Ben Grasso's House Ascending.
Ben paints houses - but not just any houses, exploding ones! Link - via MoCo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/26/ben-grassos-house-ascending/Archive for July 2006
Lucy Merchant's Fence Radiator.
Household radiator or heater doesn't need to be boring - just look at Lucy Merchant's creations of radiators made to look like fences.Link | Previously on Neatorama: Joris Laarman's Radiator...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/26/lucy-merchants-fence-radiator/Digital Dali.
Remember Salvador Dali's famous melting clock painting Persistence of Memory [wiki]? Ross McBride made the working, digital version: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/digital-dali/Guitar in a Briefcase.
Stewart Guitar Company's patented Clip-Joint neck connection system allows you to remove the neck from the guitar body for easy travel!http://www.stewartguitars.com/index.htm - via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/guitar-in-a-briefcase/Tony Schwartz's Recordings of New York.
Tony Schwartz began documenting the life and sounds of New York since 1945 and had since made over 30,000 recordings.Tony's media genius is reflected in the ad spots he did for political campaigns, including t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/tony-schwartzs-recordings-of-new-york/Stamp Cups.
Ringmarks made by coffee and tea cups? Boring! Check out Valeria Miglioli and Barnaby Barford's Stamp Cups - now that's some stylish coffee stain!Link - via Gizmodo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/stamp-cups/Windmill on Steroids.
Architects working for the Dutch Government are thinking - hey, why build one windmill when you can build four at one time?Link - via William T. Foxtrot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/windmill-on-steroids/Thomas Fuchs Illustration: Deconstructing GOP Logo.
Thomas Fuchs: Deconstructing the GOP Logo. In his illustration titled "Deconstructing Dumbo", Thomas Fuchs has some fun with the Republican party logo.Check out more of Thomas Fuchs "iconic"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/thomas-fuchs-illustration-deconstructing/Homemade Poi Fireball.
Instructables user Hydra will tell you how to make your very own homemade poi, a ball of fire on a string used by the Maori women to set someone's butt on fire, er, increase their flexibility and strength in t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/homemade-poi-fireball/Vintage Popular Science (and Other Magazines) Covers.
Modern Mechanix has a neat collection of vintage Modern Mechanics, Popular Science, and Scientific American magazine covers and more! Link - via Look at This...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/vintage-popular-science-and-other-magazines-covers/Spongebob Square Radish.
Jeremy Dower's illustration are pixelly cute! The title is totally stolen, er, borrowed from Creation Robot.See more of Jeremy's illustrations: Link - via Creation Robot...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/spongebob-square-radish/Breakin' Hearts: Fan Film About Breakdancing and Love.
Neatorama reader Rory told us this:My cousin Olaf directed this short film that just won the "48 Hour Film Project" in Austin. Its a funny movie his team created based on the following: each team...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/breakin-hearts-fan-film-about-breakdancing-and-love/Home of the Year: An Avatar is Born.
From the website:When any member of this home's family of five returns to the three-story, Seattle-area contemporary house, they receive a warm greeting. That comes from Cleopatra, an attractive and articu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/home-of-the-year-an-avatar-is-born/Pepto-Bismol Ice Cream.
Can Pepto-Bismol ice cream cure hangover? Don't know, but here's the recipe: Link - via Fark...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/pepto-bismol-ice-cream/Map of Springfield.
Jerry Lerma and Terry Hogan must really love The Simpsons. I mean *really* love it, to create this highly detailed Map of Springfield, hometown of The Simpsons:The mapping of Springfield began in the Sprin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/map-of-springfield/Really Bad Tattoos.
Type Brighter has four - count 'em four compilations of really bad tattoos.Links: Really Bad Tattoos Part One | Two | Three | Four - Warning, some are horribly bad and NSFW - Thanks Nora!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/really-bad-tattoos/Doll Analyzes Your Sleep.
Christian Hoopes wrote this for American Inventor Spot blog: 7 Inventive Ways to go to Sleep.No. 7. Sleep Analysis DollSure, it seemed like you slept OK, but how will you know for sure? Shor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/doll-analyzes-your-sleep/Michael Wolf's Sitting in China.
In his book Sitting in China [amazon], Photographer Michael Wolf took a series of "bastard chair" photos throughout China. They don't look comfortable, but hey, people have got to sit down someplace!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/michael-wolfs-sitting-in-china/Brothers Built Formula One Race Cars from Scrap Metal.
From the website:Brothers Zhao Xiushun (L) and Zhao Xiuguo test drive their homemade model of Formula One car outside their house in Tangshan, Hebei Province, some 180km (113 miles) east of Beijing July 21...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/brothers-built-formula-one-race-cars-from-scrap-metal/Tim Elverston's WindFire OS Cursor.
Tim's cursor-shaped kite was flown at Burning Man 2005. See his other creations here: Link - via Unique Daily...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/25/tim-elverstons-windfire-os-cursor/The 25 Most Important Questions in the History of the Universe
People magazine has its 50 Most Beautiful People ... Time has a Person of the Year ... And mental_floss magazine - besides having tons of fascinating, cool, and juicy stories, anecdotes, and trivia - now has some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/24/the-25-most-important-questions-in-the-history-of-the-universe/Eye Gazing Party.
Photo: Shiho FukudaNew Yorker Michael Ellsberg, 29, got tired of the boring patters of "what kind of work do you do" and "where do you live?" when he went out on dates. So, he started a new...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/23/eye-gazing-party/Umamy's Wall-Mounted Fruit Holder.
This interesting wall-mounted fruit holder is made by the Umamy Design Group of Tel Aviv, Israel.Link - Don't miss the Fast Food Table (2001)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/23/umamys-wall-mounted-fruit-holder/Repeating Darwin's Survey.
Descendant of Charles Darwin replicated their grandfather's survey near his old home in Kent, United Kingdom to discover that plant species have declined by 15%.In 1855 there were 142 plant species i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/23/repeating-darwins-survey/Jacob Dahlgren's Artwork.
In this installation piece called "Colour Reading and Contexture", Jacob used colorful tiles and wooden blocks to create a virtual cityscape. At first I thought he had made this from books!ht...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/23/jacob-dahlgrens-artwork/Alexandre Orion's Urban Artwork.
In a series called Metabiotics, Alexandre Órion sets up the image on the wall, then waits for that perfect moment to take the photo...http://www.alexandreorion.com/_orion.htm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/23/alexandre-orions-urban-artwork/Freedom Statue in Cage.
From wikipedia:In 1997 a statue of Gibson as "William Wallace" was placed outside the Wallace Monument near Stirling, Scotland. The statue, which includes the word "Braveheart" on Walla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/23/freedom-statue-in-cage/Serge Atallah's Elvis Tape Dispenser.
Take a look at the making of this cute tape dispenser, from ideas to production: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/23/serge-atallahs-elvis-tape-dispenser/Diggerland.
Diggerland is a UK theme park, based around the theme of mechanical diggers and excavators. You can even play around with a digging machine and tractors. The photo above is of a ride called the Spindizzy.http:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/23/diggerland/
