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Hanging baskets are gloriously larger in Oregon, but this is quite unexpected. Behold, the world's largest hanging basket, made by The Garden Corner, a nursery in Tualatin, Oregon: Link - Thanks Tiffany!
Bang and twang! In Six Shot - Six String, Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre created an acoustic stringed instrument for use with the Smith & Wesson 357 Magnum revolver. Pull the trigger, and the strings will resonate passively to serenade your shot.
This is quite possibly the deadliest musical instrument ever devised by man, with exception of the bagpipe: Link
Previously on Neatorama: The Anatomical Sculptures of Maskull Lasserre
A man dressed as Batman was pulled over by the Montgomery County police department in Maryland for not having plates on his Batmobile Lamborghini, and what appeared to be nothing more than a silly photo op actually had a pretty heartwarming story behind it.
The Batman in question is an anonymous rich fellow who dresses up and visits sick children in the hospital to cheer them up, and he was heading home when he got pulled over, to the delight of the officers involved.
He explained that the suit’s really hard to take off, and he was waiting until he got home to change back in to his rich guy clothes. However, he offered no explanation for why he drives a car worth a quarter of a million dollars, yet can’t be bothered to slap some license plates on the back.
Bruce Wayne would have known better, Mr. Rich Guy.
Judith Schaechter is bringing an antiquated art form into the 21st century with her fantastically imaginative stained glass artwork, like the piece pictured above entitled “The Battle of Carnival and Lent”, which is on display at the Eastern State Penitentiary art installation program.
Judith’s works are constructed using traditional methods and materials, incorporating glass painting techniques in order to tell a story which Judith describes as “addressing in a non-religious way the psychological border territory between ‘spiritual aspiration’ and human suffering.”
You can see detail photos from this amazing piece, along with some rather interesting process shots that show it all coming together, at the Creep Machine link below. And be sure to check out her website for more stunning works in stained glass.
Link –via Creep Machine
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That $70 million all-diamond ring a bit too expensive for you? Console your broken heart with these: Chicken Rings from White Castle (motto: "More exciting than a nugget, easier to eat than a wing.")
Who says big hair is only for humans? Check out this cute puppy dog with big "bowooffant", fresh from the salon! (Source - via Cubiclebot)
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The artistic duo known as Littlewhitehead have some strange thoughts behind the sculptures in their collections. Their unique view of the world is darkly comical, which only adds to the disturbing nature of what each piece has to say to the viewer.
I’ve subtitled the above image “I’ve fallen and I can’t reach my juice box”, but the piece is actually called “We’re all going to lose”, which is kind of like a kick to the face of any whimsical ideas you may have had about the piece.
You can check out more of Littlewhitehead’s sculptural oddities at the Beautiful/Decay link below, along with a rather insightful video where the duo discuss “various pieces and their creative process”. I’m just glad they don’t use real people in any of their works.
Link –via Beautiful/Decay
Waldo may be good at hiding from you and me, but can he hide from computers? Stack Overflow user Heike used the power of Mathematica to come up with an algorithm that identifies the sneaky striped dude: Link - via The Verge
Love Scrabble but not enamored with its ... well, let's just say "unhip" design? Typography lovers, here's the iconic word game reborn as a stylish set, made just for you.
From Core77:
Aimed squarely at the design geek crowd, the new set features sleek metal tile racks, six magnetized pieces of walnut that snap together to make the board, a graphic bi-color makeover for said board, and tiles covered in a random assortment of fonts. Even the box it comes in is hyper-designed, with the six board pieces sliding into a walnut storage case with a drawer, that in turn, slide into a box made of birch.
Previously on Neatorama: Read This Post. Do Not Pass Go. Do Not Collect $200
See also: Scrabble Pencil Case and Scrabble Insulated Bottle from the NeatoShop
Gag Me With A Toon is a fun art exhibition celebrating its fourth year in Los Angeles as a showcase for artworks which cast a new light on some familiar fictional faces.
With works ranging from kooky (image above: Captain Planet Is A Doucher) to seriously cool (Dan Quintana’s 80s inspired take on Cheetara from Thundercats), make your way to the WWA Gallery in Culver City now until April 14th if you want to see these pop culture oddities in person.
Link –via DesignTAXI
Thomas Kuebler has some serious sculpting skills, and his life size sculptures are so eerily realistic that they appear to be sizing you up, waiting for the perfect opportunity to spring to life and make you jump right out of your skin.
With gallery categories like Monsters & Madmen and Beggars & Freaks, this is one fantastic menagerie of figures that won’t leave you looking for a refund. Take your eyes on a tour of Thomas’ gallery pages at the link below, if you dare…
Link –image via Tom Kuebler’s gallery page
The South African carrier Kalula Airlines is known for their sense of humor. Take a look at the way they paint their planes! See more pictures of their planes in a collection of photos. Link -via reddit, where you’ll find more Kalula humor.
The wreckage of the RMS Titanic has been lying at the bottom of the ocean for 100 years. We’ve seen a few pictures, but we’ve never been able to see the whole thing -until now. National Geographic is showcasing new images of the shipwreck in its April issue.
In recent years explorers like James Cameron and Paul-Henry Nargeolet have brought back increasingly vivid pictures of the wreck. Yet we’ve mainly glimpsed the site as though through a keyhole, our view limited by the dreck suspended in the water and the ambit of a submersible’s lights. Never have we been able to grasp the relationships between all the disparate pieces of wreckage. Never have we taken the full measure of what’s down there.
Until now. In a tricked-out trailer on a back lot of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), William Lange stands over a blown-up sonar survey map of the Titanic site—a meticulously stitched-together mosaic that has taken months to construct. At first look the ghostly image resembles the surface of the moon, with innumerable striations in the seabed, as well as craters caused by boulders dropped over millennia from melting icebergs.
Get a preview with some large-size, hi-resolution images at the Neatorama Spotlight Blog. Link
Most galaxies are in the form of ellipticals, spirals, and irregular blobs, but not LEDA 074886. The dwarf galaxy 70 million light-years away is rectangular:
Link[Professor Alister Graham of Swinburne University of Technology] said the rare rectangular-shaped galaxy was a very unusual object. "It's one of those things that just makes you smile because it shouldn't exist, or rather you don't expect it to exist.
"It's a little like the precarious Leaning Tower of Pisa or the discovery of some exotic new species which at first glance appears to defy the laws of nature."
The unusually shaped galaxy was detected in a wide field-of-view image taken with the Japanese Subaru Telescope for an unrelated program by Swinburne astrophysicist Dr Lee Spitler.
The astronomers suspect it is unlikely that this galaxy is shaped like a cube. Instead, they believe that it may resemble an inflated disc seen side on, like a short cylinder.
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EraserCity -
$14.95
Make no mistake: this EraserCity set, composed of erasers shaped like buildings, are capable of huge errors and look good on your desk as well: Link
Check out the NeatoShop's neat selection of Erasers, other Office Supplies, and New Items
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This is the photo that proves just how cool Shark Diving magazine editor Eli Martinez really is. He’s so cool, in fact, that sharks come from miles around just to give him a high fin five. Either that, or this particular shark likes to play with his food before he eats.
Photo: José M. Osorio, Chicago Tribune
The U.S. Army still bars women from front-line combat, but from the looks of this cage fight at Fort Hood army base in Texas, they're missing out on some of America's fiercest warriors:
Whap. Whap. Army Staff Sgt. Jackelyn Walker is snapping left jabs at Pfc. Greg Langarica's head. She doesn't like his smirk. Whap. Whap.
She lunges for his midsection and slams him down with a thud. Locked in a chokehold, Langarica's face goes crimson. His smirk is gone.
The 5-foot-2 Iraq War veteran with her hair in cornrows is thrashing the taller, tattooed artilleryman in a black chain-link cage lit by pulsating strobes. The 1,000 or so spectators in the Army gym howl with glee.
The Army still bars women from front-line combat units. But male and female soldiers traded kicks and punches in a four-day championship in mid-February at this sprawling Army base. The cage fighting contest was held to highlight hand-to-hand fighting skills, but some bouts seemed more like no-holds-barred brawls.
David S. Cloud of The Chicago Tribune has the story: Link
Thankfully, those aren't creepy invisible Predators coming to get you. Rather, it's an art installation called "Vestige" by contemporary artist Rob Mulholland, who designed and placed a series of six mirrored figures in the Scottish woodlands: Link - via The Daily Mail
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Digital artist Vinicius Costa creates some spectacularly colorful art works with his computer, hallucinogenic snapshots of worlds which are full of vibrant life and impossible landscapes.
The digital worlds that Vinicius creates are meant to be whimsical fairytale wonderlands, not reproductions of reality, and the brilliant color palette he has chosen perfectly suits the surreal nature of these worlds. Take your eyes on a tour of Vinicius’ virtual worlds at the link below, they’re well worth the trip.
Link –via Beautiful/Decay
1 set of the Bats
Wall Decals - $19.95
We had a bit of fun earlier today making the Batman logo on Neatorama's front office wall, using 4 sets of the Bats Wall Decals from the NeatoShop.
Can't wait for the movie!Check out our growing selection of removable Wall Decals
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You like po-tay-to, I like po-tah-to, let's call the whole thing ... awesome: Behold a cityscape carved out of 80 pounds of potatoes by artist Peter Root (really).
From The Sun:
Peter Root, 33, spent three weeks in Istanbul, Turkey, making homes, office blocks and places of worship from a staggering 176lbs of spuds using a kitchen knife and bicycle repair kit.
Details include TV aerials, hundreds of windows on tower blocks and the crescent moon of Islam on mosques.
Brit Peter, from Guernsey, said of the artwork named Plot: "Plot was not modelled on Istanbul, rather influenced by various aspects of the city.
"That includes its sprawl and density, the beautiful, delicate and ornate architectural detail and the crumbling decay of certain areas.
"I chose potatoes because they are available in abundance and are amazing things to sculpt with.
"They can be chopped, carved, sliced, drawn into, balanced, dried."
Take a look at more awesome photos of Spud city over at Peter's website: Link - via Oddity Central
Previously on Neatorama: Amazing Cityscape Art Made From Unusual Objects | Ephemicropolis, a City of Staples (also by Peter Root)
So this is what it looks like when a library vomits books. Just kidding - it's actually an art installation by Spanish artist Alicia Martín, titled Biografias, made from about 5,000 books:
The Spain-based artist's sculptural installation at Casa de America, Madrid depicts a cavalcade of books streaming out of the side of a building. The whirlwind of literature defies gravity and draws attention with its grandeur size. There have been three site-specific installations, thus far, of the massive sculptural works in this series known as Biografias, translated as Biographies, that each feature approximately 5,000 books sprawled out around and atop one another.
Martin's giant book structures give life to the inanimate objects filled with knowledge. By constructing the curving towers with a rather free and disheveled exterior, while maintaining a sturdy core, the books' loose pages are free to blow and rustle in the wind, allowing the piece to be further animated.
My Modern Met has the details: Link
Found at Cubiclebot (one of Sean Fallon's four neat blogs, by the way - you should check it out).
I'm standing in a flour storm. I have a carrot nose.
Performance in Kiasma. Helsinki. 2006
Back in 2006, artist Antti Laitinen performed an artwork titled Snowman, in which he stood in a flour storm, with a carrot nose. That is all, move it along now.
The Sphinx Observatory is the highest-built structure in Europe, at 3,571 meters (11,715 feet) above sea level near Jungfraujoch, Switzerland. It was built for science observations and experiments that require such a high altitude. Read more about the Sphinx Observatory, and see more amazing pictures at Kuriositas. Link
(Image credit: Flickr users Col Ford and Natasha de Vere)
Busted! If you’re gonna peek at someone else’s answers, make sure the numbers line up. Or better yet, study a little and get your own grades. Link
Time is money, but if you covet these hourglasses by Australian designer Marc Newson, time will set you back exactly €9,500. But that's the price you'd expect to pay for borosilicate glass and stainless steel copper plated nanoballs. Nanoballs, man. Nanoballs!
Previously on Neatorama: More designs by Marc Newson
Zeon posted about Thom Browne's latest Fall 2012 haute couture designs, but he missed these two. I think I saw John Farrier sporting these looks just a couple of days ago ...
What are those Pennsylvanians doing, holding up strange license plates like that? Inviting typographic artist Jessica Hische to visit, actually!
Today the Society of Design in PA (my home state) invited me to speak. In doing so, they created the most touching awesome thing I’ve ever seen and I spent the last hour and a half crying at my desk just amazed that 35 people would go out of their way to make me feel so loved and appreciated. On twenty-seven actual registered license plates, which individuals in the club now use on their cars, they invited me to visit.
Here's the full invitation:
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Where indeed. Can you solve the mystery of the disappearing W, Neatoramanauts? Via Accordion Guy
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