Costumes for Halloween Posted: 22 Sep 2014 02:00 PM PDT
(The monster under the bed by abbysamps) Sure, you and your friend can go to the company Halloween party as Adam and Eve. But there are other, more inventive couple costumes that you can wear together. Alanna Okum of BuzzFeed rounded up 41 two-person costumes that show a flair for originality, including a cat and her litter box, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and the painting American Gothic. | ||||||||
| States That Are Flatter Than Kansas Posted: 22 Sep 2014 01:00 PM PDT Remember the research we posted that proved that Kansas is indeed flatter than a pancake? Geographers Jerome Dobson and Joshua Campbell took exception to the methods used in that study, and indeed it is a case of comparing apples and oranges. Still, the two things being compared came straight from the old adage. Dobson and Campbell did their own research into the matter.
It turned out that Kansas is not even in the top five the flattest states in the States! Kansas actually came in seventh. Try to guess which state is actually the flattest in the union before you learn the answer at mental_floss. (Image credit: Flickr user Patrick Emerson) | ||||||||
| Dog Tries to Not Get Caught Looking at His Human's Food Posted: 22 Sep 2014 12:00 PM PDT Whatever the human is eating, the Pomeranian wants it. He stalks his prey--the fabled watermelon chunk. He studiously avoids eye contact, for he must give the appearance of disinterest if he is to close the distance without arousing suspicion. It's clearly working. Note the Dr. Seuss quote on the wall. It reads:
Be You, Pomeranian. Be the hunter that is You. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| C is for Counseling - The Dangers Of Cookie Addiction Posted: 22 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT C is for Counseling by Coinbox Tees The residents of Sesame street had been planning an intervention for years, but when Cookie let his monster side out and attacked the bakery delivery driver they knew it was time to take action. His addiction was far too severe for simple group therapy- Cookie needed some time locked away from the world to get back in touch with Cookie, so Bird helped him pack and walked him down to the rehab center down on Skid Row lane. Bird told Cookie it was going to be okay, and that once he got straight his googly eyes wouldn't bother him any more... Bring some puppet therapy to your geeky wardrobe with this C is for Counseling t-shirt by Coinbox Tees, it's great fun to wear while you're watching your favorite show or helping a friend polish off the rest of their cookie stash! Visit Coinbox Tees's Facebook fan page, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to their NeatoShop for more ridiculously fun designs:
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| Toolbox Built into the Back of an Old Van Posted: 22 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT I can't find any information about this build project. It appears to date back to at least 2007 and the van, which I think is an old Ford Econoline, certainly older. Someone took the back doors and door frame off of a van, attached it to a wall, and turned it into a classy and unique toolbox. It's beautiful and ideal for any gearhead. -via Recyclart | Photos: unknown | ||||||||
| Whodunit: The Pretender's Ball Posted: 22 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad. These mysteries are from The Little Giant® Book of Whodunits by Hy Conrad and Matt LaFleur. Can you solve the mystery before you read the solution?
The secret police warned the prime minister to cancel the Pretenders' Ball. But the costume ball was a 200-year-old tradition in the small Grand Duchy. Despite threats from the rebels, the annual celebration had to take place as scheduled. The prime minister made a handful of concessions to security. The peg-legged pirate had his sword confiscated, and the Turkish sultan gave up his curved, bulky dagger. But the baseball player was allowed to keep his bat, and the chukka sticks were not taken from the masked Ninja. No one was expecting an attack by a blunt instrument. But that's exactly what happened. On one of the palace's two dozen balconies, the 80-year-old grand duke was cornered by an assassin and bludgeoned to death. When the chief of police discovered the body, the old duke, dressed as a peasant, was draped over a ledge, his royal blood dripping into the dark chasm below. "Quick," the chief said to the nearest costumed reveler. "Close the doors. Alert the guards." "We have to find the murder weapon," the chief's assistant said a few minutes later as he lined up all the shocked and grief-stricken guests. The baseball player, the prime minister's political rival, said he might have left his bat upstairs. An aide went in search and found it in a spittoon just outside the men's bathroom. The masked Ninja, they were surprised to discover, was the prime minister's own niece, one of the duchy's only feminists. Her chukka sticks, which had originally been on her belt, were now in a deep side pocket of her black robes. "They got in the way when I danced," she explained. "Take everything," the chief barked. "The American Embassy will do chemical tests for us. We'll find the cowardly assassin." "We don't need tests," whispered the prime minister, speaking for the first time since the murder. "I know who killed the duke and what the weapon was." Whodunit?
In addition to his work in mystery and crime puzzles, Hy was also one of the original writers for the groundbreaking TV series Monk. Currently, Hy is working on mystery novel series "Abel Adventures" as well as the Monk series of novels, starting with Mr. Monk Helps Himself (published by Penguin, order from Amazon here Check out Hy's official website and Facebook page - and stay tuned for more whodunits puzzlers on Neatorama from the master of whodunit mysteries himself! | ||||||||
| Posted: 22 Sep 2014 09:30 AM PDT This Belgian Malinois named Eteo is trained as a personal protection dog. But in his off hours, Eteo obviously likes to protect the rights of toddlers to go cruising (with occasional pit stops for bulldog greetings). -Via Tastefully Offensive. | ||||||||
| Posted: 22 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT Animals are driven by their instincts, which are selected by evolutionary processes over millions of years. Heed that inner voice, dog. It has guided your ancestors and will guide your descendants. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| The Luckiest Cyclist in Russia Posted: 22 Sep 2014 08:30 AM PDT This Russian security video in Lyubertsy, a suburb of Moscow, shows what appears to be a horrific accident in an intersection, but surprisingly, no one was injured. Oh, you think the guy on the bicycle bought the farm, but he eventually comes to his senses and gets up and walks out of the road. We don’t have a view of the lights, so we don’t know who had the right of way here, but did anyone get the plate number on that red car that blew through? -via Daily Picks and Flicks | ||||||||
| The 26 Feels Every Guy Goes Through When Shopping With His Girlfriend Posted: 22 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT Image Credit: Crosa I will admit to you all that most men do not like going shopping with their lady. It is not an act of disrespect or disregard, but we just do not have the patience to sit there while our girlfriends and wives try on a multitude of outfits for hours at a time, while we sit on a bench at a store, looking dead inside. This is not to say all women shop like that, and all men don't like it. That would be an unfair generalization. That being said, there is an element of truth to what I just said. Heck, half the guys I know don't even try on clothes when they shop. They just buy the right size and hope it works out. But women can be a different story. So maybe some people wonder what it is like for a man when he goes shopping with his girlfriend. The strange range of emotions he must go through. Well, Bored.com put together a list of the 26 feels that all men go through when shopping with their lady, and if nothing else, it is really good for a laugh. It is mostly told in gifs and single sentences like a story. But I would be lying if I were to say, as a man who sat on many a stool for many an hour waiting for the ladies in my life to pick clothes, a few of these had me laughing out loud at how true-to-life they are. Also, no disrespect meant to any females. We love you, that is why we suffer for you. Selflessness, after all, is a big part of love. | ||||||||
| Posted: 22 Sep 2014 07:30 AM PDT These red panda cub twins were born on July 1st at Lincoln Zoo. The as yet unnamed cubs are a brother and sister, raised by zoo staff, as their mother was unable to care for them properly. According to the zoo's website, the female cub has a stuffed animal frog that she's quite fond of, and on which she naps regularly. The male likes to engage his sister in wrestling matches. What sweet faces on these little ones! They certainly made me smile. -Via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Delightfully Geeky Stained Glass Lamps Posted: 22 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT Nikita Leigh is a geek and artist in Houston, Texas. She works with a wide variety of media, but lately concentrates on stained glass. She's made several lamps inspired by iconic images of geek culture, including Clyde the Pac-Man ghost, the Autobots logo, and Cthulu. You can view more of her work here. | ||||||||
| Apollos Hester Post-game Interview Posted: 22 Sep 2014 06:30 AM PDT Post-game interviews with football players mean nothing to non-football fans, because we don’t know the game well enough to follow their technical explanations of what happened. Now, if you take it down to the high school level, you run into players who are camera shy and suddenly don’t know what to say. Neither is the case with Apollos Hester, wide receiver for the East View Patriots of Georgetown, Texas. You’ll see why the Austin TV station didn’t go to the quarterback for a post-game interview. Hester might become a professional football player when he grows up, but if he doesn’t, he could be …anything he wants to be. His attitude, enthusiasm, and presence will open doors. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| Artist Recreates Famous Photographs with John Malkovich Posted: 22 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT
The photographer Sandro Miller contacted the famous actor John Malkovich to pitch his novel premise for a project: Miller would duplicate iconic photographic portraits using Malkovich as the subject. Malkovich would have to dress up a bit, wear makeup, or even be naked. He would become Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, John Lennon, and other people captured for posterity by the world's greatest photographers. The results of their collaboration form the exhibit Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters. This exhibit at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago will be open from November 7 to January 31. Content warning: artistic nudity.
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