Meet the world's smallest snowman, created by Western Nanofabrication Facility. At only 3 microns tall, the snowman was fabricated from three 0.9-micron silica spheres stacked by using electron beam lithography. The snowman's eyes and mouth were etched with a focused ion beam, whereas the nose and arms were sculpted with platinum.
View the larger pics over at Western Nanofabrication Facility's Tumblr page.
Image: Adam Hillman/witenry
Adam Hillman, a self-professed "Object arranger", satisfied both sweet tooth and our inner OCD tendencies with "Rocky Road" (2017), a chromatic arrangement of rock candy sugar swizzle stick. Clever!
Before the corn dog, there was the "Cozy Dog"
Creative director Daniel Bruce noted that there are many odd attractions in the state of Illinois that lacked public attention. And what better way to bring attention to these places than some whimsically wonderful retro-styled travel posters? Take a look:
It's a water tower shaped like a giant catsup bottle!
The Spindle is a 50-foot sculpture by Dustin Shuler
with 8 cars impaled on it.
The Tempel Lipizzans is a dressage training facility in Old Mill Creek, Illinois.
You can find Jane T-Rex at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Il.
Mermet Springs - a flooded Illinois quarry with sunk vehicles as attraction for divers to explore
View more over at Bruce's website - via Rusty's Electric Dreams
We've posted about many anamorphic art on Neatorama before, but French Tunisian artist eL Seed took it to a new level. For the past year, the artist painted some 50 different buildings in the Zaraeeb community in Cairo, Egypt to create a stunning calligraphic mural (or calligraffiti, a combination of calligraphy and graffiti, as eL Seed puts it).
The gigantic mural, called Perception, is visible from a certain point on the Muqattam Mountain. When viewed from that certain angle, the saying of Saint Athanasius of Alexandria appeared: "Anyone who wants to see the sunlight clearly needs to wipe his eye first"
On his Facebook page, eL Seed wrote:
In the neighborhood of Manshiyat Nasr in Cairo, the Coptic community of Zaraeeb collects the trash of the city for decades and developed the most efficient and highly profitable recycling system on a global level.
Still, the place is perceived as dirty, marginalized and segregated. To bring light on this community, with my team and the help of the local community, I created an anamorphic piece that covers almost 50 buildings only visible from a certain point of the Moqattam Mountain.
The Zaraeeb community welcomed my team and I as we were family. It was one of the most amazing human experience I have ever had. They are generous, honest and strong people. They have been given the name of Zabaleen (the garbage people), but this is not how they call themselves. They don’t live in the garbage but from the garbage; and not their garbage, but the garbage of the whole city. They are the one who clean the city of Cairo.
eL Seed gave a TED Talk in March 2015 that's quite interesting:
Carson Davis Brown's art project titled "Mass" is a bit unusual. For his artwork, Brown collected various items from a big box store's vast selection of merchandise, and arrange them to create "visual disruptions in places of mass" stuff.
These art installations are made without permission ... "The works are made, photographed, then left to be experienced by passerby and ultimately dissembled by location staff," Brown wrote on his website. It's not exactly damaging vandalism, but it does create a lot of extra work for the people who work there.
We've featured a number of large mural artworks on Neatorama before, but this one titled "Floating World" by Ray Bartkus is different. Drawn on the side of a building in Marijampole, Lithiuania, the artwork is meant to be viewed as its reflection on the water.
Inspired by Charles Darwin's observation that plant roots don't just passively grow down, but actively navigate to seek moisture and nutrients, German-born artist Diana Scherer worked to manipulate plant roots into works of art.
Scherer grew oat and wheat, which fast growing root system, on special templates that mold and train the plants' root system into geometric patterns that look like woven textiles.
Not a morning person? Shen of Owl Turd Comix has got your back. In this web comic, the artist laid bare what every night person thinks of morning people:
Take a look at the rest over at Owl Turd Comix.
Ask a chemist for flowers, and he'll likely give you these wonderful crystal flowers!
Chemistry professor Dean Campbell of Bradley University and his team were trying to develop new catalysts by making a solution of copper acetylacetonate in tetrahydrofuran, then soaking slabs of polydimethylsiloxane in the jar. After the experiment, Campbell found wonderful crystals that look like wildflowers forming on the wall of the beaker.
Guests coming over for dinner? You don't have to grab a spare table or snap in an extra table leaf to fit everybody for dinner - with this Roll-Out Table by Norwegian designer Marcus Voraa, you just roll out more table! Clever!
This is pretty cool: Carlos Jimenez Perez and Pilar Balsalobre of the Spanish design studio photoAlquimia created a condiment serving set named Ajorí. The salt and pepper shakers, plus sauce dispenser and condiment container serving set is cleverly shaped like a bulb of garlic.
Now that's tough love. Jeremy Brevard of USA TODAY Sports spotted this dad trolling his son with a funny sign at Friday's Cleveland Cavaliers - Charlotte Hornets basketball game, which said "Thomas get your grades back up and next time you'll be here. Love, Dad"
And he's not done! Here's one more at Sunday's Houston Rockets game:
Image: France 2
A lot of people want to be on television, but for Melanie Segard, a young French woman with Down syndrome, her lifelong dream of being a weather forecaster seems impossible to realize.
But thanks to a Facebook campaign called #MelaniePeutLaFaire or "Melanie Can Do It," she became France's first ever weather forecaster with Down syndrome.
Jennifer Earl of CBS News has the story:
Within hours after posting her request on February 26, her page went viral with more than 100,000 likes. Over the past few weeks, Segard’s page has grown to nearly 250,000 followers, and she proudly announced last week that she would be France’s first-ever weather presenter with Down syndrome.
"I'm different, but I want to show everyone I can do a lot of things," she wrote on her Facebook page. On Tuesday, Segard did just that. "This is it. I did it. I'm finally a weather girl," Segard said after making her debut on France 2.
View the video clip below (Melanie made her appearance at 1:40):
Image: Weibo
via @Samchong
Last year, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding unveiled their latest batch of cuteness: 23 baby pandas making their public debut at the center. Workers tried to arrange the baby pandas according to their sizes on top of a large green podium, but that task proved to be futile.
One baby panda was particularly adventurous and decided to go off stage ...
Bloop!
But don't worry, folks. Fushun, the baby panda that fell off became quite famous. Apparently, he fell off the stage straight into the people's hearts.
There's a YouTube video clip by CCTV of the event:
Images: Shao Feng
Architect Li Xiang of XL Muse designed this amazing "Tunnel of Books" for the Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China.
The arched bookshelves and the reflective black mirror-finish floor give visitors a sense that they're walking through a tunnel of books into an otherworldly space that book lovers would enjoy.
Take a look:
