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Tokyo, the Blade Runner City by Thomas Birke
Photo: Thomas Birke
Photographer Thomas Birke went to Japan in 2008 to take photos of "the future" - and he didn’t go away disappointed. Thomas’ large format photography reveals how much Tokyo resembles the dystopian future city in Blade Runner.
Dark Roasted Blend has the exclusive: Link
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The Money Floor (Alas, Only Pennies)
The Standard Grill in the Standard Hotel in New York has a very unusual floor: it’s made of pennies! I guess if you’re a couple of pennies short on tips, just pry them off the floor!
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Fly Powered Aircraft
Photo: Eric Long / Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
It goes without saying that the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has some of the neatest collection of planes in the world, but this one is particularly intriguing: fly-powered aircrafts built by famed aircraft modelered Frank Ehling in the 1970s.
The AirSpace Blog has more:
Designed and built by famed aircraft modeler Frank Ehling in the 1970s, they are the smallest flying models the Museum owns. But more unusual than their size is that they are powered by flies – yes, you heard right, houseflies, the insect. Constructed from balsa wood and red tissue paper, the one-fly design has a wingspan of two inches, and the two-fly version, which features a delta-wing design, is four inches wide. In both cases, contact cement was used to attach the live powerplant to the fuselage.
If you’re skeptical, there’s a video clip of another fly-powered airplane, this time by inventor Thomas Fetterman (oh, you can also buy the kit from his website)
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Stunning Papercraft Castle
This stunning castle was created by Japanese art student Wataru Itou. It took four years of dedication to bring to fruition. It is complete with electric lights and a working train. The exhibit is called “A Castle On The Ocean” and is on display in Tokyo.
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What Supersonic Looks Like
It’s been over six decades since Chuck Yaeger broke the sound barrier, but photos of fighter jets hitting Mach 1 has always fascinated us. Here’s a new photo of an Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft breaking the sound barrier while performing aerial maneuvers in the Gulf of Alaska:
The phenomenon is not well studied. Scientists refer to it as a vapor cone, shock collar, or shock egg, and it’s thought to be created by what’s called a Prandtl-Glauert singularity.
Here’s what scientists think happens:
A layer of water droplets gets trapped between two high-pressure surfaces of air. In humid conditions, condensation can gather in the trough between two crests of the sound waves produced by the jet. This effect does not necessarily coincide with the breaking of the sound barrier, although it can.
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Cardiovascular Paper: Printed Anatomy by Laurent Champoussin
No, not a tattoo though undoubtedly it would make an excellent anatomically-minded example that would rival this famous skull face tattoo we had before on Neatorama. The gruesome painting is actually printed paper by Paris-based photographer Laurent Champoussin.
Vanessa Ruiz of Street Anatomy asked Laurent what inspired his art series titled Cardiovascular Paper:
I’ve always been interested by the écorché model. I was inspired by the classical representations of Andréas Vesalius, Charles Estienne or Adrian Van Den Spieghel. My idea was to play with the partial, the uncovered (open/discover) of an essential part of ourselves. I also wanted to work on the propagation, the invasion. My will was to design the model, to file down it like a texture and I hope, somewhere like a poetry.
More at Street Anatomy Blog: Link | Laurent’s website and blog - via Cakehead Loves Evil
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Cats In Costumes
Whether you consider it a form of animal cruelty or just a little harmless fun, it’s hard to deny that cats look pretty cute in costumes. The gallery on Now That’s Nifty has a few fantastic feline frocks for your viewing pleasure. Click and enjoy.
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Nails Have Feelings Too -Nail Art
It’s easy to fall in love with this photo series from Vlad Artazov. With only bent nails and some basic sets, he is able to convey a whole spectrum of human emotions. The result is beautiful and surprisingly, sadly touching. View the whole gallery to get the full effect.
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3D Graffiti by Sander van Heukelom
Sander van Heukelom combines typographic design, graffiti and sculpting into unique pieces of 3D graffiti (He uses styrofoam, plexiglass, synthetic resin and wood).
This one above, Quod dubitas, ne feceris - Latin for "when you doubt, do not act" - is probably a concept most graffiti artists do not recognize.
Check out the rest of Sander’s artwork here: Link [Flash] - via Rue The Day!
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The Surreal Appeal of the Falkirk Wheel
The people of Falkirk, Scotland needed to connect two waterways, but there was one big problem. The difference in height between the two measures about the same as an eight story building. The solution? A pretty amazing rotating boat lift, the only one of its type in the world:
The Scottish capital city, Edinburgh and its second city, Glasgow, had no water based connection for seventy years. It wasn’t until almost the dawn of the new century that this situation was reconsidered and the idea of the Falkirk Wheel was taken seriously and put in to action.
Now the wheel, as well as a connector between the two cities, is a remarkable and awe-inspiring tourist destination in its own right. However, if it wasn’t for the prodigious gambling habits of the British people this amazing structure would never have been built.
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Bloody Evidence Chef’s Knife
This chef’s knife is so awesome it’s criminal! Behold the Evidence Chef’s Knife, complete with fired-on, food-safe "blood" design and evidence tag! At just $14.95, it’s a steal (though we definitely don’t recommend that you use it to commit any crime): Link
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Yann Travaille’s Crayon Scribble Tattoos
Tattoo artist Yann Travaille has made a name for himself in the over populated
field of tattoo design with his astonishingly refreshing designs normally done with crayons, not tattoo ink.
Check out more of his crayon-like tattoos on his website YOUR MEAT IS MINE (Some images NSFW):
Link - via cakeheadlovesevil
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Kangaroo Fights
Environmental Graffiti has a fun post right about fighting kangaroos. It has some interesting information, but more than anything else, it’s all about the great photos. If you ever want to see a professional fighter go down, just put them up against an amateur kangaroo. It may seem cruel, but in olden times, animals didn’t really have rights.
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10 Sand Sculpture Faces
Women’s Day has a fantastic collection of sand sculptures all of which have interesting faces carved into them. I think sand sculpting is so amazing, it’s so much work for something that will be destroyed so quickly after its creation. While the one above is my favorite, I think they are all work a second, even third, look.
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The Darwin Optical Illusion
If you like the neat color optical illusion posted by Neatoramanaut Minnesotastan from the Upcoming Queue, check this one out by Rob Jenkins of the University of Glasgow and Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire:
The picture below shows two monkeys. Set your computer monitor to maximum brightness and then stare at the centre of the picture for about 30 seconds without moving your eyes. Next, look to a white wall and blink a few times. The monkeys should suddenly transform into a perfect picture of Darwin!
Previously on Neatorama: 10 Fun Facts About Charles Darwin
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Photo of a Volcano’s Shock Wave
An amazing picture taken from International Space Station shows the shock wave from a volcanic eruption. The eruption ocurred on the Sarychev Peak on Matau Island, located in the Kuril island chain northeast of Japan.
The new photo was taken June 12 from the International Space Station. NASA says volcano researchers are excited about the picture “because it captures several phenomena that occur during the earliest stages of an explosive volcanic eruption.”
The main plume appears to be a combination of brown ash and white steam, according to a NASA statement. The vigorously rising plume gives the steam a bubble-like appearance
The surrounding atmosphere has been shoved up by the shock wave of the eruption, scientists said.
(image credit: NASA/ISS/Earth Observatory)
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The Incredible Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge Under Construction
Little known outside of its home states of Nevada and Arizona, this new bridge has been overshadowed by its more venerable and certainly larger neighbor but the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge is certainly something to be seen.
Were it not so near the Hoover Dam it would probably be a tourist spot all on its own. Due to be completed next year this amazing bridge is still very much under construction, as pictures in the link will show. Once the arch meets in the middle the biggest party since Prohibition will no doubt ensue.
The longer, more proper and formal name is the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. Perhaps it is already known as The Mike and Pat locally. O’Callaghan was the Governor of Nevada in the nineteen seventies as well as a veteran of the Korean War. Tillman is by far the more controversial choice. He gave up a millionaire lifestyle and superstar footballer status to serve in the US Army in Afghanistan where he was killed in 2004. His death has been subject to military investigations and more than the occasional conspiracy theory.
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“Alan” Wrench by Pete Dungey
Artist Pete Dungey did an unofficial survey to find out who is the most famous Alan (and Allen) in England … and then etched the resulting names onto a set of allen (get it?) wrenches. Here’s the project, cheekily named Alan Wrenches (links are mine):
1. Alan Titchmarsh, Horticulturalist
2. Alan Partridge, Fictional Comedian
3. Lily Allen, Pop Singer
4. Alan Shearer, Ex-Footballer
5. Alan Carr, Comedian
6. Sir Alan Sugar, Business Tycoon
7. Tim Allen, Actor
Link - via Definitive Touch
Previously on Neatorama: Alan-Allan-Allen
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The Face in Hogenakkal Falls
Photo: get_debashish [Flickr]
Neatoramanaut Debashish Paul took a photo of a section of Hogenakkal Falls in South India that has a face of a mustachiod man. I know, I know, it’s just pareidolia (the tendency of human brains to see familiar images and faces in objects), but it’s still very cool!
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Barbie Foot: Barbie Foosball Table
Photo: designboom
French designer Chloe Ruchon took the manly game of foosball and gave it a decidedly feminine twist: she used Barbie dolls as the foos men!
Chloe’s table, Barbie Foot, was made in collaboration with Mattel and foosball manufacturer Baby-foot Bonzini. It was showcased in the DMY Berlin Design Festival 2009.
Designboom has more: Link - via Inhabitat
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Beautiful Rapid Prototyping Art: Chrysanthemum by Michaella Janse van Vuuren
The Chrysanthemum is a centerpiece designed by South African designer Michaella Janse van Vuuren. It’s a combination of bowl/candle holder made with rapid prototyping (and manufacturing) using laser, so it’s a perfect combination of art and engineering:
The centrepiece reflects my passion for the textures, shapes and patterns found in nature. I especially like to interpret those objects that have a repetitive mathematically founded pattern. Some objects are immediately recognisable, such as the Chrysanthemum, others are more abstract. Direct 3-dimensional manufacturing methods, such as selective laser sintering (SLS) used to create the Chrysanthemum allows me to design intricate textures and objects. These textures and objects would have been impossible to execute by hand, yet the centrepiece still retains the beauty and tactile feeling of a natural object.
The Chrysanthemum is directly manufactured with the EOS P380 using the PA2200 polyamide material.
Link - via Why Me Design
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20 Types of Art Student, by Chuck Dillon
After 10 years of teaching art at the Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia, Chuck Dillon has seen just about every type of art student. So, in a post is certainly going to be a classic, here’s Chuck’s classification of the 20 types of art student.
Which one are you? Link - via Laughing Squid
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Wikipedia as a Book
What would Wikipedia look like if it were printed out as a traditional encyclopedia? Rob Matthews decided to make it his art project: behold, the 5,000 pages of Wikipedia (featured articles only, mind you) in book form: Link
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What’s Wrong With This Photo?
Photo: Vernon Bryant / Dallas Morning News
The photo above, taken by Vernon Bryant for Dallas Morning News, depicts the bravery of Dallas Fire-Rescue officials warning residents of West Dallas of flooding (and if necessary, rescuing them) when a pump station failed (Source).
It’s the staple stuff of newspapers - local news and such - so if you’re wondering why it’s on this blog, take a closer look at the photo. Go ahead. Don’t see it yet? Take another look. We’ll wait - you’ll get it …
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The Incredible Century Old Color Photography of Prokudin-Gorsky
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 full color. Yes, that’s right color. Before the first commercial air freight flight, before the invention and testing of the tank and even before the sinking of the Titanic, Prokudin-Gorsky created an unrivalled and astonishing color record of his native country.
The process used involved a camera that would take a set of three photographs. These pictures would be monochrome but each picture would be taken using a filter of a different color. When all three monochrome pictures were projected (using light which had to be specifically colored) then the original color scene could be reconstructed.
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Painfully Obvious Rules of Photography
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 stupid. Still, some of us would do well to remember the basics when taking pictures - or will at least get a laugh out of his twisted spin on conventional photo tips.
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Physical Typography: Brilliant Built & Found Fonts
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 unusual real-life alphabetic collections were found and photographed in nature while others were acted out, constructed or assembled from bodies and objects but all ten sets of type yield compelling images.
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How to Get Into a Kangaroo’s Pouch
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. The scientist who was with Edwards then recognized the animal as the orphan ‘roo she had hand-raised six years earlier! The kangaroo recognized the scientist, too.
After a few days of returning to the semi-desert national park in far northern New South Wales and talking to and sitting with the kangaroo, the researcher was able to get close enough to her former orphan to open her pouch.
In a matter of seconds, Mr Edwards managed to slip in a macro lens and capture this rare glimpse of life inside the marsupial’s pouch. The photo – of a newborn joey, known as a pinkie, suckling the mother’s teat – is being exhibited as part of the New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography Exhibition in Sydney.
“It was one of those frames you don’t get very often,” Mr Edwards told The Times.
The mother kangaroo was calm and not at all bothered by the photo shoot. Link -via Arbroath
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Nacho Hat
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 bookofjoe
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Designer Band-Aid: Leather Luxury For Your Boo-Boos
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 experimental leather band-aids by conceptual artist Scott Amron - now, you can fashionably dress your boo-boos for a mere $15: Link - via Refinery29 Pipeline
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