A series of neat looking vintage postcard lamp shades has just arrived over at the UncommonGoods website. Visit another time and another place with these charming, retro Americana postcard lamp shades. The vinta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/vintage-postcard-lamp-shades/Reina Mia Brill creates strange but loveable knitted wire sculptures of all kinds of fantastic creatures. This one is titled “If You Keep Making Faces”. From the artist’s statement: I begin with drawings tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/knitted-wire-sculptures/The American tennis player Andy Roddick puts some weight behind his serve. According to the video comments over at YouTube, this clip has been used for a Powerade commercial but someone also points out that "it ha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/amazing-tennis-serve/(YouTube link) 100 people, arranged in order of their ages from one to 100, all play a drum. It’s much more fascinating than it sounds. The film was produced by Lenka Clayton and James Price. -via Arbroath menta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/people-in-order/Maila Nurmi, best known for her portrayal of Vampira and for her role in Ed Wood`s Plan 9 From Outer Space, has passed at age 86. Her portrayal of Vampira as a television horror host and in films was incredib...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/rip-vampira-aka-maila-nurmi/This short film was created in 4 days by 3 Graphic Designers on a shoe string budget for the timewatch program "Bloody Omaha". The final graphics are quite spectacular. Video: YoutubeDDay, WWWII, Omaha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/saving-pvt-ryan-beach-scene-filmed-in-4-days/The following is reprinted from Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader book.We all have fantasies of getting even with people who annoy us ... but we seldom actually go through with them . Here are some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/revenge-gone-wild/A little sticky Post-It note in the corner of my desk has been duly reminding me to do a "best of" list for Neatorama. And obviously, I've been procrastinating. My problem is there are a lot of exclusi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/10-neatest-neatorama-articles-of-2007/"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'." - John McCain, American politician and Senator (b. 1936)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/quote-mccain-on-optimism/Perhaps the best way to describe Richard Saja's art is to compare it with graffiti. That is, if you can embroider graffiti! Richard takes a toile (Toile de Jouy) print, like on the sofa above, and hand embroider its figu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/richard-sajas-embroidery-art/Ben Dawkins of BBH ad agency created this funny little viral ad for Vigorsol, an Italian breath mint. See how this enterprising little squirrel (chipmunk?) saved the forest from a burning fire ...With the tagline of &quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/farting-squirrel/Craftster user sweet4ever made herself a custom lamp out of melted LEGO blocks! (Warning: burning plastic releases toxic fumes) Link - via GeekAlertsThis is but one of many craft/DIY projects on Craftster Best of 2007 li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/lamp-made-from-melted-lego-blocks/Motel Inn in San Luis Obispo, California, is the world's first motel. It was built in 1925 by LA architect Arthur Heineman, who coined the term motel meaning "motor hotel." Motel Inn was originally cal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/trivia-worlds-first-motel/There are a lot of strange customs, things and people in Japan, but this one is really odd: forcing a fish to drink sake.The fish were the drinkers in a strange ceremony dating back to the Edo Period in which lively...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/drinking-sake-like-a-fish/Flickr user TwystNeko creates one balloon animal a day, every day. So far, there are 100 Flickr photos uploaded - many are quite creative (like the flamethrower balloon, for instance.) This one to the left is the Cthulhu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/14/cthulhu-balloon/This Japanese site sells happy little cat costumes that are guaranteed to make your kitty sad. Link -via Cynical-C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/cat-costumes/There are laws that say mattresses, pillows, and other bedding must have a tag stating its composition. This pillow had the tag, and the manufacturer was honest in saying they just don't know what's in there!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/whats-in-that-pillow/Last week, there was a peculiar spectacle at New Zealand's Auckland airport: a race between the A1 Grand Prix Black Beauty (driven by Jonny Reid) and an Air New Zealand Boeing 777 (piloted by Captain Dave Morgan). &q...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/race-car-vs-boeing-777-jet/Comic: Bizarro (who by the way has a new blog and an upcoming comic show at the Purple Onion in San Francisco on February 22, 2008)Remember that ailurophobia is the irrational fear of cat? Well, coulrophobia [wiki] is th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/coulrophobia-fear-of-clown/Los Angeles musician and artist Stephen McSwain makes awesome custom guitars. Tired of seeing the same old guitars, Stephen decided to create a new breed of guitars he called "functional art." The results are f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/the-wicked-witch-of-the-west-guitar-by-stephen-mcswain/Hideaki Matsui, Dong Ho Yun, and Jea Wan Park designed a ring that allows people to exchange their contact information simply by shaking hands. The idea won the 2007 Red Dot Award for Interaction & Communication desi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/handshake-rings-exchange-contact-information/Eskobar. From right to left: Robert Birming (drums), Daniel Bellqvist (vocal), and Frederik Zäll (guitar). Well, I'll be darned! Turns out that one of Neatorama's authors, Robert Birming of the fantastic gadget blog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/eskobar/Over 500 people (those crazy Minnesotans!) showed up one winter morning in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, to take a plunge into the freezing lake (a hole has been cut in the ice for this specific reason). The Polar Bear Plu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/polar-bear-plunge/Last year, Fiona Carswell made a jacket for polite smokers. The Smoking Jacket, as it is called, has a built-in container with a one-way valve into which the smoker blows smoke (instead of in the faces of the people arou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/smoking-jacket-by-fiona-carswell/In the hit TV series Gilligan's Island, Gilligan actually had a first name: Willy.Gilligan's first name was used only once, on the never-aired pilot show. Sherwood Schwartz, the series' creator, got the name Gilligan by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/trivia-gilligans-first-name/"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."- Harlan Ellison, author (b. 1934)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/quote-harlan-ellison-on-stupidity/From our pal Adam Koford (apelad) of Hobotopia, here's his rendition of cartoon sound effects from A to Z! Link [Flickr]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/cartoon-sound-effects/In the unlikely event that France decides to go back and be a monarchy again, the guy next in line to be king is ... an Indian lawyer named Balthazar de Bourbon:A restoration of the monarchy in France is, of course,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/indian-lawyer-is-heir-to-french-crown/In 2005, Japanese electronics company Sanyo has built what is probably the world's coolest solar photovoltaic power generation facility: the Solar Ark. The building is 315 m (1,033 ft) long and 37 m (121 ft) tall and has...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/the-solar-ark-by-sanyo/Every time my family and I visit the Santa Barbara Zoo, we always went to see Gemina the crooked-necked giraffe. So it was sad that I found out that Gemina had to be euthanized because her health declined due to old age....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/13/rip-gemina-the-crooked-necked-giraffe/
