We feature a lot of baby cosplay here, but for those on a budget, you can still have fun with baby costumes. Just take a great summer fruit, carve it up and slide it on. Voila, you have the watermelon knight.
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Paul Rayment used the alphabet as an excuse to make a neat and funny neon animation. He says the other letters will follow in future videos. -via Everlasting Blort
Sam Fiorino at Addicted to Ink in White Plains, New York tattooed this delightful take on the famous Skyrim meme showing a guard who took an arrow to the knee.
Don't worry, this breakfast burger by How Sweet Eats still has enough morning staples to satisfy your breakfast cravings. It has an egg, bacon, an English muffin, and to really set it over the top, it even is smothered in maple aioli sauce.
Watch this trailer mashup in full-screen mode; you'll be glad you did. It contains nothing but the most epic clips from fairly recent movies, mostly special effects and explosions, masterfully edited by Vadzim Khudabets into a trailer for an imaginary film. There's a list of the films, and a making-of video as well. -via Metafilter
Discovery News has a gallery of photographs of the Earth, taken from various distances, from the 1946 film shot at 65 miles up to Voyager's 1990 image from 4 billion miles away. The image here of the Earth rising over the moon's horizon was taken from around 250,000 miles away, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. It just happens to be my favorite. Link -via Not Exactly Rocket Science
(Image credit: NASA)
Slater's 50/50, home of the legendary all-bacon cheeseburger, has just released their monthly specialty burger and this one sounds particularly fantastic. It's a nacho burger topped with melted cheeses, lettuce, onion, tomato, black beans, bacon, tortilla strips, fresh salsa, and guacamole, then wrapped in a flour tortilla and deep fried and smothered in nacho cheese sauce, sour cream, and sliced jalapeños.
I think we need to schedule a Neatorama food field trip to Slater's.
You may remember master impressionist Steve Love's take on Game of Thrones. He's back with miscast movie stars. Some, though, would probably work well, such as Jimmy Stewart as Don Corleone, Michael Caine as Gandalf, Sylvester Stallone as Gimli and Christopher Walken as Morpheus.
Content warning: foul language.
Or maybe you could just call it an octopi. I can't find the baker or photographer, but I found a song about it. It looks dreadfully delicious. -via Nag on the Lake
Update: The artist/baker who made this is Sandy Yoo. -Thanks, Buster Stanley!
When a study in 2008 found that children, on average, do not like clowns, many people were surprised. The rest of us weren't because we never liked clowns, either. Sometime over the past 50 years, clowns in popular culture moved from funny to downright horrific, which is indicative of how an audience sees them. Smithsonian looks at the history of clowns, and finds that depressing, creepy, and/or frightening clowns are really nothing new. The happy children's clowns of the mid-20th century were somewhat of an anomaly, because clowns were never all sunshine and smiles, from court jesters to Grimaldi to Pagliacci to Emmett Kelly to John Wayne Gacy.
Even as Bozo was cavorting on sets across America, a more sinister clown was plying his craft across the Midwest. John Wayne Gacy’s public face was a friendly, hard-working guy; he was also a registered clown who entertained at community events under the name Pogo. But between 1972 and 1978, he sexually assaulted and killed more than 35 young men in the Chicago area. “You know… clowns can get away with murder,” he told investigating officers, before his arrest.
Gacy didn’t get away with it—he was found guilty of 33 counts of murder and was executed in 1994. But he’d become identified as the “Killer Clown,” a handy sobriquet for newspaper reports that hinged on the unexpectedness of his killing. And bizarrely, Gacy seemed to revel in his clown persona: While in prison, he began painting; many of his paintings were of clowns, some self-portraits of him as Pogo. What was particularly terrifying was that Gacy, a man who’d already been convicted of a sexual assault on a teenage boy in 1968, was given access to children in his guise as an innocuous clown. This fueled America’s already growing fears of “stranger danger” and sexual predation on children, and made clowns a real object of suspicion.
After a real life killer clown shocked America, representations of clowns took a decidedly terrifying turn.
Read a fascinating rundown of the history and psychology of scary clowns at Smithsonian. Link
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