(YouTube Link) This smart, and very affordable, little device might not turn you in to the next George Lucas, but it will definitely help stabilize your home movie making, and might help you become the next net video...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/home-cinematography-made-easy-with-the-pico-dolly/Through the eyes of Robbi Rodriguez, pop culture icons such as Doctor Who, Darth Vader and the Rocketeer are imbued with frenetic energy, rendered in pen and ink with jagged outlines and a roughness which is counte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/these-redesigns-are-rough-around-the-edges-in-a-good-way/(YouTube Link) I'm sure you're thinking "Gee, just what we need, another deleted scene...", but this one's a little different than the rest. In this scene from The Empire Strikes Back, featuring Han and Leia bickering...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/the-empire-strikes-back-with-another-deleted-scene/If you want to show the world what you're REALLY made of, guts and all, then your wait is almost over. Thanks to Japanese researchers from RIKEN, biological tissue can be turned transparent via chemical reagent, so y...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/transparent-skin-developed-by-japanese-researchers/Have you ever wondered why certain superheroes don't get as much attention, or as many fans, as the big name spandex superstars? Well, these audition videos from College Humor should help clear that up for you, and p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/the-lamest-superhero-audition-tapes-ever/Well, of course he did. It's all in the 'stache. And Dmitri Drjuchin did a fine job depicting this classical hagiographical event. Link and Artist's Website -via UniblogTom Selleck...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/tom-selleck-saved-my-baby/So maybe "mercury in the Arctic" doesn't make you think of the ghost of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury hovering around an igloo. But someone over at F*ck Yeah Headlines has a weird sense of humor, and turns normal-seemin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/illustrated-newspaper-headlines/The Dutch Stutter Foundation encourages you to be patient with people who have a stutter. Don't interrupt; just wait and let them finish. Link -via Copyranter | Photo: Y&R Not Just Filmstutter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/stuttering-billboard/[caption id="attachment_52546" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Pattern Paper Stilletos by Jennifer Collier"][/caption] Jennifer Collier of Unit Twelve uses found and recycled papers--patterns, maps, newspape...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/found-recycled-paper-sculptures/Graphic designer Stefan Asafti is fascinated by the history of brands and decided to play around with prominent ones this way. Among other logo mashups that you can find at the link are Firefox vs. Internet Explorer,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/company-logos-made-from-tiny-versions-of-competitors-logos/(Video Link) It's called the idolomantis diabolica or Devil's Flower Mantis. If you're going to be named after a flower, that's a pretty badass name to have. If you ever meet one, don't be afraid. They g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/man-taunts-mantis-with-his-thumb/Sure, you could rent a U-Haul truck, but those are expensive. And apparently this guy in Toronto hadn't thought ahead and installed a trailer hitch when he bought his Lamborghini Gallardo. That should be an automatic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/lamborghini-with-a-mattress-on-its-roof/(Video Link) YouTube user Frabjousfilms made an a cappella version of the Doctor Who theme. At least, that's the way it starts out. Then he works in signature lines like "Always bring a banana to a party" (...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/a-cappella-doctor-who-theme/Tony Ponce of Destructoid offers this photo of a well-done cosplay from Dragon*Con. That's Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot from Mystery Science Theater 3000. Are Joel and Mike going to be female, too?...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/tom-servo-and-crow-look-more-attractive-than-i-remembered/Does getting home from a trip seem to take less time than getting there? There's a scientific explanation for that! NPR's Morning Edition explains the psychological phenomenon called th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/why-the-return-trip-always-seems-faster/I really like the colored frames that Ghostpatrol, an artist who lives in Melbourne, creates by carving surfaces into pencils and then illustrating them. They give the impression that Ghostpatrol simply excavates the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/mega-man-in-pencils/Archaeologists in Austria have discovered the remains of an unusual school under the grounds of Vienna: a school for Roman gladiators, where slaves and prisoners were taught to fight...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/archaeologists-discovered-gladiator-school-underneath-vienna/Pictured is cow dung toothpaste from India, one of the many contraband items Taryn Simon photographed over a five day stay inside JFK Airport. While items such as heroin and animal corpses are outright nefarious, oth...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/contraband-images-by-taryn-simon/Astronauts get hungry too, and they can't all eat Astronaut Ice Cream Sandwich and drink Tang all the time. Thankfully, there's Domino's Pizza newest planned expansion:...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/dominos-pizzas-newest-branch-on-the-moon/Arsenic in water can be caused by human pollution or by natural leakage, and is normally expensive to clean for developing countries where poisoning is common and deadly. Scientists have potentially found a convenient so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/plastic-bottles-can-remove-arsenic-from-water/If you find Facebook's facial recognition and photo tagging kind of creepy, the police may find it downright dangerous. Mike Keelty, a former Australian Federal Police commissioner, sai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/facebook-is-making-undercover-policing-impossible/Guess what? Those are hands you're looking at. Guido Daniele had done a whole series of these for AT&T, which can be found on his website. Link -via Mighty Optical IllusionsArt, hand, guido, daniele, ATampT...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/guido-danieles-hand-art/There has never been a machine that can keep going indefinitely, or that produces more energy than it consumes. That never stopped people from trying to invent one. Dark Roasted Blend has a collection of dozens of de...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/perpertuum-mobile-the-quest-for-perpetual-motion/NASA has just released new images of the Apollo landing sites on the Moon (or Burbank sound studio, to all you conspiracy theorists): The twists and turns of the last track...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/new-pics-of-apollo-landing-sites/The National Football League begins its new season on Thursday. Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will determine how psyched up you are! Football fans: can you name the starting quarterbacks for all 32 NFL teams...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/nfl-starting-quarterbacks/(vimeo link) Glen Milner produced this short film about the ritualized life of a modern-day Geisha in the city of Kyoto, Japan. -via Nag on the Lake japan, geisha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/miehina-the-kyoto-geisha/To promote their Prohibition Era show Boardwalk Empire, HBO has brought some vintage trains back to select subway routes in NYC. If you're in the Big Apple in the month of September and find yourself in need...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/1920s-subway-train-running-in-nyc-to-promote-boardwalk-empire/Christopher Anspach of Newton, Iowa, was sentenced to serve ten days in jail after he pleaded guilty to not returning books and other media to the Newton Public Library. He checked out the items earlier this year and fai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/jail-time-for-overdue-library-materials/Insects are so numerous and so varied that are an evolutionary success story. Much of this success is attributed to an insect's wings, which can do so many things besides fly. Different bugs use their wings to commun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/the-secrets-of-insect-wings/Around 100 villagers in the Philippines worked together Sunday to bind and retrieve a monstrous 6 meter long crocodile that has been terrorizing the community for months. The crocodile is an endangered species, and will...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/06/20-foot-crocodile-captured-in-the-philippines/
