Archive for March 20th, 2014

Laser Cat Is Hungry For Your Art!

(Video Link)(Video Link)Laser Cat is coming to the ADC Festival Of Art + Craft in Advertising and Design in Miami, Florida on April 7th and he is hungry for your art!Many artists have already fed him their works, includi...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Laser-Cat-Is-Hungry-For-Your-Art/

A Giant Wave Made of Thousands of Barbie Dolls

(Images: Sculpture by the Sea)Annette Thas, the artist who created the sculpture Wave, got her idea during a trip to see her family in Belgium. It was a family emergency and a time of heightene...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/A-Giant-Wave-Made-of-Thousands-of-Barbie-Dolls/

The Motion Picture Camera: Past, Present and Future

[http://vimeo.com/88877399#at=0] (vimeo link)This wordless sequence is a tribute to awesome movie camera shots from the past hundred years and the cameras and operators who shot them. It was created specifically for the...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/The-Motion-Picture-Camera-Past-Present-and-Future/

This Armored Car Was Designed Specifically for Chasing Tornadoes

The Iowa Storm Chasing Network tracks severe weather across the state of Iowa. Not everyone in that network stays in offices. One team rides around in their new tornado-chasing vehicle: Dorothy.Like the...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/This-Armored-Car-Was-Designed-Specifically-for-Chasing-Tornadoes/

Snake Eats Golf Balls, Undergoes Surgery

A gray rat snake was found in a chicken coop in north Georgia. The snake had two large round objects in its stomach, which, from the fact that it was in a chicken coop, you’d think would be chicken eggs. The snake...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Snake-Eats-Golf-Balls-Undergoes-Surgery/

A Short Film About Unexpected Transformation - Elefante

(Video Link)Living life as a human being can be hard enough, but if you were slowly turning into an elephant and had to live the rest of your life with a long trunk growing out of your face and big, stumpy appendages whe...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/A-Short-Film-About-Unexpected-Transformation-Elefante/

Promposals

Instagram user triciarae44 posted this picture of how she was asked to the prom. Cute, but what if she weren’t a good shot? He’d never know whether she accepted or not! This is just one of the many Instagram...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Promposals/

Want to Impress People? Wear Sweatpants

(Lunarbaboon)It may be counter-intuitive, but according to Harvard doctoral student Silvia Bellezza and her colleagues, it can pay off to dress down--or at least appear to be a non-confo...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Want-to-Impress-People-Wear-Sweatpants/

Chinese Takeout

[http://youtu.be/RawyitUbfj4] (YouTube link)You order a few dishes for takeout, and then when you get home, you find quite a few extras. Sometimes there are more extras than there is food that you ordered! I call BS on t...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Chinese-Takeout/

Sculpted Hand Street Art Appears In Barcelona

Hands are sprouting out of the walls and sidewalks in Barcelona, and they have an awful lot to say considering they’re nothing but a bunch of disembodied hands and arm segments.They’re like the street art ver...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Sculpted-Hand-Street-Art-Appears-In-Barcelona/

The Law of Diminishing Jean-Claude Van Dammes

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10](Video Link)A few months ago, the action movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme appeared in a commercial for Volvo tractor trailers. He performed a split across 2 trucks being driven...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/The-Law-of-Diminishing-Jean-Claude-Van-Dammes/

David Szakaly’s Animated Abstractions

David Szakaly creates abstract moving gifs that appear to be way more than just a few images repeating. He’s been archiving these little artworks on his Tumblr blog dvdp for years. Look through his...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/David-Szakalys-Animated-Abstractions/

Artists Depict What It Feels Like To Have A Migraine

Anyone who has dealt with the mind bending pain of a migraine, and those who have watched a migraine sufferer struggle to keep it together when their head is full of pressure, knows that migraines are more than just head...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Artists-Depict-What-It-Feels-Like-To-Have-A-Migraine/

Pushing the Truck

[http://youtu.be/D8eVsmt6R5w] (YouTube link)A truck hauling an excavator ran out of gas. What to do? They could have siphoned some gas from the excavator and put it in the truck. They could have offloaded the excavator a...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Pushing-the-Truck/

The Avengers Octopuses

Captain AmericaTony StarktopusLoktopusThorctopusThe ever-crafty Darcy made octopus plushes of The Avengers and Loki. Avengers, assemble--then spray ink!In addition to...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/The-Avengers-Octopuses/

Your Fat Is Why Your Brain is Dumb

Image: Julien Tromeur/Shutterstock We all know that being overweight is bad for your health, but results from a new study show that it can also be bad for your brain. In fact, it can make you stupider....

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Your-Fat-Is-Why-Your-Brain-is-Dumb/

How Not To Kill Yourself With Household Items

How Not To Kill Yourself With Household Items is full of tips that may seem like common sense, or situations you may find inconceivable, like ingesting 40 tablespoons of cinnamon at once or somehow ending up with 13 tube...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/How-Not-To-Kill-Yourself-With-Household-Items/

What Is It? game 319

It's Thursday, so you know what it means, Neatoramanauts: it's time for the What Is It? Game, brought to you by the always amusing What Is It? Blog.What is this thing in the picture? Your guess can win you a free T-...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/What-Is-It-game-319/

Miniature Sushi Made with Single Grains of Rice

(Photo: Reuters)Think of this as a diet plan. You'll get to enjoy professionally-made sushi without packing on extra calories.10 years ago, Chef Hironori Ikeno made his first miniature sushi as a joke for a customer...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Miniature-Sushi-Made-with-Single-Grains-of-Rice/

Louis C.K., Bradley Cooper, and the Magic of Video Archives

[http://youtu.be/l3HYLLruJis] (YouTube link)YouTube member GAabriel Antunes put together a weird bit of Hollywood coincidence that will take some explaining, but will blow your mind. Or maybe not, does this kind of thing...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Louis-CK-Bradley-Cooper-and-the-Magic-of-Video-Archives/

Tolkien's Translation Of Beowulf Is Finally Being Published

(Image Via Wikimedia)J.R.R. Tolkien’s original stories, like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, get all the attention and overshadow the fact that Tolkien is known in academic circles as an authority on Beowulf, citing...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Tolkiens-Translation-Of-Beowulf-Finally-Being-Published/

The Tokyo SkyTree

Travel bloggers Jürgen Horn and Mike Powell move to a new country every 91 days and tell us all about them. They’ve now arrived in Tokyo, where (despite serious jet lag) they wanted to see their new home from...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/The-Tokyo-SkyTree/

Give Your Living Room A Little Bang

This lamp by Stockpile Designs won't literally blow up your room, but it could inspire an explosive conversation among your visitors. The real Korean War era bomb weighs 100 pounds, but its militaristic roots won't ruin...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Give-Your-Living-Room-A-Little-Bang/

The Popeye the Sailor Story

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.Popeye the Sailor made his comic strip debut in January of 1929. Popeye was orig...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/The-Popeye-the-Sailor-Story/

Nirvana's Heart-Shaped Box, as Looped by Kawehi

[http://youtu.be/077UlBtrqWs] YouTube Link - via Esquire We've covered Hawaiian-born musician Kawehi a while ago on Neatorama, so we're glad that she's back! This time, Kawehi takes her looping-technique...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Nirvanas-Heart-Shaped-Box-as-Looped-by-Kawehi/

Stability with Bipolar: A Cartoon

Beth Evans is one of my favorite webcomic artists. She's funny and perceptive, which is why I interviewed her last November. She's had a rough time since then. But, true to form, she's open about her experiences. Beth ha...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Stability-with-Bipolar-A-Cartoon/

A Windy Day in Russia

[http://youtu.be/tCJCTLZxc7Q] (YouTube link)Someone in the town of Gelendzhik, Russia, watched out the window of their apartment on March 10th and recorded the goings-on during a particularly windy day. You’ll see...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/A-Windy-Day-in-Russia/

Man Gets Revenge on Deadbeat Internet Seller by Texting Him the Complete Works of William Shakespeare

(Shakespeare Insult Wallet now on sale at the NeatoShop)'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you s...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Man-Gets-Revenge-on-Deadbeat-Internet-Seller-by-Texting-Him-the-Complete-Works-of-William-Shakespeare/

NYC's Newest Neighborhood Will Float Above an Active Train Yard

West Side Yard is a 26-acre train depot in Manhattan. You know how important trains are to New York City, but you might also have some idea of how valuable land in Manhattan is. The train yard must stay, but that acreage...

https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/NYCs-Newest-Neighborhood-Will-Float-Above-an-Active-Train-Yard/




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