My Paper Mind is a fantastic short film by Javan Ivy. It is made with an experimental animation technique he called "Stratastencil," where stacks of differentially cut paper are used as "frames" in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/my-paper-mind-a-stratastencil-animation/There's something unusual going on inside a former bank vault hidden beneath a high rise building in Tokyo, Japan: farming! And no, not the illicit kind: While we're on the subject of things agricultural and of thing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/underground-farming-in-japan/Iceberg - Way In (Photo: Dionys Moser)Ice Cave (Photo: Dionys Moser)Swiss photographer Dionys Moser's phenomenal photographs of icebergs and ice caves are so incredibly cool! I'm completely in awe at the texture and colo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/26/very-cool-iceberg-and-ice-cave-photos-by-dionys-moser/Just one of the many fabulous wire sculptures in Ludovic Blay's DeviantArt gallery. Don't miss his Balrog and Unicorn sculptures. Previously: Alien Coffee Table....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/wire-alien-sculpture-by-ludovic-blay/lowercase L is a blog dedicated to the misuse of the letter L. Blogger William Levin explains: I have noticed that, when people create handwritten signs, they sometimes choose to capitalize every letter except the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/lowercase-l/George the parrot lost a leg 18 months ago when he was attacked by an unidentified wild animal. Since then, he’s had a hard time getting any sleep, as he tries to balance on one foot. It’s even driven him to swearing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/parrot-prosthesis/Welcome, participants in the HubLove contest at HubPages! Here is today’s clue:Use this image to the left to decipher the clue:Clue: 25-letter-word topic of HubPages Requests 535824 and 608400Be su...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/hublove-contest-clue-2/You'll forgive me, please, for breaking one of my own rules and posting something political here on Neatorama. I am indeed one of the sinister coastal liberal elite, a New Englander programmed at the University of Cal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/party-of-ideas/Here’s an industrial scale wind powered generator in Hornslet near Aarhus Denmark that broke apart due to high winds. Link: YoutubeGenerator Wind...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/wind-generator-accident/NetworkWorld has a neat post about the Top 10 Real Life Star Trek Inventions. For example, this Star Trek-inspired casket by Eternal Design that will shoot you into the afterlife:Star Trek Line of funeral productsOk...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/the-photon-torpedo-casket-and-other-real-life-inventions-inspired-by-star-trek/This is what you get when you have high-priced Madison Avenue ad-men, who probably never ride the bus in their entire lives, design an bus advertisement:Found at Say No to Crack blog (with more unfortunately placed ads):...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/unfortunate-bus-ad/Picture by Worth1000 user brentb9702We knew it! The cuddly, giggly Elmo has a dark side:With a squeeze of its fuzzy belly, the Sesame Street character now says, in a sing-song voice, "Kill James." "It'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/the-death-threat-elmo/The Problem: The British government set a target of having patients be seen by doctors within 4 hours of arriving at the ER.The Good but Hard-to-do Solution: Increase ER efficiency by hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/hospital-to-patients-wait-in-the-ambulance-please/After Clare Watkins complained about poor service at a restaurant in Staffordshire, England, she got quite a nasty surprise when she saw the bill:Ms Watkin said: "I couldn't believe it. The bill read 'fish cakes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/restaurant-bill-has-nasty-surprise/Photo: London MediaYes, your eyes aren't deceiving you: those are tortoises in Shirley Neely's refrigerator. She has 75 of them hibernating happily next to her (scant) groceries!On every shelf, wrapped in tea towels,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/hibernating-tortoises-slumbering-away-inside-a-refrigerator/Beer has been important in human history. So much so that the earliest known civilization in the world, the ancient Sumerians, called it "the divine drink." They even had a hymn for it (incidentally, the hymn w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/blessing-of-the-beer/The map above, called World Beat Music, is an amazing map of the world drawn out in musical notation. It's made by James Plakovic, who also made illustrations of musical luminaries like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/map-of-the-world-in-musical-notation/Quick, which is better for the environment: paper cups or styrofoam ones? If you chose paper (because of its biodegradibility), you'd be surprised at the answer. Eco Joe tells us why styrofoam is actually the "green...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/paper-cup-vs-styrofoam-cup-which-is-the-greener-choice/Who says white people can't dance? Or that spasm isn't a legit dance move? Here's Tecktonik, a dance craze (or is it just crazy dance) that's sweeping Europe like a brush fire... that is if brush means nerds and fire is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/white-people-can-dance/When her husband fell ill, Canadian pig farmer Mary Haugh was left with a problem. A big problem, actually: how to control and herd 3,000 hogs through the barn all by herself. The traditional method of using stick and el...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/pig-crowd-control-red-cloth-roller/Behold the glowing, ember-filled furnace steampunk mouse that would look perfectly in place next to Babbage's Analytical Engine (what's that?). As if this mouse isn't cool (hot?) enough, the maker just created v2.0: th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/steampunk-furnace-mouse/This awesome Han Solo in Carbonite desk was made by Tom Spina Design. The geek chic of this desk is off the chart! Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/han-solo-in-carbonite-desk/This mysterious thing, which at first glance seemed straight out of a Star Trek episode, is actually a 2004 mirror artpiece called Superficial by French artist Michel de Broin: Upon invitation to reflect on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/michel-de-broins-mirror-sculpture-strange-very-sci-fi-chic/Finger Frenzy is a quickie Flash game to see how fast you can type the alphabet ... backwards!The fastest person is one Ashley B Sivorn, who typed the whole thing in just 1.501 seconds! It took me over 8 seconds to accom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/finger-frenzy-flash-game/"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein, sci-fi author (1907 - 1988)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/25/quote-robert-a-heinleins-advice-to-men-and-dogs/Can a woman’s hair really support a man’s weight, as in the story of Rapunzel? Can a carpet ever fly? And how would you steal someone’s voice, like Ursula does in The Little Mermaid? It turns out that some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/24/the-science-of-fairy-tales/(YouTube link) So that’s how they do it! This video shows how morning glories find and twine around any support they can. One frame was shot every ten minutes. Link -via Arbroath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/24/morning-glories/WonderCon 2008 runs through today the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. Thousands of fanboys and girls head to WonderCon each year for an insider's look at superhero flicks, comic book characters and sci-fi sho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/24/cosplayers-at-wondercon-2008/In the Japanese paperfolding art of origami, cutting the paper is frowned upon. But in 1981, Masahiro Chatani, professor of Architecture at Tokyo Institute of Technology proved that papercutting could indeed produce stun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/24/origamic-architecture-stunning-sculptures-cut-out-of-paper/This girl must have watched Star Wars Episode IV (the original) about 30 times to be able to give such a great review. Hit Play, or go to the Link (YouTube), to watch this adorable girl. I don't know how much the d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/star-wars-according-to-a-three-year-old/
