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• Amanda Wachob's Modern Art Tattoo
• Spinning Wheel of Death Art
• Wald (Forest): Maze of Paperwork by Daniel Hafner
• Classic Album Covers Turned Into Comic Superheroes
• Outdoor Fireplace for ... a Kindergarten Project?! Only in Norway ...
• Walter Wick's I Spy
• The Cupcake Game
• 9 Surprising Things Found in "Where's Waldo?" Books
• The Valley of The Statues
• Pi Calculated to a Record Number of 2.7 Trillion Digits
• Mario Question Block Coin Candy
• Chainlink Extreme 4X4
• America's Daily Data Consumption
• Irritating Side Effect of Cocaine Vaccine: It Causes Users to Take 10 Times as Much Cocaine as Before
• Tabletop Pong
• The Expulsion from Eden, Written with Internet Catchphrases

Amanda Wachob's Modern Art Tattoo Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:27 PM PST Forget all you know about tattoos: Amanda Wachob will turn your body into a canvas for her abstract tattoos. No skulls, I Heart Mom, or other usual tattoo art here: Link [Flash website] | Gallery at Dare Devil Tattoo Previously on Neatorama: Yann Travailles’ Crayon Scribble Tattoos

Spinning Wheel of Death Art Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:26 PM PST [Vimeo Link] James Théophane Jr. was asked to contribute a piece of art for his company, so he decided to hack an old painting from a flea market and turn it into a physical rendering of a crashed Mac app, complete with the spinning wheel of death! More pics (including several build photos) at Theo’s blog: Link – via Valentina Tanni

Wald (Forest): Maze of Paperwork by Daniel Hafner Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:25 PM PST Daniel Hafner used about half a ton of 5-ft tall white cardboard to create this art installation called Wald (Forest), which looks kind of like a maze of paperwork one has to navigate in dealing with modern bureaucracy. Link

Classic Album Covers Turned Into Comic Superheroes Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:24 PM PST Illustrator Cliff Chiang took remixed classic 12" album covers into their comic superhero counterparts. The Breakfast Club? Meet the Teen Titans (obviously!). Check out how he turned Prince into Batgirl and Flashdance into Elekra: Link

Outdoor Fireplace for ... a Kindergarten Project?! Only in Norway ... Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:24 PM PST When architecture firm Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter was commissioned by the municipality of Trondheim, Norway, to build an outdoor project for a kindergarten, the company came up with this … fireplace?! Very cool, but not exactly the jungle gym I would’ve built for the kindergarteners: Link

Walter Wick's I Spy Posted: 06 Jan 2010 09:07 PM PST John Farrier’s post on Where’s Waldo prompted me to shine the spotlight on another series of puzzle-tastic find-me books that feature actual photographed objects. The tableau of I Spy puzzles vary between scattered and seemingly similar objects to exquisitely staged snapshots of a closet, and even other worlds.  Here’s one. Photo/Artist Walter Wick came up with the idea of finding hidden objects in plain sight…by accident. I was organizing screws, paper clips and other odds and ends. As I began sorting, I liked the way the objects looked spread out on my light box. After hours of careful arranging, I took a picture (left). This photograph of odds and ends was the spark that helped inspire the first I Spy book! But that would take another 10 years. Photo: Walter Wick/I Spy I Spy an anchor, 2 shovels, plus a sleeping man.  Helicopter, knight, and a cooking pan.  (That was all mine, anyone care to do better?) Read more about Walter Wick here, and remember this video from last November?  That’s him.  And he apparently has a new book series called Can You See What I See? where he writes his own poem hints.

The Cupcake Game Posted: 06 Jan 2010 05:52 PM PST My sister hosts a big game party every year, mostly non-video games (word games, board games etc.) This year she made 100 cupcakes, each with a decoration referring to a game, video and otherwise. Have a go at guessing them all! (keep your own score manually) Link From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by iandberg.

9 Surprising Things Found in "Where's Waldo?" Books Posted: 06 Jan 2010 04:24 PM PST Since 1987, illustrator Martin Handford’s Where’s Waldo? (Where’s Wally in the UK) books have challenged the pattern recognition skills of children and adults. In the many books featuring Waldo, Handford has occasionally hidden strange if not a touch scandalous images. Adrian Beiting of of the geekery blog Topless Robot has compiled nine of the oddities, such as an Aztec human sacrifice: Link | Images: Chadwick House Publishing

The Valley of The Statues Posted: 06 Jan 2010 03:38 PM PST The Egyptians had the Book of the Dead to express one’s descent into the afterlife. At the Valley of the Statues in Colombia, however, there are guardians watching over the land. History comes alive in these hand carved figurines, telling the story of various cultures that called San Agustin their home. Link (image credit: Jan Arkesteijn) From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by lannaxe96.

Pi Calculated to a Record Number of 2.7 Trillion Digits Posted: 06 Jan 2010 02:12 PM PST That’s 123 billion digits more than the previous number. Computer scientist Fabrice Bellard ran his calculations on a desktop computer, taking 131 days to run the program and then check the results: Previous records were established using supercomputers, but Mr Bellard claims his method is 20 times more efficient. The prior record of about 2.6 trillion digits, set in August 2009 by Daisuke Takahashi at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, took just 29 hours. However, that work employed a supercomputer 2,000 times faster and thousands of times more expensive than the desktop Mr Bellard employed. I blogged about that record at the time. Link via Geekologie | Image: flickr user Paul Adam Smith, used under Creative Commons license

Mario Question Block Coin Candy Posted: 06 Jan 2010 12:34 PM PST Mario Question Block Coin Candy - $3.95 You never know what you'll get from a question block in the video game Super Mario Bros., but there's no question here. You'll get awesome coin-shaped candies from Boston America's Mario Question Block Coin Candy. The candy, licensed from Nintendo, comes in a collectible metal tin and is now available from the Neatorama Shop: Link More Super Mario Bros. themed stuff from the Neatorama Shop: Super Mario Bros. Mushroom Tin - $3.45 Mario Bros. Super Star Candy - $2.95 Super Mario Bros. Power Up Energy Drink - $2.95

Chainlink Extreme 4X4 Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:44 AM PST (YouTube Link) YouTube user rhauf1 shares with us this vehicular concoction dubbed Chainlink, assembled from salvaged and custom parts.  The engine is a fuel-injected Ford 5.0 V-8 from a Cobra, and transmission and t-case from an old Bronco, but the real treat is the hydraulically-controlled swing arms.

America's Daily Data Consumption Posted: 06 Jan 2010 11:21 AM PST Artist Rob Vargas created this graphic using data from a study by the University of California at San Diego. Americans consume 3.6 zettabytes a day. A zettabyte is one billion trillion bytes. That’s a lot of LOLcats! Link via Fast Company | Artist’s Website

Irritating Side Effect of Cocaine Vaccine: It Causes Users to Take 10 Times as Much Cocaine as Before Posted: 06 Jan 2010 09:00 AM PST Last October, I posted about a drug that binds antibodies to cocaine to diminish its pleasurable effects in users. Well, it’s not working out terribly well because some users are responding by taking enough cocaine to overwhelm its protection: Nobody overdosed, but some of them had 10 times more cocaine coursing through their systems than researchers had encountered before, according to Kosten. He said some of the addicts reported to researchers that they had gone broke buying cocaine from multiple drug dealers, hoping to find a variety that would get them high. Thankfully, the drug was able to help some test subjects avoid cocaine. Link via Popular Science | Image: US Department of Health and Human Services

Tabletop Pong Posted: 06 Jan 2010 08:59 AM PST (YouTube link) Going old school in the geekiest way possible, Windell Oskay at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has built a non-video version of Pong. The process of building it is posted as well. Link

The Expulsion from Eden, Written with Internet Catchphrases Posted: 06 Jan 2010 08:45 AM PST Cartoonist H. Caldwell Tanner drew a version of the expulsion from Eden narrative in Genesis 3 using only Internet catchphrases. He writes “Genesis would have been a lot cooler if it featured blue hedgehogs.” Probably. Link via Urlesque

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