One hundred years ago this year, Russian photographer Sergey Produkin-Gorsky (pictured left) embarked on a project that was to define his life's work - to photograph the vast country of Russia and its peoples in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/the-incredible-century-old-color-photography-of-prokudin-gorsky/Photography can be such a serious art, but taken too seriously it becomes formal and boring - at least for folks like Ivar Gravlejs. With 78 exhaustive tips he ranges from humorous to obvious, dead-pan to just plain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/painfully-obvious-rules-of-photography/In a way, typography has come full circle - what started as a physical process of setting type in machines has been rediscovered as a physical art by a number of creative photographers and designers. Some of these un...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/physical-typography-brilliant-built-found-fonts/I can't say I begin to understand this video from Marco Brambilla, but the sheer scope and intricacy of it takes my breath away. This interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy is precisely the experience video arti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/civilization/(YouTube link) Mid-June in east Tennessee means fireflies that flash in unison! In 1995, scientists confirmed the existence of the Great Smoky Mountain synchronized fireflies, and have subsequently discovered o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/synchronized-fireflies/Wildlife photographer Jason Edwards seized an opportunity few ever get -to take pictures of a newborn kangaroo inside its mother's pouch. Two years ago, Edwards encountered a wild kangaroo that was unusually friendly. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/how-to-get-into-a-kangaroos-pouch/I once thought that sun tea made in a jar was really something, but how cool is storing sunlight in a jar? The Sun Jar is a regular Mason jar with solar cells, rechargeable batteries, and LED lights. It also has a ligh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/sun-jar/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is my favorite kind -geography! You'll be given a pair of US states. Do they share a border or not? I scored 100%, of course. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/26488 me...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/borderlands/Yay! It's time for this week's collaboration with the always awesome What is it? blog. Can you guess what this um, rather violent-looking tool is used for? Hint: it has a very specific use - and it's *em...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/what-is-it-game-101/Kottke lists 50 of his least favorite films of all times. In the "50 Films You Can Wait to See After You're Dead" post you will find movies such as Gigli, Crossroads and Jaws 3-D. Any film y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/50-films-to-watch-when-youre-dead/Summer is nearly here and school's out! Except for hundreds of poor students in Chino, California, who got an unwelcome surprise news that they have to sit for 34 more days of school because of a clerical error. If they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/the-best-of-school-district-bureaucracy-no-summer-break-for-you/Part I [YouTube Clip]Born 3-and-a-half months prematurely, Derek Paravicini was so small that his doctor presumed that he was dead. Just as his mother had given up hope, she heard the faintest whimper. To keep him alive,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/derek-paravicini-the-musical-genius/Here's living proof that SomethingWonderful can come out of SomethingAwful Forums - behold the Nacho Hat! Cota Froise of SA Forums has the step-by-step guide on how to make your very own Nacho Hat: Link - via bookofjoeha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/nacho-hat/Heck, people drink designer water at $55 a bottle (yes, I'm looking at you, Bling H2O), so why not sell designer band-aids to rich people that obviously get their papercuts from counting too much money? Here's an experim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/designer-band-aid-leather-luxury-for-your-boo-boos/
