From the website: City Glow, installed near the N-R subway lines, is a multi-panel graphic work in which futuristic skyscrapers--transformed into demure, humanlike creature...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/20/chiho-aoshimas-city-glow-2005/François is a French ex-coal miner, whose passion is building boats. One day, he decided to make a fully functional one-eight model of the Royal Carribbean's cruise ship Majesty of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/19/franois-zanellas-homemade-cruise-ship/Climbers found a piano on top of Ben Nevis, Britain's highest mountain, while on a trip to remove litters and stones from the summit: "Our guys couldn't believe their eyes," said...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/19/man-carried-piano-to-top-of-mountain/Whole Wheat Radio user 65strat built this banjo from an old Chevy hubcap:Ok, I admit that the banjo is silly. But I think its kinda cool. The ring is made of 5 plies of maple. The neck is m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/19/chevy-hubcap-banjo/A renter in Ogden, Utah left a surprise for his landlord: 70,000 beer cans! Inside, he took just a few snapshots to document the scene. Beer cans by the tens of thousands. Mou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/19/renter-left-70000-beer-cans-in-townhome/Doug Kessler took this photo in Bakersfield, California: After a fierce rain and hail storm in Bakersfield, California, this past March, the clouds briefly departed just long enough to spo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/19/double-rainbows/d'Holbachie Yoko is definitely the uber-psychedelic, Japanese version of Jim Woodring. Link (via KingBoy)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/19/dholbachie-yokos-syrup-82/Japan Acoustic Lab has analyzed the skeletal structures of Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci, in order to replicate the sound of their voices: We believe we were able to create...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/19/what-mona-lisa-and-leonardo-would-sound-like/Is that what Morgoth looks like? See more of Erik's artwork here: Link (via Jaf Project)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/19/erik-edwin-olsons-my-dinner-with-morgoth/Gary Duschl of Virginia Beach, Virginia, has a unique hobby: he collects gum wrappers and make them into a chain.In fact, he is the current record holder of the world's longest gu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/19/worlds-longest-chain-of-gum-wrappers/Maggie, the lone elephant at Anchorage's Alaska Zoo, is too fat. Her trainers have been trying to get her on the world's first treadmill for pachyderm, using her favorite treats a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/18/fat-elephant-refuses-to-exercise/Explore the narrow passageways of the Khufu Pyramid, up to the King's Chamber or down to the Unfinished Chamber.A fantastic Quicktime VR experience: Link (via grow-a-brain)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/18/explore-khufu-pyramid/One month ago, in response to being tagged by Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing, I wrote my first meme (Four Neat Things About My Hometown) and subsequently tagged a whole bunch of people.Quite a few did the meme (wrote a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/18/hometown-meme-reloaded/The late Korean artist Nam June Paik (1932 - 2006) specializes in the art of video and television. Link (via KingBoy)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/18/nam-june-paiks-family-of-robot-mother-father/This one above is the Hazelnut Chocolate Toothpaste made by Regione Piemonte, Italy.Take a look at the online toothpaste collection of Dr. Val Kolpakov, a practicing dentist in Saginaw, Michig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/18/toothpaste-museum/According to the Bathroom Diaries, a website dedicated to finding the cleanest and best bathrooms in the world, the bathroom above is the best bathroom in the world: Branson, Missouri, fea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/18/worlds-best-bathroom/This one's self explanatory, except for Neatorama readers from the UK and Europe, who would think that those gas prices are darned cheap!Check out more editorial funnies at Da...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/18/pain-at-the-gas-pump/Jason Sturgill's online gallery The Wurst has this neat collection of Russian Matryoshka nesting doll. Eighteen artists were given a set of blank nesting dolls to decorate - do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/18/russian-matryoshka-nesting-dolls/Our planet is really, really small compared to other planets in the solar system. http://www.comagz.com/webmagazine/story/proportions_how_small_we_are (via digg, Thanks Cha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/17/relative-sizes-of-planets/Get your own custom-printed toilet paper at Liquid Shirts: Link (via Boing Boing)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/17/custom-printed-toilet-paper/Danish inventor Torben Vestergaard Frandsen created a straw with filters and an iodine-impregnated chamber to remove bacteria from water as it is drunk. Mr Mortensen said that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/17/bacteria-killing-straw/Baobao, an 18-year-old girl from Inner Mongolia, has been eating dirt for 11 years! She said that she now preferred the taste of yellow mud, as it did not contain sand or tree debris.*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/17/the-girl-who-eats-dirt/Think your place is cramped? Checkout Michael Wolf's photographs of Hong Kong in a series very aptly called the "Architecture of Density"Link (via kottke)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/17/michael-wolfs-architecture-of-density/Erika Nelson is the artist who created this traveling roadside attraction and museum. Her other special accomplishments: Through her travels, she has written a Graduate thesis titled "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/17/the-worlds-largest-collection-of-the-worlds-smallest-version-of-the-worlds-largest-things/Leftlane News has awesome photos of this diamond rhinestone-covered Mercedes SL. Liberace would be proud. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/17/blinged-out-mercedes/From the website: On February 28, 2001, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake, located some thirty miles below the surface of the earth and a few miles away from Olympia Washington, m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/17/earthquake-rose/For the first time in US history, it costs more to manufacture a penny and a nickel than the value of the coins themselves! The Mint estimates it will cost 1.23 cents per penn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/17/penny-cost-more-than-one-cent-to-make/Two new maps of the distribution of galaxies in the universe, derived from data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, revealed colossal structures and supported the idea that the uni...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/17/largest-maps-of-the-universe/"Kyle" bathroom sinks look like 55-gallon drums. The name's a misnomer, for sure. Since the base costs $1,790, and the basin $840, I would call them: "expensive-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/16/55-gallon-drum-luxury-sink/Brazilian archaeologists have discovered an Stonehenge-like stone structure in the Amazon:A total of 127 large blocks of stone were found driven into the ground on top of a hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/05/16/brazilian-stonehenge/
