Once upon a time, British sculptor David Goode was the youngest ever waxwork modeller for Madame Tussauds. He spent most of his career studying the human form, but lately he's taking that study into Middle Earth by b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/tolkien-inspired-bronze-sculptures/Books make for great decorative touches around the house, no doubt. But as the Kindle Uprising advances, fewer and fewer print books are being sold and, hey, maybe someday you'll need a great title to slip under the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/decorative-fake-books/A monument featuring a relief of soldiers stands in Sofia, Bulgaria to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Soviet takeover of Bulgaria. This weekend, street artists altered the scene with paint. Now the figures r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/soviet-war-memorial-gets-americanized/Photo link Flop down on this chair the wrong way and you just might bounce right off. The 336-hour project by artist Preston Moeller required 65,000 rubber bands to create. "It does bounce," he says. This isn't the o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/chair-made-of-65000-rubber-bands/Video Link Takuya Iwamoto from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology created this virtual pregnancy outfit that simulates the interior kicking and wriggling experienced by expectant mothers. It also...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/now-guys-can-feel-pregnant-too/Well, of course Kitty White was finally caught. Why? Because she was sloppy. And if you don't listen to what I'm trying to teach you, you'll get caught, too. So pay attention. Link -via Doobybrain | Photo by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/hello-kitty-finally-caught/Photo: Ikunori YamamotoSatoshi Itasaka's Balloon Bench, inspired by the 1953 French film Le Ballon Rouge, looks like it's cleverly suspended by floating balloons. In reality, it's suspended from the ceiling by four ancho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/balloon-bench/Today we honor Dad! Thanks for: Fixing the broken things Taking out the stinky stuff Killing the scary things Teaching the hard stuff Getting rid of the dead things Gri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/happy-fathers-day-4/Nerd Hello Kitty Backpack with Ears - $39.95 Are you ready for your next adventure? Whatever your plans are this summer you are going to need a great backpack to carry all your stuff. The Nerd Hello Kitty Backpack f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/nerd-hello-kitty-backpack-with-ears/Saxophonist Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band has died from complications of a stroke he suffered last weekend. Clemons played on such classic hits as "Born to Run" and "Thunder Road" and is widely c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/rip-clarence-clemons/Make magazine asked its readers for advice and tips from their dads. The collection they published for Fathers Day is eclectic, to say the least. Whenever I’d got overwhelmed, my dad would say: “You know how to eat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/tips-from-dad/This lovely engraved hard hat of unknown origin is up for sale on eBay. It's decorated with images of offshore oil drilling work: Hello, up for auction is a vintage/antique B.F. McDonald engraved/hand hammered har...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/engraved-hard-hat/As a degree project, Fuchsia Macaree imagined a "hypothetical company which make products based on puns." Macaree is a student at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland. You can view several other...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/19/pun-products/(vimeo link) Joshua Noble, Martin Fuchs, and Philip Whitfield built "ReceiptRacer", a game that can be played on a receipt printer. It's like a classic arcade racing game in which the player must drive down a twisty...
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