Lisa Przybylski claimed to have created this Flight of the Conchords poster for a contest using fabric, cardboard, paper, and her trusty hot glue gun, but I suspect she left...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/flight-of-the-conchords-poster-by-lisa-przybylski/(YouTube Link) As we close out the Mr. Fred Rogers birthday celebration that is taking place in my head, here's a clip of the man, the myth, the best friend to children and puppet kings everywhere, humbly accepting a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/fred-rogers-emmy-acceptance-speech-from-1997/(YouTube Link) This video is dedicated to those TMNT fans who are still reeling from the nausea caused by Michael Bay's announcement that the Mutant Ninjas will instead be cast as edgy aliens in the upcoming...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/teenage-metal-ninja-turtles-theme/Did you spend the last two weeks playing Mass Effect 3 only to find nothing but bitter disappointment and frustration at the end of the game? Well, hope is at hand when you strap this laser cut Omni Tool...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/laser-cut-omni-tool-from-mass-effect-series/(YouTube Link) The animated short "Ruin" by Wes Ball and Oddball Animation is merely a sample segment from a full length feature they'd like to produce, but it works just as well in this abbreviated yet action packed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/apocalyptic-animated-short-ruin/This is the photo that proves just how cool Shark Diving magazine editor Eli Martinez really is. He's so cool, in fact, that sharks come from miles around just to give him a high fin five. Either that, or th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/give-the-high-fiving-shark-some-fin/(YouTube Link) These animated cuties are part of the DC Nation animation block on Cartoon Network, and by the look of them they should be hanging out with the Powerpuff Girls, busting heads and batting their...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/super-best-friends-forever-is-super-cute/You haven't seen origami quite like this before: Origami artist Sipho Mabona designed and folded this rhino origami, which is then "unfolded" in this clever animation by Stop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/origami-rhino-unfolding/Love your ramen hot? No, I mean fiery hot? Check fiery ramen over at the Men Baka Ichidai restaurant in Kyoto, Japan. I don't know what the guy's saying when he serves the fire ramen, b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/fire-ramen/I'm loving these fantastic anatomical artworks, Ciencias Naturales (Natural Sciences) by Argentinian graphic designer Juan Gatti. Check...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/anatomical-art-of-juan-gatti/SPAM Hat - $29.95 Attention SPAM lovers! It is time to come out of the closet and join the mystery meat in a can revolution. Embrace your love of gelatinous glaze and porky goodness with the SPAM Hat from the NeatoS...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/spam-hat/Quilting just wasn't enough. Last September, 101-year old Mary Hardison of Ogden, Utah paraglided with an instructor, thus becoming the oldest woman to ever do so. Her motivation? Keeping her young, freewheeling son in h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/101-year-old-woman-becomes-worlds-oldest-paraglider/Since his screen debut in 1928, Mickey has not aged thanks to the dark arts taught to him by Walt Disney. But what would happen if he did not have access to overly-trusting interns and the ghastly secrets of the Illu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/mickey-mouse-if-he-aged-normally/Well, this certainly puts a different spin on "giving someone the finger." In her book Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society, anthropologist Ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/in-order-to-cut-off-my-anger-im-cutting-off-my-finger-and-giving-it-to-you/Mayuka Nakamura, an art student at the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, recreated warships of the old Imperial Japanese Navy in sushi. The series is an extended pun on a popular type of sushi roll...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/sushi-warships/It won't fit inside my cubicle here at Neatorama but, with a few modifications, it could become my cubicle! It's on sale in the Olympia, Washington area for "$150 or best offer". I suspect that the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/craigslist-gold-13-scale-tie-fighter-playhouse/Who says humans can't fly like a bird? Like a modern day Icarus, Dutch engineer Jarno Smeets modeled his wings after the albatross, and flapped his arms wildly to fly...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/meet-jarno-smeets-the-man-who-flies-like-a-bird/In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, the Gollum presented Bilbo with a set of riddles. Can you solve them? The thing all things devours; Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/the-riddles-of-gollum/Sheriff Woody Pride in Toy Story had Andy's name inscribed on his boot. The owner of this tattoo reports that it hurt a lot to get this imitation. But at least he has the satisfaction of publicly affirming...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/toy-story-tattoo/Photo: José M. Osorio, Chicago Tribune The U.S. Army still bars women from front-line combat, but from the looks of this cage fight at Fort Hood army base in Texas, they're missi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/army-cage-fight-pit-women-soldiers-against-men/Thankfully, those aren't creepy invisible Predators coming to get you. Rather, it's an art installation called "Vestige" by contemporary artist Rob Mulholland...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/vestige-a-predator-like-art-installation-by-rob-mulholland/Sure we all want our own private island, but Neatorama's favorite performance artist Antti Laitinen actually did something about it: back in 2008, he built himself a floating palm isla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/rowing-your-own-palm-island/Postman's Park in London, England, has a small memorial garden featuring 54 plaques that honor common men and women who were never famous, but died during a heroic act of saving someone else. The Memorial to Heroic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/the-memorial-to-heroic-self-sacrifice/Phillip Valdez made this mechanical wonder completely of paper. I am sure it is a one-of-a-kind artwork. Link -via Boing Boing train, papercraft, horse, Iron Horse, locomotive...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/the-iron-horse/(College Humor link) What do you get when you mashup the band OK Go and the site OK Cupid? You get OK Go-Pid, "the world's most fun and least successful dating site."mashup, parody, OK Go, OK Cupid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/ok-go-pid/This is just what it appears to be: a crocheted amigurumi (or "antigurumi") teddy bear depicting a scene from the 1976 horror movie Carrie. Poor Carrie Bear got a very cruel prank played on her at the high...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/carrie-bear/Crustache Crust Cutter - $5.95 Are you looking for a really good excuse to play with your food? You need the Crsutache Crust Cutter from the NeatoShop. This fantastic sandwich cutter easily turns your favorite midday...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/crustache-crust-cutter/(YouTube link) Douglas Hamilton of Scotland spent the summer at SeaView Lion Park in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, a couple of years ago. He got close to the lion cubs, and recorded them expressing their feelings on h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/lion-love/Selecting the right title for a TV series can mean the difference between success and failure: just ask the producers of Cougar Town. Would Friends have done as well with the name Six of One or Acro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/the-strange-art-of-picking-a-tv-title/(YouTube link) The YouTube description doesn't tell what kind of dog this is, but he is obviously determined to retrieve his tennis ball. Just not by swimming for it. -via Arbroathdog, pool, tennis ball...
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