If you happen to be in Pittsburgh in May, check out this art show by Neatorama’s artist extraordinaire Nathan Mazur (he drew the NeatoTurtle at the bottom of our webpages) and Jessica LaVecchia:

Zombo Gallery, Pittsburgh’s home for hip lowbrow art, announces the an all new 2 person exhibit by local artists Jessica LaVecchia and Nathan Mazur; Cute & Creepy, opening Saturday, May 1st at 6pm.

Cute & Creepy is an exhibit comprised of paintings and other miscellaneous items by local artists Jessica LaVecchia and Nathan Mazur. As the name of the show indicates, the subject matter ranges from cute to… well, creepy. Monsters, bunnies, zombified fisher-price style little people, anthropomorphic food and heart based flatulence are all things to expect from this unique showing.

The team-up between LaVecchia and Mazur for this show was born out of the desire to hopefully expose their respective fans to one another’s work. “While our artistic styles differ from each other, there are some similarities on a more visceral level that I think people who enjoy our work will appreciate”, explains Mazur.

Zombo Gallery, 4900 Hatfield St., Pittsburgh. May 1 to May 28th. For those who can’t make it, Nathan promises online sale of the featured art.

Hooray! I'm sure you've noticed by now that Neatorama has a new look (all you RSS readers, come take a look) and a couple of new features.

First of all, I'd like to thank Nathan Mazur of Scared of Bees who did the new art for the blog. Nathan, as you may know, also designed some of the neatest T-shirts we carry on the Neatorama Shop. I think that his quirky and fun style certainly compliments what the blog is all about (be sure to scroll all the way down!)

The blog has two new major features:

- Lite/Mobile version by Mobify. This is a full version of the blog that is optimized for viewing on your phone (though you can certainly use your regular browser). This "lite" version has no ads and fewer bells and whistles.

- Best of Neatorama, a compilation of featured Bathroom Reader and mental_floss articles, as well as Neatorama Exclusives. I think the tiled images present a good way to scan quickly through the many full-length articles we've published before. We've only covered 2009 and 2010 articles so far ... we'll roll out more later.

Besides the blog, the Upcoming Queue and the Neatorama Shop also have new skins, so be sure to check 'em out (technically, this has been a triple re-design, which may explain why it took so long!).

Undoubtedly there are bugs (I apologize ahead of time). If you noticed that something is awry, please let us know in the comment section. We'll continue to roll out the redesign over the next couple of days. We'll also announce the winner of the T-shirts as promised in our previous post on redesign suggestions soon.

As a final note, I'd like to mention that one big aspect of this redesign is to use the blog to introduce indie artists to millions of new fans. I hope that we can institute a regular rotation of artists (the first being Nathan) through website designs, and regular as well as featured blog posts, in order to give them a significant exposure on the web.

So. Do you like it/hate it? What do you think?

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Update 2/3/10 – added poll. I should also add that in our almost-5-year history as a blog we’ve had 7 layout/design changes (some announced, most not – they’ve been incremental and so subtle that most people didn’t even notice) before this radical one

What do you get when you combine a certain 80s fad and sharks? Here’s a T-shirt designed by the always awesome Nathan Mazur of Scared of Bees and brought to you by MC Hammerhead, the hippest of all sharks. From the Neatorama Shop: Link

Neatoramanaut and artist extraordinaire Nathan Mazur (he’s the awesome creator of the Neatorama Squid and the I Love Teuthology T-Shirt) is having a solo show at the Zombo Gallery in Pittsburgh. The show will run till Oct 16th, so visit soon if you’re nearby, mmkay?

The show is titled Mini Monsters and Tiny Terrors, which sound suspiciously like my children, and features a collection of pint-sized (2" x 3") paintings of monsters, ghouls, cryptids, and other things that go bump in the night. The pieces are available for purchase, and you can also order yourself a commisions at a reasonable rate. Take it from me, Nathan is one heck of an artist.

More info (just in time for Halloween!) on his website: Link

Hello everyone – sorry for the slowdown in new posts, we’re busy fighting Kraken doing some work under the hood on the blog, so please pardon any hiccups! Hopefully thing will get back to normal soon … in the meantime, please pardon Neatoramabot if it drops your comment.

Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom is a silly yet utterly fascinating collaboration between our pal, animator and T-shirt designer extraordinaire Nathan Mazur of Scared of Bees and Parry Gripp (of the pop punk band Nerf Herder). In the version above, Nathan added animation to Parry’s notoriously catchy tune (I apologize beforehand for getting the song stuck in your head).

If you like that, there’s *a lot* of similar songs over at Parry’s Song of the Week website: Link

Previously on Neatorama: He’s a Cat, Flushing the Toilet!

Who doesn’t love giant squids? Whether you are fascinated by Kraken, love reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea or you are actually into teuthology (that’s the study of cephalopods), we’ve got you covered!

The super-talented Nathan Mazur of scaredofbees (great stuff there, btw) has designed the perfect T-shirt for you. Here’s the tentacle-y fun shirt from the Neatorama Online Store: Link

More I Love Science designs:

NEW – I Love Forensics	I Love Math (now also available in black)	I Love Science, and others also in Onesie/Kids

We’re also slowly but surely building the web’s best selection of geekstastic Science T-shirts and cheeky Scientists Do It T-Shirts – so check ‘em out!