It's about time sci-fi movie scores got their props, right? So thinks the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, which is giving a concert featuring the music of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Close Encounters amo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/space-classics/While I would typically consider scanning the backyards of strangers' houses a bit creepy, Jenny Odell does it for art (and anything done for art is excusable, right?) Odell's Satellite Collections amalga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/jenny-odell-google-maps-art/A new book is contemplating how extraterrestrials may reproduce. It aims to explore how sexuality might have evolved on other planets and does so with some interesting illustrations and video. How do you think alien sexu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/strange-attractors-is-a-book-about-extraterrestrial-sexuality/Using hundreds of tiny wooden blocks artist Shawn Smith is creating "8-bit" sculptures. At a time when retro 8-bit anything is extremely popular these sculptures take this motif and apply it to every day objects and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/8-bit-sculptures/A 20-foot juniper tree near Sunset Point, Arizona survived a wildfire last week that consumed everything around it. It's not the first time, either. In fact, the tree is a famous survivor. Every year it’s decorated fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/mystery-tree-survives-wildfire-again/(YouTube link) In 1964, forward-thinker Arthur C. Clarke predicted instant global communication, e-commerce, and remote surgery. Fifty years ago, everyone had some idea of what the 21st century wold be like. Some of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/past-versions-of-our-future/If Nyan Cat were around in 1988, he would the star of an NES game. And it would be in the bargain bin now. J. R. Baker took this idea and ran with it, designing both the front and back of the game case in the style o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/nyan-cat-as-an-nes-game/Bernie Madoff is serving time in a federal prison for running the largest Ponzi scheme ever. The U.S. Marshals Service held an auction of Madoff's possessions to recoup some of the losses. Frederick James designs bou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/the-bernie-madoff-collection/Spyro Gyro Motorized Stylus - $9.995 School is almost here. Are you looking for a fun way to waste time while you should be studying? You need the Spyro Gyro Motorized Stylus from the NeatoShop. The Spyro Gyro comes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/spyro-gyro-motorized-stylus/What makes a good alien creature for a video game? It should look cool, have awesome powers or weapons, and provide a worthy adversary for the player. And it helps if they make some kind of sense. Unreality Magazine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/the-best-and-worst-designed-alien-species-in-video-games/(YouTube link) Don't blink! This dog has perfected the art of the 5-second video. -via Arbroathdog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/stacey-mae/It is once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Do you know what this object is? Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/what-is-it-game-188/Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website. Madame Fatal is hardly up there in the pantheon of famous and beloved comic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/the-first-cross-dressing-comic-book-superhero/Niue, an autonomous island nation and dependency of New Zealand, will mint coins bearing the images of Star Wars characters. They will be fully legal tender there: A set of 40 coins is being produced by the New...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/country-mints-star-wars-coins-as-official-currency/(YouTube Link) For the Street Fighter fanatic in all of us, a documentary has been made detailing Mike Bison's (aka Balrog) rise to fame as one of the greatest video game champions of all time! Watch as he turns from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/a-documentary-about-street-fighter-legend-balrog/Defective Bigbot Short from Michele Boldoni on Vimeo. A group of friends put together this cute CGI short about a defective robot, and it looks quite nice considering these amateurs had no experience as professional a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/cool-3d-short-defective-bigbot/What could possibly make such a cool looking Bowser figure, complete with movable arms, wrists and head and hammer, even cooler? Make him out of leather. This rugged little version of the big bad boss carries a price...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/unique-hand-stitched-leather-bowser/If you love the suds but hate the difficulty and month of waiting for your tasty brew to be ready, then this self contained home brewery might be just what you need. The personal brewery combines the stages of fermentati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/personal-brewery-delivers-fresh-beer-in-a-week/Creating eye candy for visual ad campaigns generally means using illustration to create something people will remember. Computer generated imagery has dramatically changed the design industry, and creative studio Ser...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/interesting-cgi-designs-by-serial-cut/Dante was looking quite stylish at the Otakon Convention in the great Okami Amaterasu costume his owners made for him. While I've seen a lot of great cosplayers in my day, I don't think I've ever seen a dog with such...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/the-ultimate-in-dog-cosplay/Pop Up books are largely considered children's territory, but WebUrbanist has a great selection of 3D books that grown ups can enjoy too. I certainly would enjoy getting my hands on some of these. How about you guys?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/15-awesome-pop-up-books/Jonathan Stark is either a marketer or someone performing a strange social experiment. Either way, he has offered up his Starbucks card for free public use. Surprisingly, people have continued to add money to it, so the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/get-a-drink-with-this-starbucks-card/I can understand a writer making this mistake in the midst of writing dozens of questions a day, but shouldn't an editor have caught this? LinkGames, Harry Potter, trivia, questions, trivial pursuit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/the-worst-worded-question-in-trivial-pursuit/The Republic High School in Missouri recently banned Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece Slaughterhouse-Five. In response, the Vonnegut Memorial Library is offering the students a free copy of the novel so they can read it on th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/free-slaughterhouse-five-books-for-kids/Roommate Citation Nifty Note - $3.95 Are you headed back to school? You need the Roommate Citation Nifty Note from the NeatoShop. These 50 sheets of roommate citations will make sure you are well prepared to deal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/roommate-citation-nifty-note/Laika was the first living creature from Earth in space. She rode into orbit in Sputnik 2 and died there -- as the Soviets knew she would. Nick Abadzis has created a graphic novel which depicts alternate scenarios fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/laikas-revenge/A Chilean company called Monarch has developed a new type of underwear that, it claims, makes you cleaner: It's like this: copper is merged with polyamide and the result is a type of oil that's then turned into a wire...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/copper-underpants/Are your shoes plain, but comfortable? Etsy seller pcbcreations has a solution to both of those problems. These sandals, like the other inventive works in his gallery, are made from printed circuit boards. Link -via...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/data-sandals/(Video Link) This German-language video shows Ronny Wechselberger breaking the world record for parallel parking -- that's sliding into position quickly with as little clearance as possible. He set a new record at 2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/10/guinness-world-record-tightest-parallel-parking-job/deviantART member Mari Rosa Archambault, inspired by ukiyo-e prints, depicted Nintendo video game stars in feudal Japan. It took me a minute out to figure out that the figure on the right is Mega Man. Link -via Unibl...
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