Wednesday, April 30, 2008
"Classical Medley" By Buddy Greene (HARMONICA)
Buddy Greene plays the harmonica unlike your grandfather did, if you close your eyes you wouldn't recognize it as harmonica. Very innovative!
He also can sing, play the guitar, and he writes music (he wrote the music for 'Mary Did You Know') but he's most known for his Harmonica. Not to mention he is a really funny, cool guy.
LINK: Youtube
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
New Legless Lizard Species Found in the Brazilian Cerrado
Scientists from the Conservation International and Brazilian universities found 14 new species in the protected wooded grassland of Brazil’s Cerrado. Amongst the new species is this legless lizard of the genus Bachia:
This species of lizard of the genus Bachia is one of the new species discovered during the expedition. Although there are other species of the genus in the Cerrado (almost all discovered and described only recently), this new species has only been recorded in the Ecological Station. The absence of legs and the sharply pointed snout help in locomotion over the surface layer of sandy soil, predominating in all the Jalapao, formed by the natural erosion of the escarpments of the Serra Geral plateaus.
Link | View the new species at CI’s gallery. Via: Neatorama
A Functional Wrist-Mounted Flame Thrower
THE LIGHTS
A Quirky short animation involving 3 lively "Lights", as they discover and undertake their true purpose... LINK
Angeling Around
Fling the angel to and fro - mild amusement - your kids will love it
It's not totally useless, it's a clock that gives you the correct time.
Mitch Hedberg
Mitchell Lee Hedberg (February 24, 1968 – March 29, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and unconventional comedic delivery. His routines featured elocutive but often short, sometimes one-line, observational comedy, mixed with absurd and paraprosdokian elements as well as non sequiturs. Hedberg's comedy and on-stage persona gained him a cult following, with audience members sometimes shouting out the punchlines to his jokes before he could finish them.
Early in the morning on March 30, 2005, Mitch Hedberg was found dead in a New Jersey hotel room, reportedly from heart failure. He was 37 years old. His death was first announced by Howard Stern on his morning talk show and later confirmed by the Saint Paul Pioneer Press from his home town of St. Paul, Minnesota. Hedberg had reportedly been preparing for his first HBO special.
The specific cause of his heart failure remains unknown. He was born with a heart defect for which he received extensive treatment as a child, and the effect of drugs on this condition has been cited as a possible cause of death.
"Mitch Hedburg"-special part 1. LINK
"Mitch Hedberg"-stand up part 2. LINK
"Mitch Hedberg"-stand up part 3. LINK
Mitch Hedberg's Official Website
Have listened to Mitch Hedbergs comedy many times and will listen to it many more. Is unfortunate that he passed away in 2005. Was a great comedian in my eyes. His comedy will carry on.
Jeff Dunham
Monday, April 28, 2008
Coffin Couches
Our niche happens to be 18 gauge steel coffins which we collected from local funeral homes primarily in Southern California. It is a health and safety law that funeral homes cannot resell used coffins to the general public. We approached funeral directors with the attitude of recycling.
These coffins are not used for burial due to slight cosmetic inconsistencies. They are reconfigured and modified resulting in a finished product - a unique one a kind coffin couch. LINK
Orangutan Hunts Fish With Spear
A male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish. It is the first time one has been seen using a tool to hunt.
The extraordinary image, a world exclusive, was taken in Borneo on the island of Kaja, where apes are rehabilitated into the wild after being rescued from zoos, private homes or even butchers' shops. LINK
Star Trek Bottle Opener
Open your beer with the starship Enterprise! This item should be in stock by the end of June, but you can preorder now. Link
16 Abandoned & Decaying Hotels From Around The World
It’s a pity that marvelous old architecture is left to rot, often due to lack of funds for repairs. But there’s beauty to be found in the ruins, as you’ll see in this collection of abandoned hotels from all over. The stories these walls could tell! Pictured is the Bokor Palace Hotel and Casino in Cambodia. Link, Via: Neatorama
Uno Motorcycle
A motorcycle with one wheel? No, it just looks that way. The Uno has two wheels, side by side. It runs on electricity and is controlled by body language. The only controls are an on-off switch. To go forward, you lean forward. Lean further to go faster. The Uno was invented by 18-year-old Ben J. Poss Gulak. Motorcycle Mojo has the story of how the Canadian engineering prodigy built the prototype Uno. Link, Via: Neatorama
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Linn Olofsdotter Illustration
Linn Olofsdotter, from Sweden, has explored many mediums before solidifying her career in the illustration field. After getting her education in both advertising and graphic design in Europe and the US, she moved to Brazil to start up a motion graphics studio along with her husband and creative partner.
She used her skills as an illustrator to help brand TV networks such as Fine Living, MTV and Anime Network amongst others.
Linn Olofsdotter Illustration.
Ardell Morton Scottish Landscape Artist
Photo above, Eilean Donan Castle, Wester.
Ardell Morton is a Scottish landscape artist born in the U.S. of Scottish heritage.
A traditional oil painter, she specializes in the Highlands and the Hebrides Islands where she has traveled extensively, sketching and documenting the local landscape and wildlife. A large part of her time is also spent in historical research of Scottish clans in relation to their strongholds and medieval castle sites.
Ardell Morton Scottish Landscape Artist.
10 Gnomes 4: Foggy Flat
I like the hidden object games - but this one isn't easy ...
It's time to hunt those gnomes again in 10 Gnomes 4: Foggy Flat. As usual you need to find 10 gnomes in 10 minutes.
Ready. Set. Click!
Mysteriez 2
In Mysteriez 2 - Daydream you play against another online player and you have to find the hidden numbers in the various locations. Use the magnifier to investigate the location thoroughly.
Is ... addicting like Mysteriez!
TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR FOR 41 HOURS
Accompanying video to Nick Paumgarten's piece "Up and Then Down" from the April 21st issue of The New Yorker. Footage of Nicholas White trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building.
Music: "The Storm Begins," by Jennifer Haines. LINK
READ THE STORY: http://tinyurl.com/572u5f
Discipline - Nine Inch Nails New Single
ONCE I START
I CANNOT STOP MY SELF...
VIDEO BY FRANKIE SHANE.
LINK: Youtube
Human Snake: Life Imitates Computer Game
Here’s an excellent stop-motion video, called "Human Snake" by Get Out and Play. LINK, Via: Youtube
Friday, April 25, 2008
Flying the Falls
The Smoke that Thunders from 'Flying the Falls' from Free to Adventure on Vimeo.
WOW! What an adventure! Now I can understand why people fly!
So fly over Victoria Falls in Zambia ...
Really enjoyed this video. Also liked the fact they had the lyrics for the song on the video.
Tropi Golf
You are a monkey playing golf around a crazy course high in the trees, collecting stars and avoiding ladybirds:
Hold and drag the mouse to aim; set power with the left mouse button; click again to take shot; zoom in and out with arrows ... LINK: Tropi Golf
Zurich Zoo
Zurich Zoo from Andy Rüesch on Vimeo.
Watch beautiful shots from the Zurich Zoo and the Masoala Rainforest in amazing HD-Quality. A short movie by Andy Rüesch.
Galaxies Gone Wild
Interacting galaxies are found throughout the Universe, sometimes as dramatic collisions that trigger bursts of star formation, on other occasions as stealthy mergers that result in new galaxies.
A series of 59 new images of colliding galaxies has been released from the several terabytes of archived raw images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to mark the 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008 of the telescope’s launch.
This is the largest collection of Hubble images ever released to the public simultaneously.
Galaxies gone wild by The European Homepage For The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
And don't miss the Hubblecast Video Archive.
"Hubblecast 16: Galaxies gone wild." LINK
See all the images and download a free screen saver of these exciting images at http://figbranch.com/index.php?option...
Arjan Westerdiep Pixel Art
One of the early pixel based designer and flash developer aka drububu, Arjan Westerdiep, mashes up a massive art piece - The ic-project.
Have a look!
Click around the entire piece and watch it get drawn pixel by pixel. Watch the how to navigate movie on the top left. As you will see, pretty kewl functionalities are embedded.
And don't miss drububu's pixel art tutorial!
Below a progress animation of the pixel art illustration, created in MS Paint in 560 hours ...
A progress animation of a pixel art illustration. LINK
Ballet dancers perform to the Pixies
Ballet dancers performing to the Pixies' 'Where is my mind.' LINK, Via: Boingboing
The Art Of Travis Louie
Travis Louie's paintings come from the tiny little drawings and many writings in his journals. He's created his own imaginary world that is grounded in Victorian and Edwardian times.
It is inhabited by human oddities, mythical beings, and otherworldly characters who appear to have had their formal portraits taken to mark their existence and place in society. LINK
Can't Get It Right Today by Joe Purdy
I liked this song ever since I heard it on the Kia Spectra commercial. BTW, the photo is of Dustin Kensrue from thrice, not Joe Purdy. LINK: Youtube
Chad Pugh’s Time Lapse Vimeo Illustration
Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.
When Chad Pugh was commissioned to do a redesign of an illustration for Vimeo login, he decided to take a screenshot every five seconds. Here’s a mesmerizing time lapse video of a process spanning 40 hours of drawing condensed into under 7 minutes.
Link (Vimeo video, a little jerky b/c of zooming/panning of drawing on Adobe Illustrator), Via: Neatorama
Siberian Aurora
Bruno's Sculpture Garden
Bruno's Sculpture Garden, located 100km out of Melbourne, is one of the most delightful patches of ground on this earth. LINK: Youtube
25 Seriously Twisted Trees: From Uncanny Urban Overgrowth to Awesome Arbosculpture
Trees and plants have a kind of flexibility that is both disturbing and inspiring. Left to their own devices they can wrap around objects and create strange works of unintentional art. Properly pruned and cultivated they can be made into curious, compelling and useful shapes of all sorts. From tree furniture designs to unchecked acts of nature here are 25 examples of the amazing malleability of trees.
"Intro to Arborsculpture" LINK
Richard Reams of Arborsmith dot Com focuses more on the artistic side of arbosculpture, creating some meaningful shapes (such as piece signs) as well as whimsically abstract pieces of tree sculpture. Some of his projects (such as grown fence enclosures and tree furniture) do, however, still serve a purpose. LINK
Thursday, April 24, 2008
CreativeSpace
CreativeSpace, a creative image search where you can scroll through images visually with a scrollbar. LINK
Museum Of Unworkable Devices
The Museum of Unworkable Devices is a celebration of fascinating devices that don't work. It houses examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused to let their thinking be intimidated by the laws of nature, remaining optimistic in the face of repeated failures.
Watch and be amazed at the eccentric and even intricate perpetual motion machines that have remained steadfastly unmoving since their inception. Marvel at the ingenuity of the human mind, as it reinvents the square wheel in all of its possible variations. Exercise your mind to puzzle out exactly why they don't work as the inventors intended. LINK
Elephant photographers
Filmmaker John Downer turned a bunch o elephants into walking cameras and used them to capture scenes of the jungle:
He fixed webcams to four elephants. One carried a "trunk-cam" - a device resembling a huge log concealing a camera which could be held in its trunk and dangled close to the ground.
Another had a "tusk-cam" hooked over its tusk. The elephants moved so steadily that the images are pin-sharp. Other log-cams were left on the forest floor.
The high-definition cameras were created by inventor Geoff Bell for a documentary in the remote Pench National Park in Madhya Pradesh in the heart of India. LINK, Via: Boingboing
Jeans with built-in keyboard
Designer Erik De Nijs's concept design for a pair of jeans with a built-in keyboard are intriguing if impractical. LINK, Via: Boingboing
Ghost resort in Disney World
"Along the lines of the 'ghost' hotels in Egypt sitting incomplete, Disney World has had the Legendary Years section of Pop Century sitting incomplete for several years as well. " Link to YouTube video, Link to photo gallery, Via: Boingboing
The World’s Most Dangerous Bird
Don’t try to make friends with a cassowary! The Guinness Book of World Records named it the world’s most dangerous bird.
The Cassowary lives in the rain forests of Australia and New Guinea and are actually pretty shy animals if undisturbed, but if you get to close and it thinks you’re a threat you could receive a bone-breaking kick or get sliced by its dagger-like sharp claws. During WWII, soldiers stationed in New Guinea were warned to stay away from these birds, but some of them still became victims.
Zookeepers who take care of the endangered species are in danger themselves from the threat of job-related injuries. Link, Via: Neatorama
Stainless Steel Chaise Lounge
Vintage Ads of Fictional Futures
Mark Rayner of the Skwib blog and author of the novel "The Amadeus Net" (plot: turns out that Wolfgang Amaeus Mozart is immortal and has been making a living by selling "lost" works of Mozart!) has a fun photoshop contest: a vintage ad poster of a product from a fictional future!
Here are the top ten finalists: Link, Via: Neatorama
The Name Game
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Carl Zimmer's Science Tattoo Emporium
Carl Zimmer writes books and articles about science. He also collects pictures of science tattoos. Because underneath their sober lab coats and flannel shirts, scientists hide images of their scientific passions. Here they are revealed to all. LINK
Jeremiah Was A BullFrog
Jerimiah was a BullFrog
Three Dog Night
Sing-a-long style
Enjoy a cute little rough animation comprised of over 180 sepparate images. The total time for the animation for this video was 5 hours. LINK: Youtube
20 Amazing And Unusual Weather Phenomena
The science of weather is a fascinating one; but even more so are the flukes and irregularities that can occur within our world.
This is a list of 20 of the most amazing and unusual of those weather anomalies. LINK
Medical Encyclopedia
A Medical Encyclopedia including over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.
LINK
The Big Google Search Tools Collection
Google indexes and searches billions of webpages and is the premier search engine on the internet. A quick analysis of the search page is helpful to understand and analyze the search results. Learn the essentials of Google Search and remember to set your preferences.
LINK
The Meaning Of Colors
For most of us, a rainbow of colors envelopes our lives. Over 80% of visual information is related to color. What colors and combinations of colors stimulate people to be interested in different things?
What colors make us feel pleasure or disapproval, hot or cold, to be attracted or repelled, our appetite stimulated or suppressed? LINK
Danica Patrick Wins Indy Japan 300
Danica Patrick quiets her critics with a landmark victory at the Indy Japan 300 Sunday 4/20/08 to become the first female winner in IndyCar history. LINK
The Alien Abduction Lamp
The Alien Abduction Lamp - created by Norwegian designer Lasse Klein - is a lamp for Sci-Fi fans of all ages.
A light bulb inside the metal UFO lights up the beam and the windows. The glass of the beam is frosted to distribute light in all directions. LINK
Robots made from sans-serif fonts
Jonathon Yule's Invdr features a lovely gallery of robots made from various sans-serif fonts. Link, Via: Boingboing
Christiaan Postma’s Clock
That gibberish on a blackboard is actually a clock, made by Dutch industrial designer Christiaan Postma. He used over 150 individual clock mechanism to spell out the hour! LINK, Via: Neatorama
To get a full appreciation of how it works, see this Flash animation of the clock in fast forward.
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
In October 2006 [link BBC article], Cambridge University decided to put the complete works of Charles Darwin online, and it seems that now the project has evolved, to include his private papers too.
After making the original draft of Darwin’s "On The Origin Of Species", some 20,000 other writings and 90,000 images available to the public now.
The collection includes thousands of notes and drafts of his scientific writings, notes from the voyage of the Beagle when he began to formulate his controversial theory of evolution, and his first recorded doubts about the permanence of species.
It also contains photographs of Darwin and his family, newspaper clippings, reviews of his books and much more.
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
For a basic, non-academic, entryway go here: The major works of Charles Darwin Near the bottom of this page you will find all the the thousands illustrations available.
Some other highlights:
Free audio mp3 files of Darwin's works for downloading onto a computer or portable MP3 player: Audio Darwin
and Darwin's life in pictures.
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Cog Factory
Cog Factory is a logic game that seems simple, but it’s NOT easy! You must sort the different colored cogs into receptacles, keeping the same colors together. Get three in a row and they disappear. Use the left and right keys to rotate the discharger and the space key to discharge. LINK, Via: Neatorama
The Milk Trick
Monday, April 21, 2008
Boolify
Boolify is an educational boolean search tool. Web searching can be hard. Boolify makes it easier to understand web search by illustrating the logic of the search, and by showing how each change to the search instantly changes the results.
Drag a green piece from the Boolify puzzle menu to the puzzle board. Entering a word will add a keyword to the search. Refine your search by dragging AND, OR or NOT pieces to the puzzle. You can completely clear the search by clicking on the 'X' on the right side of the board, or delete specific pieces by dragging them to the bucket icon. LINK: Presurfer
Carry On Wayward Son
10-years old girl playing on keyboard. I wish there was some way to translate what was being said!!!!!!!!! LINK: Youtube
33 Lego Creations
This Lego recreation of Mount Rushmore is not full size. Of course not! But its pretty big. This is just one of the the wonderful Lego sculptures featured in the list 33 Of The Most Intricate & Realistic Lego Creations, which has links to each. Don’t miss the fully-functional Lego pinball machine and the 20-foot tall giraffe! Link, Via: Neatorama
Lewis Black
L'Animateur - The Animator
A puppeteer unusual offers a personal version of Adam and Eve to the inhabitants of a planet ... LINK: Youtube
Friday, April 18, 2008
Awareness Test
Pacarrotman: Pac-Man with Veggies!
Apparently Neatorama reader Jason Sanders never heeded his parents advice of not playing with his food. That turned out to be somewhat of a good thing, because we now can watch this: Pacarrotman, a 35-second Pac-Man stop-motion parody made with a camera, a plate, some veggies and a strawberry. LINK, Via: Youtube
Doeo Flash Game
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Isabel Samaras: Painter of Enigmatic Stories
Born in New York, Isabel Samaras’ a painter/illustrator with a difference: she’s an ‘enigmatic storyteller who uses paint instead of words’. Her paintings submerge you into a multi-layered world: a world that echos forgotten parables from bygone eras using characters that have their own (modern) mythologies. You’ll find characters from 70s sitcoms, in particular from popular TV shows like “The Avengers,” “The Addams Family,” “Star Trek,” “Bewitched,” “Gilligan’s Island,” “I Dream of Jeannie,” “The Munsters” and “The Six Million Dollar Man.” These characters (and more) are re-cast with pop culture icons and classic works of fine art for a contemporary spin. Beyond television and the master paintings, Isabel pulls influences from horror movies, Las Vegas lifestyles, and Mexican calendar art into her projects. LINK
Eric White’s Disturbingly Beautiful Paintings
Eric’s painting skills are truly unbelievable to say the least. His work transcends time, reality, science and logic. It is rich in content and is visually mind blowing. He finds inspiration in metaphysics, with trace hints of iconic pop culture of years past. - Manuel Bello.
Brooklyn-based painter Eric White creates “traditional based” imagery from an unusual approach to figuration. White references found imagery (particularly from 40s era Hollywood) in works that are thought-provoking, beautifully rendered and also disturbing on many different levels. This approach enables the artist to tap into realities and dimensions that exist beyond the edge of our perception; in a world in which movie stars, political figures, and ordinary people are transformed: stretched and distorted and placed in bizarre landscapes. In all his creations White employs a meticulous mix of hyper-realism and surrealism to make his dark dreams. LINK
Wet Floor Maker
A Wet Floor effect is a graphic effects technique particularly popular in logos. It involves a gradient and often a slant in the reflection, so that the mirrored image appears to be hovering over or resting on a 'wet floor.'
With Wet Floor Maker you can upload your photo, select your options and generate the image. At the moment you can only generate in sizes 160 x 120 and 320 x 240 but advanced features are coming soon! LINK
The Screw Asylum
If you're a screw admirer, an asylum admirer, a collection lover, a DIY nut, or generally strange, The Screw Asylum is for you.
All the patients are as they were when they were plucked from the box. They have not been medically treated or tortured for your curiosity and amusement in any way; that's not how we operate here. The only thing you may notice is the odd patch of rust or oxidation; this isn't through mistreatment on our part; it's just through their age.
LINK
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