Yes, it's an oldie but it's still a goodie. Here's a T-shirt that wryly notes that something, somewhere along the course of the evolution of man, went terribly wrong!
Available in black and dark grey in Neatorama's Online Store: http://shop.neatorama.com/product-info.php?something-somewhere-went-terribly-wrong-tshirt-pid107.html - just $9.95 + s/h
Church Tank Type 5A - via Book of Joe
We've featured artwork by Kris Kuksi before on Neatorama - here's one that I haven't seen before till today: Church Tank Type 5A.
More of Kris' artwork at his website: Link
San Francisco design studio office designed a series of excellent pirate-themed black, white and gold posters for Dave Egger's store/tutoring center 826 Valencia in San Francisco. I quite like this "Compensation for Missing Limbs" poster, though the beard-o-graphical "Beards are the New Black" is excellent too! (you'll see)
Link - via Design*Sponge
Another one of his store in Brooklyn has been covered before on Neatorama here
Street artist K-Guy put up this touching tribute for the economic good times, called "In Loving Memory of The Boom Economy." It's outside the Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, Centeral London.
Photo via Wooster Collective | More at Flickr
Photo: Patrik Riklin (Source: Aftenposten Reise)
Whereas Dubai has gone upscale with the world's first (and only) 7-star hotel, Switzerland has gone the opposite way: it has opened (for a trial run) the world's first zero-star hotel, a former nuclear bunker!
"Using the weapon of art, we have created a low-budget hotel, which has charm, takes into account guests' individual wishes and thus becomes quite something," said twin brothers Frank and Patrik Riklin, artists commissioned by local authorities to convert an ancient neighboring factory into a culture center and integrate the bunker.
Organizers said the price per night will be between $9 and $13.
The shared bathroom has been converted into a fountain with swimming flowers, and a live-cam is sending images from the outside onto a large screen in the windowless building.
Australian musician Josh Pyke has a curious boat: it's shaped like a giant guitar!
Josh's voyage on board the SS Maton - named after Australian guitar manufacturer Maton, who designed the curious vessel - was caught on film for the video that will be coming out with his new single Make You Happy.
It is a giant-sized replica of the acoustic instrument Josh uses in the video.
Dressed in ancient mariner's clothes, Josh, a maritime history fan, did not even get his feet wet as he cruised among the yachts and the ferries crossing the harbour.
Talkin' bout boats, here's another strange one - this time, from China:
A Chinese schoolteacher is preparing to cross the 112 mile-wide Taiwan Straits in a paper boat.
Zhu Yalin, a chemistry teacher in Meishan, Sichuan province, has arrived in Xiamen to build his boat.
"Not only is the whole boat made of paper, but the glue is an organic material - cooked flour soup," he told the Straits Guidance Daily.
Photo: Lars Klove for The New York Times / Manipulation by Tommer Leyvand
Tommer Leyvand and colleagues have created a "beautification engine," a software program that uses a mathematical formula to alter a person's face into what theoretically is the more "beautiful" version, while retaining "unmistakable similarity" to the original:
Studies have shown that there is surprising agreement about what makes a face attractive. Symmetry is at the core, along with youthfulness; clarity or smoothness of skin; and vivid color, say, in the eyes and hair. There is little dissent among people of different cultures, ethnicities, races, ages and gender.
Yet, like the many other attempts to use objective principles or even mathematical formulas to define beauty, this software program raises what psychologists, philosophers and feminists say are complex, even disturbing, questions about the perception of beauty and a beauty ideal.
To what extent is beauty quantifiable? Does a supposedly scientific definition merely reflect the ideal of the moment, built from the images of pop culture and the news media?
Being blind usually stops someone from driving - but not a Belgian man named Luc Costermans. He's just set the world's blind speed record:
Mr Costermans topped 308.78km/h (192 mph) while driving a Lamborghini Gallardo supercar at Istres, near Marseille, in southern France.
Mr Costermans thanked his co-pilot Guillaume Roman, saying: ""I'm very, very happy. It's a team effort."
Jack Newton, 23, is one big fan of physicist Stephen Hawking. So much so that he decided to get his right leg tattooed with Hawking's face after reading A Brief History of Time - even though he didn't understand a word of it!
The tattoo - complete with a Monty Python line from the classic Life of Brian film 'He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy' written underneath it - has already won two trophies at tattoo conventions.
Mr Newton said: "I read A Brief History of Time, but to be honest I didn't understand a word, but I respect the man and that's why I got his face tattooed on my leg.
Photo: Kent News
Mary Ann Foster is one lucky woman - she survived a bonk in the head from a "space ice" that crashed through the roof over her bed!
Mary Ann and her husband think that the ice is from outer space, and so they're saving it next to the bagels in their freezer ...
Link (Flash video on nbc4)
Dear smart people: do you think that you know everything? See how you'd do at Miss Cellania's short little quiz for know-it-alls. For example:
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
I got 5. Sigh.
Super Punch blog has a neat round up of spooky Halloween food you can make.
This one is a spider cake by Megan of Not Martha blog (the "legs" are Pockys - yum!)
