I read about a study that found people are less likely to steal things if they feel they are being watched -even if it's just a photograph of someone looking at them. If that's the case, no one would dare op...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/box-with-an-eye/58 billion paper cups are thrown out every year, and ceramics artist Rebecca Wilson has perhaps found a solution. Rebecca talks about her paper cup project, “The paper cup is an icon of the ‘throwaway cul...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/rebecca-wilson-ceramic-paper-cups/Shane Waltener creates elaborate installations around his lace doilies, such as this one entitled Auntie Peggy Has Departed. To him, doilies represent dreamcatchers that make a moment in the past accessible...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/lace-spider-webs/(Video Link) YouTube user trpchaki made this amazing puppet that looks like Wheatley from Portal 2. She took many in-progress photos showing the amazing skill and inventiveness that went into building it --...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/portal-2-puppet/This sculpture by Olaf Mooji, appropriately dubbed "Braincar", expresses his belief in "the nearly psychological connection between drivers and their cars." There's a projection system inside that permits Mooji to pu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/braincar/Windoodles is a new Tumblr blog that compiles doodles that people have put on windows with dry erase markers so that the images project onto the scenery outside. This one is by a MTV employee named Gusto....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/window-doodles/If your gopher problem is getting out of hand, you may need to acquire one of Shawn Thorsson's decidedly robust garden gnomes. He casts his riflegnomes from scratch and offers them in standing, kneeling, and prone po...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/combat-garden-gnomes/This brilliant print, inspired by a scene in The Princess Bride, was made by an artist named Rakka. He writes "like i had any choice as to what to make inigo out of." Well done, sir. Well done. Link -via red...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/hello-my-name-is-inigo-montoya-you-killed-my-father-prepare-to-die/As an aspiring screenwriter (how many years can you be considered “aspiring” before you're just expiring?) I can appreciate this writer’s plight, sending out countless script queries only to face rejection. Howev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/briefcase-destroyed-in-beverly-hills-after-agent-refuses-to-read-script/Photo Credit: Nieuwe Heren File this under the "Why didn't I think of that?" category! Nieuwe Heren, a Dutch design firm ran by two designers in their twenties, came up with a chair and lamp combo that could be accomm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/chair-and-lamp/It's about time sci-fi movie scores got their props, right? So thinks the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, which is giving a concert featuring the music of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Close Encounters amo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/space-classics/While I would typically consider scanning the backyards of strangers' houses a bit creepy, Jenny Odell does it for art (and anything done for art is excusable, right?) Odell's Satellite Collections amalga...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/jenny-odell-google-maps-art/A new book is contemplating how extraterrestrials may reproduce. It aims to explore how sexuality might have evolved on other planets and does so with some interesting illustrations and video. How do you think alien sexu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/strange-attractors-is-a-book-about-extraterrestrial-sexuality/Using hundreds of tiny wooden blocks artist Shawn Smith is creating "8-bit" sculptures. At a time when retro 8-bit anything is extremely popular these sculptures take this motif and apply it to every day objects and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/8-bit-sculptures/A 20-foot juniper tree near Sunset Point, Arizona survived a wildfire last week that consumed everything around it. It's not the first time, either. In fact, the tree is a famous survivor. Every year it’s decorated fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/mystery-tree-survives-wildfire-again/(YouTube link) In 1964, forward-thinker Arthur C. Clarke predicted instant global communication, e-commerce, and remote surgery. Fifty years ago, everyone had some idea of what the 21st century wold be like. Some of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/past-versions-of-our-future/If Nyan Cat were around in 1988, he would the star of an NES game. And it would be in the bargain bin now. J. R. Baker took this idea and ran with it, designing both the front and back of the game case in the style o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/nyan-cat-as-an-nes-game/Bernie Madoff is serving time in a federal prison for running the largest Ponzi scheme ever. The U.S. Marshals Service held an auction of Madoff's possessions to recoup some of the losses. Frederick James designs bou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/the-bernie-madoff-collection/Spyro Gyro Motorized Stylus - $9.995 School is almost here. Are you looking for a fun way to waste time while you should be studying? You need the Spyro Gyro Motorized Stylus from the NeatoShop. The Spyro Gyro comes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/spyro-gyro-motorized-stylus/What makes a good alien creature for a video game? It should look cool, have awesome powers or weapons, and provide a worthy adversary for the player. And it helps if they make some kind of sense. Unreality Magazine...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/the-best-and-worst-designed-alien-species-in-video-games/(YouTube link) Don't blink! This dog has perfected the art of the 5-second video. -via Arbroathdog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/stacey-mae/It is once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Do you know what this object is? Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/what-is-it-game-188/Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website. Madame Fatal is hardly up there in the pantheon of famous and beloved comic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/the-first-cross-dressing-comic-book-superhero/Niue, an autonomous island nation and dependency of New Zealand, will mint coins bearing the images of Star Wars characters. They will be fully legal tender there: A set of 40 coins is being produced by the New...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/country-mints-star-wars-coins-as-official-currency/(YouTube Link) For the Street Fighter fanatic in all of us, a documentary has been made detailing Mike Bison's (aka Balrog) rise to fame as one of the greatest video game champions of all time! Watch as he turns from...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/a-documentary-about-street-fighter-legend-balrog/Defective Bigbot Short from Michele Boldoni on Vimeo. A group of friends put together this cute CGI short about a defective robot, and it looks quite nice considering these amateurs had no experience as professional a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/cool-3d-short-defective-bigbot/What could possibly make such a cool looking Bowser figure, complete with movable arms, wrists and head and hammer, even cooler? Make him out of leather. This rugged little version of the big bad boss carries a price...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/unique-hand-stitched-leather-bowser/If you love the suds but hate the difficulty and month of waiting for your tasty brew to be ready, then this self contained home brewery might be just what you need. The personal brewery combines the stages of fermentati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/personal-brewery-delivers-fresh-beer-in-a-week/Creating eye candy for visual ad campaigns generally means using illustration to create something people will remember. Computer generated imagery has dramatically changed the design industry, and creative studio Ser...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/11/interesting-cgi-designs-by-serial-cut/
