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!

Link –via Super Punch

Photo: David T Waller/Flickr

What to do with 2,500 old toy cars? Arrange them chromatically into a wonderful piece of art, of course. That's what UK artist David T. Waller did with this fantastic Toy Atlas Rainbow, which won the People's Award at the 2010 Arts Depot Open.

More at Christopher Jobson's super neat Colossal blog

(Replace that apple with a poptart, add a cat, and what do you get?)

We know, we know. Apple is cool. In fact, it has always been cool as the photo above clearly shows.

Black Harbor has the scan of Apple's gift catalog from way back. Waaaay back for some of you Millennials. It's from 1983: Link

Photographer and designer Henry Hargreaves really likes to play with his food! From his font made out of bacon to mosaic pictures made out of burned toast to this, his most recent fun with food project-piles of food painted rainbow colors.

Some look delicious, others disgusting, and it all looks like it would have felt right at home hanging on the wall of a Bob’s Big Boy in the 1980s. Take a gander at Henry’s website if you want to see more examples of his foodie art.

Link –via DesignTAXI

Unicorn Costume – $26.95

Do you dream of having your own rainbow pooping unicorn? Make your dream a reality this Halloween with the Unicorn Costume from the NeatoShop.  Just combine one rainbow pooping baby or toddler with this incredibly adorable Unicorn Costume and live out the fantasy for one glorious night.

If you can’t locate a rainbow pooping baby consider faking it with the Rainbow in My Room rainbow projector. See photo below.

Rainbow in My Room – $29.95

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Dress Up fun!

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A woman in a TV show is getting very, very excited about creating various patterns on paper, using colors and sponges. Maybe something for Yosemitebear to check out.

via Pusha

Initial searches by Indraneil Das of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and colleagues took place during evenings after dark along the high rugged ridges of the Gunung Penrissen range of Western Sarawak. The first few months proved fruitless; so the team decided to include higher elevations in their search. And one night last August on of Das’ graduate students, Pui Yong Min, found one of the three gangly toads up a tree.

If you want to see newly rediscovered frog, however, it’s probably best to look at the photos, as Das has said he won’t divulge the exact site of the rediscovery right now, owing to the intense demand for brightly-colored amphibians by those involved in the pet trade.

The effort was part of the global search for lost amphibians by Conservation International, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Amphibian Specialist Group, with support from Global Wildlife Conservation. The large search involved 126 researchers who scoured areas in 21 countries, on five continents, between August and December 2010.

Link -via the Presurfer

(Image credit: © Indraneil Das)

“Your rainbow panorama” is the name of this installation by Olafur Eliasson, an artist based in Berlin, Germany.

The huge 360º rainbow is currently shown at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark.

Link – via kottke.org

These ants ate so much that their transparent abdomens swelled up to display their meal color! You can easily tell which ants moved from one blob to another. The photographer is unknown, and there is speculation that the ants are eating drops of Terro ant killer with food coloring added. Link -via The Daily What

I love this! DeviantART member MasterPlanner made a rainbow scarf, complete with a detachable Pop Tart Cat! You can buy one for $75 plus shipping- if there are any left. Link -via The Daily What

Just like Pop Tart Cat, these are sweet and colorful and fun, but they are also real marshmallows treats you can make at home. The instructions are at the decorated cookie. Link -via Laughing Squid

This project has something for everyone: those who enjoy gadgets, bicycles, graffiti, overthinking, steampunk, art, and/or rainbows! Creator Akay calls it a “complicated technical solution to aide in simple acts of vandalism.” Read more about it at Underwire. Link -via Laughing Squid

Graffiti artist Rainbow Warrior in Albuquerque finds drab buildings and "improves" them by spilling paint to pour "illegal rainbows"
off their tops.

City officials are angry and threaten to go after the "knuckleheads" behind the scheme, but Ingrid Fetell of Aesthetics of Joy asks whether the rainbows – while illegal – can still be joyful:

I find this tension – between the forbidden act of graffiti, technically vandalism, and the delight people are discovering as a consequence – acutely compelling. Is an illegal rainbow still joyful? Here’s a letter writer commenting on the rainbow warrior situation:

So, somebody lays down a rainbow on the thing, a piece of art (and yes, it is art, even if it is “free,” and maybe especially so) that pokes fun at the mess, that makes me grin and say, “That’s a little better!” As a life-long citizen of Albuquerque, as someone
who has had his very personal property damaged by genuinely malicious individuals: this isn’t the same thing. Is it graffiti? Yeah. Is it the same as somebody tagging a vulgar word on the car my parents gave me when I went to college? No. The intention of the rainbows is perhaps mischievous, but it is definitely not malicious. The intention, and the execution, is a wink, a laugh, a little unexpected burst. Worth a slap on the wrist and a good talking to, nothing more.

Link – via swissmiss

Skill, timing, and the sun came together in this air show photograph by Bernardo Malfitano

An F-22 at Miramar at the top of a loop. He is pulling so many Gs, the low pressure air over the fuselage (that is “sucking” the airplane into the loop) gets cold enough for the water to condense… And the angle is just right for sunlight to undergo total internal refraction and make rainbow colors around the airplane (although I had to under-expose quite a bit for the effect to be visible).

The picture won second place in the Museum of Flight photo contest. Link -via reddit

(Image credit: Bernardo Malfitano)

I like rainbows. I’m sure you like rainbows. I mean, come on – rainbows – who doesn’t like ‘em? I’m also sure that NO ONE likes rainbows more than YouTube vlogger/photographer/artist/MMA fighter Yosemitebear (who also goes by the handle Hungrybear).

See Yosemitebear’s reaction when he saw a double rainbow: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via @jimmykimmel | And of course, it’s been auto-tuned.

If you like that, Urlesque has got plenty more selections from Yosemitebear’s 260+ YouTube clips he’s uploaded over the years: Link (don’t miss his cage fight)

A moonbow is a rainbow that appears in moonlight. Light from the moon must be refracted through a mist of water in order for us to see the effect. Photographer Wally Pacholka captured this effect at the edge of Haleakala crater on the island of Maui. The large “star” in the picture is Mars. Link to story. Link to Pacholka’s website. -via Arbroath

PS: There’s a state park near my hometown that has a moonbow every month if the weather is clear. Link

How can you possibly have a bad day when you start it with rainbow pancakes? Link -via Buzzfeed

Photo: Tim Bullen Photography

Environmental Graffiti has a beautiful set of photographs depicting various shots of planes and rainbows.  Starting things off is Tim Bullen‘s amazing picture of the aerial display group, The Red Arrows.

The Red Arrows are the crème de la crème when it comes to aerial displays, but as they tear through a rainbow, coloured smoke trails resplendent, is it a case of man outshining mother nature’s best efforts – or is the opposite true?

Also at the EG post, learn about glories – rainbows formed from a plane’s silhouette and viewed from the aircraft on the top layer of cloud cover.

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In India, a newly discovered color-changing frog has been worshipped as a god. Reji Kumar, the person who found it, keeps the frog in a glass jar at his home where hundreds of people come to see it every day.

Apart from the obvious biological findings this hopping lava lamp can provide, it also gives an additional insight as to how religions and spiritual groups can emerge. I don’t blame them either. Who needs color-saturating hallucinogens for spiritual transcendence when you have a kaleidoscopic animal?

I say this new rainbow frog will become the new symbol for racial equality, just as long as it doesn’t croak (which is actually a concern).

The frog was a dazzling white colour when Reji, who is from Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala, in south India, first spotted it.

Then it changed to yellow and had gone grey by the time he got it home.

“By night the frog was dark yellow, and then it became transparent so you could see its internal organs,” Reji, a life worker, reportedly said.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by robkullberg.

Wooster Collective has a couple of more pics, though sadly not a word about the background story: Link

The answer, my friends, is, "No."
Fire rainbows, scientifically known as circumhorizon arcs, can be seen during summer solstice when it is close to noon, around two handspans away from the sun.

The arc is produced by plate oriented crystals and is a close relation to the circumzenithal arc. Light rays enter the almost vertical crystal side faces and leave via the lower horizontal face (ray path 3-1). The refraction of the almost parallel sun’s rays through faces inclined at 90° produces pure, bright and well separated prismatic colours ~ purer than those of the rainbow. The colours are at their best when the crystal tilts are smallest. Large crystal tilts produce more pastel hues.

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(Photo: Marc Sorensen)

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Not only is there no gold at the end of the rainbow but, frankly, driving straight toward one sounds slightly scary. No, there was no pot of gold nor any other mythical or fantastic phenomena. However, the lucky winner did get $25 playing the lottery later that evening. Coincidence? Probably. Still, this is a rare shot at a part of a phenomena almost never traceable to where it touches the ground.

Jason Erdkamp caught the shot as he travelled along a motorway in Orange County, California, in the rain last Sunday.

The end of the rainbow appeared to emerge from a stormy sky to hit the windscreen of Mr Erdkamp’s car as he drove along the northbound 341 tollroad.

As he drove along the motorway, he managed to capture other shots of the rainbow in which it appears to hit the ground.

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Aleta Meadowlark of the cleverly named Omnomicon blogged about her recipe on how to make this awesomely psychedelic rainbow cake: Link – via Unique Daily

What I want to know is this: will it make you poo rainbow?

Link via Jayisgames (Hint: the Jayisgames link has a walkthrough if you get really stuck)