What happens if a zombie epidemic turned everyone in the world into mindless undead? And what if Teller of the magician duo Penn & Teller was the last man on earth?
There might be a message in the clip somewhere (written by Teller and Ezekiel Zabrowski) ... but I was too distracted by Teller's voice (yes, he speaks in the clip!): Link (embedded MySpace clip) - Thanks Emperor!
Adam Jarvis of Vectorvault, a webzine dedicated to vector art, sent us this neat post of his interview with Nathan Jurevicius of Scary Girl.
I'm a big fan of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (took my wife on our first date to see it), so Nathan's style is a wonderful reminder of that.
Here's a new performance by Improv Everywhere: a spontaneous Food Court Musical!
... 16 agents create a spontaneous musical in a food court in a Los Angeles mall. Using wireless microphones and the mall's PA system, both their voices and the music was amplified throughout the food court. All cameras were hidden behind two-way mirrors and other concealed structures.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] (Can I get a napkin, please?) | Improv Everywhere website - Thanks kyax!
Previously on Neatorama: Frozen in Grand Central
Scattered throughout Chicago are more than 30 woolly fabric as "crochet graffiti" by an underground artist group Micro-Fiber Militia.
So here's the obvious question: is crocheted art a form of vandalism?
Unlike spray-painted graffiti, which is more permanent and can be considered destructive to property, Kristin argues that her pieces don’t actively destroying anything and are more fleeting. She prefers the term “artistic littering.”
“I’m sewing it on,” she said, acknowledging that her work can be destroyed by a quick snip of the scissors. “It’s not buttons or Velcro that people can’t take off easily.”
The Chicago Police Department tends to agree. “Since there is no criminal defacement to property, it would be difficult to categorize it as vandalism,” said Monique Bonds, a department spokeswoman.
http://www.methodsreporter.com/2008/03/04/crochet/ (Photo: Bernard Manning) - Thanks Brad Flora!
Previously on Neatorama: Erika Barcott's Tree Sweater | Soap Not Spray Can: Reverse Graffiti Art
Angela Yuan built this awesome Etch-A-Sketch clock that draws out the time and then erases itself every minute. It was built on the Arduino platform. Hit play or go to http://www.revver.com/video/719432/etch-a-sketch-clock/ [Revver] | Angela's website - Thanks Sean and SenorMysterioso!
That's not grape juice ... that's wine served in baby bottles in a restaurant called Le Refuge des Fondues in Paris, France.
Ashley Thompson of Intelligent Travel blog tells us why:
Disgruntled servers and fondue restaurants are all over Paris, we know, but this is the only place that offers up some of the lowest-end table wine served in baby bottles. It seems that Le Refuge des Fondues found a clever little shortcut to getting around the mandated tax Parisian restaurants face when serving wine out of the slightly more traditional stemmed glass.
There's an added benefit:
You know how drinking any sort of alcoholic beverage from a straw sometimes seems to hit you much harder? That same logic applies to drinking wine from a nipple.
That's the Last Supper ... in balloons as twisted (right?) by Mr. Bubbles and fellow balloon twisters at the Fellowship of Christian Magicians in 2004.
More Last Supper posts on Neatorama
Oy, I've been hooked on "Bellen" ever since Brian Michael Brown AKA Box Brown sent me a link to his comic. It's an adorable comic about lovers Ben and Ellen that will rot your teeth with sweetness.
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/boxbrown/ (the very first one here) - Thanks Brian!
Recently, the Temple Restaurant and Bar in Minneapolis had a ... um, cultural night. Yeah, that's it: They brought the Japanese practice of eating sushi off of a naked body to the heartland of America:
The history of eating sushi off of a person ("nyotaimori" and "nantaimori" mean "female body presentation" and "male body presentation" respectively) is a bit enigmatic, and tracking down the origins of the practice is difficult. Sources differ about whether it is a longstanding tradition among geisha or whether it is a relatively recent phenomenon owed to the yakuza.
There were four models, two males and two females - and you can guess which ones were more popular:
Though the practice seems a more artistic than sensual one, there are exceptions. Two men approach a model whose sushi stocks have recently been depleted. "Oh no!" one says, never taking his eyes off Tuesdee. "There's no more food!" But he lingers. "C'mon," his buddy says. "Let's get more sake." I hear another man's girlfriend ask him, "are we going to keep going back to the same girl?"
Link: Article by Jeff Shaw in City Pages | Gallery of photos by James Tran (SFW) - Thanks Jeff!
Sometimes, too much creativity is really, really bad. Take, for example, this scan from an old issue of McCall magazine telling parents to decorate paper bag costumes for their kids:
Decorated paper bag costumes are easy to create. Children can design their own bright creature costumes for dress-up and party time. Paper bags become colorful creatures from another planet when children let their imaginations go free to maek their own fun faces or those shown here. Use large paper bags (approximately 24" x 32") from the cleaners - do not use plastic bag. Paint, then decorate each bag with scraps of yarn, bright paints, colored paper, and glitter to make the fun-face costume. Cut small holes in top of bag for vision; vary face by creating animal creature with holes at sides so arms can extend in hornlike fashion.
On second thought, if you don't have stairs in your house, these costumes are genious!
Puppetoys is a toy company founded by Michael Maddi, a veteran Hollywood special effects artist. He specializes in making Prehistoric Puppets, a line of life-like puppets designed and sculpted using the same methods as film special effects:
The PREHISTORIC PUPPETS line offers six well-known fascinating dinosaurs that are extremely accurate and highly detailed. Our puppets are made from super-soft molded foam that feels very realistic, and has a patent pending process. The unique manufacturing process enables the user’s arm to be supported by the puppets legs while puppeteering. This makes for the most realistic puppets available anywhere! Finally you can really see how these mighty creatures, now long gone, might have looked, moved and fought.
See - via Puppet Building, thanks Andrew!
Neatorama reader Laura McDougall sent us this funny photo of a convenience store outside of the Village Vacances Valcatier in Quebec that also serves food. The "ass" is short for "assiette" which means "plate" or "assortment plate". Thanks Laura!
Larry Peterman's candy shop Hotlix in Pismo Beach has been making yummy (and crunchy) treats for over 20 years. Their lollipops are also nutritious but a little gross ... because they have worms and insects embedded in 'em.
Here's a neat documentary from National Geographic about etymophagy entomophagy, the art of eating bugs: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Christophe!
If cricket lollipop is too much for you, then perhaps this is more suitable: maple-bacon lollipops ("The least kosher lollipop in the history of candy") by Lollyphile:
While we admit that it's pretty far from the norm (it's definitely not kosher!), once you make that initial leap of faith and try it out, we're positive that you'll love it. The salty chunks of bacon make a delicious and unique counterpoint to the subtle sweetness of the maple, and oh, yeah- you'll be eating an oh-my-god bacon lollipop!
A perfect gift for the sweet-toothed pork aficianado in your life.
Mmmm... bacon. Is there anything it can't do? http://www.lollyphile.com/maple-bacon.php - Thanks Jason!
By day, Lee Hadwin is a nurse from north Wales, UK and by night he is an artist. That's not so unusual, but here's where Lee is different:
... but when he wakes up, he says he has no memory of having created them.
Hadwin has been walking in his sleep since he was four, but it was only when he stayed over at a friend's house, aged 16, that he first began to draw in his sleep. "The next morning, my friend's mother found drawings all over the walls in the kitchen," he says. "But we had been drinking that night, so we put it down to that." (Source)
Gallery of Lee's sleep-walking art | Video of Lee sleepin' and drawin' at Cabinet of Wonders (kind of hard to see b/c it's dark) - Thanks Emperor!
