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- The Beatles Walk Across Abbey Road
- Kevin Bacon Demands More Male Nudity in Film
- The 20 Strangest Waterfalls in the World
- Brutally Honest Technology
- The Carousel on Ice
- Cat's Eye
- Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #27
- 20 Brutal Things Kids Say about Our Appearance
- Bad To The Bone - Faceless And Fancy Free
- The Story Behind the iWheel
- Dogs With Their Adorable Mini-Mes
- 10 Iconic Movie Prop Cars and Motorcycles of Film & Television
- This Corndog Is Made of 5 Different Types of Sausage
- How To Explain A Career In Graphic Design To Four-Year-Olds
- Get Ready for the World’s Tallest and Longest Slide
- Symphony of Science: Waves of Light
- Disney Princesses in Their Old Age
- This Animated Short Will Melt Your Mind Into Vagabond Mutant Liquid
- Cecil the Lion Will Live On as a Beanie Baby
- Traditional Monsters - The Legend Who Caught Them All
- Whale Encounter
- Deep Fried Pizza and Other Wonderful Food Abominations at the Orange County Fair
- Slip and Slide Waterfall
- The Horrifying Effects Of Radiation On The Human Body
- Good Libations: A Brief Visual History of Booze
- George Takei Answers Dumb Questions About Gay People
- A Vending Machine in the First Century
- Jim Henson Versus Stan Lee In An Epic Rap Battle Of The Creators
| The Beatles Walk Across Abbey Road Posted: 05 Aug 2015 05:00 AM PDT Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.
It was Friday, August 8, 1969, around 11:30 in the morning. The Beatles had wrapped up recording what was to be their 12th and final album a few days previously. Although it wasn't opened stated, all four pretty much knew and realized this would be the final-ever Beatle product.
A man can been seen in the distance, standing by a white Volkswagon Beetle. No pun or symbolism was intended. The car has the license plate "lmw 28if.” After the release of the album, the license was stolen several times. The car actually belonged to one of the people living in the block of flats across from the recording studio. It was sold at auction in 1986 and went on display in a German museum in 2001. | ||||||||
| Kevin Bacon Demands More Male Nudity in Film Posted: 05 Aug 2015 04:00 AM PDT Veteran actor Kevin Bacon has a problem. A problem he feels can be solved by him being naked. And other men being naked. Naked on film. Let him explain his deeply felt concern to you and learn what you can do to support this noble cause in this video to promote the "Free the Bacon" campaign. Oh yeah, it's NSFW. -via Mashable | ||||||||
| The 20 Strangest Waterfalls in the World Posted: 05 Aug 2015 03:00 AM PDT
Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park, California is unlike any other in the world. Due to its location, direction, and shape, at a particular moment each year, it will appear to glow. Sunlight hits it at just the right angle to produce what appears to be a river of fire. This is 1 of 20 of the most wondrous waterfalls in the world rounded up by When on Earth. They include a waterfall that is sticky because of the limestone content of its bed and one that flows directly into the ocean. | ||||||||
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For some winter fun, these Latvians made a functional carousel on a frozen lake. They used chainsaws to cut a circle out of the ice, then a foot-wide channel between that circle and the rest of the lake. A boat motor attached to one side of the circle provided propulsion, gently spinning the circle around and around. It looks like fun! -via Ace of Spades HQ | ||||||||
| Posted: 05 Aug 2015 12:00 AM PDT Makeup artist Tal Peleg (previously featured at Neatorama for other whimsical creations) has been recognized again lately for these wonderful feline designs, which is only one of her concentrations in the past year. Peleg gets creative with any number of shiny and perfectly shaped objects to add to her designs — even the peephole from her door, as seen in the shot below. | ||||||||
| Posted: 04 Aug 2015 11:00 PM PDT
For those of you who haven't played before, the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt is the neatest online scavenger hunt you'll play today. Win a Tokyoflash watch of your choice (yes, that's right - a Tokyoflash watch! Now that's geek street cred!) as well as neat T-shirts from the NeatoShop. All you have to do is solve the clues to play. For example: 1. What's the name of Neatorama's kid and baby blog? 2. What is 2+1? 3. What is the name of the top grill in our Top 10 Coolest BBQ Grills post? Put the answers together to form this link: http://www.neatorama.com/neatobambino-3-lynx Go ahead and copy and paste that URL to your browser to get to the answer page. Easy, right? OK - are you ready for the real thing? Here are the clues to the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #27: 1. Visit Tokyoflash.com and look for the new watch with a single hand design. Fill in the blank: "The time is shown with just one hand designed in the shape of a Japanese ____ sword" 2. Visit the NeatoShop's Science T-Shirt category. Find the shirt featuring three female astronomers. Fill in the blank: "developed a system for measuring distances in the cosmos by tracking the _____ of the stars." 3. Back to Tokyoflash. Find a watch with amazing three interlocking rings design. Fill in the blank: "Three vivid ____ of light behind a dark mineral crystal lens." Visit Tokyoflash and the NeatoShop to find answers to these clues. Then string them together to form the URL: http://www.neatorama.com/answer1-answer2-answer3 (all one-word, lower case, separated by dash). This contest will end soon, so hurry! Have fun, guys! | ||||||||
| 20 Brutal Things Kids Say about Our Appearance Posted: 04 Aug 2015 10:00 PM PDT My mom tells me that when I was 4 years old, I walked up to a stranger who was smoking and said, “You know that you’re going to die, right?” The Twitter hashtag #geethankskid is filled with things parents have heard from their kids. Sometimes they’re insensitive. And sometimes they’re just insufficiently self-censored. Often, they’re funny—especially when kids make comments about our bodies. How to Be a Dad illustrated 20 of them. Just in case you’ve forgotten that you’re turning older, fatter, and grayer, your kids remind you of your changing physical attributes. | ||||||||
| Bad To The Bone - Faceless And Fancy Free Posted: 04 Aug 2015 09:00 PM PDT Bad To The Bone by Rocky Davies Prince Adam's alter ego may be more of a man, but Skeletor has swagger and a bad attitude, which makes him totally bad to the bone! He's Eternia's original rock god, a skull faced screamer who knows how to make the kiddies bang their heads. There may be other masters of rock in the universe, but if you're looking for someone who can keep playing forever then you gotta go with Sir Skeletor and the Evil Horde! Add some geeky edge to your wardrobe with this Bad To The Bone t-shirt by Rocky Davies, it's pure heavy metal magic! Visit Rocky Davies's Facebook fan page, official website, Instagram and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more mighty geeky designs:
Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama! | ||||||||
| Posted: 04 Aug 2015 09:00 PM PDT After the picture of the iWheel went viral last week, the wheel’s creators at George Fox University IT Department were inundated with requests for a video. So we now get to see the iWheel in action. University systems administrator Mike Campadore had hoarded iMac boxes for quite some time and recently received his 35th and 36th box from a newly-installed university computer lab.
Oh, and that’s when the Photoshop jokes started rolling in. You can see those, as well as the full story of the iWheel, at the Bruin Blog. -Thanks, Rob Leslie! | ||||||||
| Dogs With Their Adorable Mini-Mes Posted: 04 Aug 2015 08:00 PM PDT
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| 10 Iconic Movie Prop Cars and Motorcycles of Film & Television Posted: 04 Aug 2015 07:00 PM PDT Some of the biggest stars of movies and TV have been vehicles that became legends. But they rarely went on to have much of a career outside of their first franchise. Too typecast, I guess. Whatever happened to those unique vehicles? You know, like the Ford Falcon that Mad Max drove in his first two films?
That’s just the beginning. Read the stories of the vehicles used in the movies Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Smokey and the Bandit, Ghostbusters, and more at Urban Ghosts. | ||||||||
| This Corndog Is Made of 5 Different Types of Sausage Posted: 04 Aug 2015 06:00 PM PDT It’s the Swiss Army knife of corndogs. From left to right, you’ve got chorizo, Italian sausage, Polish sausage, bratwurst, and a standard hot dog. It’s clearly the greatest corn dog ever. And as you might expect, yes: this in the work of Nick Chipman of DudeFoods. He’s found a way to reach every palate’s desires with a multifunctional meat deployment system. Chipman says:
-via Incredible Things | ||||||||
| How To Explain A Career In Graphic Design To Four-Year-Olds Posted: 04 Aug 2015 05:00 PM PDT Kids are naturally curious about what their parents do for a living, and when we try to explain it to them our explanations generally fall into one of two categories- lengthy and informative or hasty and placating. But when you have to explain a job that’s a bit more abstract, like artist or psychologist, you’re going to have your work cut out for you. Luckily, a guy named Dean Vispond came up with a great way to properly explain a graphic designer's job to youngsters...after he had to boil it all down to a room full of four-year-olds:
Read Dean's full post on Explaining Graphic Design To Four-Year-Olds at Medium -Via Boing Boing | ||||||||
| Get Ready for the World’s Tallest and Longest Slide Posted: 04 Aug 2015 04:00 PM PDT
Architects Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond designed the ArcelorMittal Orbit, a sculpture in London made for 2012 Summer Olympics. At 376 feet tall, it’s the tallest sculpture in the entire UK. Now it’s about to become the world’s tallest, longest, and therefore greatest slide. The slide will descend 249 feet while spiraling 5 times around the tower. Visitors will spend about $8 each to go down it at speeds as high as 15 miles per hour. The journey takes a full 37 seconds. This slide will have features that set it above similar rides, such as mirrors along the route that confuse the visitors as to which way is up. It will also be wheelchair accessible. You can read more about the project at the London Evening Standard. -via Juxtapoz | ||||||||
| Symphony of Science: Waves of Light Posted: 04 Aug 2015 03:00 PM PDT A year after their last installment, we get a new video from Melody Sheep in the Symphony of Science series. This one features narration (turned into singing with autotune) by astrophysicist Brian Cox. It’s about how the origin of the universe is all about light. -via Geeks Are Sexy | ||||||||
| Disney Princesses in Their Old Age Posted: 04 Aug 2015 02:00 PM PDT When it comes to movies, one of my favorite directors has always been Martin Scorsese. One reason behind that is I prefer my films with a good dose of gritty realism. Disney characters? Not known for gritty realism. But about as real as it gets is showing Disney princesses in old lady mode. They're gray, they're matronly, they've lost their sex appeal. It's slightly depressing: just the way old age should be! All jokes aside though, BuzzFeed staffer Loryn Brantz has prepped a number of princesses for past-prime time. See them all here. | ||||||||
| This Animated Short Will Melt Your Mind Into Vagabond Mutant Liquid Posted: 04 Aug 2015 01:00 PM PDT Adult Swim represents the cutting edge of animation, and their programming has not only changed the way we think of adult animation, they’ve actually pushed the genre well past the point of being dismissible as simply a passing fad. The creators who call Adult Swim home love to mess with our minds, and their works often leave a mark on those of us who are brave enough to keep our eyes open until the bitter end... Animator Toby Stretch created this subtly disturbing short entitled "Vagabond Mutant Liquid", which will forever change the way you look at soft and fuzzy textures. -Via io9 | ||||||||
| Cecil the Lion Will Live On as a Beanie Baby Posted: 04 Aug 2015 12:00 PM PDT
One way Cecil's legacy will live on is as a Ty Beanie Baby, it was announced in a press release on August 3. Ty Warner has created a Cecil the lion Beanie Baby in memory of the fallen lion. Ty says that 100% of the profits from sales of the Cecil toy will go to the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit of the University of Oxford, the group who was engaged in study of the lion when he was killed and continues to work toward African wildlife conservation. Read more on this story at the Chicago Tribune. Via Mashable | Image: Ty Inc. | ||||||||
| Traditional Monsters - The Legend Who Caught Them All Posted: 04 Aug 2015 11:00 AM PDT Traditional Monsters by Alberto Arni The early history of pocket monster training is a bit of a mystery to those who don't live on the islands where the mysterious creatures originated. But in the beginning there was a naturalist and explorer named Satoshi who noticed that strange looking creatures were battling in the woods, evolving with every victory. Satoshi constructed a ball made out of bamboo and reeds, and one fateful day he caught a monster in his ball and put the whole thing in his pocket... Catch a geeky history lesson with this Traditional Monsters t-shirt by Alberto Arni, and watch your fellow fans light up when they see you wearing this cool shirt! Visit Alberto Arni's Facebook fan page, Twitter and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs:
Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama! | ||||||||
| Posted: 04 Aug 2015 11:00 AM PDT A mother gray whale and her calf interact with tourists out on a sightseeing ride off Baja California. The event was captured by a drone recording the whales operated by wildlife photographer Mark Carwardine. How exciting for these tourists to go home and tell people they not only saw whales, but touched them! Personally, I was waiting for the boat to tip over from everyone rushing to the same side to get close to the whales. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Deep Fried Pizza and Other Wonderful Food Abominations at the Orange County Fair Posted: 04 Aug 2015 10:00 AM PDT Pack some antacid, bring a bib, and make out your will because it’s time to go to the Orange County Fair. This glorious event occurs every year at Costa Mesa, California. Peter Pham of Foodbeast has rounded up 125 wonderfully bad foods from it and mapped their locations on the fairgrounds. They include deep fried Klondike Bars, solid bricks of French fries, and caviar-covered Twinkies. -via Nag on the Lake | ||||||||
| Posted: 04 Aug 2015 09:00 AM PDT Take a couple of minutes to enjoy another feelgood outdoor sequence by Devin Supertramp and his gang of daredevils. Team Supertramp traveled to British Columbia to a natural sluice leading to a waterfall. It’s nature’s own Slip'N Slide! It looks like so much fun …but I can also see someone cracking their skull open doing this. The music is "Underwater" by Milkman. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| The Horrifying Effects Of Radiation On The Human Body Posted: 04 Aug 2015 08:00 AM PDT Pop culture likes to poke fun at the effects of radiation on the body, and without much real world scientific knowledge it’s hard to understand just how bad radiation is for the human body. But we need look no further than the accident which took place at an uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Japan in 1999 to see just how bad it is to receive a lethal dose of radiation. IFL Science posted an informative, albeit a bit gruesome and disturbing, article entitled This Is What Radiation Can Do To The Human Body. It tells the tale (and contains a NSFW and grisly image) of a poor fellow named Hiroshi Ouchi who was "exposed to incredible amounts of the most powerful type of radiation in the form of neutron beams". He felt fine at first, and was even able to talk to doctors when he arrived at the hospital, and then his skin began to fall off... Read This Is What Radiation Can Do To The Human Body at IFL Science | ||||||||
| Good Libations: A Brief Visual History of Booze Posted: 04 Aug 2015 07:30 AM PDT From barley beer in 8,500 B.C. to the high-alcohol beers of 2010. The Atlantic's animated video "Good Libations: A Brief Visual History of Booze" provides viewers a quirky and graphically appealing glance at poison picks throughout history, showing us the drinks and their approximate years of origin. Via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| George Takei Answers Dumb Questions About Gay People Posted: 04 Aug 2015 07:00 AM PDT Gay people are (arguably) more accepted now than ever before, and when the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage is totally legal this cemented their position in American culture. We’ve come so far in terms of acceptance of other lifestyles, and yet people still have the dumbest questions about what it means to be gay. Luckily there’s a famous gay guy named George Takei who is willing and able to answer all the dumb questions that have been burning a hole in the minds of straight people for decades. He not only answered them all seriously, he responded with a touch of Takei class...except for his delightfully raunchy response to why gay men like to be flight attendants. Oh myyyyy George Takei! Read George Takei Gloriously Responds To Stupid Question About Gay People here | ||||||||
| A Vending Machine in the First Century Posted: 04 Aug 2015 06:30 AM PDT
It was a simple but ingenious mechanical device that used the weight of a coin to temporarily open the floodgates. It wasn’t a big hit, though, and the idea was shelved for 1800 years. But then the history of vending machines really takes off. Ernie Smith runs down the highlights of vending machine history for us in an article at Atlas Obscura. | ||||||||
| Jim Henson Versus Stan Lee In An Epic Rap Battle Of The Creators Posted: 04 Aug 2015 06:00 AM PDT Stan Lee and Jim Henson are two creators who pushed the limits of imagination and expanded the boundaries of their chosen mediums. Stan Lee proved that comics aren’t just for kids, and that they can have a deep storyline that appeals to adults while keeping all the bang up battles enjoyed by youngsters. Jim Henson proved that a puppet movie need have no boundaries, and that puppets can be just as appealing as a main star as any human. Together they could have created something amazing, instead they're lyrically battling it out like two master creator MCs in this episode of Epic Rap Battles! -Via Laughing Squid |
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