Michael Griffith of the Savannah College of Art & Design had this great idea of converting a construction site for a high rise into advertisement for a local gym!Found at Ads of the World, who has a couple more pics....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/gym-ad-on-a-construction-site-concept/Eclectic 2.0 is a beautifully shot movie made with still photographs by San Diego State University senior Ross Ching - check out the time-lapse panning. My favorite is the nightsky shots. The wonderful music is Horse...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/eclectic-20-by-ross-ching/The always-hip Queen Rania of Jordan has a YouTube account and is soliciting videos from other YouTubers with questions about the Middle East. Both Queen Rania and her husband Abdullah II bin Al Hussein aka King Husse...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/queen-rania-of-jordan-on-youtube/That is Claud the Kung Fu bear from Hiroshima City, Japan. You can see another video here, and here is Claud's story: A bear at a zoo in Hiroshima City, western Japan, is drawing applause from visitors with his per...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/claud-the-kung-fu-bear/Stop and think about this for a moment: the combined ages of The Rolling Stones (current) member is: 254 years old.Mick Jagger (born July 26, 1943) is 64 years old as of today, Keith Richards (December 18, 1943) is 64, C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/combined-ages-of-the-rolling-stones-254-years-old/Will Ashford turns pages from old books he found at garage sales, street markets and used bookstores into works of art: When I find a good candidate I explore every page. Like an archeologist I hunt for the words tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/will-ashfords-recycled-words/In the 1960s, Heineken got the brilliant idea of making square beer bottles ... so that after you're done drinking the beer, you can use the bottles as bricks! Made in England by Gentlemen blog has the pics of a wall bui...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/beer-bottle-bricks/The Praise Tabernacle church in Buffalo has got the best church sign I've seen! Found at JB's Warehouse and Curio Emporium...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/funny-church-sign-why-you-should-attend-the-praise-tabernacle-church/There can be no questions about it - here is the BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIMES. I present to you: Queen Kong (1976) with Robin Askwith (bling!) and Rula Lenska. Watch it and weep!Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Sequoia...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/the-best-movie-of-all-times-queen-kong/The American football huddle was invented by Paul Hubbard, a deaf player at Gallaudet University, to avoid the other team see his signs.Gallaudet University is the world's premiere liberal arts university for the deaf an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/trivia-deaf-student-invented-the-american-football-huddle/Here's a fantastic cake you can make for your next party: the echidna ice cream cake.Bowling Trophy blog has the recipe:To make it, fill a metal bowl with softened ice cream and freeze. Unmold, add a twinkie for a no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/echidna-ice-cream-cake/That's the Chairman Mao chair, created by artist Gerard Scarfe, as seen in I'm Learning to Share blog....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/chairman-mao-chair/Mike Duncan's company got this fantastic letter from a woman named Joyce who wanted to be unsubscribed from "his internet" because, she wrote, "My interent gets too full all the time"http://www.mikedu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/unsuscribe-me-from-your-internet-mine-gets-full-all-the-time/Doug of HolyJuan blog has a nice compilation of farm machinery warning labels with funny captions.I Lol'd heartily at a few of them (Dancing with Heather Mills, Hah!) and I bet you would too. Head over yonder: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/funny-farm-machinery-warning-labels/Behold the teddy bear skull in felted wool, as created by Stephanie Metz. Her other artwork include Teddy Bear Fetal Development in felted wool, mutant chicken embryo with alligatorlike teeth (cool!) and a cute bunny rab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/stephanie-metzs-felted-wool-teddy-bear-skull/Photo: l0ckergn0me's [Flickr]How long does wedding bliss last? According to Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, who surveyed over 10,000 women, the answer is: 4 years.Prof Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel laureate, said studies...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/wedded-bliss-lasts-4-years/Boing Boing Gadgets has a very neat post about 9 common idioms that turned out to have technological origins. For example: "Push the envelope"Common definition: Extreme, testing th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/tech-origin-of-9-idioms/"What is guilt? Guilt is the reason they put articles in Playboy." - Dennis Miller, comedian, political commentator, and actor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/quote-dennis-miller-on-guilt/Ladies! Want some beautiful dimples that nature has forgotten to give you? Fret not: check out this invention by one Isabella Gilbert:The device consists of a face-fitting stpring carrying two tiny knobs which press...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/05/the-dimple-machine/I post this for two reasons. One, it's awesome. The photo's from Matt Boulton and you can find a desktop wallpaper-sized version here. Two, I found it at Fanmode, which is my favorite toy news site and which I s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/photo-optimus-prime-assembled-out-of-tin-cans/When a pond in Brigham City, Utah, froze over, over 4,000 fish turned up dead (officials surmised that either the pond was poisoned or it ran out of oxygen due to the thick ice).Among the dead fish was this mystery fange...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/mystery-fanged-fish-in-utah/iMac, iPhone, iPod ... it's only time before someone comes up with the iHand! Here's what Dan Piraro of Bizarro envisions it to be.For more Bizarro, check out Dan's blog and website....
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/bizarro-the-ihand/TechEBlog has a neat compilation of functional guitars made from video game consoles (Nintendo FamiCom, NES, Sega Dreamcast and Genesis). Them are geeky musicians!This one is the MegaDriver, made from a broken SEGA Genes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/guitars-from-old-busted-video-game-consoles/If you're a fan of the TV Series LOST then you'll probably like this Flash game, The Roslin Station.Why, it's confusing, drawn out, and most people will stop playing after just a few moments, just like the TV show. Oops,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/the-roslin-station-a-flash-game-for-lost-fans/This news is so stupendous that I had to check the date to make sure it's not April 1: New Kids on the Block boy band has reunited!They may be pushing 40, but the New Kids are returning to the block.The boy band New Kids...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/new-kids-on-the-block-returns-not-new-and-no-longer-kids-but-theyre-back/Photo: contrari-wise [Flickr] (biggify)Thanks to the laser-like focus of Google Adwords, advertisers can now target ... male virgins! (They're just World of Warcraft players ...) Found at Contrariwise Ramblings - tha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/google-ad-targets-male-virgins/In Mordor, traffic can be brutal. When Frodo needs to cast the Ring in Mount Doom, Gandalf suggested that he avoid the Plains of Rohan and take the High Mountain Pass through the Misty Mountains .... Here's Lord of the R...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/lord-of-the-rings-the-chat-version/Photos: Fleischerei PahlWe've had the Meat House, the Meat Ship and the Bacon Pig before on Neatorama, so it's only natural that we feature these other "meatnimals" from the German Austrian deli/restaurant Pahl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/meatnimals/This flipbook by Masashi Kawamura, Rainbow in Your Hand, is so simple it's genius: as you flip through the pages, a "rainbow" appears as if by magic!Link [in Japanese] - YouTube Clip of the flipbook in action -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/rainbow-in-your-hand-flipbook/It’s hard to see icy patches on the road ahead. Wouldn’t it be great if the road could signal whether it was icy? Scientists are working on a road coating that will turn pink in dangerously icy conditions! A ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/04/icy-pink-roads/
