Archive Category: Pictures
Type City
In Type City, artist Hong Seon Jang created a cityscape using metal type sorts of letterpress printing. Check out his work at David B. Smith gallery: Link - via Colossal
Previously on Neatorama: more fantastic Cityscape art
Cool Post
Isn’t this a cool post? Redditor RalphiesBoogers showed his coolest post ever. Then joekewle responded with a confused post. This post is so cool, it’s chillin’! Link
At The Pet Groomers When…WTF?!
This cat has a serious love-hate relationship with his owners. One minute they’re petting his belly and feeding him cans of Fancy Feast and the next they’re shaving his fur to make him look like a mock Stegosaurus.
Clearly he had someone take this photo for him as a cry for help, so it should be turned over to the ASPCA immediately!
Kiddies-this is what catnip addiction can lead to, so keep your fur clean and just say no!
Cool Behind The Scenes Photos From Back To The Future
If you know and love the Back To The Future trilogy, but you’ve never understood how they filmed the hoverboard scene, or made a Delorean fly through the air, then this set of behind the scene photos might help.
Some are candid portraits, others show the crew hard at work getting the shot to look just right, and they all show the cast and crew having a genuinely good time filming the iconic trilogy.
And with 65 pics in this collection, it’s nerd-stalgia at its finest!
Link –via Geek Tyrant
Nine Circles of Hell in LEGO
Photo: mihaimariusmihu/Flickr
Abandon all hope (of reaching the same level of awesomeness), ye who see Mihai Mihu LEGO Nine Circles of Hell. The Romanian LEGO sculptor spent 7 months converting Dante's Inferno brick by brick into 9 frightfully fantastic dioramas.
The Brothers Brick has the gallery: Link - via io9
Tesla Gun
Awesomely terrifying or terrifyingly awesome? Mad scientist (or is it Mad Engineer?) Rob Flickenger has created a Tesla gun:
[Rob's] Tesla gun, inspired by graphic novel The Five Fists of Science, is essentially a hand-held spark gap Tesla coil powered by an 18V drill battery. When fired, it produces anywhere from 8 to 24 inches of lightning and 100,000 volts of electricity. Flickenger is adamant about the fact that it's much more an art piece than a real weapon: "if you hit somebody over the head with it I’m sure it would hurt," he says.
The Verge has the video clip: Link | Interview over at Make Magazine
See more: Tesla: Master of Lightning
Cool Home Interior
This indoor grotto and koi pond also serves as a staircase connecting two floors at the home of redditor kyky05. It was constructed by the people who owned the home before his family bought it. See more pictures here. Oh yes, there was a second, more conventional staircase as well. Link
How That Hand Stand was Done
Back in 2007, we posted a photograph that Marcy Light took of her son Daniel doing a one-fingered handstand at Four Corners. There was a spirited discussion on how the picture was taken, and we even posted one blogger’s theory. Now we have the definitive answer. Marcy posted the procedure at her blog, (Don’t Be) Too Timid and Squeamish. Link -Thanks, Marcy!
Trip Out On Pics From ROFLCon 2012
Well, ROFLCon 2012 went off without a hitch on May 4th and 5th in Cambridge, Massachusetts so the interwebs is safe for another year.
Double Nyan Cat rainbows were spotted in the sky, cat breading and LOLz were enjoyed by all in attendance, and Rage Faces Mountain became a popular tourist destination.
The future of internet humor rests squarely in the hands of these fantastically funny people, and Scott Beale from Laughing Squid has the pictures to prove it. ROFL on and on!
Link –via Laughing Squid
The Hashtag Tower
Now this is something to tweet about: Danish architects BIG have designed an apartment tower complex that looks like a hashtag.
“The Cross # Towers constitute a three-dimensional urban community of interlocking horizontal and vertical towers. Three public bridges connect two slender towers at different levels – underground, at the street and in the sky. Catering to the demands and desires of different residents, age groups and cultures the bridges are landscaped and equipped for a variety of activities traditionally restricted to the ground. The resultant volume forms a distinct figure on the new skyline of Seoul – a “#” that serves as a gateway to the new Yongsan Business District signaling a radical departure from the crude repetition of disconnected towers towards a new urban community that populates the three-dimensional space of the city.”
Take a look at the rest over at BIG: Link - via Dezeen
Man Advertised on Billboard to Get a Job
Bennett Olson was unemployed and desparate for a job, so he decided to do a bit of creative advertising to get hired:
And yes, he landed a job: LinkIn April, Olson paid $300 for an 8-second time slot on an electronic billboard near downtown Minneapolis. His ad was up for 24 hours, rotating with other ads on the billboard. The words "Hire Me!" appeared next to his website address and a picture of his face.
One Holi Mess: India’s Incredible Color-Soaked Festival
The Hindu Holi festival may be a mess, but it makes for some vivid pictures!
The spring festival of Holi, celebrated across many parts of India, but especially in the north, is a time when barriers are torn down and the usual rules, if not entirely broken, are at least well and truly bent. It’s a time when adults can be children again, and children can get away with all kinds of mischief. The air is full of laughter and joyful shouts as brightly colored powders and water fly.
See more photographs, and read about Holi at Environmental Graffiti. Link
(Image credit: Antonio Gibotta)
Looking at Mom with Love
A tender mother-child moment, brought to you by the National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. This picture was taken at Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesia. The contest is open for entries until June 28, or even later with an additional fee, but oy, look at the competition! Link -Thanks, Marilyn!
(Image credit: miranda rachellina)
Six Generations of Mothers and Daughters
Molly Wood of Charlottesville, Virginia turned 111 years old last month. Her family gathered for the occasion, including her daughter, granddaughter, great-granddaughter, great-great-granddaughter, and even her great-great-great-granddaughter, who was only a few weeks old. It was a unique opportunity to see six generations of direct descendants together. Link
See more pictures here. Link
(Image credit: Christian DeBaun)
Twin Waterspouts
Photo: Tim Osborn / NOAA Coast Survey
Tim Osborn, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coast Survey, was on Grand Isle, Louisiana. when he spotted something weird in the sky:
Our Amazing Planet has the story and image gallery: Link"[A man] came running in and said, 'There's a waterspout out there!'" Osborn told OurAmazingPlanet. So Osborn grabbed his camera and started snapping, catching the birth of not one, but two waterspouts as they spun up over waters just north of the island.
"You could clearly see them forming in the sky," he said, "and I was able to get them on the camera as they were starting to drop."
Two spinning vortexes formed in the clouds and dropped lower and lower, until they reached the waters below, kicking up spray as they moved in formation toward the island.
Osborn said he immediately called colleagues at the National Weather Service, who told him they'd been tracking the storm system. Less than 30 seconds later, tornado sirens began to wail.
Osborn said that, in comparison to waterspouts he's seen in the past, these twisters were "really surprising. They not only grew in size, they traveled in tandem, and lasted longer than most — about 10 or 15 minutes."
A Prom Night to Remember
A group of high school students in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, were decked out for the prom last Saturday night. They headed to Lac La Belle and posed for group pictures on the lake’s pier. Then the pier collapsed. The quick-thinking photographer kept shooting, resulting in an unforgettable sequence of pictures. The wet teenagers, attempting to save the occasion, ran so many hairdryers -plus a clothes dryer- in one home that they blew a breaker, but managed to make it to the prom. Link (with video) -via Arbroath
The 13 Loneliest Outhouses on Earth
When you’re looking for an outhouse, they shouldn’t be this hard to find. I understand you want them located away from the main house, but these are far away from anything! However, the locations were probably selected for the incredible views, which make a photo gallery of outhouses something worth looking through. Link
(Image credit: Flickr user Jim Bahn)
Psst, Instagram! Make This, Mmkay?
Antonio De Rosa of ADR Studio has got an interesting idea of how Instagram can spend their billion dollars from Facebook: create a real Instagram camera. Behold, the Instagram Socialmatic Camera!Link - via Wanken
In Case of Emergency, Eat This Book
After you've foolishly walked away from your Land Rover to explore a mirage in the Arabian desert, you've found yourself lost. What to do?
Thank goodness for this survival guide that explains how to keep yourself alive with tips on dealing with scorching temperatures, building shelters, lighting a fire and so on. The best thing is: you can eat the book!
Actually the whole thing is a clever ad campaign by Y&R Dubai ad agency for Land Rover:
Y&R Dubai researched every indigenous animal and plant, people could encounter in the Arabian Desert and how they could be used to survive. They studied the topography of the region to guide people to safety. The agency used a reflective packaging similar to army rations, which could be used to signal for help, and bound the book with a metal spiral, which could be used for cooking. Finally, the agency even took an extra step so that in case of emergency, people could always EAT the book. It was made out of edible ink and paper, and it had a nutritional value close to that of a cheeseburger.
Link - via DesignTaxi
Stupidity Is Not A Disability
A redditor from South Africa snapped this photo of a sign telling people that "Stupidity is not a disability" in front of a disabled parking space.
Now here's the puzzling thing: why are there 5 fire extinguishers on the wall?
Google’s Self-Driving Car Got Its Driver’s License
Google's new self-driving car has just gotten it's first driver's license (or is it driver-less license?): a red license plate from Nevada with a road wrapped into an infinity symbol.
“I felt using the infinity symbol was the best way to represent the ‘car of the future.’” Department Director Bruce Breslow said. “The unique red plate will be easily recognized by the public and law enforcement and will be used only for licensed autonomous test vehicles. When there comes a time that vehicle manufactures market autonomous vehicles to the public, that infinity symbol will appear on a green license plate.
Today Google, tomorrow Johnny Cab!
Dude, Where’s My Snack?
Photo: Youhanes 'Hendy' Widianto
Udel, the 220 lb. (100 kg) orangutan in a zoo in Indonesia, furrows his brow as he searches for his candy ... which is stuck to his chubby cheeks!
Photographer Youhanes 'Hendy' Widianto, 36, said: 'When I saw him, I couldn't believe how big he was. 'Everyone there was amazed by his size.
'At first I thought he must be so big because visitors to the zoo throw food and snacks to him - he even had a wrapper stuck to the side of his face.
'But according to the zoo he's actually a normal weight for its age.'
The Daily Mail has more pics: Link
Black Hole Eating a Star
Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Nom nom nom, said the black hole, which was caught eating a star by a team of astrophysicists:
Geeks Are Sexy has the video clip: LinkUsually when we get to see a star being swallowed by a black hole, we’ll end up turning to take a look at it only after the destruction has already begun. “What makes this so special was the fact that they actually caught the black hole as it was ripping the stellar core apart,” says Dr. David Floyd from the Monash Centre for Astrophysics in Melbourne.
The fact that we’ve managed to observe this event from beginning to end means that there is a lot more information available than ever before. We know the size of the black hole (approximately the same as the Milky Way’s central black hole), the fact that the star was probably a late-stage Red Giant and that it suffered its terrible fate because it got to within about 150 million kilometres of the supermassive black hole (about the same distance from the Sun to the Earth).
Bees That Drink Human Tears
Remember the Neatorama post about the sweat bees in New York that use humans as giant salt licks?
Well, turns out that's not as creepy as these bees in Thailand that drink human tears:
And yes, the scientists captured these tear-drinking bees using their own eyes as bait: Link - via NerdcoreOn landing, automatic blinking with the eye often prevented the bee from getting a firm hold, causing it to fall off the eyelashes. If so, the bee persistently tried again and again until it was successful, or finally gave up and flew off. In a very few cases the approach was so gentle that the host (H.B.) did not realize he had a Lisotrigona attached to his lid, imbibing his tears. After landing and whilst sucking tears, H.B. often could barely feel the presence of a bee; indeed, checking by mirror was then required to make sure whether it was still there or had left.
However, when several bees were involved, the experience was rather unpleasant, causing strong tear flow. Once a bee had settled and more were approaching, these tended to settle near each other in a row. Closing the eye did not necessarily dislodge bees but some continued to suck at the slit. They were even able to find and settle at closed eyes.
Biking to Work, for the One Percent
Biking to work is healthy, but who wants to share the road with all those plebes when you can exercise in the comfort of your own luxury SUV? Here's "biking to work" for the one percent:
This particular ride is a Cadillac Escalade ESV created by Becker Automotive Design. And besides the usual luxury accents, one of the seats features added hand grips and exercise pedals for getting a real workout on your way to or from work.
Previously on Neatorama: Mercedes-Benz JetVan is Like a Luxurious Private Jet on Land
Advertising Arms Race in Beijing Food Court
Photo: Anja Hitzenberger
If a little advertisement is good for business, then A LOT of it should be fantastic, right? During her two-month residency in Beijing, China, photographer Anja Hitzenberger captured the intense competition between stalls in a food court:
This series, shot in a temporary food court set up inside Beijing’s Olympic Park, reveals a visually and viscerally overloaded fast-food culture that may make some mouths water and other bellies ache. Hitzenberger concentrates on the saturated visual displays of the food stalls and the way the environment contrasts with the boredom of the workers, offering an insight into some of the contradictions in contemporary Chinese culture.
Folks, this is what happened when you have an arms race in advertising: Link - via Creative Roots
Assassin Bug Carries the Exoskeletons of Its Victims on Its Back
Photo: rizalis/Flickr
Meet the world's most gruesome killer. The assassin bug proudly displays the exoskeleton of its kills (after it sucked out the innards as dinner) on its back! But there's logic to that macabre madness:
... the assassin bug’s width means it can pile them high, creating a mound of over twenty ‘shells’. The exoskeleton of ants is made of chitin, a particularly sturdy substance which can provide cover for the assassin bug for weeks.
The heap is stuck together by a sticky secretion. As it is usually larger than the bug itself, should another insect decide that the assassin would be good for its next meal it serves as a readymade getaway plan. The attacker goes for the larger part (the hollow exoskeletons) which are then simply shed, allowing the assassin bug to beat a hasty retreat.
Ark in Space has more pics: Link
Extremely High Waisted Pants
If you think about it, wearing tops and pants are totally inefficient. I mean, why wear two pieces of clothings when one would do?
Yes, women have been wearing one-piece dresses forever but it's high time that someone give poor ol' pants the recognition they deserve. Enter couturier Viktor & Rolf, with their creation: the Top Belt Jumpsuit AKA Extremely High-Waisted Pants :)
Link - via Rusty Blazenhoff
It reminded me of one of my favorite childhood characters.
Modified Social Benches
Photo: Artshooter/Flickr
Photo: Artshooter/Flickr
Tired? Why don't you sit down on this ... whaaaa?!
Actually, you're looking at Modified Social Benches by artist Jeppe Hein, which are located throughout the city of De Haan in Belgium, for the contemporary art event Beaufort04.
Kuriositas has the gallery: Link
Hemingway in Cuba
In 1953, Ernest Hemingway won his only Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Old Man and the Sea, which was published in its entirety in LIFE magazine in September of 1952. The magazine sent photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt to Cuba to take pictures of Hemingway for the issue.
“He was,” Eisenstaedt once said of Hemingway, “the most difficult person I ever photographed.” Coming from a man who was a professional photographer across seven decades — someone who photographed presidents, emperors, socially awkward scientists, testy athletes, egomaniac actors, insecure actresses and once, famously, a scowling and goblin-like Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels — coming from Eisenstaedt, that bald assertion about Hemingway is striking, and sadly revealing. And it’s especially sad in light of the effort that Eisenstaedt evidently put into trying to like Hemingway.
Sixty years later, LIFE has posted a gallery of the photographs Eisenstaedt took on that mission, many which have never been published before. Link
(Image credit: Alfred Eisenstaedt)
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