One night in February 2011, Taylor's mother died of a heart attack in her sleep. To always remember her by, the 21-year-old college student decided to get a tattoo. She said in her Tumblr:
"It's on my left forearm. It's a note my mom left me the night she died. Here's a side-by-side shot of the two."
Fresh Prince of Taco Bel-Air in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The graffiti artist/punster Hanksy is at it again. This time, he's traveled far from New York City to put up large posters in cities across North America. Here are a few of his pun-filled new work outside NYC:
Bill Murrito in Montreal, Canada
R2D2pac in Los Angeles, California
Daft Skunk in Hollywood, California
You just can't get away from paperwork. It follows you around!
Jaap de Maat, a graduate student at the Royal College of Art, United Kingdom, created a filing cabinet that follows people around. The art piece, titled I Know What You Did Last Summer, looks like a run-of-the-mill two-drawer gray filing cabinet, but when you approach it, it comes to life ... and starts chasing you!
De Maat was inspired to create the stalker filing cabinet to remind people that their online data is basically doing the same thing - just invisibly. "Around the period ... Snowden came out with his bombshell and I was quite shocked people mainly worried about surveillance," de Maat told Wired, "After more research I kind of wanted to make the point not so much people surveying us, but the fact it gets stored forever."
"I thought of the example of a lady that wanted to be teacher, but at the end of her course she didn't get a certificate because they'd Googled her and saw pictures of her drunk on the internet. They said that was inappropriate for a teacher. People need to be aware of online storage."
After acquiring the filing cabinet, de Maat installed wheels, distance sensors and an Arduino board to enable the cabinet to follow people during its exhibition at the lobby of the RCA building. Check out the video clip:
Social Pool (2014) by Alfredo Barsuglia
It's nice to take a dip in the cold crisp water of a swimming pool when it's hot outside, so it's doubly nice to go swimming when you're in the middle of a desert. The trick is, you've got to find the hidden pool.
Austrian artist Alfredo Barsuglia constructed Social Pool, an eleven-by-five feet wide swimming pool in the Mojave desert in southern California, open to anybody to use provided that they can find it. The pool's location is guarded by secret GPS coordinate, and is locked when not in use (you can ask for the key as well as the GPS coordinate at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles).
The Social Pool is covered and locked when not in use.
"It's really hard to find," Barsuglia said to LA Times, "There is no road. There is no fence. There is no sign. There is no trail. You just come on it. I'm sure some people won't find it."
Barsuglia created the Social Pool as an art installation about "the effort of people make to reach a luxury good." Swimming pools, said Barsuglia, is often a hallmark of wealth. "I'm interested in the way that these are often integrated into the architecture of a house. And, often, people will have a pool, but they don't even get into it. They just like to show that they have it. It shows they don't have to think about water."
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Getting your plane delayed because of weather is not unusual, but this is: Frontier flight 719 from Washington, D.C. to Denver was diverted to southern Wyoming for a few hours because of bad weather. When his plane touched down in Cheyenne, pilot Gerhard Bradner was hungry and wanted to order some pizza. But instead of ordering just for himself, the pilot decided to order 50 pies from Dominos - enough to feed the whole plane - and paid for it out of his own pocket.
Asked why he did it, Captain Bradner said to KUSA-TV that it was his duty. "If the need arises you need to take care of your family; you need to take care of your passengers. They are my responsibility the moment they step on the aircraft until they get off the aircraft," said the pilot.
Bradner said that his coworkers had since nicknamed him "Pizza Guy." Read the full story over at KUSA-TV.
Rough Drafts of X-Men Characters (by Paul Laudiero and Max Knoblauch)
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While cleaning an old storage locker, redditor flantaclause found the secret box from 1968 that promises to tell us how to succeed in business. This is what's inside:
Photo:
Kenichi Nobusue
Japanese photographer Kenichi Nobusue snapped this wonderful photo of a smiling finless porpoise at the Miyajima Public Aquarium, but the species in the wild doesn't have much to smile about.
According to The Japan Times, the population of finless porpoise in the Yangtze River, China, are in trouble:
China’s river porpoises are rarer than pandas, but fishermen fighting to save them have been snared by a net of blackmail allegations, highlighting uncertainties faced by the country’s emerging environmentalists.
Fewer than 1,000 finless porpoises — gray animals with a hint of a grin on their bulbous faces — are thought to remain in and around the Yangtze River, which carves through the center of China.
The porpoises are social and “pick up on human emotions like children would,” said Hao Yujiang, a researcher at China’s Institute of Hydrobiology. “They are the last mammals alive in the Yangtze, and they are a warning about the dire state of the river.”
“The numbers have decreased very quickly,” added Hao, who blames the decline on rampant overfishing — sometimes with electric charges — industrial pollution and sand-dredging ships trapping the animals in their propellers.
Because of declining population, the Yangtze finless porpoise has been listed as critically endangered species in 2013 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species.
We all know that rough drafts are called that for a reason.
Well, writer and comedian Paul Laudiero's Shit Rough Drafts Tumblr turns Hemingway's famous quote "The first draft of anything is shit" into reality with equal part humor and panache. Like this imagining of what the rough draft of X-Men characters by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby would be like.
Max Knoblauch (previously on Neatorama) illustrated the X-Men characters we now now and love:
Baby is precious cargo, indeed! Jake and Tracy of Kansas sent in this pic of a cute lil' baby nuzzled comfy cozy in his dad's camo pants' cargo pocket.
I'm sure this walking stick wears the cute little shoe for, ahem, lumber support.
See? It pays to be polite! This sign for a Honduran restaurant shows how you espresso yourself when you order a cup of coffee can make quite a difference in price. Now, I wonder what "Good morning, a cup of coffee, pretty please with sugar on top" would cost.
Redditor lala989's daughter has a list in case anything happens to her older brother Ethan. We wonder whether this is an "if something happens" or "when something happens" kind of list. Whichever it is, better hide the hammer soon.
Got a Titan-sized thirst? Eren "Jäger" to the rescue! Attack on liver will commence shortly. This clever Attack on Titan cosplay definitely shows that kräuterlikör is still, uh, the hope of mankind.
Japanese beer Asahi cans sure comes in all sizes! From the teeny mini 125 ml (4.2 oz / half a cup), 250 ml (1 cup), 300 ml (10 oz/soda can), 500ml (1 pint) to the gigantic 2 liter can (yeah, beer the size of the 2-liter soda bottles!), this beer comes in just the right size for "novice" to "expert" drinkers. Note that the 1-liter bottle and the 3-liter Asahi can are actually missing.
