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- Egg Russian Roulette World Championships
- Gritty Street Photography By Nate “Igor” Smith
- Forest And Mountain Sculptures By Keisuke Tanaka
- Four Times a Year, This Sundial Spells the Word “Solstice” or “Equinoxe”
- Henri 3: Le Vet
- Robot Always Wins at Rock, Paper, Scissors Because It Cheats
- Concrete Walls Project Presents Sawe
- The Newest World’s Ugliest Dog
- Alan Moore Stops Griping And Starts Making Movies
- 10 Cool Melanistic Animals
- Sprout Bookmarks
- Deadpool Fan Film Is Dead Funny
- Tobias Funke: The Plush Toy
- Celebrate The 40th Anniversary Of Deliverance With A Trip To The Cahulawassee
- 10 Weird and Cool Bats
- Prisoners Earn Early Release by Writing Good Essays
- Time Lapse Video Of Super Mario 3D Art Being Created
- That’s One Sneaky Pooch
- Minigun Motorcycle Pipes
- Call Me Back!
- Life-Size Aliens Vs. Predator Metal Sculptures
- Where Was This Picture Taken?
- Carnage in Graffiti
- Avatar Themed Nightclub Opens In South Africa
- Chalk Typography
- 30 Year Treasure Hunt Ends With Discovery Of Celtic Gold
- Mousetail Cordwrap
- Lego Rhinoceros Strandbeest
- Write Like The Wind George R.R. Martin!
- Vaults
- Ring-rolling Machine
- Old County Map Title Pages
- What Are They Selling?
- Fart Kontrol
- Celestial Lights
- Spoiled Children
- Photographs with the Feel of Movement
- PHP Tattoo
- iKickstand
- The Legend of Zelda Semi-Trailer Truck
- Wood/Fabric Blanket
- How To Eat Chocolate
- Sculptural Lace Tsunami
- Pop Mash Up
| Egg Russian Roulette World Championships Posted: 27 Jun 2012 04:44 AM PDT File this under “competitions that seem stupid but people really enjoy watching”–egg Russian roulette, where hard boiled eggs are mixed in with the raw ones, and knuckleheads take turns smashing them on their foreheads to find out which is which. Held in Lincolnshire, this egg headed competition draws some fierce crackers to the table, and everyone leaves with egg on their face. Just yolking! *facepalm* –via Tastefully Offensive  |
| Gritty Street Photography By Nate “Igor” Smith Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:39 AM PDT Nate “Igor” Smith is known for his work on the photo website Driven By Boredom, but he has another side, a street side that doesn’t involve canned shots of people posing at events, a side that relies on happenstance to capture that perfect moment in time. Nate’s vision is raw and voyeuristic, catching sight of moments that the subjects would probably rather forget. These are scenes of city life-sometimes violent, sometimes strange, but always extremely NYC. |
| Forest And Mountain Sculptures By Keisuke Tanaka Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT These wonderfully organic sculptures by Keisuke Tanaka reveal the artist’s deep reverence for the beauty of the natural world, and look like something found in a fantasy forest. They’re carved out of solid wood, then meticulously hand painted so that even the smallest details will hold up to scrutiny. If I were an insect, I would be proud to make one of these sculptures my home! Link –via Hi Fructose |
| Four Times a Year, This Sundial Spells the Word “Solstice” or “Equinoxe” Posted: 27 Jun 2012 01:30 AM PDT This amazing sundial at the Ecole Supérieure des Mines de Paris in Valbonne, France is designed so that on the day of the summer and winter solstices, sunlight shining through it displays the word “solstice.” On the days of the spring and autumn equinoxes, the sunlight forms the word “equinoxe.” Link | Photo: Jean-Marc Mari |
| Posted: 27 Jun 2012 01:02 AM PDT The return of Henri, the existential cat, features a trip to the vet. Sadly, the vet does not listen to Henri’s tale of despair and ennui. As expected. -via Buzzfeed Previously: Other Henri videos. |
| Robot Always Wins at Rock, Paper, Scissors Because It Cheats Posted: 27 Jun 2012 12:30 AM PDT (Video Link) Whether it’s stabbing meat or punching humans, robots play to win. And thanks to human collaborators at the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory, robots will always prevail at games of rock, paper, scissors. It has a high speed camera that sees the shape that the human competitor’s hand is forming and plays a winning move one millisecond before the human finishes his own. |
| Concrete Walls Project Presents Sawe Posted: 26 Jun 2012 11:47 PM PDT The Concrete Walls Project is a video series which integrates works from the best graffiti artists worldwide into fun animated videos, bringing their works to life like never before. Check out this episode, which features works by Catalan graffiti artist Sawe getting all animated as he paints the town, complete with a equally sharp soundtrack! –via Juxtapoz |
| The Newest World’s Ugliest Dog Posted: 26 Jun 2012 11:33 PM PDT Behold the magnificent ugliness that is Mugly, the winner of the 24th annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest. Like many of the past winners, little Mugly is a Chinese hairless dog. This isn’t his first win, he previously won the title of Britain’s Ugliest Dog in 2005. Link Via Laughing Squid |
| Alan Moore Stops Griping And Starts Making Movies Posted: 26 Jun 2012 10:52 PM PDT Alan Moore is known as much for his writing as for his grouchy disposition, and generally hates the Hollywood treatments his works have received so far, which is why I think making his own movies is a brilliant idea! Alan is working with his friend Mitch Jenkins on “a multi-layered, multi-episode narrative created by Moore and brought to life by Jenkins” called Show Pieces, of which the first installment Act Of Faith has already been filmed. Hopefully Alan will be able to take criticism of his movies as well as he’s able to dish it out! |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 10:26 PM PDT You probably already know what an albino is, but the opposite, known as melanism, is much less known. The look is still just as striking though, particularly in the case of the penguin seen above. See pictures of melanistic deers, lizards and more over at the link. |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 10:00 PM PDT Sprout Bookmarks | $5.95 Have you met Sprout, the little green bookmark? It’s a set of six silicone bookmarks that look like little green plant sprouts, at the NeatoShop! Easy to use, and they bring a smile to any face that sees them! Makes a great gift, too. |
| Deadpool Fan Film Is Dead Funny Posted: 26 Jun 2012 09:52 PM PDT Marvel’s wise cracking, super powered assassin gets his day in the sun in this Deadpool fan film called Deadpool: A Typical Tuesday by Bean Dip Productions. This hilarious fan film sets the bar pretty high for any Hollywood Deadpool that may (but probably won’t) come out sometime before I die, and shows why Deadpool would make for a perfect action movie star. –via Topless Robot |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 09:24 PM PDT If you love wannabe bluemen who are also nevernudes, then you’ll certainly want to cuddle up with this adorable Tobias toy when you go off to bed at night. It was created by Michelle Coffee of Deadly Sweet, but don’t expect to buy your own over at Etsy as it was actually created for an art show. |
| Celebrate The 40th Anniversary Of Deliverance With A Trip To The Cahulawassee Posted: 26 Jun 2012 09:00 PM PDT If you enjoyed the seminal backwoods sicko movie Deliverance, and you feel that its 40th anniversary is worth celebrating, then book a trip to the Chattooga River Festival and get to hootin’ and hollerin’! The booming outdoor sports industry sparked by this seminal movie is the inspiration for the first ever Chattooga Festival, and I’m sure those who attend will be squealin’ like a pig in delight, as long as they steer clear of the nearby farms… |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 08:52 PM PDT While a lot of people think all bats are creepy, I personally find them cute overall. That being said, these 10 bats still rank pretty low on the cute scale. Take, for example, the hammer-headed bat above:
They have a point there. |
| Prisoners Earn Early Release by Writing Good Essays Posted: 26 Jun 2012 08:30 PM PDT
Link -via Marginal Revolution | Image: Be a Novelist |
| Time Lapse Video Of Super Mario 3D Art Being Created Posted: 26 Jun 2012 07:54 PM PDT Artist Chris Carlson is the focus of this time lapse video, which shows him hard at work creating some amazing Super Mario 3d chalk art. Watch as his hands fly around, dropping lines on the ground like a surveyor, and marvel at the wonder of Mario themed art being created right before your eyes while a delightfully orchestral version of the theme song plays in the background! –via TDW |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 07:51 PM PDT With a small enough dog and a tall enough counter, you’d think your food would be safe when left out…but with a rolling chair and a smart little Chinese crested pooch like this one, you’d be totally wrong! Via I Has A Hot Dog |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 07:30 PM PDT (Video Link) Tailgunner is a maker of custom motorcycle exhaust pipes that look like the rotating barrels of miniguns. Why? Because awesome. |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 07:00 PM PDT I understand her completely, and you should call your mom! This Twaggie was illustrated by Joy and Noelle of Twins Are Weird from a Tweet by @MistookMistake. You can see a new illustrated Tweet every day at Twaggies. Link |
| Life-Size Aliens Vs. Predator Metal Sculptures Posted: 26 Jun 2012 06:46 PM PDT These heavy metal sculptures of a Predator, complete with Alien head on his staff, and Alien xenomorph ready to strike were spotted in Vladivostok, Russia, hinting at a decidedly metallic battle which is about to commence. Each statue measures over six feet tall, and weighs an impressively svelte 80 pounds, and can be yours for the low, low price of around $15,000 USD each, shipping not included. |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 06:30 PM PDT Daniel Russell is an expert in online searching who works for Google. During a lecture about advanced web searching, he showed this photo and asked “What's the phone number of the office where this picture was snapped?” Can you answer with just the information in this picture? At the link you can find Russell’s answer and an explanation of how he got it. Link -via Boing Boing |
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| Avatar Themed Nightclub Opens In South Africa Posted: 26 Jun 2012 05:52 PM PDT Entrepreneur and fan of blue aliens Mike Basson has opened an Avatar themed nightclub in Rivonia, South Africa so people can get all spaced out on the dance floor. It’s called Avastar, looks ridiculously decadent with flamethrowers and optic fiber chandeliers, and should be just the thing for those who enjoy throwing their money away while many others in Africa struggle for survival. Hit the link if you want to see a video which details just how cheesy, and vaguely Avatar themed, this eyesore of a nightclub really is. (Video is barely NSFW due to a flash of Na’vi nudity in a painting, no pun intended.) Link –image via Nerd Bastards |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT
Wow. This is just. Wow. Take a look at the level of details that Liz Collini went through with her hand-lettered chalk typography, drawn in the style of mechanical blueprints: |
| 30 Year Treasure Hunt Ends With Discovery Of Celtic Gold Posted: 26 Jun 2012 04:54 PM PDT Treasure hunters Reg Mead and Richard Miles struck gold, and silver, recently when their 30 year long quest for buried treasure on the island of Jersey, which is off the coast of Normandy. Here’s more info on the treasure they discovered:
The treasure is now on display at the Jersey Heritage Museum, where the curator will surely use it to fill a kiddie pool and dive in like Scrooge McDuck! |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 04:30 PM PDT Mousetail Cordwrap | $5.95 Does your desk look like a spaghetti factory? How about your entertainment system? Get all those cords and cables under control with the Mousetail Cordwrap from the NeatoShop! They’re cute, easy to use, and made just for this purpose. Wrap a mouse’s flexible, rubber-wrapped tail around a bundle of cords (it adjusts to the bundle size) and keep them neat and out of the way. There are two in a package. Or check out the other clever cable organizers at the NeatoShop! |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 04:00 PM PDT
Remember the kinetic sculpture Rhinoceros by Theo Jansen we featured on Neatorama a while ago? Dutch industrial designer kvanb has created a LEGO version - a working LEGO version. Check it out: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via The Brothers Brick |
| Write Like The Wind George R.R. Martin! Posted: 26 Jun 2012 03:57 PM PDT Greg DiCostanzo and Paul Sabourin are fans of the fantasy series A Song Of Ice And Fire, so they’re urging George R.R. Martin to write like the wind and finish up this classic series. People are living in fear that they’ve read every massive tome in the Song series yet won’t ever reach the end of the saga, so to you I say-let this song be your anthem, as you eagerly await the conclusion to A Song Of Ice And Fire! (barely NSFW due to language) –via Nerd Approved |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 03:00 PM PDT
Heads up! For his series Vaults (2003 - 2009) Photographer David Stephenson documented some of the world's most beautiful vaulted ceilings. This one above is from the Sainte-Chappelle in Paris, France. Link - via Colt+Rane |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 02:00 PM PDT
I don't know what's happening and I don't know what it's for, but I just can't stop watching! Here's a ring rolling machine from a Chinese forge making a red-hot glowing steel ring. I suspect you haven't seen anything like it, either. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 01:30 PM PDT In the 19th century, printers were proud of their craft and made everyday jobs into works of art. Consider county records, such as maps and deeds and such. They were bound into volumes of boring but useful historical data, and the typography printed on the cover was magnificent …at least compared to the computer-generated cover pages and labels used today. See more of this collection at BibliOdyssey. Link (Image credit: Flickr user peacay) |
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| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:30 PM PDT This makes perfect sense to those who drive in Denmark, where fart means speed. Which has English-speaking people expressing interest in watching a certain Sandra Bullock/Keanu Reeves film in Danish. Link |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:00 PM PDT
Celestial Lights is an absolutely gorgeous stop motion video clip by Ole C. Salomonsen of Arctic Light Photo about the northern lights. Ole filmed the video in the northern parts of Norway, Finland and Sweden in Fall 2011 and Winter and Spring 2012. It is best viewed at full width - and because Neatorama's narrow page doesn't do it justice, head on over to Vimeo to see it in its full glory: Link [vimeo] - via Crenk |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 11:30 AM PDT
Well there’s your problem. There is no reason a teenager cannot pick up shards of glass that he himself caused. Other, worse examples are given, like the boy who demanded his father untie shoes for him or the 8-year-old girl who sat down at the table to find no silverware at her place setting and said, "How am I supposed to eat?" Those stories come from a study done by Anthropologist Elinor Ochs and her colleagues at UCLA in which they recorded an entire week of activity in 32 middle-class families in Southern California.
Read more about this research at the Wall Street Journal. Link -via Metafilter |
| Photographs with the Feel of Movement Posted: 26 Jun 2012 11:00 AM PDT
Brazilian artist Lucas Simões uses photographs much like a frame in a film: Link |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 10:00 AM PDT
Mike M sent photos of his new tat to Geeky Tattoos. They say in PHP programming language “Nothing risked, nothing gained, nothing lost, nothing learned.” Link | Tattoo Artist: Tyson Pederson |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 09:30 AM PDT iKickstand | $11.95 See what’s happening on your tablet or other gadget hands-free with the handy iKickstand from the NeatoShop. And how cool is this -it looks like a bicycle kickstand! It’s compatible with all versions of iPad, including iPad 2 and the new iPad 3, as well as other tablets and e-readers. See all the clever electronics and book stands a the NeatoShop. |
| The Legend of Zelda Semi-Trailer Truck Posted: 26 Jun 2012 09:00 AM PDT Enough of that travelling on foot nonsense. Link is now crossing Hyrule in a sleeper truck, which redditor teslas_notepad spotted in a Wal-Mart parking lot in northwestern Ohio. Link -via Geekologie |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT
It looks like a cozy blanket, but would you guess that it's actually made from wood? Elisa Strozyk weaved hundreds of wooden tiles onto a fabric base - the result is a half wood/half-textile material that's rigid/hard and flexible/soft at the same time. Link - via Wanken |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 07:30 AM PDT National Geographic’s “Digital Nomad” Andrew Evans investigated Swiss chocolate by visiting a factory in Broc, Switzerland, in which tourists can take part in an all-you-can-eat sampling. There are guides to help participants rein in their tendency to overdo it, because the enjoyment comes from the quality, not the quantity. Swiss chocolate expert Michel Baud tells us step-by-step how to get the most out of chocolate.
There’s more to the process, which you can read at NatGeo’s Intelligent Travel blog. Link -Thanks, Marilyn! (Image credit: Andrew Evans, National Geographic Traveler) |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 07:00 AM PDT
You're looking at aerial lace installation by Janet Echelman titled Tsunami 1.26. It was inspired by the 2010 Chile Earthquake and ensuing tsunami (the earthquake was so powerful that it shortened the length of the day by 1.26 microsecond, hence the name). Janet wrote:
Link - via Curiosity Counts |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT Did someone say disco was dead? YouTube user Vissagan said,
And so he did. Now if he had only laid Pachelbel’s “Canon” down as a background… I’m pretty sure it would have worked. -via Buzzfeed |
If you see a young person heading down the wrong path–one that leads to a life behind bars–then help him out. Teach him how to read and write well. It may get him out of prison faster:
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