Gorilla Advertising
I think you need to go see this ad for Cadbury chocolate. I’m not telling you anything else about it, except that it made me smile. Link -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/gorilla-advertising/Archive for August 2007
Durian
Durian is a delightfully psychedelic fractal animation by Thomas Williams with music by Steve Nalepa and Mileece. http://diatom.tv/node/69/play -via Militant Platypus...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/durian/Vampire Squid
This Vampyroteuthis infernalis, or vampire squid {wiki} has a weird-looking eye, but it looks even weirder when he closes it! Link -via Reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/vampire-squid/Headhoods
These hoodies have faces printed on them! You can get a hoodie with the face of a gorilla, skull, Elvis and others. Guaranteed to turn heads. Link -via b3ta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/headhoods/Jihad! The Musical: I Wanna Be Like Osama
Earlier this month, this "madcap gallop through the wacky world of international terrorism" opened at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Jihad! The Musical, written by Ben Scheuer and Zoe Powell.The musica...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/jihad-the-musical-i-wanna-be-like-osama/Jimi Hendrix in Matches
Artist Phil Hansen used more than 7,000 red, white, and black-tipped matches to create an image of Jimi Hendrix.And yes, after he's done, he set it on fire: http://www.freshcreation.nl/comments.php?id=1245_0_1_0_C (with...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/jimi-hendrix-in-matches/Tooth Lamp
Oooh! This is the perfect lamp for my aunt, who is a dentist: the tooth lamp!Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/tooth-lamp/Typographical Motion Music Videos
Information Aesthetics blog has a neat post about two excellent "typographical motion" music videos, where you can literally see the words in the songs' lyrics dancing merrily along.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/typographical-motion-music-videos/Kako Ueda's Cut Paper Art
Kako Ueda creates amazing artwork out out of just paper and an X-acto knife. This one above is called Memento Mori, an insanely detailed 50"x50" wall piece. Check out more of her cut paper artwork here: Link -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/kako-uedas-cut-paper-art/Anatomically Correct Bone Socks
Hide your skin but show some bones with the "Anatomically Correct Bone Socks". http://www.allheart.com/accss26akl.html - via Nerd Approved...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/anatomically-correct-bone-socks/DJ Scratchin’ Kitty
When my cat scratches, he just tears up the sofa. This kitty has a career ahead of him. Ignore the mess in the background. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/dj-scratchin-kitty/Now, the real story comes out.
Bunk Strutts didn’t fall for that story about a boy doing a handstand at Four Corners. It was a clever cover-up for the fact that the child was abducted by aliens! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/now-the-real-story-comes-out/Choose Your Own Adventure/Jane Austen Mash-Up
Amazon says: Bringing together Jane Austen's most beloved characters and storylines-a clever, playful, interactive, and highly entertaining approach to the wildly popular novels in which you, the reader, dec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/choose-your-own-adventurejane-austen-mash-up/Profiles in Carnage: Vlad the Impaler (1431 - 1476)
This guy was pretty much as bad as it gets. Most famous, of course, was his penchant for having people impaled - skewered alive through the anus or vagina on giant wooden spikes, to be slowly dragged down by their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/profiles-in-carnage-vlad-the-impaler-1431-1476/Fancy Birdhouse is Camouflage for Security Cameras
Neatorama reader Rich B., who is on a 100-day driving trip across the US, sent in some photos of fancy schmancy birdhouses in Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, New York. Upon closer inspection, you can see that they have...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/fancy-birdhouse-is-camouflage-for-security-cameras/Yawn!
Would you believe it that till today, scientists still don't know why we yawn!From wikipedia, here's a list of superstitions that surround the act of yawning: The most common of these is the belief that it is necessa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/31/yawn/"El Pulpo," the polydactyly pitcher
This post earlier today mentioned a boy born with 24 digits. My all-time favorite baseball player is Antonio Alfonseca, currently on the Phillies. Wikipedia says: His nicknames are El Pulpo ("The Octopus")...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/el-pulpo-the-polydactyly-pitcher/Make your own non-Newtonian slime.
Instructables has step-by-step instructions for making your own Rheopectic slime. The slime we made is a Non Newtonian fluid and is rheopectic which means it shows an increase on its apparent viscosity with time...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/make-your-own-non-newtonian-slime/Visual Recognition Memory
Test your Visual Recognition Memory for faces, objects, and names. I scored slightly below average on all three tests. The test is simple to understand and takes about 15 minutes, unless you blaze through it like I did....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/visual-recognition-memory/Giant Spider Web
Photo: Tom Pennington / Star-TelegramIt's like a scene straight out of a horror flick: park rangers in Lake Tawakoni State Park, Texas, found a giant communal spider web that spans 200-yard (183 m):If you hate creepy...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/giant-spider-web/Up Butt Coconut
Neatorama reader Nathan saw our Butt Biting Bug post and that reminded him of an animation he did last year: Up Butt Coconut.It's so cheeky fun and horrible at the same time. Again, I apologize in advance if you get the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/up-butt-coconut/What If Jack Bauer Was a Environment-Loving Lefty
Daniel Chun, a writer for The Simpsons, found out that they've cast liberal activist, comedian and actress Janeane Garofalo on Fox's hit (and conservative) show 24. So he got to work imagining how the s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/what-if-jack-bauer-was-a-environment-loving-lefty/Necco Wafer Art
Baltimore-based artist Denise Tassin likes Necco wafers, a chalky sugar wafer snack made in Boston. Actually, I don't know if she likes to eat them (Necco is famous for being "the candy nobody likes") but she d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/necco-wafer-art/Post-It Notes Ray Charles
19-year-old David Alvarez of Wenatchee Valley College in Washington used more than 2,000 Post-it Notes to make this giant image of Ray Charles:He spent three months constructing the mosaic, sometimes sacrificing scho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/post-it-notes-ray-charles/Cross Country Drive
In this impressive video clip, Neatorama reader Ben Wiseley spliced together pictures taken during the entire length of a cross country drive (from Seattle to Boston) into a 15 minute visual tour de force.Link [...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/cross-country-drive/As Slow as Possible: a Musical Piece to be Played Over 639 Years!
In 1987, John Cage composed a musical piece titled Organ²/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible), with instruction that it should be played as slow as possible.But how slow? In a 1997 conference for organists, musicia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/as-slow-as-possible-a-musical-piece-to-be-played-over-639-years/DIY Pimp Cup
Carl Huber of theWAREHOUSE blog has the guide on how to make your very own Pimp Cup:Not to rain on your parade, but you probably can't afford the thousands of dollars rappers spend on their glorified dixie cups. Mayb...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/diy-pimp-cup/Everyone needs a friend sometimes.
Found at Best Pic Ever. http://bestpicever.com/pic-645-Panda-needs-a-friend -via Reddit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/everyone-needs-a-friend-sometimes/Auditions for Mario Villains
So that's how the villains of Super Mario Bros. came to be! Here's a funny story about Mario, Luigi, and the Princess auditioning for the bad guys in the classic game. Written by Michael Feldman and Tina Huang....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/auditions-for-mario-villains/Partial Face Transplants
Who is this? See the comments if you don’t know. Some very good Photoshop users made portraits by using the left side of one person’s face, and the right side of another. Cover half the face with your han...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/30/partial-face-transplants/
