Archive for November 2005
Now That's a Wedding Cake Topper.
What a wonderful start to a new life together! (Thanks Kandra!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/30/now-thats-a-wedding-cake-topper/Olaf's Royal Blood.
Erwin Olaf's 2002 photograph series titled "Royal Blood", featured in the Bilbao Art Centre, is definitely intriguing (a little controvery never hurts anyone!). This one above is ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/30/olafs-royal-blood/Not Your Mom's Stained Glass.
Judith Schaechter's Parables in Glass is no mere mortal's stained glass. She's elevated this artform into a new level. Link (via Transbuddha)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/30/not-your-moms-stained-glass/Scientology's Secret Bunker.
The Church of Scientology built a huge vault into a a mountainside in New Mexico, marked by huge aerial signpost of their symbol.According to the Washington Post: "Burie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/30/scientologys-secret-bunker/World's First Facial Transplant.
Doctors at the Lyon and Amiens hospital in France had performed the world's first partial face transplant on a 38-year-old woman, who had suffered extensive surgery in a dog attac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/30/worlds-first-facial-transplant/Aristarkh Chernyshev's Teleblaster 1.0
Aristarkh Chernyshev created the Teleblaster 1.0, a television that allows you to watch TV programs "both in the usual mode and in a special video processing mode" th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/29/aristarkh-chernyshevs-teleblaster-10/Aerogel: World's Lightest Solid.
Invented in 1930s, Aerogel is the world's lightest solid material. It is 99.8% air and is 1000-less dense than glass. An ounce of this material can cover an area of 10 football fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/29/aerogel-worlds-lightest-solid/Boris Bally's Urban Mojo.
Artist Boris Bally said: "Most aboriginal cultures, including this country's own native Americans, have adorned themselves with jewelry made of various animal parts s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/29/boris-ballys-urban-mojo/Yee's V8 Engine Paper Model.
Canadian artist Yee took 1 year to design and create the world's most complex paper model: a working (all parts move properly) V8 engine made from 5756 pieces of paper! Link (v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/29/yees-v8-engine-paper-model/Chris Voigt's E. Coli Bacteria Camera.
Chris Voigt, a professor at University of California at San Francisco (my alma mater, yay!), is 29 years old when he created a 100-megapixel per square inch camera out of the bact...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/29/chris-voigts-e-coli-bacteria-camera/Toxic Toys.
Toysafety.net has a list of toys you shouldn't buy. One category that caught my eyes is potentially toxic toys. From the website: "the soft plastic face [of Gloworm] contai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/29/toxic-toys/Mozart Played with an Ancient Chinese Lute.
In this amazing clip, Ting Ting plays Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, Third Movement (Alla Turca) using an ancient Chinese lute called a "Pi Pa".Link (via grow-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/28/mozart-played-with-an-ancient-chinese-lute/Dance Party on Black Friday.
From the website: "What happens when you take a gang of 25 punks, sceneagers and freaks to Wal-Mart for a dance party on the busiest shopping weekend of the year?" http...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/28/dance-party-on-black-friday/Nasal Spray Boosts Women's Sex Drive Pronto!
PT-141, a drug made by Palatin Technologies, a biotech company out of New Jersey, is not just any nasal spray for women. In test studies, doctors say that women who used it "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/28/nasal-spray-boosts-womens-sex-drive-pronto/Harry Potter Paper Crafts.
This Japanese website has cool paper models of Harry Potter's Buckbeak (with moving wings!) for about $10, Knight Bus for $16, and Quidditch Stadium for $21. http://www.don-guri.com/harry/inde...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/28/harry-potter-paper-crafts/Jet Engine Blows Car Away.
Crosswind from a 747 engine at full thrust flips & rips apart a Ford Mondeo and Citroen CV2 sedans from 50 yards away! Link (ads maybe NSFW, via Attu Sees All)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/28/jet-engine-blows-car-away/Singing Iceberg.
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener's Institute for polar research had captured the sounds made by a colliding iceberg." Tracking the signal, the scientists found a 50 by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/28/singing-iceberg/Soviet's Secret Nuclear War Plans.
Poland's new government decided to reveal top secret Warsaw Pact military archives, including plans of a seven-day nuclear holocaust war plan between NATO and the Soviet bloc. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/27/soviets-secret-nuclear-war-plans/Exploding Star.
From the website: "In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun, temporarily making it the brightest s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/27/exploding-star/Tim Flach's Barcode Zebra.
This is one of Tim Flach's interesting animal photos (the other one I like is the elephant! Check it out: Link [Updated 1/14/09: Link went bad - thanks for letting us know, Kim...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/27/tim-flachs-barcode-zebra/De Repentigny's Transformers Suits.
Marc De Repentigny built these awesome fully transformable Transformers' Halloween costumes. Link (via BoingBoing)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/27/de-repentignys-transformers-suits/Darth Maul Puppet.
Kanja Chen made this gosh darn cute Darth Maul puppet. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/27/darth-maul-puppet/Kirtas' Scantastic Automatic Book Scanner.
Want to start your very own Google Print? Then you need Kirtas Technologies' APT BookScan 1200. This cool machine can scan your book at a breakneck speed of 1200 pages per hour!It...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/26/kirtas-scantastic-automatic-book-scanner/Motoart's WWII Bomb Table.
From the website: "Surprise and amuse your guests by offering a chilled beverage from Motoart's "Get Bombed" table. Hand crafted from a rare WWII Navy practice bomb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/26/motoarts-wwii-bomb-table/Cathie Jung's 15-inch Waist.
Cathie Jung wore her first corset for her wedding in 1959. Now she wears it 24/7, and when it becomes loose fitting, she would wear a smaller one. The result? She now has a 15-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/26/cathie-jungs-15-inch-waist/Rachel Whiteread's Embankment.
This tower of sugary cubeyness is Rachel Whiteread's Embankment, shown at the Tate Modern in London. Link | How it was built...
https://www.neatorama.com/2005/11/25/rachel-whitereads-embankment/
