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This one is for all of you college grads. From the creative mind of Grant Snider of Incidental Comics, here is the Dodecahedron of Destiny! Link
For the rest of you, I suggest the some consoling Gifts for Grads from NeatoShop
If I didn’t know the back story, I never would have suspected that this custom paint job was created with permanent marker!
Chris Dunlop took the customization of his Mustang into his own hands, spending 50 hours and burning through a bunch of Sharpie pens to create this automotive masterpiece.
The only drawback- if he leaves his car outside during a particularly acidic rain storm all that hard work will go swirling down the drain.
–via AnimalNY
These Star Wars watercolor paintings by Redditor terry_cook1 have come from a galaxy far, far away to class up your collection of geeky art.
The sketchy style, colorful splotches and intricate details make these spaced out watercolor works worthy of acclaim by art critics and galactic geeks alike. Check out the rest of these Star Wars masterpieces at the link below.
Link –via Geeks Are Sexy
Remember Bender, the bending unit robot from Futurama? Meet his predecessor: The DIWire Bender.
Love the glasses! Hit play or go to Link [Vimeo] - via Wired's Beyond the BeyondThe DIWire Bender is a rapid prototype machine that bends metal wire to produce 2D or 3D shapes.
Wire unwinds from a spool, passes through a series of wheels that straighten it, and then feeds through the bending head, which moves around in 3 dimensions to create the desired bends and curves. Vector files (e.g., Adobe Illustrator files), text files of commands (e.g., feed 50 mm, bend 90° to right…) provide DIWire’s instructions.
It’s essentially a 3D printer that describes lines, instead of volumes, in space, and it could be used for anything from prototypes to customized products.
The website Cymbolism wants your input to help establish what colors people associate with words. You’ll be given a word, and you select the color that you most associate it with, from a rather limited selection of colors. Some words are hard to color, like “Brooklyn.” The best part is that your response to each word is immediately posted underneath the quiz, along with other people’s responses, like the screenshot shown here of my responses. So, I can see that I’m not all that weird compared to those who went before me. I cut off the words in order not to influence your responses, but I’ll go ahead and admit that the word “mellow” made me select yellow -and so did others. Link -via Breakfast Links
Korean artist Jaehyo Lee spent over two decades meticulously hanging rocks by threads into an astonishing piece of art.
Check out his gallery here: Link - via My Modern Met
Fraser Gray’s paintings aren’t limited to the confines of the canvas, and his whimsical works look equally good hanging on a wall or covering it.
His paintings defy convention in many ways, and yet his subjects are, for the most part, mundane objects and average people jumbled together like visual patterns of madness.
You can peruse a few of his paintings at the Boom link below, and if you like what you see head over to Fraser’s Flickr page to see many more examples of his stylish and interesting works.
Link –via Booooooom!
These carpets were made by Dutch art collective We Make Carpets, but they’re not the kind of carpets that make your home full a little cozier.
Nor should you ever walk on these carpets, unless you like the feel of bloody feet, for these are strictly decorative carpets, art panels made out of recycled materials like plastic cutlery, clothes pins and other bits of brightly colored plastic.
It’s a beautifully patterned comment on consumerism and form over function, and when you’re tired of hanging them in your home you can chuck them in the bin and recycle them once again!
Link –via Beautiful/Decay
previously on Neatorama- We Make Carpets –LINK
Images of the Dude abound in the newest works by painter and pop culture junkie Dave MacDowell. They’re brightly colored, tongue in cheek dedications to the gods of geekdom.
Gallery 1988 is currently showing the works of Dave MacDowell at their Santa Monica location now through June 2nd, and these works look even better in person, where the colors can pop you in the eye and the smell of nerdy desperation lingers in the air.
(NSFW due to coarse language)
Link –via Creep Machine
The Caen, France-based design agency Murmure made these memorable and heavy business cards. You probably can’t fit many in your pocket, but you can stack them on wooden pallets, built to scale.
Link (Google Translate) | Agency Website
In 1996, there were 5 billion floppy disks in use. How many is that? Instructables user Jetpack5 says, “If you stack them one on top of each other it will reach from here to someone that is tired of stacking up floppy disks.” That’s a lot.
He’s putting his to good use. With a few rubber bands to help, Jetpack5 can recreate scenes from Star Wars. You can, too, by following his instructions at the link.
Photo: Zhang Huan
Move over, Lady Gaga! There's a new meat dress going 'round the Interweb called Bacon Armor (Thanks Geeks Are Sexy!)
Meat (heh!) Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Huan, who made this piece titled Homeland back in 2001. From The Guardian:
Previously on Neatorama: Giant Sculpture of Confucius (also by Zhang Huan)Still photographs from a performance entitled Homeland, these images are by turns disturbing in their physical intensity and politically confrontational. Zhang, a Chinese performance artist, covers his body in pieces of raw meat until he resembles a flayed superhero or mythical beast, often burrowing into the arid ground. The original performance took place in his native Shandong province, where farmers have abandoned the land to go to the cities in search of work. The self-portrait, then, is a kind of collective portrait, but work like this may test the viewer’s patience for self-indulgence as much as it tests the state’s tolerance for political art.
Dutch photographer Suzanne Jongmans recreated 17th century Old Masters paintings with foam packing materials: Link - via PetaPixel
Previously on Neatorama: Airplane Lavatory Self-Portraits, in the Flemish Style
This is wonderfully simple yet highly effective: Instructable user Brian Jewett used empty paint cans (You can re-use one after cleaning it off, or even buy an empty new one at the local hardware store) for coat hooks.
It’s a nice fantasy, at least! This Twaggie was illustrated by Joy and Noelle of Twins Are Weird, from a Tweet by @GuyEndoreKaiser. See a new Tweet illustrated every day at Twaggies! Link
This mass-transit railway was a propeller-driven train suspended beneath a monorail in Glasgow, Scotland. The test track for the Bennie Railplane was built in the 1930s, but the system was never implemented wider because of the economic difficulties of the time. See more pictures at Dark Roasted Blend. Link -via the Presurfer
This image of the annular solar eclipse was taken last night by redditor Titibu. It is from a reddit thread of eclipse photos taken in Japan, where you’ll find many other great shots of the “ring of fire.” Link
This picture is from redditor FANGO. It’s from another thread of eclipse photographs, where you’ll find links to other great images. Link
Sure the Mon Calamari might not actually come from under the sea, but there’s no way you can convince me that something that looks like that and has “Calamari” in its name doesn’t smell like fish and if it made rum, I’m certain it would rub off.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
It no doubt took a lot of time and effort to create a stop-motion video game out of nothing but Post-It notes, but the animators at prestigious French engineering school École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne proved that their dedication to the project was certainly worth the time investment.
Via The Daily What
Now that Disney owns the rights to Marvel, it only makes sense that they would combine their newest acquisition with an earlier one. If they did, it would almost certainly look very similar to what artist J.M. Walter came up with in this great illustration.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
This strange yet stylish animated short is entitled Ean’s Day, and it stars a cube headed fellow who…well…does stuff and things are all trippy and stuff.
It’s a weird yet fun waste of three and a half minutes of your life, if you’re into odd bits of animated nonsense.
It’s free to try, and if you like it keep it as a free gift and watch it FOREVER!
–via reddit
Brawndo, the thirst mutilator energy drink enjoyed by the citizens of the future in the hilarious Mike Judge movie Idiocracy, is now a delicious reality thanks to geek visionaries Dave Dalton and Craig Berscheidt of Hammerspace.
Just make sure the switch is set to Brawndo, or you may get a face full of toilet water! It’s UPS man tested, and approved by future President/Pro Wrestler Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Apparently even the mighty Disney corporation has let some rather questionable merchandise slip through the cracks over the years, and characters such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck have been placed in compromising positions by the manufacturers of this creepy merch.
Cartoon Brew has put together a small yet entertaining selection of oddball Disney related merchandise from around the globe worthy of a “WTF?!”
Embiggen over at DOGHOUSE: Link - via Fashionably Geek
Talk about urban beautification! Japanese manhole covers aren’t just for covering holes in the ground, they’re colorful and artistic and often embody elements of Japanese culture.
Booooooom! has a rather impressive collection of Japanese manhole covers for you to peruse at the link below.
Seeing how nice they all look makes me want to grab some paint and beautify my city, too bad the local law enforcement won’t appreciate my artistic efforts!
Classic Nintendo characters, from NES games like Metroid, The Legend Of Zelda and MegaMan, explore their Japanese roots in this series of illustrations by Jed Henry.
Capturing the action of old school gaming with the style of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, these beautiful full color illustrations show us what Samus, Link and MegaMan would look like in an alternate Feudal Japan themed universe.
Link –via Comics Alliance
Frank Frazetta created a series of illustrations for The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings back in 1975, which were released as a limited edition, signed and numbered portfolio.
The illustrations are simply amazing, and his take on the LOTR universe probably would have made Tolkien blush, due to the lack of backside armor and the abundance of gore.
The illustrations are presented complete with tears and blemishes, obviously scans from someone’s personal collection, but in my opinion that doesn’t really detract from the overall beauty of the illustrations, and it saves you from having to shell out $400 (going rate on Ebay) just to see them all.
This is short and nonsensical but oh, so funny. Because they’re TURKEYS! -via The Daily What
From Easter Island statues to crashed plane to climbable lighthouses,these playgrounds by Monstrum are some of the coolest I’ve ever seen. In fact, it kind of makes me want to go to Denmark just so I can go play inside the belly of a whale or climb on the webs dangling under a spider’s belly.
Link Via Laughing Squid
They might not have pizza curtains like you’ve seen in that commercial yet, but you can get a pizza rug at least. While it’s not really edible, the upside is that it’s not going to rot or leak grease all over your carpet.
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