Neatorama

---

• June 6, 1933: The Era of Drive-In Movies Begins
• Why Is This Shiba Inu So Chubby?
• Lizard Catches Virtual Flies
• It’s Pizza, But With Noodles As Crust
• Google Search Has A New Feature Which Makes Searching Way Easier
• Kozo's Photorealistic Pop Culture Tattoos
• Check Out These Balloon Recreations By Ryo Kajiyama
• The Mathematician Who Cleared WW1 Trenches of Poisonous Gas
• Melon Yoda
• The Deadly Irish Epidemic That Helped Bring Dracula to Life
• Leaving My Dog Alone with a Whole Chicken
• 93 Restaurants That Have No Idea How To Serve Food
• Simon De Thuillières's Illuminated Movie Posters
• Are Parrots OP?

June 6, 1933: The Era of Drive-In Movies Begins Posted: 06 Jun 2020 12:01 AM PDT For about 50 years, the drive-in theater was a really big draw for movie fans. The advantages over walk-in theaters were that you had privacy (or social distancing, if you prefer), you didn't need to dress up, the kids could sleep in the back seat, and you could "smoke, chat, or even partake of refreshments." That last one is kind of funny, since partaking of refreshments is the reason walk-in theaters still exist at all. The first drive-in theater opened in June of 1933. Richard Hollingshead, Jr., the inventor of the drive-in theater, developed the idea during the midst of the depression. He was out of work but figured there were two things people weren't willing to give up – their cars and going to the movies. He tested his concept by setting up a 1928 Kodak projector on the hood of his family car and projecting pictures onto a screen nailed to a tree in his yard. Pleased with the results, Hollingshead sought financial backing from his cousin and opened the first drive-in theater. Patrons paid $1 per car or 25 cents per person. Speakers were mounted atop the 60-foot screen but didn't provide very good sound. It would take years to improve the sound problem at the drive-in. Hollingsworth's theater design included concentric, curved rows titled at a five-degree angle to ensure that everyone had a good view of the screen. Drive-in theaters didn't really take off until after World War II, when the sound was improved and more people had cars. Read more about the rise of the drive-in theater at Newspapers.com. -via Strange Company (Image credit: Laxbot7)

Why Is This Shiba Inu So Chubby? Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:38 PM PDT Meet Moja, A Shiba Inu so large that you'd probably mistake her for another dog breed. But before you think that she's big because she probably eats a lot and doesn't exercise, then let me be the first one to tell you that for seven years, she has only been eating one meal a day. But why is she so chubby? The reason why she looks chubby is that she has hormone disorder after getting neutered. So she can't lose weight even when she's only eating very little food. She was also born with tracheal collapse. To prevent her from getting any bigger, the vet suggested to her hooman to feed her one healthy meal a day, and her hooman did just that. The 12-year-old doge lives with 4 shiba sister and a cat brother. They love sunbathing and taking strolls. Now that's what you call cuteness overload. (Image Credit: moja412744/ Instagram)

Lizard Catches Virtual Flies Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:38 PM PDT Tyler had an app on his phone which allowed the player to splat the bugs that would appear on the screen. Upon discovering this, Luna, Tyler's pet lizard, would then spend many hours looking intently at Tyler's phone screen. When Tyler realized what made Luna so interested in his phone, he decided to let her play with the app to see how good she was. And oh boy, was she good at splatting these bugs! The reptile, from Kokomo, Indiana, used its quick reactions to virtually splat nearly every bug on the screen except a small ant which managed to scurry away. [...] She stares at the screen and pays close attention to the bugs which crawl across . . . it and quickly jabbing them with her tongue. In the video, recorded in January last year, her fun is short lived as an advert pops up on the screen and interrupts her game. Her family said they 'got a kick' out of watching their beloved pet playing on the phone. Hopefully she had real bugs to snack on after a tiring game. Watch the short video over at DailyMail. (Image Credit: ViralHog/ DailyMail)

It’s Pizza, But With Noodles As Crust Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:38 PM PDT Ramen noodles are usually eaten plain in other countries. In Japan, however, rarely does this thing happen, as they usually put toppings on it.  But what do you do when the toppings currently available at home are not suitable for the pack of ramen? This was the problem that the staff from SoraNews24 faced on one fateful day. We didn't have an egg to crack and stir into the broth, or even some chives to chop and sprinkle into the mix. As a matter of fact, aside from a pack of Nissin-brand Chicken Ramen noodles, all we had was some shredded cheese, a couple bell peppers, and a tube of zesty tomato sauce, which really are more like the toppings for a pizza. And so they decided to do the unthinkable: make a pizza with the noodles as the crust. The result? A delicious yet strange pizza. More details about this over at SoraNews24. What are your thoughts about this one? (Image Credit: SoraNews24)

Google Search Has A New Feature Which Makes Searching Way Easier Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:38 PM PDT Google Search users will finally be relieved as Google put a new trick up its search engine's sleeve which makes searching way easier than it was.  Before, a person would put a search question on Google Search, and the search engine would then search the web to find the answer that the person is asking for. In some cases, aside from pulling up a massive list of search results, Google will also provide for the user a quick summary from one of the many results, and that is known as a "featured snippet". The user, however, still has to find the exact text when he clicks on the site with the featured snippet. It seems those days are gone, though. Search Engine Land (via The Verge) has discovered that Google launched a new Search feature that highlights and scrolls down to text found in a featured snippet. [...] And now, when you click through to that webpage, you'll be sent to the exact part of the page the snippet was taken from, and you'll see the text from the snippet highlighted yellow... Thanks, Google!

Kozo's Photorealistic Pop Culture Tattoos Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:38 PM PDT Kozo, a tattoo artist at the Bang Bang studio in New York City, makes ink with such precision that you'd swear that you're looking at a photograph or a digital rendering. He often uses figures from pop culture, such as this condensed image of the Last Supper. Kozo makes highly effective use of panels that turn movie scenes into comic books. He's strongly inspired by surreal works of art, such as this image by Christian Schloe. This tattoo almost looks three dimensional. Van Gogh captures Kozo's attention. I'm especially impressed by this split panel rendering of two of the Dutch artist's most famous works. -via My Modern Met

Check Out These Balloon Recreations By Ryo Kajiyama Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:38 PM PDT View this post on Instagram #車椅子 #車イス #車いす #椅子 #バルーンアート #wheelchair #chair #balloonart #おうち時間 #stayhome 背もたれは一切風船を捻ってない、本当の編み込み。最高難易度すぎて、これ以上キレイにできる気がしない😵💦 A post shared by バルーンなアーティストR🇯🇵 (@balloonnaart) on May 3, 2020 at 9:23pm PDT I don't really know what it is but there's something fascinating about recreations of anything, from real-life objects to pop culture icons. Perhaps it is the fact that while recreations can give you a sense of familiarity, it still surprises or amazes you in ways you could not have imagined. Check out the many balloon recreations of Japanese artist Ryo Kajiyama over at Laughing Squid. You may also visit his Instagram account if you want to see more of his recreations, which range from everyday objects like staplers and wheelchairs, to famous figures like Albert Einstein, and many more! For now, here are some of them. (Image Credit: balloonnaart/ Instagram) View this post on Instagram #天才 #アインシュタイン #genius #einstein #バルーンアート #balloonart #おうち時間 #stayhome できればかぶりながら動かしたかったけど無理だったわ🤔 A post shared by バルーンなアーティストR🇯🇵 (@balloonnaart) on May 2, 2020 at 11:35pm PDT

The Mathematician Who Cleared WW1 Trenches of Poisonous Gas Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:37 PM PDT Hertha Ayrton was multitalented mathematician and engineer who filed 26 patents, but ran up against prejudice against women scientists all her life. She married her electical engineering professor, who was in awe of her genius. William Ayrton distanced himself from Hetha's projects, lest he be given credit for what she did, yet that happened quite a few times anyway. She came up with enormously useful breakthroughs and inventions. In 1893, Hertha took over a project from William investigating the cause of an irritating hissing noise coming from the electric arc, which powered lamps in London at the time. The lamps consisted of two carbon rods with a charge running between them that produced an arc of light in the space between the rods. Hertha was the first to figure out that this loud hissing was due to the oxidation of the carbon electrodes. If you simply enclosed the whole contraption in a bulb so that it was not exposed to open air, the hissing stopped. Hertha's remarkable work on the electric arc won the attention and admiration of contemporary scientists. She was the first woman invited to give a paper at the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1899 and became the first woman elected to membership of that Institution. She spoke about her findings at the International Congress of Women in London and at the Electrical Congress in Paris. Her appearances convinced the British Association for the Advancement of Science to include women on scientific committees. But even with all this success, she still faced barriers. In 1901, her paper on the electric arc was presented to the Royal Society by a man standing in for her, since women were not allowed admission. In 1902, her name was put forth for admission to the Royal Society but was rejected by a majority of votes because, simply, they were "of the opinion that married women are not eligible as fellows of the Royal Society." This decision held even after, in 1906, Hertha became the first woman — and only the second woman to date — to be awarded the Hughes Medal for outstanding research in the field of energy. Naturally, Ayrton became a suffragist, and even led Marie Curie to come out of her laboratory long enough to support the cause. Read about Hertha Ayrton at Massive Science. Curiously, the article does not say much about her fan invented to clear WWI trenches, but you can read about it here. -via Damn Interesting

Melon Yoda Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:37 PM PDT View this post on Instagram 🍈🍈🍈 · · ヨーダメロン · · あまり 笑顔が 似合わない彼 · · 🤭 · · #メロンアート#スターウォーズ #おうちごはんlover#フーディーテーブル#マカロニメイト#ヨーダ#yoda#melon#melonart #wp_deli_japan#IgersJP#ig_japan#instafood#foodart#instagood#starwars #disney#disneyfood A post shared by えとにママ (@etn.co_mam) on Jun 4, 2020 at 2:41am PDT Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. Even a melon can become more when Japanese food artist Etoni Mama gets to work. Most recently, she crafted this delicious display of Yoda. It would have been perfect to eat for a May the Fourth party.

The Deadly Irish Epidemic That Helped Bring Dracula to Life Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:37 PM PDT In 1897, Bram Stoker's novel Dracula introduced the world to the perfect villain, the terrifying vampire who defined horror monsters for more than a century -so far. Countless studies examine the various inspirations for the character of Dracula, many of them leading to Vlad the Impaler, although the historic Romanian ruler added little to the novel besides his name. Another inspiration came from Stoker's mother, whose childhood memories include a cholera outbreak in her hometown of Sligo in Ireland. The 1832 outbreak killed more than 10% of the town's population, but that wasn't the most horrifying detail. Marion McGarry of the Sligo Stoker Society explains.   McGarry says Stoker was inspired by a grisly account of that epidemic written by his mother, Charlotte Thornley, who hid from the plague in her home before she fled Sligo with her family. Thornley's essay remained unpublished and buried in a Dublin archive until the Society studied the text and, last year, had it widely circulated. "Bram as an adult asked his mother to write down her memories of the epidemic for him, and he supplemented this using his own historic research of Sligo's epidemic," says McGarry. "Scratching beneath the surface (of this essay), I found parallels with Dracula. [For instance,] Charlotte says cholera enters port towns having traveled by ship, and can travel overland as a mist—just like Dracula, who infects people with his unknown contagion." The strongest link McGarry found, though, was between Dracula's liminal state—being simultaneously dead and conscious—and Thornley's description of cholera victims who were buried alive. Stoker was morbidly fascinated by this detail. So much so that the working title for his novel was The Undead, before his publisher later changed it to Dracula. Read more on the connection between Sligo's cholera outbreak and Stoker's vampire at Atlas Obscura.   (Image credit: Nick)

Leaving My Dog Alone with a Whole Chicken Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:37 PM PDT Tucker the golden retriever is confronted with an entire roast chicken. How long can he resist taking a bite? Okay, how long can he resist a bite after he knows how it tastes? Longer than I expected. Remember this golden from an obedience challenge a few years ago. But no matter what, Tucker is a good boy. -via Digg

93 Restaurants That Have No Idea How To Serve Food Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:36 PM PDT In a restaurant in canada last night I was served pudding on, and I wish I was joking, an ancient VHS copy of The Bodyguard pic.twitter.com/53oQfXDlNw — P.S.Burton (@PSBurton) August 8, 2019 It's been a few years since we discussed the trend of restaurants serving food on something other than plates. Since then, restaurants have been trying to outdo each other in ridiculous methods of presenting your meal. They include a sink, the cook's hand, the diner's hand, rocks, a mousetrap, antlers, and food served right on the tablecloth. How about some broccoli served on a bed of barbed wire? (Image credit: oldfashioned24) I don't even know if you'd call four pieces a "serving," but there may have been some already eaten. Anyway, you'll find a ranked list of the most egregious ways restaurants serve food to patrons at Bored Panda.

Simon De Thuillières's Illuminated Movie Posters Posted: 05 Jun 2020 09:36 PM PDT View this post on Instagram A post shared by Simon De Thuillières (@simondethuillieres) on May 22, 2020 at 2:29pm PDT Simon De Thuillières (the appropriate pseudonym of artist Renaud Garcia), recasts the great stories of modern times with medieval tones. Although his text is written in French, it's possible for the non-French speaker to quickly see which film or television show has traveled back to the age of illuminated manuscripts. In this case, Sylvester Stallone's character in Demolition Man is an object of ridicule because he doesn't understand how to use the three seashells instead of toilet paper. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Simon De Thuillières (@simondethuillieres) on May 27, 2020 at 2:36pm PDT The Terminator needs your clothes. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Simon De Thuillières (@simondethuillieres) on May 21, 2020 at 2:13pm PDT The sagely friar Morpheus offers you two fruits. Will you eat the red or the blue? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Simon De Thuillières (@simondethuillieres) on May 20, 2020 at 9:13am PDT The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were in training before Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo were even born. -via Geek Art

Are Parrots OP? Posted: 05 Jun 2020 10:43 AM PDT These small birds might look bright and cheery, but they certainly pack a punch. Watch as TierZoo details on how overpowered this small bird really is. It makes me question my own dominant bird rankings. I might add parrots into the top five.

You are subscribed to email updates from Neatorama. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States