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- Neatolinks: Danny Trejo Making Adorable Animals Out of Bread
- Annamarie and Her 32 Kids
- Custom Rolling Pins Print across Your Dough
- Cat Alarm Clocks
- Felted Vegetables Hang from Cross Stitch Hoops
- Laser Cat Is Hungry For Your Art!
- A Giant Wave Made of Thousands of Barbie Dolls
- The Motion Picture Camera: Past, Present and Future
- This Armored Car Was Designed Specifically for Chasing Tornadoes
- Snake Eats Golf Balls, Undergoes Surgery
- A Short Film About Unexpected Transformation - Elefante
- Promposals
- Want to Impress People? Wear Sweatpants
- Chinese Takeout
- Sculpted Hand Street Art Appears In Barcelona
- The Law of Diminishing Jean-Claude Van Dammes
- David Szakaly’s Animated Abstractions
- Artists Depict What It Feels Like To Have A Migraine
- Pushing the Truck
- The Avengers Octopuses
- Your Fat Is Why Your Brain is Dumb
- How Not To Kill Yourself With Household Items
- What Is It? game 319
- Miniature Sushi Made with Single Grains of Rice
- Louis C.K., Bradley Cooper, and the Magic of Video Archives
- Tolkien's Translation Of Beowulf Is Finally Being Published
- The Tokyo SkyTree
- Give Your Living Room A Little Bang
- The Popeye the Sailor Story
| Neatolinks: Danny Trejo Making Adorable Animals Out of Bread Posted: 21 Mar 2014 04:00 AM PDT 7 Theme Parks That Helped Inspire Disneyland (Mental Floss) Apparently, Danny Trejo Loves to Make Bread Shaped Like Cute Animals (Geekosystem) 10 Fascinating Facts About Roses (The Presurfer) Fan of Veronica Mars? You Just Might Like This (The Mary Sue) Image: True Detective Hardy Boys Books By Todd Spence (Buzzfeed)  |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2014 03:00 AM PDT Annmarie Richards is an extraordinary Jamaican woman with a big heart and lots of love for children who need it. Over the years, she has taken in and raised 32 street children and doesn’t seem to be tiring one bit. Filmed by GoBoka Play with support from the Make Life Better Foundation. -via Daily of the Day |
| Custom Rolling Pins Print across Your Dough Posted: 21 Mar 2014 02:00 AM PDT I love this idea! Etsy seller Zuzia Zuber, a designer in Poland, makes rolling pins with unique print designs, including burgers with fries, dinosaurs, dogs, cats and text. He uses locally sourced wood from a birch forest near his home outside of Warsaw. Zuber cuts the designs with a laser engraver. -via Foodiggity |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2014 01:00 AM PDT Does your cat do this? It’s been a long time since I was awakened by a cat, since there are four people in my house who are all equally as likely to fill the cat dishes, and there are only two or three hours in which we are all four asleep. I learned long ago that well-fed cats help to insure a decent sleep interval. This compilation is from Huffington Post. -via Tastefully Offensive |
| Felted Vegetables Hang from Cross Stitch Hoops Posted: 21 Mar 2014 12:00 AM PDT These are so cute! Etsy seller Veselka Bulkan, an artist in Munich, Germany, makes all sorts of different crafts. But my favorites are these needle felted vegetables that dangle down from from their leaves, which are embroidered in hoops. Each hoop measures about 4 inches across. -via Colossal |
| Laser Cat Is Hungry For Your Art! Posted: 20 Mar 2014 11:00 PM PDT Laser Cat is coming to the ADC Festival Of Art + Craft in Advertising and Design in Miami, Florida on April 7th and he is hungry for your art! Many artists have already fed him their works, including Banksy and ten thousand other creative folks, and there's still time for you to feed your art to the all mighty Laser Cat! Laser Cat will arrive at the ADC Festival in the form of a giant art installation created by Hungry Castle, and he will project artworks via laser beam vision onto walls and such at the Festival, so you can hear the drawings go "Pew Pew!" and watch Laser Cat as he LOLCats you straight in the eyeballs. -Via Laughing Squid |
| A Giant Wave Made of Thousands of Barbie Dolls Posted: 20 Mar 2014 10:00 PM PDT
Annette Thas, the artist who created the sculpture Wave, got her idea during a trip to see her family in Belgium. It was a family emergency and a time of heightened emotions. Returning home let her breathe in her childhood again, which came upon her like a wave. Dolls represent childhood to Thas, so Wave was the result of this personal reflection. Thas purposefully used old rather than new dolls because “they come with the memories of the children that played with them.” The structure is an aluminum frame covered with about 4,000 Barbies. It’s about 3 meters high and 4 meters deep. The project took 7 months to complete. It was displayed in the coastal town of Cottesloe in Western Australia. -via Junkculture |
| The Motion Picture Camera: Past, Present and Future Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:00 PM PDT This wordless sequence is a tribute to awesome movie camera shots from the past hundred years and the cameras and operators who shot them. It was created specifically for the Society of Camera Operators 2014 Lifetime Achievement Awards. It left an impression on those who saw it on the big screen there, as it would on anyone who loves the cinema. -via the Presurfer |
| This Armored Car Was Designed Specifically for Chasing Tornadoes Posted: 20 Mar 2014 08:00 PM PDT The Iowa Storm Chasing Network tracks severe weather across the state of Iowa. Not everyone in that network stays in offices. One team rides around in their new tornado-chasing vehicle: Dorothy. Like the main character in The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy will go into the heart of a storm. It's a heavily modified Ford E-350 van. Brennan Jontz and Dan Auel, who are members of Team Dorothy, built it. They added sheets of steel to the van body and covered the exterior with Linex, a material that is literally bulletproof. Jontz and Auel hope that the skirts will prevent the wind from pushing the van over, as well as protect the tires from flying objects. The windows are half an inch thick and will hopefully protect the crew. The team hasn't tested Dorothy yet, but they plan to the next time that a tornado rolls in.
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| Snake Eats Golf Balls, Undergoes Surgery Posted: 20 Mar 2014 07:00 PM PDT A gray rat snake was found in a chicken coop in north Georgia. The snake had two large round objects in its stomach, which, from the fact that it was in a chicken coop, you’d think would be chicken eggs. The snake apparently thought so, too, but they were golf balls. Now here’s the really weird part: the chicken owner took the snake to get help for its problem! A team of veterinarians at the Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island performed surgery and removed the golf balls from the snake. The reptile is recovering, and will be returned to the wild when it is deemed healthy. No doubt it will head straight to the nearest chicken coop when that happens. -via Arbroath |
| A Short Film About Unexpected Transformation - Elefante Posted: 20 Mar 2014 06:00 PM PDT Living life as a human being can be hard enough, but if you were slowly turning into an elephant and had to live the rest of your life with a long trunk growing out of your face and big, stumpy appendages where you once had hands and feet you’d probably be a bit grumpy too. In Elefante a guy undergoes just such a transformation, and his estranged life as an outcast becomes even stranger. This darkly humorous short by Pablo Larcuen explores themes of alienation, personal transformation and the importance of family when you're undergoing a major metamorphosis. -Via Short of the Week |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2014 05:00 PM PDT Instagram user triciarae44 posted this picture of how she was asked to the prom. Cute, but what if she weren’t a good shot? He’d never know whether she accepted or not! This is just one of the many Instagram pictures showing how high school students ask each other to the prom. They call them “promposals.”
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| Want to Impress People? Wear Sweatpants Posted: 20 Mar 2014 04:00 PM PDT It may be counter-intuitive, but according to Harvard doctoral student Silvia Bellezza and her colleagues, it can pay off to dress down--or at least appear to be a non-conformist. Her studies published in the Journal of Consumer Research measured how different personalities responded to non-standard clothing. Shirley Wang of the Wall Street Journal explains:
Casually non-conforming behavior can project a sense of confidence:
People who think of themselves as offbeat are especially receptive to this tendency in others:
So break out the sweatpants and nail that job interview. You can do it! -via Althouse (Emphasis added to the quote.) |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT You order a few dishes for takeout, and then when you get home, you find quite a few extras. Sometimes there are more extras than there is food that you ordered! I call BS on this video -my local Chinese restaurant never includes chopsticks. Of course, that may be a regional thing. I would not doubt that fewer Kentuckians use chopsticks than people in other states. -vis Viral Viral Videos |
| Sculpted Hand Street Art Appears In Barcelona Posted: 20 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT Hands are sprouting out of the walls and sidewalks in Barcelona, and they have an awful lot to say considering they’re nothing but a bunch of disembodied hands and arm segments. They’re like the street art version of Thing from the Addams Family, but these guys look like they’ve been out of work for a while, because they're getting a bit desperate for funds.. These handy street art interventions are the product of a collaboration between Octavi Serra, Mateu Targa, Daniel Llugany and Pau Garcia, four artists lending some handy, and clever, artwork to the sidewalks of Barcelona. -Via Hi-Fructose |
| The Law of Diminishing Jean-Claude Van Dammes Posted: 20 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT A few months ago, the action movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme appeared in a commercial for Volvo tractor trailers. He performed a split across 2 trucks being driven backwards. The video was an internet sensation, which is something you might not normally say about tractor trailer commercials. He's also appeared in a lot of other commercials lately, including at least one more while performing a split. Wolf Gnards, a scholar of popular culture, argues that Mr. Van Damme really should cut back on his commercials. He's wearing out his brand. With each successive split, he's reaching across smaller audiences. Mr. Gnards refers to the process as the 5 Stages of Van Dammepression. These are:
It's a problem for many actors who suddenly revive their popular appeal. Betty White is an example:
POLL: Which would you prefer in the future?
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| David Szakaly’s Animated Abstractions Posted: 20 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT     David Szakaly creates abstract moving gifs that appear to be way more than just a few images repeating. He’s been archiving these little artworks on his Tumblr blog dvdp for years. Look through his archives to find some that will particularly tickle your senses. -via Laughing Squid |
| Artists Depict What It Feels Like To Have A Migraine Posted: 20 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT Anyone who has dealt with the mind bending pain of a migraine, and those who have watched a migraine sufferer struggle to keep it together when their head is full of pressure, knows that migraines are more than just headaches- they can really ruin your life. The pain, the pressure, the effect on vision and other senses, make migraines a uniquely terrible experience, one which inspired artists and sufferers to illustrate for a book by Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson called Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience From Within. The images found in this decidedly niche art book. like those shown here by Michael Bolls, depict the sufferer's experiences with extreme head pain, with many equating it to a horrifyingly painful psychedelic trip. They're making my head hurt just looking at 'em! -Via Dangerous Minds |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT A truck hauling an excavator ran out of gas. What to do? They could have siphoned some gas from the excavator and put it in the truck. They could have offloaded the excavator and driven it to a gas station. Or they could have offloaded the excavator and used it to push the truck. But why do all that, when you can just push without offloading? This scene was recorded somewhere in Turkey. |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PDT
The ever-crafty Darcy made octopus plushes of The Avengers and Loki. Avengers, assemble--then spray ink! In addition to her plushes, she’s a top-grade cosplayer. Darcy has been Mikasa Ackerman from Attack on Titan and Asami Sato from Avatar. -via Geek Art Gallery |
| Your Fat Is Why Your Brain is Dumb Posted: 20 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT
We all know that being overweight is bad for your health, but results from a new study show that it can also be bad for your brain. In fact, it can make you stupider. From past experiments, scientists know that obese lab animals have poor memory and lower learning skills as compared to their normal-weight peer. For example, lab mice don't recognize familiar objects and do not navigate mazes as well, but the exact reason why wasn't discovered until now. In a paper published last month in the Journal of Neuroscience, Alexis Stranahan and colleagues at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University found that as lab mice grow obese, their blood show increased levels of interleukin 1 proteins. These proteins, a type of signalling molecules released by cells that affect the behavior other cells, play a central role in the regulation of immune responses and is known to cause inflammation. In obese lab mice, interleukin 1 can pass through the blood-brain barrier and enters the hippocampus, a part of the brain that's important in learning and memory. There, interleukin 1 molecules cause inflammation and lower neuron activities - essentially the molecules are clogging things up there. Removing the fat by mini-liposuction of the mice cause the blood interleukin 1 level to drop and return of cognitive performance. In reverse, surgically putting fat in thin mice cause their interleukin 1 levels to shoot up and their cognitive performance to drop. Now here's a good news you can use: turns out that exercise works just as well. When the researchers put the obese mice on a daily treadmill regimen, they noticed that after 12 weeks, these mice have lost significant amount of belly fat and did better on cognitive tests as compared to sedentary mice. So, get out there and exercise! It's good for your body and your brain! |
| How Not To Kill Yourself With Household Items Posted: 20 Mar 2014 08:30 AM PDT How Not To Kill Yourself With Household Items is full of tips that may seem like common sense, or situations you may find inconceivable, like ingesting 40 tablespoons of cinnamon at once or somehow ending up with 13 tubes of toothpaste sliding down your foodhole while you’re brushing your teeth. But author PJ Smith feels it’s in your best interest to learn about all the things in your household that can kill you, so you won’t even feel safe at home and you can make your already estranged life even stranger. Oh, and did I mention these tips are accompanied by pretty pictures drawn by Lindsay Mound? Yeah, they somehow manage to make every single tip even more terrifying. -Via AnimalNY |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT It's Thursday, so you know what it means, Neatoramanauts: it's time for the What Is It? Game, brought to you by the always amusing What Is It? Blog. What is this thing in the picture? Your guess can win you a free T-shirt of your choice from the NeatoShop! Here's how to play: Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, but you can enter as many guesses as you'd like in separate comments. Post no URLs or weblinks. You might know what it is, but if you want to win a t-shirt, you'll have to use your imagination, because we are going to select two winners who give us the funniest incorrect guesses. If you guess right, then good for ya - but you don't win anything, mmkay? So, it's up to you, funny people: you have twice the chance of winning that T-shirt. Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize. We highly suggest you take a look at the NeatoShop's new selection of Funny T-shirts and Science T-Shirts. Ready? Go for it! Visit the What Is It? Blog for more pictures of this object. |
| Miniature Sushi Made with Single Grains of Rice Posted: 20 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT
Think of this as a diet plan. You'll get to enjoy professionally-made sushi without packing on extra calories. 10 years ago, Chef Hironori Ikeno made his first miniature sushi as a joke for a customer at his restaurant in Tokyo. He wanted to see how small he could make a proper sushi roll. A single grain of rice serves as the base for each of his creations. They typically take about 5 minutes to make, which is 4 more minutes longer than it usually takes him to make a full-sized roll. You can see more photos of these tasty little wonders at Twisted Sifter. |
| Louis C.K., Bradley Cooper, and the Magic of Video Archives Posted: 20 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT YouTube member GAabriel Antunes put together a weird bit of Hollywood coincidence that will take some explaining, but will blow your mind. Or maybe not, does this kind of thing happen all the time, and we just aren’t aware of it? This video is arranged in three parts. |
| Tolkien's Translation Of Beowulf Is Finally Being Published Posted: 20 Mar 2014 06:30 AM PDT (Image Via Wikimedia) J.R.R. Tolkien’s original stories, like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, get all the attention and overshadow the fact that Tolkien is known in academic circles as an authority on Beowulf, citing the work as having a major influence on his writing. He delivered a passionate lecture in 1936 on Beowulf's merits as a classic work, and this lecture succeeded in convincing many scholars to take Beowulf seriously. Tolkien felt that Beowulf should be appreciated as a work of fantasy fiction, and not as just some silly vikings versus monsters story, and in 1926 he finished his own translation of the poem, a translation that would never see publication-until May 22nd, 2014 when Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary arrives in bookstores. -Via Gamma Squad |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2014 06:00 AM PDT Travel bloggers Jürgen Horn and Mike Powell move to a new country every 91 days and tell us all about them. They’ve now arrived in Tokyo, where (despite serious jet lag) they wanted to see their new home from above. That meant a trip up the Tokyo SkyTree, the world’s tallest tower. It’s 2,080 feet (634 meters) high! From there, you can see how huge Tokyo really is.
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| Give Your Living Room A Little Bang Posted: 20 Mar 2014 05:30 AM PDT This lamp by Stockpile Designs won't literally blow up your room, but it could inspire an explosive conversation among your visitors. The real Korean War era bomb weighs 100 pounds, but its militaristic roots won't ruin your decor because the rust and paint you might expect to find on such a vintage piece of military equipment has all been polished away. Read more about the unique light design over at Homes and Hues: The Megaton Floor Light Is The Bomb |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2014 05:00 AM PDT
Popeye the Sailor made his comic strip debut in January of 1929. Popeye was originally just one of the many characters in a comic series drawn by Elzie Segar called Thimble Theater. Popeye was a one-eyed, 34-year-old (born in a typhoon in Santa Monica, California) semi-deformed-looking sailor with a severe speech impediment. The other main characters are Popeye's great love/girlfriend, the anorexic-looking Olive Oyl and his arch-nemesis, another (much-bigger) sailor named Bluto (later changed to “Brutus" for legal reasons). The offensive racial stereotypes of African-Americans can be seen in later Popeye cartoons as well. these parts of the Popeye episodes are also edited out by some TV stations. The degrading portrayals of blacks were, as we all know, not infrequent in cartoons, radio, movies and other art forms in the days before our country became more enlightened. We may laugh when we view these outdated scenes, but most of us will cringe too. During the war years, Popeye also made a clear cut wardrobe change. Instead of Popeye's customary skipper's hat and black rolled-up shirt, Popeye made the switch to the all-white Navy sailor's uniform, complete with white sailor's cap. This outfit was to remain with Popeye through the run of the cartoon series, even after the end of the war.
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One also wonders about Popeye's relationship with Bluto. In a majority of Popeye episodes, Bluto is a clear-cut enemy and rival for Olive's affection. However, on many occasions, Bluto and Popeye start the cartoon out as "friends" and "pals." Bluto, however, inevitably double-crosses his "pal" on almost every occasion, causing one to wonder why Popeye doesn't drop the guy out of his life and "list of buddies" like a bad habit.
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The "classic" Popeye cartoons are this first series, beginning in 1933 and running through the mid-fifties. It is this series of cartoons for Paramount studios that Popeye gained his greatest fame and immortality.
The Popeye cartoons were so popular during the Depression, sales of spinach in America increased by a third. “Popeye" Spinach is still the second largest-selling brand of spinach in america. In one cartoon, Popeye tells his nephews he is a descendant of Hercules and his ancestor originally got his strength from inhaling garlic. He gets beat up and thrown into a spinach field, and this is the "genesis" of his love (and need) for spinach.
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Interestingly, the Popeye cartoon has given a few terms and words to the English language. J. Wellington Wimpy, an apathetic, overweight, hamburger-loving friend of Popeye's is reputed to be the source of the term "wimp" (meaning timid or cowardly). “Wimpy's" is also a hugely popular hamburger chain of fast food restaurants in England.
In later Popeye cartoons, Popeye acquires a pinkish, dog-like creature named “Eugene the Jeep". Eugene only speaks one word "jeep" and has magical, indestructible powers, including the power to evaporate through walls. It is also generally accepted that the military vehicle, the "jeep", derived its name from Eugene the Jeep. According to other sources, jeep is a shortened version of "general purpose (vehicle)" or “GP”.
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