Angry Chef Towel Stand – $29.95

Are you looking for the perfect gift for your favorite temperamental chef? You need the Angry Chef Towel Stand from the NeatoShop. This hilarious paper towel stand looks like a knife stabbed into a cutting board.

Warning: Please make sure the chef you give this to actually has a sense of humor.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Kitchen Stuff.

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These vibrant, rainbow colored artworks are by Jen Stark, and they’re made entirely of paper! Some of them look like a portal to another dimension, while others are like a rainbow colored coating for an otherwise drab world.

You can see works from her latest show here, and here’s a link to a previous Neatorama post on Jen’s awesome paper artworks. I feel a flashback coming on!

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No word yet on how it competes with the big office chains, but I hear their customer service is simply unbeatable.

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It’s one thing to turn some delicate piece of paper into a small papercraft, but to make something as detailed and elaborate as a Victorian dress is a completely different matter entirely. Artist Susan Stockwell has been creating such incredible designs as the one above for over ten years.

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This little bird looks so stylish with her extra homemade tail feathers! It’s cute, but she’s not just being fashionable. This is a handy trick birds use to carry more nesting material than will fit in the beak. -via The Daily What

Artist Patrick Gannon creates absolutely stunning works of art with nothing more than paper and patience.

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Zombie Paperweight – $14.95

Does the Zombie infestation of the NeatoShop way heavily on your mind? Here at the Neatorama we believe in putting all good Zombies to work. After all Zombies were people too. Just check out the new Zombie Paperweight from the NeatoShop. This fantastically gruesome Zombie is ready, willing, and able to protect all your important papers from any wicked winds that might come his way.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more spooktastic Halloween items and Zombie fun!

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With Halloween coming up, you can dec-horror-ate your haunted house with easy, do-it-yourself paper silhouettes! Craft magazine has instructions and PDFs available so you can sketch out the shapes or take them to a print shop.

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Beautiful paper sculptures are being left around Scotland’s libraries as a token of appreciation. The artist’s M.O.? Puns, Twitter shout outs, and complete anonymity.

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Pattern Paper Stilletos by Jennifer Collier

Jennifer Collier of Unit Twelve uses found and recycled papers–patterns, maps, newspapers–to create everyday objects like shoes and cameras. Rather than choosing an item to sculpt then scrounging up the paper for it, Collier works the other way around: “I tend to find items then investigate a way in which they can be reused and transformed.” The results are interesting and a bit whimsical. You can check out more of her work on Laughing Squid, or see it at the Origin Contemporary Craft Fair Sep 22-28. Link

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Model maker Akinobu Izumi’s ‘A Tiny World In A Bottle’ series is just amazing. He has everything from jellyfish to skeletons to ships. They’re sometimes arranged on dirt and occasionally fixed in liquid parafin to create a floating effect. If you like them, be sure to check out his Etsy store where you can buy your own.

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You may have played Paper Mario the game before, but have you ever actually watched Mario after he’s been animated with paper? Now’s your chance.

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Is your shyness preventing you from getting dates?  You need the Paper Pickup Nifty Note from the NeatoShop.  Now you can pickup people without every having to say a word.  It is so much easier to be confident when you don’t  have to look someone in the eye.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Stationary.

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I’m not a fan of firearms, but apparently some creative paper artists are. According to the post, these are realistic copies of actual guns–one of them looks like the Nintendo light gun, but whatever. There’s obviously some skill and patience involved in recreating all those curves and detachable parts. I wonder how long it takes to design and assemble one of these? Check out the rest on Nuffy. Link

Paper Tweet Nifty Note – $3.95

Are you addicted to tweeting?  With the Paper Tweet Nifty Note from the NeatoShop you can tweet even when you have to be unplugged.  It’s perfect for jury duty, office meetings, and quiet movie theaters.   Never suffer from tweet withdrawal again.

Be sure to check out all the Office & Desk fun available at the NeatoShop.

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Vietnamese-American artist Giang Dinh creates wonderful paper sculptures using a wet fold origami technique. It’s hard to believe his animal creations were once a single sheet of paper! Link -via Metafilter

You may have seen hand-printed marbled paper on the inside covers of books, or inside old luggage or cabinets. This pattern was achieved by floating inks and other chemicals on a liquid surface and then pressing paper against it. Variations in the basic process lead to different types of patterns, like this Spanish moiré on Turkish with gold vein pattern.

The pattern is created by making a Turkish pattern where the first colour used is gold. As further colours are dropped to complete the Turkish pattern, the gold constricts into veins. Then a paper, which has been folded in half is laid onto the bath, moving slightly from side to side to create the curvilinear gradations typical of this pattern.

Learn how other vintage patterns were made at BibliOdyssey. Link

German artist Frank Bölter sailed the Thames River in London in a very unusual boat: he folded a life-sized origami boat out of paper!

Named “To The World’s End”, Frank Bölter’s paper boat was part of the Drift 10 art exhibition, in London. It was created out of giant sheets of paper that he and the public at the Canary Wharf Docks folded, using origami techniques. Reinforced with metal poles, the unusual sailing craft didn’t seem to sink, and its creator was so relaxed that he laid back and read a newspaper, while the public stared at him in awe.

Oddity Central has more: Link

Alessandro Loschiavo Design created this column of shelves called "Levita" made to look like fluttering papers:

The shaped rod frame supports a series of hammered sheet metal planes,
whose distance one from another grows the higher up one goes. The effect obtained is like the imaginary levitation of a series of paper sheets, beginning from an A4 ream resting on the floor, through an entirety of thin vertical lines.

Previously on Neatorama: Walking Family of Tables by Alessandro Loschiavo

Why play boring old hand games like rock-paper-scissors, and lame derivatives, when there is another game that includes the awesomeness of pirates, ninjas and robots?  

Here is the new version of rock-paper-scissors, or rochambeau, as it is sometimes known. As you can see from the schematic below, each thing can beat two other things, and is, in turn beaten by two other things.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by drtundra.

Daniel Hafner used about half a ton of 5-ft tall white cardboard to create this art installation called Wald (Forest), which looks kind of like a maze of paperwork one has to navigate in dealing with modern bureaucracy.

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“Aerodynamics say that if drag and thrust are equal, as in this video, the plane should move forward, not stay in the same position… why is this? Because the left one runs slower? than the right one.”  Sounds logical, but what an impressive visualization.

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Photo: Le Creative Sweatshop

Le Creative Sweatshop is a French art studio that produces (among other things) enormous papercraft art installations. The high-heeled shoes pictured above are a part of their effort to “make a paper world.” You can view more pictures of the studio’s work at the link.

Link via Gizmodo | Video about their work

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

a) get rid of stuff no one wanted (i.e. wombat poo)
b) make lots of money doing it (make it into paper)
c) from people they don’t like (tourists)

Creative Paper manager Darren Simpson says the manufacturing process can be rather unpleasant.

"When we are boiling it, it does smell horrific as you can imagine, but once it has been sterilised and rinsed properly there’s no scent left to it. If anything it just gives you a nice organic smell," he said.

He added that it was the tourists themselves who came up with the wombat idea.

"As people were coming through and we were showing them the samples of our paper, they would throw questions at you like ‘can you make it from sheep poo or can you make it from koalas?’. And the one that kept popping up more than any other was the wombat."

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Previously on Neatorama: Tiny Flower Turns Pig Poop into Fuel, Elephant Dung Paper

Brand Image has set out to change the way we drink bottled water.  In an effort to enhance the consumer drinking experience and create a sustainable alternative to plastic bottles the designers have created the 360 Paper Bottle.

It’s the first 100% recyclable paper container and is made entirely from renewable resources. The paper packaging is food-safe and can hold a variety of liquids, making it the perfect alternative to traditional water containers.

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Kusudama is an ancient Japanese form of paper folding which is still practiced today.  As time passed the form evolved in to something that looks similar to origami but has a very different set of rules.

Quazen has some great pictures of both Kusudama and modular origami, into which it evolved:

The form of Kusudama goes back to before written history. The general consensus is that they were used to hold bunches of herbs or flowers as urban culture
took hold. With urbanization the desire for objects with both utility and beauty took greater hold. Before this the plants would have been hung on their own and the kusudama evolved as an aesthetically pleasing receptacle for both potpourri and incense.

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I was going to call it a night when I decided to check one more link. I’m so glad I did because that’s when I ran across this amazing papercraft artwork by Russian artist Yulia Brodskaya.

Her website is a little bit slow, but it’s worth the wait: Link – via Drawn!

This is really neat. I tried it myself (takes a while the first time) and the more you use it the better it gets due to the paper being folded often. The kids just love it.

Link: Superpunch