The princess may be in a different castle, but you've come to the right
place to find Mike Boon's awesome alphabet T-shirts!
Ever since we featured Mike's alphabet art back last year on Neatorama
(this
one, actually), I've been hopeful that he'd join us on NeatoShop sooner
or later. Well, he's here! Hooray!
This strange post, featured on imgur, on Minnesota State Law strictly prohibiting underwater smoking is begging the question: how does one go about smoking underwater in the first place? And why is it so rampant that the Minnesota legislature actually had to bother passing a law to ban it?
Silly as that is, Vermont has got Minnesota trumped. It is against state law in Vermont to whistle underwater.
Ford and Mustang tattoos Facebook page shares this photo of a tattoo of Our Lady of Guadalupe, car mechanic's version.
I sympathize. As a recent fellow sufferer of perpetual car problems, I was also tempted in inking my automobile ordeals with a series of evocative tattoos.
Confucius (c. 1770) from The Granger Collection/New York/Wikipedia
Michael Puett, Harvard professor of Chinese History, described a society where narcissim and self-centered behaviors were on the rise, and our relationship with one another was strained. There's much fighting and disagreement on how to live harmoniously together.
Sounds like today's modern world?
Actually, Puett was describing China some 2,500 years ago. That background of societal chaos gave birth of the Chinese philosophy of Confucianism, and despite its thousand years-old age, the same philosophy holds true ... and popular. Puett's class on Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory is the third most popular class at Harvard University.
Puett began offering his course to introduce his students not just to a completely different cultural worldview but also to a different set of tools. He told me he is seeing more students who are “feeling pushed onto a very specific path towards very concrete career goals” than he did when he began teaching nearly 20 years ago. [...] Puett sees students who orient all their courses and even their extracurricular activities towards practical, predetermined career goals and plans.
Puett tells his students that being calculating and rationally deciding on plans is precisely the wrong way to make any sort of important life decision. The Chinese philosophers they are reading would say that this strategy makes it harder to remain open to other possibilities that don’t fit into that plan.
Gross-Loh continues to explain how Puett gave three specific examples of how practical application of classical Chinese philosophy could change a student's life.
Two of our favorite TV series in one T-shirt? Shut up and take my money! Nertee Design came up with this cool mash up of your favorite time traveler/pizza delivery boy, available over at the NeatoShop.
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The series may have ended prematurely, but everything's shiny, Cap'n. Not to fret, T-shirt artist The Epic Effect has a neat design for you to reminisce over the best little series that has ever graced television and the 'Verse. See how many references you recognize.
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Josh Gilbert of Shok Xone Studios mashed up Jim Henson's 1986 movie Labyrinth with Pac-Man to come up with this bit of genius: the PacLabyrinth poster. The tunnel of hands is a particularly nice touch!
Matthew Chojnacki's latest book features exactly 200 movie posters, celebrating everything from Tron and Blade Runner to The Da Vinci Code and Bambi. But they aren't the kind of posters you see lining the walls of a movie theatre. "The only criteria was that the poster couldn't have been used in an official theatrical run of the film," Chojnacki says of the book, Alternative Movie Posters: Film Art from the Underground. "And it had to kick ass."
The posters come from more than 100 artists and designers, and range from fan art to magazine illustrations and promo pieces for theaters. Two hundred may sound like a big number, but it's a heavily curated list — Chojnacki spent a year combing through more than 10,000 pieces in order to find those that were ultimately featured in the book. "I wanted to include a wide range of artistic styles, film genres, and countries of origin," he explains. Alternative Movie Posters artists hail from 20 different countries around the world.
The fight started when a drunken man came up to a wedding guest and tried to choke his neck. That started a fisticuff that escalated into stabbings with a knife. But the kicker is the woman (reportedly the mother of the bride) who coolly sat there watching the whole thing, smoking her cigarette like the whole thing's nothin'!
Now that's one way to start married life on the right foot!
The poopetrator strikes again! Students washing their clothes at the Saybrook College laundry room at Yale University got a very stinky surprise when they found that someone had regularly tossed in human feces, urine, and food waste into the clothes dryer in the past month.
The Yale Daily News reported that though the first incident happened early in September 2013, "it took physical delivery of the excrement to the Saybrook Master's Office to catch administrators' attention."
“We have asked our students not to leave their laundry unattended, the affected machines have been thoroughly disinfected, and we are actively seeking information about who the perpetrator might be,” Hudak told the News. “That’s about all we can do.”
The students had dubbed the person or persons responsible as the "poopetrator."
Oink! My wife and I found this cute pig-shaped mooncake at our local Asian supermarket a few weeks ago. The cake was for the Mid-Autumn Festival (also known for the Mooncake Festival, because of the tradition of eating mooncakes to celebrate it).
The pig moon cake is filled with mung bean paste and its eyes are made from black beans. As you can see, this one is a mass-produced version. Handmade, artisanal pig mooncake (yes, there is such a thing) is much more detailed (see below). This store-bought piggie even has a golden plastic stand that looks like the lower half of a pig.
We were tickled at our piggie (I wish it were a pork bun, I don't particularly like mooncakes), but like I mentioned above, there are much better looking ones.
Animal-shaped mooncakes, it seems, are popular in Vietnam (they've made bunny-shaped mooncakes, etc.) According to this video clip from Youtube user Vietnam Daily Life, the country's tradition of making pig mooncakes became popular in the late 80s in Hanoi. Watch how they're made:
Is he man or plumber ... or is he both? Harebrained Design shows us what happens when a mild-mannered plumber takes a bite out of a mushroom ...
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So. I guess that's what teenagers see grownups as. Chinese artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's "Teenager Teenager" installation, currently on display at Gallerie Perrotin, consists of a set of sculptures of rock-headed people sitting on sofas as well as a performance piece of real kids playing nearby.
Tomorrow - government shutdown or not - the Federal Reserve is going to start circulating the new $100 bill. The "New Color of Money" redesign to the US banknotes, which began in 2003, started with the new $20 bill. The redesign introduced new security features to stay ahead of counterfeiters.
Here's what you need to know about the new $100 bill, from the Federal Reserve's website NewMoney.gov
