(Photo: OakOak)
The always inventive OakOak--a favorite here at Neatorama--shows Bruce Lee demolishing the public infrastructure of Saint-Étienne, France. He really should pay for the damage he's doing, but I don't want to be the person who tells him that.
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Knock back a few of these puppies, and you’ll need a hair of the dog the next morning.
After he gets out of the bath, towel him off. A martini should be dry.
Thanks, folks. I’ll be here all night. Tip your bartender.
-via Geekosystem
This is why cutting an onion makes you cry. It's because it's evil*
*Actually it's because of cutting an onion breaks its cells open, thus releasing enzymes that turns sulfenic acid into propanethiol S-oxide, a volatile sulfur compound that wafts up to your eye, react with the water in your tears to form sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid (the chemical that disfigured Gotham district attorney Harvey Dent and turned him into Two-Face in the Batman comics- see? Comics are scientifically useful!) burns, so your eyes produce more tears to wash it away. In short, onions make you cry because it's evil.
Redditor VictorVan has exhaustively cataloged and compiled images of the actors who have played famous historical figures. He divided them into several lists:
43 Presidents of the United States
Are you surprised by any of the casting choices?
-via 22 Words
They may say it’s "functionally obsolete,' but I’d call it an ex-bridge. As in, no longer a bridge. It’s expired. It is no more. It has ceased to exist. -via Bad Newspaper
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Colin Powell is a retired US Army general and Secretary of State. He recently posted on Facebook this photo of himself taking a photograph 60 years ago. Like a modern teenager, he took selfies.
And he did it with style. That young man knew how to look snazzy!
(Photo: Bloom Energy)
-via 22 Words
Olivia Mears is like a modern-day Amelia Bedelia. You have to be really careful giving instructions to her:
I was asked to paint a dress, so I did.
We've previously featured her dress made of Taco Bell taco wrappers. This one is also astoundingly creative. It's made entirely of paint. It's a mixture of acrylic and latex. How did she mold it? Hopefully that information will be forthcoming.
(Photo: Laurent Laveder--Photographer's Gallery)
If you're in the United States, you may have seen snow this deep in recent weeks. But this photo is from Saint-Guénolé, France. On March 3, a terrible storm blew in from the Atlantic and swamped the town with bubbly seawater. You can see another photo here.
(Photo: Dominik Hartmann)
Father and son mathematicians Lionel and Roger Penrose devised the Penrose triangle--an impossible object that looks like a twisting 3-dimensional triangle. They and M.C. Escher also conceived of a staircase based on that design.
This staircase isn't quite like it, but like the Penrose triangle and stairs, there's no beginning or end. Ólafur Elíasson, a Danish-Icelandic architect, designed it for the Munich offices of KPMG, an accounting company.
-via NotCot
Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones
Walter White from Breaking Bad
Frank Underwood from House of Cards
Karen Abad, a photographer in California, created paper backdrops from scenes of famous television shows and movies and dressed babies for starring roles. Pictured above is baby Olivia, who seems to prefer dangerous characters.
You can see more photos in the series here, here and here. The other shows in the series are Girls, True Detective, The Walking Dead and Moonrise Kingdom.
-via My Modern Met
In 1903, William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson built their first motorcycle--the first of what became a great American tradition. Their factory was a crude wooden workshop that measured just 10 x 15 feet. Though it may have seemed presumptuous to paint such a grand title on their shed, Harley and Davidson's later accomplishments would justify it.
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Jane Labowitch, an artist in Chicago, makes permanent images on Etch A Sketches. Her niece found this unusual heart-shaped Etch A Sketch at a thrift store. Labowitch knew just what to do with it. Here's that romantic and tragic couple, Ellie and Carl Fredricksen, from the movie Up.
Labowitch works extensively from pop culture. You can view her DeviantART gallery for photos of more of her Etch A Sketches. She's taken inspiration from He-Man, Pokémon, My Little Pony, and Super Mario Bros. In an interview with Nintendo Feed, Labowitch described how she got started in this medium:
I started playing with an etch a sketch when I was about 4. Like most kids, I tinkered with it a lot, but I guess the main difference is that I pretty much never stopped tinkering with it. I started with the staircases and blocky houses like everyone else, but not being able to draw certain things never discouraged me.
I was bored a lot as a kid, so playing with my etch a sketch really helped to kill the time. I just practiced A LOT. I used to have an etch a sketch at my grandma's, and I'd visit her every other weekend. She had a TV, but wouldn't let my siblings and I watch it all that often. Thankfully I had an etch a sketch there because that is what I would usually do to keep myself occupied. Looking back, I'm really grateful that my grandma didn't let us watch television because I'm sure I wouldn't have played with my etch a sketch nearly as much.
I love these lamps! They're charming, functional and probably terribly hot to the touch. I'm not sure who made them, but my friend Marilyn Bellamy thinks that they can be traced back to a company called Balloonatics Enterprises.
Image: Art Wolfe - via Moillusions
You're the leader of an African expedition and danger lurks from every corner. Your team depends on your ability to spot the threat - it may be closer than you think ... can you find it in the photo above, before it finds you?
Renowned Washington-based photographer Art Wolfe (previously on Neatorama) snapped this intriguing photo back in 2010. Leave a comment how long it took you to spot the danger, or whether you saw it at all ...
