Back in 2013, we told you about the Bartkira Project by artist Ryan Humphrey, in which he invited hundreds of artists from around the world to recreate the manga Akira in the style of The Simpsons.
The project is still going strong (you can read three out of the 6 planned volumes on the website) and to whet your appetite, here's a wonderful animated trailer from Kaitlin Sullivan and James Harvey of Akira drawn in the style and featuring the characters from The Simpsons.
Happy Fourth of July, Neatoramanauts! Let's celebrate by getting yourself or your loved ones some of the web's neatest T-shirts: Save up to 20% on all T-shirts at the NeatoShop. That's nearly 30,000 of the geekiest, neatest and most awesome shirts you'll find today! No coupons required. No minimum purchase.
But, like those TV commercials always say, that's not all! Get free worldwide (yep, worldwide) shipping on orders $75 and up - so stock up on your favorite shirts and save!
Here's the Chuck Norris Giveaway Page you've been looking for! You're just one step away from winning one of ten Chuck Norris plush dolls that we found hiding biding their time in a corner of the NeatoShop warehouse. Please note that these dolls don't have a working voicebox because Chuck Norris is too awesome for words. He doesn't need to say anything to get things done.
But first, check out the NeatoShop's Fourth of July and Summer Sale! Save up to 20% off the neatest, most awesome T-shirts you'll find on the web. With nearly 30,000 designs available, there's one that's perfect for you! Get free worldwide shipping on orders $75 and up (yes, we do mean worldwide.)
2. In the comment below, tell us your favorite artwork and the artist who designed it.
3. Optional: tell us your favorite Chuck Norris Facts alongside your T-shirt selection.
Need some inspiration? Here are a few of our favorite Chuck Norris Facts:
Google won't search for Chuck Norris. It knows you don't find Chuck Norris - He finds you.
Death once had a near-Chuck Norris experience.
Chuck Norris' calendar went from March 31 straight to April 2. Because no one fools Chuck Norris.
People wanted to add Chuck Norris to Mount Rushmore, but the granite was not tough enough for his beard.
Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
One entry per person. Multiple entries will be disqualified. We'll pick 7 winners at random and 3 winners with the funniest, most original Chuck Norris Fact (and believe me, we've heard most of 'em, so go for unique, mmkay?)
The winner will be notified through our comment system, so be sure to use a valid email address. Good luck, everyone!
Update July 29, 2015: Congratulations to the ten winners! They have been notified via Neatorama's private messages and have 3 days to claim their prizes or forfeit them forever!
The winners are: 11 Rudy K., 13 Rene C., 64 Chris M., 7 Peter E., 37 Sharyn, 59 Rawhorne, 47 YetiDad, 52 DemonHub, 28 Toni C., 3. Andrew M.
Thank you to everyone who played - if you didn't win, there's always next time! :)
Ready for summer? Here's a video clip by AJ Aguirre and Ben Hammer of Round III Media that'll surely put you in the mood for summer!
Aguirre and Hammer went to BSR Cable Park in Waco, Texas, and filmed people having fun sliding down the park's "Royal Flush" giant slide. The video clip has everything that a viral video should have: beautiful women in bikinis, athletic guys doing athletic things, and did we mention a giant water slide? As of today, the video clip has been viewed over 14 million times. Now if that isn't a royal flush, we don't know what is.
He's not the ferryman Charon and that isn't the River Styx, but you get the picture.
Paddlers on Lake Burley in Canberra, Australia, spotted a man dressed as an undertaker in a stand-up paddle board that looks like a coffin decorated with bright plastic flowers. "In the distance, as we came towards the Carillon we noticed a figure emerge from the thick fog," paddler Jeanne Mclauchlan told The Canberra Times, "It was a figure of a man dressed in a tuxedo and top hat on a stand-up-paddle coffin, complete with flowers, paddling toward us."
And where exactly is the mysterious man going?
"We asked 'coffin man', 'Where are you going?' His response was 'To Queanbeyan cemetery as I have a 3pm grave site to prepare'."
"Never tell me the odds!" seems to be the apt sci-fi quote to apply in this situation as described by The Gentleman's Armchair.
If I remember correctly, that quote was spoken in one of the last seasons of Star Trek by Han Solo, while piloting Serenity and running away from the Cylons. Yes, I'm sure that's it!
Mom's dealing with morning sickness, Dad's facepalming nearby, and their daughter proudly holding a jar of Prego pasta sauce. It can only mean one thing: it's a clever "we're pregnant" announcement made just for the Interwebs (or is it an anti-advertisement warning you to stay away from a certain pasta sauce?)
Wildlife photographer Valtteri Mulkahainen snapped this photo of three bear cubs climbing up a tree in Suomussalmi, Finland, while mama bear waited below.
No, the cute cubs aren't playing hide-and-seek with their mom. Rather, they were actually hiding from a male bear that's nearby. Mulkahainen told Ilta-Sanomat that the three cubs climbed up the tree for safety, while the female bear stayed on guard below. The cubs stayed in the tree for quite some time, but the male never showed up.
Andrea Cammalleri of Middletown, Ohio, fought the law ... with a comma and the comma won!
Cammalleri got a traffic ticket back in 2014 in the village of West Jefferso when she parked her pickup truck in a zone that prohibited parking there for longer than 24 hours. The Ohio woman pointed out that the law stated that the types of car that couldn't be parked included "motor vehicle camper" not "motor vehicle, camper" so her pickup truck clearly didn't qualify.
The town's attorney argued that the law's meaning was clear in context, but the judge ruled for Cammalleri. Score 1 for grammar!
So the next time someone said to you that grammar doesn't matter, tell 'em that you can use it to fight traffic tickets!
Step aside, Channing Tatum, and take your Magic Mike XXL home because there's a new man in town and he's wow-ing all the girls with attentiveness and consideration.
Ladies, meet Regular Mike M/L, and swoon! You're welcome. And thank you. You look great!
One of these leaves ain't like the others! Norway-based artist Dino Tomic of Atomic Circus drew a leaf so real that it's hard to distinguish the painting from the real stuff.
... According to James Cameron, the idea for the Terminator came to him in a nightmare while he was directing the little known budget horror movie Piranha II: The Spawning. In the nightmare, Cameron claims he was chased by a mechanical skeleton, the image of which became the basis for the T-800 and the plot. [...]
Cameron was [...] hesitant to hire Schwarzenegger to play the film’s hero because at 6 feet 2 inches tall with the body of a Greek god, there were few actors in Hollywood Schwarzenegger wouldn’t tower over. Cameron actually planned to turn Schwarzenegger off the role by intentionally antagonising him over dinner and then going back to the studio to claim they’d clashed over “creative differences”. According to Cameron, the last thing he said to his roommate before leaving for lunch that day was “Do I owe you any money? Because I have to go pick a fight with Conan.”
That mound looks like it belongs in a sci-fi movie, but it's actually real. Photographer Ary Bassous took a photo of an old termite mound in the savannah of Emas National Park, central Brazil, that is inhabited by click beetle larvae. The beetles shine their bioluminescent glow in order to attract prey.
To catch the bioluminescent beetle, Bassous spent the night at the wildlife preserve. Despite "bouts of crippling fear" at the thought of jaguars and other animals that hunt in the night, Bassous told Natural History Museum, he was glad that he was able to get the perfect photo of the eerie, glowing mound against the dark's sky.
We've posted about Craig Tracy's wonderful bodypainting a while ago on Neatorama, but the artist has created many more awesome artwork that we just want to showcase him again.
Can you find the human in the bodypainting of a white tiger above? No?
