At first glance, you'd expect to see the faces of five people and another one in the painting for a total of six but this ad for LG's Viewty mobile phone tells us that there are sixteen. Can you find the remaining ten hidden faces?
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Roses are red, violets are blue and boy do we ever have the perfect T-shirt for you!
Valentine's Day is coming up soon, and here's a better idea than flowers that only lasts a week or so: get your loved ones Valentine's Day-themed T-shirts, sweatshirts, and hoodies from the NeatoShop. Ensconce your sweetheart in 100% cotton-y goodness with his or her favorite prints.
| Best Line Ever | Heart of Ice | Veggie & Meatie Love | Be My Chum |
| Star Wars I Love You Kawaii | Star Wars I Know Kawaii | Hyrule BFFs I | Hyrule BFFs II |
Best of all, now you can get free shipping worldwide (yes, worldwide) if you order before Feb 9, 2015. Check it out: Valentine's Day T-shirts | Funny T-Shirts | Science T-Shirts | Sci-Fi T-Shirts
Love Count T-Shirt by Nicholas Ginty
Forget roses and chocolate! Well, maybe just roses because chocolates are darned yummy.
Anyways, I've gotten a bit off track. What I wanted to say is that we've got the perfect Valentine's Day gift for your loved ones: NeatoShop's awesome T-shirts and hoodies that'll remind them of your undying love every time they wear one. Check out our neat selection of Valentine-themed T-shirts, and some good ol' Funny T-shirts, Science T-shirts, Sci-fi T-shirts, and more.
Better yet, you can win a NeatoShop hoodie by entering a giveaway exclusively for NeatoMail subscribers. The contest will run tomorrow, so if you haven't done so yet, please sign up for our newsletter to enter:
Don't worry - we won't share your email address with anyone, and you can always cancel NeatoMail subscription at any time.
I Love You and I Know T-Shirts by Fishbiscuit
Forget roses! This Valentine's Day, enthrall your loved one with NeatoShop's awesome hoodies - and better yet, you can win one free in this exclusive private giveaway for NeatoMail subscribers.
The giveaway rules are simple:
1. Visit the NeatoShop.com and take a look around to find your favorite design. May we suggest our Funny T-shirts, Sci-Fi T-Shirts, and Science T-Shirts?
2. In the comment section below, tell us the design you'd like as well as the artist who designed it.
3. That's it! There's no step 3
One entry per person, please. Multiple entries will disqualify you. We'll pick one winner at random. The winner will be notified through our comment system below (so be sure to use a valid email address).
Update 2/20/15: We've picked the winner using the random number algorithm over at random.org - Congratulations to Aleena McCoy who won this round!
Congratulations to the winner of our latest NeatoMail exclusive giveaway: Neatoramanaut Carmen has chosen this awesome "Periodic Mario Table" by Zarkan - wise choice and perfect for the chilly winter weather we've been having!
Be sure to visit the NeatoShop for tons of neat and geeky T-shirts, sweatshirts, and hoodies. Great quality (check out the side-by-side comparison) at a price that can't be beat!
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When you send your child to daycare, you're probably asked to fill out a questionnaire regarding the kid's interests, allergies, and so on. But when a daycare asked a father all about his 11-month-old daughter Emma, the man decided to answer the questions with complete honesty.
For example, he listed one of Emma's goal as to "inflict sleep deprivation on [her] parents until such time as they acquiesce to [her] every whim." Every parent is nodding in agreement, I'm sure.
Besides Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpsons, there are about 200 recurring characters in the long-running TV show The Simpsons. But unless you're a big Simpsons fan, you'd probably be surprised to learn that a huge majority of them are voiced by just a dozen actors. What's even more amazing is that 3 of them - Dan Castellaneta, Hank Azaria, and Harry Shearer - play more than 70 characters.
Jishai of Dadaviz charted the characters the actors play in this neat graph. Just think about it: how in the world do the actors keep them all straight?
Remember the roller bowler game (also called "dip bowling") at the carnival? You've been playing that - in car form - all your adult lives, according to Justin Boyd of Invisible Bread.
By the way, just like the carnival, the car always wins.
In 1914, the Sakurajima volcano in Kyushu, Japan, erupted and its lava flowed for months until it filled the narrow straits and connected the volcano island and the mainland, turning it into a peninsula.
That volcano eruption was captured on film in the above photograph by the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun. The photo showed a group of men on a boat expedition to the island frantically trying to sail away as fast as they could from the billowing column of ash, smoke, and probably lava.
The photo is the first of many fascinating photos of volcano eruptions as curated by National Geographic.
If you like that one, here's a more modern one in the "escape from volcano" genre. This time, it's the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo in the northern Philippines. It's taken by photographer Alberto Garcia from the back of his van. "All of us survived, thank God," he said.
Take a look at the complete photo series over at National Geographic.
Ship of Fools (2014), socks and acrylic on canvas
One of your socks gone missing? Maybe it ran away from home to join the art world. Specifically, to be in one of Aaron Johnson's sock paintings.
"As I stare at this painting, it stares back at me, and as I stand here in my two socks, so does the painting hang there in its many socks," Johnson said to Huffington Post Arts. "That seemed absolutely absurd, and therein somehow startlingly profound."
Here are a few more of Aaron Johnson's fascinating Sock Paintings:
Double Scream (2013)
Headless Horseman (2013)
Smiler (2013)
... and I say Morgan Freeman got the best gift of them all! Wes of The Gentleman's Armchair explains to us how the famous actor got to play God (or at least his voice) in the movies.
But seriously - do you want to know the secret to Morgan Freeman's amazing voice? Freeman himself gave the surprising answer in this interview with The Showbiz 411:
Photo: Dietmar Eckell
In his photo series "No Vacancy," German photographer Dietmar Eckell traveled around the world to document abandoned hotels in the middle of nowhere. Once, these hotels were luxury retreats, pleasure domes or wellness sanctuaries - but for one reason or another, they have all been abandoned for nature to reclaim.
The photo above is of the "Hotel Royal," an infamous love hotel in Kanagawa, Japan. The hotel boasted seven stories and 35 rooms with a view of Lake Sagami. At first, the remote place seemed ideal for wayward married men and women to conduct illicit love affairs, but at the end it was just too far away (either that or love birds just really didn't care for the view).
An abandoned resort on the Tagaytay ridge in the Philippines. It was once billed as a weekend escape from Manila, but has been abandoned for decades.
Lies girlfriends tell each other and what they really mean
Read my lips: what people say and what they really mean are usually two different things. Thankfully, writer Mikael Wulff and artist Anders Morgenthaler who teamed up to publish a series of "Truth Facts" cartoons under the name Wumo (previously on Neatorama), has got the translations:
Photos: Jeffrey Vanhoutte
Is your coffee creamer so good it makes you wanna dance? Belgian photographer Jeffrey Vanhoutte shot these wonderful photos of an acrobat dancing in a cloud of milk powder in this ad campaign for FrieslandCampina Kievit's new creamer.
Vanhoutte said:
I made this campaign for Norvell Jefferson whose client is Dutch company Campina Friesland Kievit, makers of powdered milk. Based upon the agency’s concept, I formed the shoot together with the Creative Director. We used lighting from Broncolor -- “really fast flash duration so it could freeze the particles of the powder.” The model was a professional acrobatic dancer, and “the movement that she did and the powder together, we were all amazed that it was perfect from the start! First she had some powder in her hands and she put it in the air . . . every time the same movement, five or six or ten times, and then she was completely full of powder and had to start again. It was a messy process for the camera. We had to put plastic around the camera to protect it. It was one whole day from early morning until the evening to do this job and to clean up it took longer.
View the original photos over at Vanhoutte's website - via My Modern Met
Winter is Coming by Harebrained Design
Brr! Is it cold enough for you? Keep warm with NeatoShop's awesome hoodies - and better yet, you can win one free in this exclusive private giveaway for NeatoMail subscribers.
The giveaway rules are simple:
1. Visit the NeatoShop.com and take a look around to find your favorite design. May we suggest our Funny T-shirts, Sci-Fi T-Shirts, and Science T-Shirts?
2. In the comment section below, tell us the design you'd like as well as the artist who designed it.
3. That's it! There's no step 3
One entry per person, please. Multiple entries will disqualify you. We'll pick one winner at random. The winner will be notified through our comment system below (so be sure to use a valid email address).
Update 1/27/15: We've picked the winner using the random number algorithm over at random.org - Congratulations to #77 carmen who won! Thank you to everyone who entered! Catch NeatoShop's exclusive giveaways on the next NeatoMail!