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• Pumpkin Spiced Salmon
• Amazing Street Drummer Uses Trash to Make Music
• How Movie Titles Get Lost in Translation
• Amazingly Realistic Wax Sculptures Of Famous Characters
• Bipedal Bear is Back
• New Fashion: Carrying Models Upside Down
• Petri Dish Art Competition Winners
• A Craigslist Ad Worthy of Pulitzer Prize
• Bored Now - Willow Does Not Weep For The Life She Left Behind
• Five Facts About MMA Fighting Not Seen On TV
• How NASA and Ridley Scott Collaborated to Make <i>The Martian</i>
• Disney Princess Hot Dogs
• Rise of the Synthesizer
• How Disney Animators Used A Model To Help Bring Alice To Life

Pumpkin Spiced Salmon Posted: 04 Oct 2015 04:00 AM PDT This picture of pumpkin spice salmon was posted as an example of the trend taken too far. Then in the discussion at reddit, salmon lovers said this sounds pretty good, if you don’t put any sugar in the spices. Then there are those who say a sugar rub on salmon is actually delicious. I’m not much of a fish eater, especially at $12.99 a pound, so what do I know? What do you think? POLL: Would Pumpkin Spiced Salmon be good to eat? Yes, as long as you leave sugar out of it. Yes, with sugar! No, this is a terrible idea.

Amazing Street Drummer Uses Trash to Make Music Posted: 04 Oct 2015 02:00 AM PDT (Video Link) Dario Rossi is a drummer from Italy. He bills himself as the Techno Street Drummer because he plays techno music at a furious pace on city streets as a busker. Rossi has a couple of actual drums as part of his normal performance set. But most of his materials are pieces of trash, such as old pots, pans, buckets, as well as more mysterious scraps of metal. With them, Rossi creates impressively sophisticated and precise performances, such as this one that he gave in Amsterdam. -via The Presurfer

How Movie Titles Get Lost in Translation Posted: 04 Oct 2015 12:00 AM PDT International markets for Hollywood movies are more lucrative than ever, but the quality of the translations has suffered tremendously over the past couple of decades. We’ve seen examples of lousy translations from both movie titles and subtitles, and they can end up confusing or even comical. THe Chinese opening of Avengers: Age of Ultronwas a fiasco due to poor translation. What happened?   Localization, the process of adapting a work for a foreign market, has been going on for decades in the movie business. But if the names seem increasingly obtuse or just weird, there’s a reason for that: the bottom fell out on the translation market. Like most other areas of skilled labor, film translation has changed substantially in the past few decades. Dean Remy, of GlobalVision International, a US-based translation outfit, doesn’t bother with movies anymore for exactly that reason. “We've done a number of Sony productions in the past, but we've kind of moved away from that,” he says. His translators are heavily accredited, with advanced degrees and translation certifications, and they simply can’t translate for a penny a word. Atlas Obscura explains the painstaking process of properly translating a film, which involves timing, cultural knowledge, and judgement calls, as well as fluency. That kind of work doesn’t come cheap. Or you can use sweatshop labor or even a computer and save some money, but you’ll end up with something like Backstroke of the West.

Amazingly Realistic Wax Sculptures Of Famous Characters Posted: 03 Oct 2015 10:00 PM PDT If you're gonna make hyper realistic wax sculptures of people you might as well use some of the most recognizable and beloved people, with those famous faces we love, as your inspiration. Master sculptor Trevor Grove has a knack for capturing both the look and personality of each person he sculpts, and he obviously has really good taste because he chose both Tom Waits and Eddie Munster as his subjects! He's also really good at sculpting amazing likenesses in small 1/6 scale, like this head for the Bill Murray- Actor action figure the world of geeky toys needs NAO! See more of Trevor Grove's amazing sculptures here

Bipedal Bear is Back Posted: 03 Oct 2015 08:00 PM PDT YouTube Link In August of last year, Neatorama featured a video of a bear walking on two legs through the suburbs of New Jersey. Now it appears as if this celebrated bipedal bear is back in action, having recently been sighted in Oak Ridge, New Jersey. The bear, whom neighborhood residents have dubbed "Pedals," is injured, as he is missing one of his front paws. The animal, who looks quite a bit thinner than the average bear, was seen searching garbage cans in the neighborhood for food. Hopefully Pedals will fatten up before it's time to hole up for the winter. Via Gothamist

New Fashion: Carrying Models Upside Down Posted: 03 Oct 2015 06:00 PM PDT (Photo: Francois G Durand/WireImage) Never mind how it looks. This is what the cool people are wearing these days. So get with it. You'll need a harness and a second person--preferably a light one. Fashion designer Rick Owens offered this outfit and others similar to it to visitors of Fashion Week in Paris this past week. Thankfully, he intends for this to be just an artistic expression for the catwalk, not everyday wear at the home or office. Owens's arrangement of one model carrying another upside down is a way of saying that we all have to carry each other's burdens in society. He explained on the extremely poorly designed website Dazed Digital: Owens's collection also includes menswear. Specifically, the male models are wearing shapeless fabric sacks that cover their entire bodies except for their genitals. I'll forgo including a picture of that one.

Petri Dish Art Competition Winners Posted: 03 Oct 2015 04:00 PM PDT The American Society for Microbiology held an art contest. Yes, scientists, specifically microbiologists, created artworks by growing microbes in an agar medium in Petri dishes. The results of the Agar Art contest are stunning! The winners of the competition are: First place: Neurons, submitted by Mehmet Berkmen of New England Biolabs, with artist Maria Penil. Second place: NYC Biome MAP, submitted by Christine Marizzi, an educator at a community lab. This art piece was created as a collaboration between citizen scientists and artists at Genspace: New York City's Community Biolab. Third place: Harvest Season, created by Maria Eugenia Inda, a postdoctoral researcher from Argentina working at Cold Spring Harbor Labs. People's Choice: Cell to Cell, with almost 3,500 likes on the Facebook album. This image was created by the group who won first place, Mehmet Berkmen with artist Maria Penil. See all the submitted entries at Facebook. Shown here is the first-place winning entry from Mehmet Berkmen and Maria Penil. -via Metafilter

A Craigslist Ad Worthy of Pulitzer Prize Posted: 03 Oct 2015 02:00 PM PDT (Photo of Boston by Glenn Beltz) Charley Locke of Wired suggests that this ad from the Boston missed connections section of Craiglist deserves a literary prize. I agree. This is a fantastic, heartfelt piece of writing: I met you in the rain on the last day of 1972, the same day I resolved to kill myself. One week prior, at the behest of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, I'd flown four B-52 sorties over Hanoi. I dropped forty-eight bombs. How many homes I destroyed, how many lives I ended, I'll never know. But in the eyes of my superiors, I had served my country honorably, and I was thusly discharged with such distinction. And so on the morning of that New Year's Eve, I found myself in a barren studio apartment on Beacon and Hereford with a fifth of Tennessee rye and the pang of shame permeating the recesses of my soul. When the bottle was empty, I made for the door and vowed, upon returning, that I would retrieve the Smith & Wesson Model 15 from the closet and give myself the discharge I deserved. He went for a last walk through the city before killing himself. On that journey, he met a mysterious woman in a ball gown: When I joined you under the balcony, you looked at me with your big green eyes, and I could tell that you'd been crying. I asked if you were okay. You said you'd been better. I asked if you'd like to have a cup of coffee. You said only if I would join you. Before I could smile, you snatched my hand and led me on a dash through Downtown Crossing and into Neisner's. We sat at the counter of that five and dime and talked like old friends. We laughed as easily as we lamented, and you confessed over pecan pie that you were engaged to a man you didn't love, a banker from some line of Boston nobility. A Cabot, or maybe a Chaffee. Either way, his parents were hosting a soirée to ring in the New Year, hence the dress. For my part, I shared more of myself than I could have imagined possible at that time. I didn't mention Vietnam, but I got the sense that you could see there was a war waging inside me. Still, your eyes offered no pity, and I loved you for it. Read the whole thing. No, seriously: go read the whole piece right now. -via Ace of Spades HQ

Bored Now - Willow Does Not Weep For The Life She Left Behind Posted: 03 Oct 2015 12:00 PM PDT Bored Now by Emilie Boisvert When Buffy arrived in Sunnydale a young girl by the name of Willow was transformed by the presence of a slayer in her life. She'd always suspected there were things like vampires and werewolves lurking around in the darkness, but she never imagined she would one day help fight against the foul creatures and work to keep the mouth of hell from opening. She also didn't see her transformation into a witch coming either, nor could she foresee that learning witchcraft would eventually lead her down a dark path to ruin... Add some dark energy to your geeky wardrobe with this Bored Now t-shirt by Emilie Boisvert, it's a magical way to show some love for your favorite TV show and the dark characters within... Visit Emilie Boisvert's Facebook fan page, official website, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more spellbinding designs: Snow Fright ROYAL WONDERLAND- WHITE QUEEN Cheshie Maternal Instinct View more designs by Emilie Boisvert | More TV T-shirts | New T-Shirts 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!

Five Facts About MMA Fighting Not Seen On TV Posted: 03 Oct 2015 12:00 PM PDT All forms of professional fighting have rules that were put in place to help fighters stay alive and ready for their next fight, and the only cheats you could ever sneak by would be small scale stuff. Crafty fighters come up with all kinds of (mostly gross) ways to give them an edge in the ring, and since mixed martial arts bouts usually involve some sort of grappling MMA fighters often use their stink to give them a leg up. But stink isn't as effective as hard training, and MMA fighters train so hard they risk being knocked unconscious or receiving a career ending injury just to make sure they're in top shape when they enter the Octagon. Read Stink Is A Weapon: 5 Facts About MMA Fighting (Not Seen On TV) here (contains NSFW language)

How NASA and Ridley Scott Collaborated to Make <i>The Martian</i> Posted: 03 Oct 2015 10:00 AM PDT The making of the movie The Martian seems almost like a fairy tale, or more specifically, a Horatio Alger-type success story. Computer programmer Andy Weir wrote a story about Mars in blog posts over three years, which then became a book, which was picked up by Hollywood and made into a critically-acclaimed movie directed by Ridley Scott with help from NASA. James Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Sciences Division, was tremendously excited when Scott wanted to speak to him about NASA’s help for the movie The Martian. The conversation led to a tour of NASA’s Johnson Space Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and then more.      Beyond tours, NASA gave the filmmakers hundreds of photos—of Mars, of what's on a screen when scientists are commanding a satellite orbiting the planet, and of the layout of the control center. Green weighed in on what the Hermes—the spacecraft used by the Ares III crew in the film to travel between Mars and Earth—would look like. (The filmmakers went through two versions before settling on a third, which uses ion engines to get to our red neighbor.) He also read the script, jotting down notes and comments that he went over with Max when he came to NASA. Most of Green's comments “were really all about how to make the movie use some of the latest information about Mars,” he says. In most cases, though, the filmmakers decided to stick with what was in the book, which was fine with Green: “It’s cleaner. It’s easier. It is something they can fall back on,” he says. Dr. Green spoke with mental_floss about the ways NASA helped to tweak the screenplay to make The Martian as realistic as cinematically possible. The article about the collaboration contains no spoilers, as far as I can tell.

Disney Princess Hot Dogs Posted: 03 Oct 2015 08:00 AM PDT (Photo: Anna Hezel) From left to right, you see Rapunzel, Ariel, Belle, and Pocahontas. Brilliant! If you think that the Disney Princess meme had been exhausted, you're wrong. Anna Hezel and Gabriella Paiella have found a fresh take using fresh ingredients. You can find their recipes here. I want to eat them all up, then do a line of Disney villain hot dogs and Disney princess corn dogs.  -via Tastefully Offensive

Rise of the Synthesizer Posted: 03 Oct 2015 07:00 AM PDT You probably have trouble remembering a time when synthesizers were mainly used in classical music, but that’s they way it was immediately after the Moog synthesizer hit the market. But experimental rock musicians soon discovered the versatility of the instrument. In the summer of 1970, after popping into a pub for a pint, rock keyboardist Keith Emerson sat down at his enormous Moog modular synthesizer in London’s legendary Advision recording studio and noodled a few improvised notes. His goal was to add some electronic punch to the end of a mostly acoustic-guitar number called “Lucky Man,” written by his singer-guitarist bandmate, Greg Lake. As his fingers ran up and down the synthesizer’s keyboard, Emerson played along to the bass, drums, vocals, and guitars already recorded by Lake and drummer Carl Palmer. Their contributions were lovely, imbued with the traditional rhythms and melodies of folk music and warmed by the human voice. In contrast, Emerson’s notes were otherworldly, rising and falling in syrupy sweeps, as if propelled through a rollercoaster of resonant tubes. Emerson would later say he was just fooling around, and that he definitely did not expect his first take to be his last, but Lake and sound engineer Eddie Offord liked what they heard so much, they deemed Emerson’s work on “Lucky Man” done. That ushered in the heyday of synthesizers. Before long, many rock bands were relying on them, and new, even more useful synthesizers were developed. The sound became standard in the 1970s and most of the ‘80s. Ben Marks talked to Lance Hill of the Vintage Synthesizer Museum and instrument developer Dave Smith, co-creator of MIDI, about the history of the music synthesizer at Collectors Weekly. (Image source: Keith Emerson) Bonus:

How Disney Animators Used A Model To Help Bring Alice To Life Posted: 03 Oct 2015 06:00 AM PDT Animators have always used photo reference and models to help them create character designs and make the character's motion look as realistic and fluid as possible, but Disney took it to a whole other level. Their character performances are top notch, their human character designs are so believable we feel like we know them in real life, all thanks to their crafty methods of using live-action reference. Disney animators used Kathryn Beaumont as their Alice in every way, since she also voiced the character and obviously provided inspiration for many of Alice's facial expressions as well. The clip above shows how they turned a small acted out segment into an iconic scene from Alice In Wonderland, and below we see how Alice's character design was created by drawing over photographic reference of Kathryn, to keep proportions correct and make her more believable. It may look like cheating, but when there are tens of thousands of frames of character animation to be drawn, inked, painted and filmed for the movie animators need all the help they can get! See more Old Photos Reveal How Disney's Animators Used A Real-Life Model To Draw Alice

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