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I Humped Your Hummer.com offers us short videos of people getting it on with the ultimate penis surrogate, The Hummer H2. Seems a little cruel to us, sort of like tap dancing in front of cripples, but we're the sensitive type.
Comic Foundry Magazine trucked on down to the 2006 Eisner Awards at the Comic-Con this weekend to see what was what. Evidently "not paying a lot for this muffler" remains the guiding star of fashion for the modern comic artist, god love `em.
If you had a tool company called Rigid, and there was an illustrator of George Petty's caliber running around looking for freelance gigs, George Petty being the man known for lighting up Esquire magazine with his hot hot dames and their sizzling gams, well what you do? The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog (easy for us to say) offers up a fantastic micro gallery of hot girls you won't get on tools the size of which you don't have.
George Petty's Ridgid Tools Calendars [ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog]
The Centennial Society has a few suggestions, and they've found a handy way to disseminate the playfulness.
"This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company."
Business Reply Mail via The Centennial Society, famously of the Fallen Rapper Pez Prototypes.
Thanks to gerf
"The advent of CGI had hit the muppets hard."
~snort!~
Ala threepwood, via B3ta
Art done on Etch-A-Sketches. The work is technically impressive, the site's level of self-love however sort of makes you wish for one of those low-level five minute long earth tremors which are good for making you renounce drinking for up to 12 hours.
Previously mentioned site Iran graffiti art site Kolah Studio is back on its wheels after a break. The artists involved with Kolah Studio have been at the forefront of getting the graffiti art movement going in Tehran, and they get the site rolling again with a quick and interesting rundown of the death's head in contemporary art.
Raekwon, RZA, and Ghost get a little good grief action in this pretty great mash-up of Wu-Tang Clan and Peanuts from Oh Word. Funny if you like the Wu-Tang, possibly Dadaist if you don't. Highly cool either way.
The fractal, brain-stabby paintings, sculpture and various artworks of John Powers.
Via metafilter
In case you're worried that you might has lost one. Ethan Persoff provides us with possibly the most face-punching scan of an old comic he's unearthed so far, a "simple eleven page comic book test provided to US Soldiers stationed in China during WWII. "
The Indian Kitchen offers up photographs of the kitchens of India, mostly from a few years ago. Interesting not only for the peek at another culture and how it be very similar it is to what we're used to, but as a peek at some fine vintage kitchen gear.
The art of Ben Tour: highly cool stuff in a set of Flash galleries. Sort of feels like Tom Waits sounds, if Tom were in that phone booth in The Birds, and possibly on fire.
The hard world of Stubby Chunks. But one of many fine works to be found at >Art Gone Bad
Interesting photoset going in the statesman of art done in dust, for example Scott Wade's copy of C.M. Coolidge's A Friend in Need carved in the muck of his Mini Cooper's back winder.
Dust Art [Statesman]
This is different: in a bid to go national with the stripping, journalism comic strip CulturePulp dreamed up a CulturePulp'd adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Up, Simba!, in which "I inserted my little bug-eyed cartoon avatar as the narrator, riding on John McCain's campaign bus in 2000." The goof here is on "The Twelve Monkeys", the least liked journos of the McCain campaign in 2000.
A group calling itself, appropriately, Design Barcode has decided the bar code needs a little goose in the style department. What follows is a gallery of far cooler bar codes, soon to be product specific.
Barcode Design Gallery [Bar Code Revolution]
Sticker Robot and Zoltron present The Robot Assemblage Creativity Contest, wherein one is asked to design a robot for sticking purposes. The gist of the rules are thus: "Join The Robot Assemblage. Design a sticker. Add it to the flickr pool. Your design must be tagged with 'Robot Assemblage.' Your design must be a Noun. You can interpret that as you wish. The design can be full color. The dimensions for the sticker are 3" x 3" and must be at least 300dpi. When entering your design to the pool, save it as a 72 dpi Jpeg 500 X 500 pixels. Custom diecut shapes are ok."
Winners will be "handsomely rewarded with various forms of epic swag, and will receive their art printed, published, and produced. " We dig this, and hope to get a little something in here if we can find a few moments alone in underground robot factory.
Check the site for the deets. Check the stickerobot Flickr group for a glance at the art. Shown above: Phoneticontrol's Float
A fine collection of images evidently done with extremely primitive and native-to-Windows paint program MS Paint. Didn't make us cry, did rekindle our lust for the Leather Goddesses of Phobos. So anxious over any doubt that this feat was in fact accomplished with MS Paint and not a team of elves or underpaid illegal immigrants or something, artist S. William Moore II has provided proof: PROOF AND TECHNIQUES FOR THE ULTIMATE MS PAINT DRAWING. That's right, you don't argue with the caps lock key. Not if you know what's good for you.
The Ultimate MS Paint: It Will Make You Cry [Ubersite]
Artist statement: "It's a Nike shoe stapled together with human flesh, twitching..."
It pulsates through the magic of motors and freaks out the humble art lover. There's a video clip, it's lightly nightmarish.
A d a m B r a n d e j s -- Flesh Shoe
With thanks to Peter
Unfortunately the "Heavy Metal Accordion" video which was the initial tip off to this fine site seems to unavailable, we had such a good time at accordion-centric site Squeezytunes that we figured it was worth a link all the same. Anyone else run into a formerly acceptable roommate who bought a stylophone at a thrift store and you had to move less than 5 days later? Just us? Yeah, we didn't think so. The thrift store equivalent of herpes, they are.
Squeezytunes also has a fine post informing us that through the Delhi Musical Stores website we can design our own harmonium. You know, in case we wake up with a burning need for self-punnishment.
Squeezytunes
With thanks to The Eccentric Genius
One Tusk points us to "a commentary by the creators of Venture Bros., Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, where it has appeared as an exclusive download on Quickstop Entertainment. It's for episode 1x07, Home Insecurity, and was dropped from the DVD set due to space restrictions and technical issues. MP3 download of 21+MB."
Get it here
Thanks to Widgett
Image above ganked from Douglas Lovelace's site, an absolutely kickass showplace for his storyboard art and designs from some pretty fantastic projects, including the mighty Venture Bros.
Possi's Contortion Site:
" For Contortion, extreme flexibility, dance, gymnastics, very flexible and double-jointed fitness models, cheerleading, yoga, circus and acrobatics related websites."
Possi's Contortion Site
Thanks to Jan
Artists encouraged to send in variations on the theme of the late night host fighting a bear. A lot of these are flat out genius. Holy shit, is that a Mr.Bill reference?
Doug Auld's State of Grace series features portraits of people who have endured extensive scaring through heavy burns and have gone through their formative years severely disfigured. Doug's paintings get through to the exterior of the personality formed through the suffering, and creates a powerful glimpse into endurance and identity.
State of Grace
American Inventor Spot.com's Amused and Bemused feature points us to some fine wearable art, Luna Parc's fairly specific in tone sculpture jewelry which is labeled "Miniatures to Honor Anatomy and Reproduction." Yes. We're torn between the Colon Brooch ("Colon of Joy", in fact... as if there were another kind) and the tiny Enema Bag sculpture. You can get that enema bag with or without the receptor tush, naturally.
The mighty Matthew Baldwin and Goopymart rightly join forces over at the Morning News to teach children right and wrong. Life is good. Matthew Baldwin explains:
"
My son just turned two, and we have begun to teach him the foundations of ethical behavior. To aid us in this endeavor, we purchased a number of books by Elizabeth Verdick: Teeth Are Not for Biting, Hands Are Not for Hitting, Feet Are Not for Kicking, and Words Are Not for Hurting. Those four volumes might have been enough for the 20th century child. But these days there is at least one more fundamental tenet of ethical behavior that must be drilled into our nation's youth as early as possible. And so I have taken it upon myself to pen the latest installment in the X Are Not for Ying series."
The always fine CulturePulp comic strip goes backstage at the Cirque du Soleil, where Pulp scribe Mike Russell encounters far fewer latex-encased scrotums than we ourselves had to contend with when we saw the show. Maybe they're phasing out the scrotums. God, we wish they'd phase out the scrotums. We saw the Cirque three years ago and we still tense up when we hear French. Cirque du Soleil was our scrotum `Nam. But we digress.
MoCCA's (The Museum Of Comics and Cartoon Art to its mom and dad... shouldn't that be MoCaCa? Guess it looks too much like a meth recipe that way) first online exhibit "Duck." A bunch of fine takes on the cartoon duck. Lots of ducks. Ducks are like vaginas to the cartoonist, evidently. This is why we force ourselves to go outside and talk to people at least once a day, even if we're not in the mood.
Two fabulous Joe Sacco "comics journalism" strips were made available earlier this month through UK news outlet The Guardian: Trauma on Loan, a look at our methods of making friends and influencing people in Iraq, then Complacency Kills, which is all about kittens playing with colorful bits of yarn. Both are downloadable as PDFs, which used to be a dirty word until Foxit rescued us from the vile bloated clutches of Adobe.
Trauma on Loan pdf, 3.20 Mb.
Complacency Kills Pdf 36.4 Mb.
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois:
Livedog (GG Allin)
2002
oil on canvas, ca. 36 x 45 in.
at Zolla/Lieberman [artnet.com]
The Blytheopedia is a wiki built around the Blythe dolls, Blythe dolls being the culty 70s Kenner toy which predated Christina Ricci by about eight years and had eyes which could change color with a string pull. They saw a resurrection in 1997 thanks to TV and video producer Gina Garan who took a bunch of photos of Blythe and created the This is Blythe book. Christina Ricci remains greatly underused in Hollywood as the hot yet freaky minx that she is.
“Britney provides inspiration for those struggling with the ‘right choice’,” said artist Daniel Edwards, recipient of a 2005 Bartlebooth award from London’s The Art Newspaper. “She was number one with Google last year, with good reason --- people are inspired by the beauty of a pregnant woman,” said Edwards.
Daniel Edwards Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston
"The basis of this film by Jochen Müller, Jochen Lempert and Jürgen Reble is found footage from the French-Canadian feature film ‘Ville en flamme'. Before the pictures and soundtrack were reworked, the original footage was buried in the garden, deliberately exposed to bacteria and microbes, and copied when the emulsion began to liquefy. The dissolution of the images – that is, the visible decomposition of the layer of film bearing the pictures – provides a visual equivalent to the disaster that forms the subject of the original film."
In other words, the pitchers look reel purdy all messed up.
Schmelzdahin -- City in Flames [medienkunstnetz]
Via Metafilter
Leapcock: Artist Cees Krijnen uses the male form to create a blah blah blah, be-blah bub-be blah. There's some meaning about whatever and so on, we guess, but we're pretty certain she did it just to see if she could.
Leapcock [the coolhunter]
Artist Saxton Moore invited readers of his great blog Sacks10 to do their own take on characters from the Fat Albert cartoon. The end results are amazing, with appearances by other Cosbyverse regulars like Weird Harold and Russell. Albert the Fat, 13th century duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, does not appear. Limbless Later-Years Diabetes Victim Fat Albert also remains unmentioned. Sadly, Bill Cosby.inc will now have to sue every last one of these dirty infringers to a bloody pink pulp for their efforts.
In the midst of their loving look back at late 60's TV show The Prisoner, more or less the Lost of its day, Datajunkie includes six pages of an unpublished Prisoner comic by comics god Jack Kirby.
YOU are Number 6! [Datajunkie]
Via Eye Of the Goof
Mike Russell's CulturePulp strip recounts Maus creator Art Spiegelman's recent speaking date in Eugene Oregon, wherein we learn that the erotic, self-absorbed cartoonist from New York needs a thinner tin foil hat than some idle chatter may have suggested. Audio of the event has also been made into a podcast.
"For Border Film Project, Brett Huneycutt, Victoria Criado and Rudy Adler spent three months on the U.S. Mexico border filming and distributing hundreds of disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the line: undocumented migrants crossing the desert and Minutemen volunteers trying to stop them."
The end result does what it sets out to do: it makes the feel like a real thing which happens, rather than some abstract going on someplace else.
Border Film Project
Via We Make Money not Art
Odd and cartoony j-porn illustrations of a woman-devouring fetish. Not really work safe, but few will think that you're wanking to it if caught, and if you are caught wanking to it, dealing with being fired will probably feel like a vacation from your other scary issues
Koonago Factory eat [Toyogub's Dark Zone]
Thanks to dslwraith
Renee French's homesite crawls with nuggets of grotesque comic art strangeness which feel like the bits from David Lynch movies that you remember after watching them the first time.
Artist Tenmyouya Hisashi cross pollinates traditional Japanese art with modern culture and ends up with something that feels like the mutant it is; giant robots fight traditional samurai, ninjas break dance, tattooed men strap on cybernetic enhancements.
The mighty DEVO fontman Mark Mothersbaugh slaps his muse around once again with a little paint and some highly fun style erupts out which you can enjoy in two sizable galleries. Mark takes this show on the road; as we type it's headed out to the JUXTAPOZ Group show in Minneapolis, MN on the 25th.
Over at Cracked Matt Tobey and Josh Abraham poke at the sleeping bear which is The Religion Of Peace® with the sharp stick of beloved comics characters. Fatwa scheduled for noon.
More Cartoons That Might Offend in the Middle East [cracked.com]
If you like yer cartoon ladies on the Rubenesque side, illustrator Leigh Young has you covered.
Thanks to Tony5
What it says on the tin: a short and spiffy clip trek through some of the wall mandalas going on in Iran, albeit a little funky in the signal strength. Features Iranian HipHop (a first for us) from Bad Naam.
A Short Documentary About Iranian Graffiti [Kolah Studio]
Via wooster collective
Rockin' artist Frank Kozik gets the Art Army treatment and becomes an action figure in this peek at Michael Leavitt's voodoo at work.
Thanks to Max
See also: cake toppers.
Desiree Palmen's photoart features people who were obviously all classmates with Buster during his stay at the Milford Academy.
Re-artist Eddie Breen offers plain ol' boring art a little help in the "zazz" department by means of a sound Bleening. Behold:
Via the Jaf Project
One man's humble deity is another man's creepy red state motherfucker.
Not much of a cartoon, but we like the illustration.
The Pain -- When Will It End? [the pain comics]
Via J-Walk
A good cut and paste comics goof on TV-infected English pop culture.
Seamless
Via the ever-creative mr and mrs wheatley
A Taiwanese website with a fairly ridiculous collection of fantasy-themed illustrations from a who's who of names in the field. Pictured above is the work of Bruce Timm, who must be the most influential artist in comics art in the past 20 years, it's worth the click alone just to appreciate his smooth lines.
Drew + Natalie = something like that time when we stared at the wallpaper in a Subway restaurant while on mescaline. We mean that not as a dismissal, we were thoroughly entertained until we were asked to leave by that guy with the snake coming out of his face.
Married To The Sea
Thanks to Bosk
"Between 1967 and 1979, Gold Key published 61 STAR TREK comics. Today's fans often overlook these stories, forgetting that they are part of the STAR TREK universe. While far from canon for a number of reasons, these adventures are every bit as exciting and fascinating as their television counterparts. Further, due to the age and demand of these thirty-plus year old comics, they are expensive and hard to find. This site was created to give everyone a chance to enjoy these stories again."
Guide to the Gold Key Star Trek comics
Via the spanking new Eye Of The Goof
A little humor for art nerds -- to over explain this one is to kill it, so with no delay or foreplay the official history of net.art presents The History of Art For Airports.
Death Cab for Cutie’s Your Heart is an Empty Room gets a video from Jeffrey Brown. The video is a less of a straight ahead animation, and more like reading a comic book in a room with a gas leak. A neat idea, and well executed.
Your Heart is an Empty Room [deathcabforcutie.com]
Via Drawn
It's art crafted from orange peels. Like origami, but it smells funny in a week.
Interestingly we used to work in a shipping warehouse with a guy who did exactly this. We'd go back to work after the lunch break and the break room would have little orange pandas or whatever on the counter. It was nice. He was cut nearly in half by a forklift tine while daydreaming.
Jeu d oranges - concours de scan de pelures d orange
via J-Walk
Here's a goodtime bit of strange, a clip described by director Michael Mohan as
a remix of a McDonalds training video circa 1988 I found in the trunk of my friends car." Has sort of a Skinny Puppy vibe with music reminiscent of the early 2000's glitch movement.
With thanks to mister topps
Ursula Vernon's The Biting Pear of Salamanca, described as "a popular tourist attraction of the region, the biting pear lives off low-flying birds, hand-outs, and the occasional unwary sightseer."
Much larger version at deviantART
The Biting Pear of Salamanca
Kristine Larsen's mildly creepy photo series which shows the same NYC spots pre and post 9/11.
One the best Flash presentations we've seen so far -- part traveler's postcard with sound and vivid imagery, part love song to the diversity of Brazil.
Documentarian Bill Steber has a great site up which offers a peek at the Blues culture out of Mississippi, from the 40s on. some really fantastic photographs are fleshed out with the occasional audio segment and bits of storytelling.
Pictured above is Mississippi hill country dummer Cag Young.
Bitterpill's sly goof/comment on blogger Jason Kottke's recent adventures in entrepreneurship.
Here's a promising looking trailer for Harry Kim's still-being-cooked documentary on artist/force of nature David Choe.
Harry Kim's Documentary on David Choe - A Video [wooster collective]
With thanks to Susannah.
This is a journey:
"I've taken fake Xmas pix at the local Sears for the past 10 years with
a fake family and have posted the cards along with a twisted
story to go along with each year."
Always wondered who did these Sears photos. Now we know-- liars.
The Christmas Cards [Solid Gold Fantastic]
Also from the site, a handy prequel to the recent Van Halen post.
Doing Fine, a site featuring the stylized and chunkily slick illustration / comics work of Eleanor Davis. Witness the one-sheet extolling the virtues of the humble accordion. Or this nice to-the-point explination of the act of tooning.
Via Drawn
Click the image for a larger one. We don't know where this is from, but speculation is that it's from some pulp novel centered around the U.S. Camel Corps.
Roughly, it went like this: in 1852 Mississippi senator Jefferson Davis sent a couple of herds of camels from Egypt to Camp Verde just outside San Antonio, Texas, figuring they'd make superior pack animals out in the dusty plains. This lasted for about 10 years before the smell, ill demeanor, and general camel-ness of the animals took their toll on the soldiers' patience, a patience already somewhat taxed by the impending Civil War. Kicked to the curb, a lot of the camels got shuttled off to zoos, circuses, hungry / lonely Scottish immigrants, and so on, but quite a few just ended up wandering around aimlessly out in the dessert, much like hippies, ZZ Top, and eventual victims of Leatherface would some 100 years later.
Anyway, the fez hats and red injuns shitting themselves are probably more like artistic license than fact.
Image thanks to weasel
Mike Russell bids a fond farewell to photo journalist, high diver, 70 year Boy Scout, jazz photographer, globe trotter, musical saw maestro, and not surprisingly, master storyteller, Allan deLay. Allan died as we tend to love-- slumped over his desk at work.
The Downtown Show offers up a pretty great collection of various stuff from the New York art scene when New York was that thing which had serial killers, muggers and the Ramones in it, rather than, say, Disney. A fine example of which is pictured above with Peter Hujar's Candy Darling on Her Deathbed, a photo of drag queen Candy Darling dying of leukemia and still managing to hold her image together. Candy was a popular muse, notably for Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side.”
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984
Via Linkfilter
Ren & Stimpy / Spumco genius John Kricfalusi's blog is, if you're into spastic beautiful illustration, a kind of tiny Valhalla for both eyeballs. You people who ran with the scissors can also play, but you'll only have half as much fun. John K's naked, unpainted sketches of various famiousos is our favorite thing on the site . His work so revealed is something new to us, and a nice new peek into his idea of what the world looks like.
John K's All Kinds of Stuff
Thanks to biffy
David Byrne is fun to read, and look at:
1.25.06: Selfless [journal.davidbyrne]
Cibachromes [lipanjepuntin.com]
Enjoy a couple of collections of spectacular brain-stabbing illustration from the other White Russian, Boris Artzybasheff, at the ASFIA site:
1. Neurotica
2. Machinalia
Some new stuff from the mighty Ethan Persoff: first a couple of 1950s A-Bomb comics which take us back to that simpler time when we could all be killed at once in one large global war, instead of the boring drag of this piecemeal annihilation that we have today.
If an a-bomb falls (1951)
The h-bomb and you (1954)
Also not to be missed is the big-fright-for-you-to-get-right 1980s comic TOUGH TO BE FREE: A MESSAGE ABOUT SNIFFING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Kids, don't touch that... well whipped creme or whatever. You'll have wars to fight in later and you can't do that retarded. At least not until the recruitment number dip low enough. Note that oft-pulled anti-drug trick of telling kids what not to do because you want them to be free to make choices.
Finally, don't miss out on the mellow tones of the fine musical offerings new to the site; a ditty about hypnotism and a little number called SNAP.
A gallery of some very pretty Japanese manhole covers.
Michael Leavitt, last linked to for his Art Army action figures, presents us with customized wedding cake figurines. Pictured above is Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, the very face of a love gone afoul of common sense and the laws of the 48 contiguous states.
Unrelated: The flashing bears on these "twisted valentines" e-cards ain't too bad themselves.
GraffitiTV offers up a constant flow of great little mini-documentaries on graffiti artists, their work, and the neighborhoods from which they spring. Check out short flicks of street art from all over the tiny blue dot.
GraffitiTV
Via Cool Hunting, by way of Susannah.
b3ta is awash in goofing on the hyper sensitivity displayed by the Muslim lunatic fringe these days over the Danish cartoons. Eggy Woof's one stuck us as kind of a stand-out for nailing the point like it was Jesus.
See also: Art School
Unrelated but kind of cool, a Flash toy which lets you Jackson Pollock with a minimum of fuss. Sort of like the real Jackson Pollock..
Life-size dinosaurs by design:
"Whether you’re after a reconstruction of a newly-discovered feathered dinosaur, the tallest sauropod or the most ferocious carnivore, we can make you a cutting edge model at a competitive price. "
Update: apparently the "Feathered Velociraptor" image we originally used as an eyepoke in this thread, represented here by Tin Machine guitarist Reeves Gabrells, is actually much hated over at the Art Dinouveau camp because they feel the science of the thing had to be "massaged" a little to please the client they created it for, evidently a mental 8 year-old like ourselves who saw a snarling monster lizard in a fur and instead of having a logical problem with how lizards tend to go went "bitchin!"
Our usual reply to requests for image changes, "fuck off", seemed inelegant for men of science, so we complied with Art Dinouveau's wishes and switched over to the scene above which, while not as bad-assed, has carnage going for it. Scientific carnage, the best kind.
Cool little video clip of some ad-hoc urban beautification going down with all due haste.
How'd They Do That? #4 - Ghostpatrol vs Fremantle [Wooster Collective]
Click for larger.
We'd like to credit this, but we're not sure who made it.
Thanks to t3poh
Designers / video mongers Three Legged Legs turn the art of Jeff Soto into physics-defying, city conquering beings in this short. This is possibly our favorite thing we've seen in a millenium or so.
Los Angeles Let’s Be Friends [Three Legged Legs]
Seen @ Drawn!
Pastafarianism takes a turn for the Hentai. Matter of time, really. Click for the full not safe for work image.
Thanks to Calvin
A fine excuse as any to link to the still fantastic Ghastly's Ghastly Comic, which we haven't done yet.
Fabulous pop culture art blender Brandon Bird offers up adult versions of those shitty licensed character valentines aimed at school kids with his Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Valentines. Nothing says love like "Belzer."
Gordon McAlpin illustrates a panel discussion between Chris Ware, Seth, and Ivan Brunetti. A fantastic peek into what it is like to draw a comic strip in particular, and work as a free lance artist in general. There are relatively few suicides in the comics industry.
A Comics Panel [StrippedBooks.com]
Noah Z. Jones draws animals in their skives. Deeply religious animals, judging by how much they seem to be enjoying it. The animals likes and dislikes are also offered up Playboy centerfold style, but we don't really want to think about why.
Ethan Persoff presents us the usual nuggets of lost comics awesome we've come to expect with these Roe V Wade inspired strips from 1973. First the question raising Abortion Eve, which raises provocative thoughts like "has the guy who has drawn this ever actually seen a human head before" and "maybe he should open a window and switch to an electric stove just to be safe." At the Samuel Alito end of the comics spectrum is the strip for the never-questioning anything ever crowd Who Killed Junior, in which babies are murdered with extreme prejudice, in accordance to the desires of The Homo Cabal.
Famous For 15MB-- a "completely new space for deserving artistic talent. In 15 easy to use spaces, we offer you the cream of all the under-booked and possibly overlooked musical and audiovisual artists from around this small planet."
Well, "wrote." For every trip the earth made on it axis (or the reverse if you're one of those fundamentalist types) during 2005 a fella with, we're guessing, a lot of cramps in his hand named Tom Judd drew a page. The resulting 365 page book is Tom Judd’s Everyday, which you can view online. A lot of people given to drawing do this sort of thing, but usually spread it out to every time they have a math class or phone call from an unwelcome relative to sit through and would have to live approximately long enough for the music industry to give half a shit about music for 365 pages to amass.
Seen @ Drawn
Steve Purcell's excellent Sam & Max re-animate after a brief decade or so of a nap in the form of a web-comic to promote the new Sam and Max game. Be sure to mouse over the panels
Sam & Max Chapter one: The Big Sleep [telltalegames]
Pretty great promo site for The Heavy Ammunition art project in LA, which features audio samples and a cool little flick with a jumped up Imperial March from the Empire Strikes Back backing a high speed slide show :
"Photographer Zach Wolfe followed us over the course of a day as we traversed the city bombing stickers. We shot well over 9,000+ hi-res photos, spliced em up - and spit out this sixty second preview of the results...no video cameras here, all individual shots. "
Go to the Heavy Ammunition site and watch the video.
People are drawing Batgirl. Batgirl is drawing people. Interesting, interesting.
Above Batgirl by Man-Size
De Lijst offers up a fine collection of sweet scans from vintage movie posters. Mostly exploitation stuff, but a few classics like Dr. Strangelove sneak in, which will allow you to pretend that you're not there for the tits, should you have to explain yourself.
· 18+ movie posters
· cult movie posters
[delijst.net]
Via PCL Linkdump
Artist Scott Hutchison's odd little animation composed of shots of his head modeling his painted mouths lip-synching dialog. Looks like Mick Jagger trying to read a phonebook after a particularly long night of being Mick Jagger.
Scott Hutchison - I Don't Know
Scott Hutchison's site
Via Jaf Project
Here's a collection of scans of what seems to be a horribly produced comic book in which Ziggy-era David Bowie is some kind of gay pan-dimensional super hero belonging to a sort of justice league of gay pan-dimensional superheroes, all of which are rockstars when they're not busy fighting ill-defined monsters in some other gay dimension. This blows brain cells we didn't even know we had until we heard them scream and die.
david bowie... COMICS?! [livejournal]
Via Fazed
The comic from the 50s in which Martin Luther King uses the Passive Resistance method to defeat Doomsday and remotely impregnate Coretta Scott by act of will before succumbing to his injuries. Includes both the English and evidently long sought after Spanish version of the comic, of which there are meant to be maybe two or three copies in existence.
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
Via Ethan Persoff
"PrinceArtist Brian Joseph Davis selected ten albums by ten artists who at some point had been banned or censored, and then ignited them. Throwing caution and proper stylus care to the wind, he then played whatever he could from the charred vinyl and spliced together the samples."
Cool idea, interesting end result, however it does remind us that we live in the sort of culture where The Sex Pistols, Prince and The Dead Kennedys get banned and yet ABBA roams free and unmolested.
Ten Banned Albums, Burned, Then Played [wfmu's BOTB]
In Lego.
"For nearly as long as there have been LEGO bricks, there have been LEGO churches. There's just something about making a little temple for your plastic mini-figures to worship at that appeals to the spirit."
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster [Reasonably Clever]
Thanks to cheap ass bastards
Nifty little comics formatted to fit your iPod. Give that guy who just mugged you a little bonus laugh like the Dali Lama might if he were materialistic enough to own an iPod in the first place which for the purposes of this run-on sentence we'll pretend that he is.
A little before our time, early late 70s SciI-Fi TV show Space:1999 was bigger than we thought, as evidenced by the multiple versions and parodies presented here in comic form from all over the world.
Space:1999 comics [catacombs]
Canadian srtist Mark Bungay uses bodycasts and objects to creates sculptures which speak of a world which seems like the ideal that people into bondage grasp at but only get near.
"The main influence for my work is from two old medical books that my Grandmother left for me. I was totally intrigued by the illustrations and photographs of all the devices, gadgets, procedures and activities, all pertaining to do good, but with out the written explanation you would certainly question the situation. "
Makes for cool CD art, if nothing else.
Czech artist Richard Stipl creates sculptures that feel like verbal descriptions of bad smells made flesh. Pictured above is a bit of Rotschild
Richard Stipl artwork presented by Christopher Cutts Gallery
Via Jaf
Too much Silly Putty. The Top 50 Uses for slightly less Silly Putty.
Unrelated, but feels related: Keri Smith slaps a happy face on the world using "round stickers, a pencil with an eraser, some black ink, and a camera." The wish jar journal's fun with stickers.
Also: either that cow has too many wings, or that duck has too many legs. We can't tell.
Thanks to Gerf
The official site of Imaginary Tokusatsu Hero Dokuro-Tarou.
"DOKUROTAROU is a CD product. It intends to represent a TV program. This CD includes some dramas in Japanese language. Besides, seven songs are integrated. And also, it comes with a booklet made up of six drawing."
Right. Be sure to check out the MP3s at the bottom of the page.
If you think of Blue Note, you probably think of the image above or of Miles Davis' Birth Of The Cool or one of the other simple, perfect, and minimalist designs they've used for their ablums since 1939. This gallery reveals just how diverse their output has been. The only thing one period of design has in common with the next is their ability to not over-do it.
Blue Note: Over 1000 great jazz album covers [pixagogo]
Via We Make Money Not Art
A series of "classic internet infomercials featuring Adventures of Confessions of Saint Augustine Bear", the most meta-internet goofing style humor internet comics yet from My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable (AKA "Get Your war On"). Evidently David Rees misses the 90s almost as much as OK Soda does.
The Smithsonian Institute of Internet History - The Adventures of Confessions of Saint Augustine Bear [mnftiu.cc]
Knitted Graffiti- 100 year old Texan yarn-slinger Knitta leaves colorful knitted bits about in public instead of aerosol paint. We want to goof on this for being just so adorably EMO in concept, but it's frankly too neato.
Knitted Graffiti [Knittaplease/ Myspace]
In which the random people seen in the background become the subjects of sketches. Our advice to the bashful: avoid the holy fuck out of the food court- it is the watering hole, you are the ibex.
The Dead Puppet Show -- a dark little corner of the intarweb, where bits of failed beings lay. A fairly unsettling photo series which suits a bad cup of coffee real well.
The Dead Puppet Show [soa360.com]
Thanks to Wet Paul
A paper model you can print out and make of the Moving Castle from, appropriately, Hayao Miyazaki’s hit anime Howl’s Moving Castle. Popular a few months ago, the model disappeared, and Paper Forest has located a working link again.
Yesterday was the opening of Pixar's huge exhibit at MoMA . from the exhibit website: "this is the most extensive gallery exhibition that MoMA has ever devoted to the genre. Featuring over 500 works of original art on loan for the first time from Pixar Animation Studios, the show includes paintings, concept art, sculptures, and an array of digital installations."
Spiegel online ofers a fine gallery of some of the work to be seen on their site.
Pixar: 20 Years of Animation [MoMA]
Ethan Persoff presents us with his usual strain of unseen comics genius from the past, a "complete set, 95 pages total, of some of the strangest self-help anti-alcohol comic strips ever made -- From that golden era of alcoholism, suburban Guilt Cults, and denial: the late 60s early 70s -- Watch out Jane!"
1968-1974 Alcoholics Anonymous comic strips [ep.tc]
See also:
· Hooked
· 1984 Grenada Comic Book
· Teddy
Anyone else who remembers the covers of Erie and Psycho as the parent-horrifying magazine rack forbidden fruit of their single-digit years will love the Gathering Darkness. Check out their fantastic expanding gallery of covers from horror and genre magazines and comics from the late 70s and 80s.
San Francisco art gallery Start Soma is offering up an ocean of ridiculously cool pixels from some hot artists to gussy up the blinky part on yer rap rod.
Via Drawn
Eric Faustus's Sorcery & Sanctity Comics are fresh bit of net weirdness which seems to be shaping up into something interesting. Features that early zine-like cut and paste random style of humor that people tend to either love completely or are utterly bored by. Ic above taken from "Love That Dracula."
Sorcery & Sanctity Comics [Morningstar Online Comics]
Via Metafilter
Remember in the Road Runner cartoons when While E Coyote would try to kill the Road Runner with a quick forced perspective painting of a train tunnel on a wall which was good enough to fool the eye in hopes that the Road Runner would smack into it with the force of a hundred Ike Turners? Eric Grohe is a mural artist who has made a pretty tidy career of this approach. As impressed as we are with Eric's work, we can't believe the same country that insists toasters have warning sticks on them about using them in the bath allows this. How are there not stacks of bodies?
Eric Grohe gallery [stressbuster1]
Cartoonist / illustrator Mickey Duzyj reminds us that beauty is only the eye of the beholder in this example of his fabulous noir comics style.
57 photos of various mural paintings out in the wilds of San Francisco. These are, to a one, fantastic.
Louis Wain was an artist in the late 1800s who started painting cats to entertain his ailing wife, who suggested he send them out to magazines and newspapers. This was the start of the Louis Wain Cat, a cartoonish image which became very popular both in Britain in America. Shortly after the cat became famous, Louis began to succumb to schizophrenia, and you can see the progression of his breakdown in the drawings.
Insanely Twisted Rabbits
Michel Gagné's penciled oddities take the vague form of rabbits, hideous rabbits which should not be.
Insanely Twisted Rabbits [gagneint]
Gothamist has errected a petition to "send the Sony Corporation a strong message that they should reconsider their graffiti campaign."
The Sony graffiti campaign being the stenciled bits of false street art popping up in various metro locations in which little druggie looking waifs are seen groping their PSPs lovingly.
Gothamist's efforts are a more organized reaction to Sony's lame ads, the ones found out in the wild are much funnier.
Sony Getting Nailed for Corporate Graffiti [Gothamist]
Animator/ illustrator Belle Mellor gives flight to oddly serene Rube Goldberg-esque sealife in this animated short. A good clip for when the coffee starts to wear thin.
Not the Muppet porn it sounds like, rather "journalism comic strip" CulturePulp's interview with Bob Griggs, creator and lead puppeteer behind the Bumpity puppet, star of an "(unintentionally) trippy, no-budget kids's show that ran on Portland, Oregon TV in the 1970s."
Also: CulturePulp's currently popular Aeon Flux coverage, and a documentary on Bob Griggs and Bumpity called Bumpity Returns.
Fairly nice scans of R. Crumb's comic covering the life of "the first great Delta bluesman" Charlie Patton, based on the biography by Stephen Calt and Gayle Dean Wardlow.
Charlie Patton by R.Crumb [Celtic Guitar Music]
Via Z Filter
First check out some pretty fantastic pen sketches from an artist with a name possibly goofier than our own:
Featherbed's sketches [flikr]
(Thanks to John)
And, Paul Robertson's charming usually bloody and often zombie-slaying animations at his bit of Deviant Art and on his Live Journal.
Not new, but the Cthulhu Lego commercial seems to be making the rounds again. Still very funny.
And, the Accordion Guy leads us to the The Cthulhu Circus
-which leads us to nyder's pretty comprehensive load of Cthulhu versions from around the internet. People just love to make The Dark One adorable.
Also:
· Return To Arkham
· Jeffrey Combs reads “Herbert West, Re-Animator”
· WHO WILL BE EATEN FIRST ?
Here's another round of petty great comics tweaking from Nidrian, who threatens that this may be it for a while from him.
Previously:
Watch Out For Snakes
Nidrian shrugged
Unrelated, but if you liked one you'll probably like the other: Suicide bomber support website needs donation [Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community]
Thanks to Allen
NWYH Stock Image Library offers up fake images for fake promotional images of fake business. It takes a few for the humor to settle in, but it quickly dawns on you how clever this stuff is.
Here's an amazing animated short from Chris Appelhans of Frank and Frank fame, both from his loaded portfolio site. Superman gets up after a bad day with some help from a little girl, and a piano which is possibly being play with a set of feet.
Chris Appelhans' Superman
Froghat Studios - Chris Appelhans' portfolio site
Via Metafilter
"You're never more than two meters from a doodle."
Odd sketches from random flat surfaces show up daily at the doodleblog. Looking at some of these you realize that everyone's subconscious tends to drift in a similar sea of faces animals and shapes.
Doodleblog
Via Drawn
Screenhead regular Mike Russell's semi-journalistic comic strip CulturePulp hits the slightly bigger time with a feature in this weekend's Boston Globe in which the backstory of Aeon Flux is explored. A longer, less challenged by Flash ads version is found at Mike's site.
The not-so-secret history of Aeon Flux [The Boston Globe]
Here's an amazing niche blog devoted to "Visual Materia Obscura", odd versions of reality as depicted in various far flung bits of print over the years. Everything from attempts to catalog the natural world to early visions of the universes inside men show up. Centuries of odd illustrations make an appearance.
A sizable gallery of some seriously great tricked out bicycles.
T H E B I K E R O D & K U S T O M G A L L E R Y [BikeRod & Kustom]
Brings to mind this old thing
Watch a Channel 4 newscast covering the opening of Banksy's Crude Oil exhibition in West London's Notting Hill gallery, in which the entryway is carpeted with a sea of rats for his victims patrons to cross.
Banksy: Crude Oil Exhibition [kabakuba]
Via Kabakuba
Finally, a convenient way to spare people the really awful things in life.
The Warning Label Generator
Via Linkfilter
Here's a site describing the technique used to create the "Toynbee Tiles", the near permament Kubrickian mosaic street art that started popping up in Washington, D.C and then, presumably through copycat artists, spread to major cities and countries.
Asphalt Mosaics [sometemple.com]
Toynbee Tiles [wikipedia]
Previously mentioned dark Finnish animator rockstars Lodger have been busy making more promo spots for Equality Zone.org. Ad Land links to putfile Quicktime uploads of the animations to be found at the Equality Zone.org site:
"Have you ever wondered what happens to your cigarette lighter when you lend it to someone and don't get it back? This project is a global artistic collaboration to delve into the secret lives of lost lighters."
So then, email photographer/artist James Robert Ford, ask for a lighter, take pictures of yourself and others using it, and pass it along. Sort of like the classic goof of stealing your neighbors garden gnome and taking pictures of it in France, but less funny and with more cancer.
Six Degrees of Smoking [James Robert Ford]
Robot monsters you can print out, build, and sic on each other noisily right in the workplace. Y'know, because simply giving two weeks notice is far too adult and stuffy.
Readymechs
Via Art Dorks
Adorable Cupco characters get the grim fates they deserve in this Flash toon short.
The Trip [Cupco]
The Cupco site
Via Art Dorks
We're enjoying the jibber jabber of Mayhem.net becasue it reminds us of the out-of-California "underground" internet art of 1993 or so, back when goofy terms like "art damage" roamed the earth unquestioned by square philistines.
Ethan Persoff, he of the fabulous 1966 anti-drug propaganda comic book Hooked!, brings for the holiday season Grenada, scans of a comic book produced by the CIA to be air-dropped during the US Invasion of Grenada
"Rape, Murder, Lies, Beatings. All tied up in a beautifully dishonest Pro-Reagan Anti-Castro message. George Bush Sr even takes time out his busy post-hurricane Humanitarian schedule to make an appearance. This comic was never meant to be read by anyone in the United States, or anyone outside the Caribbean for that matter. "
Grenada [ep.tc]
Here's a pretty great gallery of fetishized cassette tapes. They toss a nod to other and probably most famous cassette love site, the C-90 project.
Cassette Jam '05 [Not Wild Style]
Previously: The C-90 project
A pretty great flash collection / shrine of Salvador Dali's works and photos indexed into time periods of creation. Features random creepy Un Chien Andalou ants.
See also: Un Chien Andalou and Gala and the Tigers And the Vast Ocean of Breasts.
David Lanham's well known for his idiosyncratic cartoon icons, now he's offering wallpaper with the same clean illustration style.
Goodies [David Lanham]
Via Digg
We know nothing of Jean François Coen, for every time we Google the name we get some sort of unreadable demon language like you might see on a scroll in a rerun of Buffy, but the music in the single Café Bouillu is a soft sort of organic stuff, and it gets a fitting video from director Stéphane Berla's made from computer manipulated cutout figures.
Jean François Coen - Café Bouillu [MAgicLAb]
Sheridan College's Classical Animation Program alum Jonathan Klassen and Dan Rodrigues kick out a sweet chunk of animation in this short. We'd be lying if we said we fully got what was going on exactly, but it is fantastic eye candy and it sets a nice mood. Do not watch this while high. Yes you. If you're high enough to feel a little strange because the website is talking to you specifically, wait until later to watch this.
An Eye for Annai [burst of beaden]
Plenty of other nice bits to be found at the Bust Of Burden site.
Via Drawn!
Check out Jim Minton's Cumpleanos, an "experiment in time" in which 52 years worth of photographs are aligned and morph from one to the next. Part of the extremely cool Post Video Art website, which features interesting short bits of video experimentation from all around the web.
Cumpleanos [Post Video Art]
The Barbara Kruger Style Guide
Bit of an in-joke to designers maybe, but even if you don't know the name "Barbara Kruger" you're likely familiar with her vaguely Sex Pistolsian style of graphic eyepoking "message as design". ConsumeDaily offers us a tongue-in-cheek guide to Barbara's mindset.
Barbara Kruger Style Guide [ConsumeDaily]
While we're on the subject of ConsumeDaily and design, check out their graph How a Designer Grows - Changes In A Designer's Self Worth/ Knowledge Over Time
One of the many enjoyable original bits of shock shock horror horror previously mentioned Art of Bleeding use to distract you briefly from their porn nurses while putting on their educational live presentations.
The Art Of Bleeding : Gambled And Lost
Also: goooooooood monkey.
Everything is better with ninjas! Here's a comic with not just a doctor, and not just a ninja, but a ninja doctor with a gorilla receptionist. And he knows Batman. And he'd prefer you didn't go around lumberjacking.
Don't worry, it'll all make sen- well, not really, but it's funny.
Check out the online gallery of former Graffiti Artist Turf, which has more than a few images which feel right for Halloween
Also, score one for Satan. Happy holidays, oh dark one.
Robert Crumb's tongue-in-cheek wander through the idea of what a wretched threat to America Black folks would be if they ever get their horrible, primitive way. Or as the NYPD seem to call it, "page one."
When the Niggers Take Over America! [Heretical]
Thanks to pujin5
First, Betty and Veronica go Goth. Better than it sounds, but not as hot as it could have been. [accordionguy]
Second, Worth 1000 dreams up tortures for Jack O Lanterns. That knifed one is going to be hard to beat. [worth1000]
Third, Chris Isenberg does very cool icon paintings. [cool hunting]
"Slow Wave is a collective dream diary authored by different people from around the world, and drawn as a comic strip by Jesse Reklaw. A new strip is uploaded every week on the first minute of Saturday in San Francisco; 3 AM in Ottawa, ON; 5 AM in London, UK; and 3 PM in Sydney, Australia. Bookmark this page and check back each week for the latest 'Wave! "
Interesting concept, and the first time we've not been bored stiff by the dreams of others.
Slow Wave
(Top image is "Einstein's Autograph" by Mike Woolman)
Also, Was Einstein a Space Alien? From NASA, interestingly.
Here's a Flikr set detailing what may be the least comfortable looking costume we've ever seen, and that includes the woman suit made by a panicked Buffalo Bill.
The AT-AT Costume Halloween 2005 [Flickr]
Also:
Cockeyed’s Paparazzi Costume and iTtire
Oh, this is funny- "USA Today pulled a photograph of Condoleezza Rice from its website after a weblog revealed it was manipulated, giving the secretary of state a menacing, demon-eyesing stare."
Here [World Net Daily] via Linkfilter
Seriously, we've never wanted a spanking from a leather-corseted Secretary of State so hard in our lives.
See also: Ze Frank’s Love Letter To Condi
Photographer Eolo Perfido looks at the embrace of Propaganda in these images almost as if it were a parasitic form of Schizophrenia, tearing its host organism apart. Nifty stuff, in our opinion, and a fun thing to print out and leave under the windshieldwiper of that SUV with a fucking yellow ribbon magnet on it.
Eolo Perfido's Propaganda Series
Thanks to jen
Here's a stop-motion UK TV spot for Tennent's Lager from Aardman Animations (the Wallace and Gromit people.) Evidently the script for Pintlings had been floating around Tennent's ad agency unused for a few years before it fell to Aardman because no one else was sure what to do with it exactly.
Read a great post about Pintlings' creation here, and watch the ad here.
For the Les Biennales de Lyon exhibition concept of "experiencing duration", Kader Attia went with the darkside and decided to give patrions a Hitchcockian poke in the eye by filling a playground with kids made of compacted bird grain and 150 hungry pigeons. This forces the viewer to reflect on how precious we hold our ever-crumbling memories of our childhood, or something, but the real point of course is that it's a lot of fun to watch children get devoured by birds. Cool hi-rez images and the full story at the link:
Kader Attia’s Flying rats [fluctuat.net]
Coverpop is a clever content indexing concept, here used by Jim Bumgardner on Doug Gilford's MAD cover site Mad magazine covers. A collage of thumbnails is made, with more details revealed about a specific item when you mouse over it.
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in 211k, The seuel to Star Wars: A New Hope in 168k.
Created by B3ta regular FoldsFive.
(Apologies for the expedited posting going on these past two days, we're doing the post hurricane power shuffle, hopefully to be over shortly. )
A "Virtual Pumpkin Carver" jack o' lantern simulator from Liquid Generation.
How to Carve a Pumpkin [liquidgeneration]
Naoya Hatakeyama's photos of industrial sites which as far as we know are untreated and simply caught in the right light to look otherworldly.
Naoya Hatakeyama: Examples from the Lime Works Series, 1991-1994 and Lime Hills, 1986-91 [L.A.Galerie]
Installed Truths - some great Alexander Sterzel neogothic imagery for the Halloween season.
The Tim Burton Collective offers up the six episodes of Tim Burton's Stainboy Flash cartoons. Stainboy is one of the characters from Tim's The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories from which Roy the Toxic Boy, Robot Boy, Match Girl, Staring Girl also pop up.
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories [Tim Burton Collective]
Planet Dan presents us with scans of a German children's book which gets the whole birds and bees thing graphically out of the way before the kids are old enough to start watching conservatives on television and develop fear and loathing for the human body.
Where Babies Come From in Germany [Planet Dan]
Check out this rendering of Super Mario in pixel style made from twisted Rubik's Cubes(!) A clever bit of pixel worship from the mighty Invader, he of those guerilla Space Invader pixel glyphs which just pop up globally wherever they damn well please.
Pixel-art Mario made from stacked Rubik's Cubes [Boing Boing]
While we're ankle-deep in the pop culture art, enjoy these vistas from the cartoon Futurama, which normally you're forced to glimpse at one television screenspace at a time. These made the rounds a while back, but it seems a few new ones have been added.
Futurama Panoramas [punkasspunk]
As always, some great sight gags going on over at photo manipulation Thunderdome Worth1000. First, the seventh "Engrish" contest, in which products are seen through the prism of bad translation. Cheap jokes really travel the furthest, don't they? Also at Worth1000, check out Animal Dayjobs, which is just plain odd.
Engrish 7 and Animal Dayjobs 4 [worth1000]
Craig Fisher gives acts of hideous destruction a thick ,cuddly, puffy coat of adorable. Here is the Rokeby Gallery online photoset of Craig Fisher’s Misdemeanors art exhibit.
Craig Fisher’s Misdemeanors [Rokeby]
Named after a character on Sesame Street, inspired by by R.Crumb, check out the Lowbrow Art stylings of Nashville Tennessee resident Mr. Hooper. We're fond of Mr. Waters.
Lowbrow Art [mrhooperart]
"A pregnancy belly cast enables a mom to forever remember how she looked during her pregnancy and the special nine months she shared with her growing baby."
Who are we to judge. At least it wasn't a horse. A shockingly large gallery of painted belly casts awaits you.
Belly Casts photos
ProudBody Pregnancy Belly Casts main
An exciting new product to meet the demands of the modern parent. From the site:
"A baby cage? Isn't this harmful to children?
No, All of our products are tested on third-world country test subjects experimentally for six months. After each experiment, each child showed no signs of physical or emotional damage. Using Baby Cage products are 100% safe! None of our products can cause parent damage to a child or infant.
How are your products manufactured?
Each of our products are hand crafted by our highly trained and specialized engineers. The same engineers that design the product! We can assure you the highest of quality materials are used. Each our cages are made with very thick plastic coatings to ensure your child's teeth are not destroyed if they teeth and decide to gnaw at the cage."
Genius. Get yours today.
BabyCage.net
With thanks to Blogebrity
Music with Roots in the Aether is composer Robert Ashley's series of interviews and performances with six other composers who "seemed to me when I conceived the piece-and who still seem to me twenty-five years later-to be among the most important, influential and active members of the so-called avant-garde movement in American music." The interviewed include Philip Glass, David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, and Terry Riley.
The video files on UBU's page are the full seven two-hour programs as originally presented, half interview half performance. The audio files have been divided into two parts, one-hour each.
Music with Roots in the Aether [ UbuWeb]
Signature is the mighty animator Bill Plympton's spot for United Airlines Hong Kong. The newest of Bill's online Plymptoons.
Signature [plymptoons]
Also: How To Kiss
The online portfolio of Japanese illustrator and all around renaissance guy Hiroshi Yoshii. Check out some fantastic creatures created with the ZBrush 3D rendering software, short animations, and graphics for various products. Yoshii slings around a great playful style in his own plastic universe.
Every year fantastic sculptures made from hundreds of pounds of butter happen at the Tulsa State Fair; this year saw Darth Vader and Yoda in place of the usual pastoral scenes.
Buttery Force [lordfunkenstein's Live Journal]
Note: We don't know on what to blame the previous spelling of "cholesterol", but we know we're never drinking wine made in a Dodge Dart's radiator ever again. Thanks to Jeff for the spelklchecfing.
The online edition of Born magazine continues to put out their great flash/poetry thing, Courtney Queeney's Origami in the recent publishing caught our attention. Also, as long as we're being all arty, we didn't realize that you could watch online the little movies you see when you shove your head up the asses of Czech sculptor David Cerný's Futura bent-over men thingy. Interesting.
Julien Lions creates cool photo images.
Julien Lions: Portfolio #1 / Fuck
Design studio Feel Good Anyway lends some motion to the illustrations of Craig Frazier in these three fantastically scored and stylish animations, which serve as a draw to the Stanley Books site. The music and flow of these shorts are a perfect match to Craig's style, watching them sort of feels like going through a modern art museum on rollerskates after a beer or two.
Movies [Stanley Books]
We've linked to digital artist Larry Carlson before, his site has had a bit of facelift since then and is ever-more full of his animated work. Any one of these dozens of works in their various media could be its own post here, all of it is stream of continuousness and occasionally interactive, and remind of us Tim Leary's imagery. If this is your first visit to Larry's world you could murder a sizable amount of time in here.
Imaginary Places [Larry Carlson]
We linked to The Cutie Bunch Friendly Pal Pack in something of a hurry last Friday, ignorant of its author Angus Oblong, he of the short-lived Oblongs cartoon, of which we were pretty fond. Angus' site is chock full of his idiosyncratic work, including Something You've Never seen Before.
Angus Oblong's site
With thanks to Phillip
"Life from the perspective of a 2-liter Volvic water bottle," in QuickTime VR format, from photographer Thomas Mottl.
"Sometimes I get crazy ideas and then I must just do it," explains Mottl.
A warning - this is a bunch of photos mashed together into a large seamless image that you can "roll around in"- it made one prone to vertigo person we showed it to a little nauseous. It's more intense than the thumbnail above makes it seem.
Life inside a water bottle [VR Mag]
New friends for the weekend. But one of the many joys to be found at website Corey is one powerful piece of man, including this necessary goof on one of the most tired jokes on the internet.
The Cutie Bunch Friendly Pal Pack via
Corey is one powerful piece of man
Unrelated, yet amusing: Stuff you may have missed in The Shining, and some theories on Lost.
Lenny Jones gives Claudia Rose's photo journal of the 2005 Burning Man festival one of the more creative flash interfaces we've ever seen, presented in the form of a comic book.
Burning Man 2005 The Comic Book [Lenny Jones]
Also: Take your protein pills, put your helmet on : the incredible motorized couch
Ryan Hayes’ Burning Man photos
Sure sure, they're adorable, until they demand your flesh for their fuel. Jess makes a wide verity of veery cool knitted toys, but the robots are the poop as far as we're concerned.
Knitted Robots [Jess Hutchison]
A set of photos as one NYCer's response to overwhelming emotions caused by the Hurricane Katrina situation. Probably a little hard to see without power, but the sentiment remains.
I am thinking of you [Flickr]
via Vidiot
"People approached me with tiny pupils, `Are you paparazzi?`, they asked. I was starting to get the idea that I could be a winner in the costume contest."
From 2002, but still probably our favorite costume idea ever.
The Paparazzi Costume [Cockeyed]
Via Eyebeam
Upate: this may be a better one.
Thanks to Kraut
Sculptor Mashiro Fukuyama crafts out some pretty nifty get-ups which are about 40% yesterday and 60% next week, drawing from both ceremonial Samurai armor and video game characters who tend to be from the future. A blend of molded plastics, leather, fur, precious stones and precious metals, Fukyama tends to model his snazzy threads himself.
Mashiro Fukuyama's outfits [The Mothership]
Mashiro Fukuyama's site
Via We Make $ Not Art
Evidently things have not always been all smiles and sunshine for Mickey Mouse, who trundled through a series of comic strips while feeling the hard rodent blues from mean mistreater Minnie. Mickey is seen attempting lovelorn suicide repeatedly in this collection of fifteen strips from 1930, evidently one of the few original ideas for Mickey from Walt, who didn't actually do the majority of the Mickey Mouse strips. We find this self-pity angle refreshing, as it sort of takes the pressure off us normal folks if even the happiest mouse on earth can't hold it together all of the time.
Mickey Mouse - Barnacle Press, by way of Bunnyspatial
Matchstick Rockets is a site which will teach you the mysteries of " fully functional rockets that you can build in minutes from common household materials." The overestimate us. "They are also quite safe since each rocket is constructed from just one solitary little paper match. There just ain't enough propellant to explode no matter how badly you go wrong in construction." They underestimate us. Nevertheless, cool idea. Give it whirl.
Matchstick Rockets [matchstickrockets.com]
The reasonably tasty Fantagraphic Books blog (or Flog as they like it) pimps the upcoming fifth volume of The Complete Peanuts with a post mentioning a few strips suppressed by the publishers first time around for syndication at the time. Here then is a hit of seven of the trippier hits of Schulz, the stuff that, in our humble opinion, is Peanuts at its best. You'll have to squint, because evidently it'd hurt sales to let these things out on the internet at a reasonable size.
Peanuts 1959-1960 [Flog]
Worship The Glitch has a great post on surrealist image monger Man Ray's "cameraless" film Emak Bakia.
"In Emak Bakia, the mischievous dadaist and surrealist Man Ray pioneered the technique of cameraless filmmaking, exposing lengths of film to light after sprinkling them with pins, grains of salt and other common objects. - Individual images are striking for their humor and originality, but Ray still apparently felt it necessary to impose a conventionally readable theme -the car ride -to hold the film together."
Man Ray's Emak Bakia [Worship The Glitch]
Meats Meier has been cranking out some pretty involving computer based art and animations for some time now, and most of it can be seen at his website. Our favorite is this trailer for his short film The Future Of Sex which strikes us as more or less dead on.
The online sketchbook of Meats Meier
With thanks to 5head
The website of the mighty Ron English, chock full of his collected works in various media and formats, in which the popular culutre is beaten into delium with an ugly shtick.
Ron (along with the equally mighty Daniel Johnston and Mark Mothersbaugh) is currently on tour, check the site for details.
Artist One Neck hates you, but not so much that he won't share his ennui driven art with everyone. The comics section has a kind of a Peter Bagge - like charm to the despair. Pray for One neck.
Check out fantastic artist Glen Baxter, he of the deadpan dry sense of humor which feels like the usual New Yorker cartoons after they've huffed a little spray paint.
· Glen Baxter's site
· More of Glen Baxter's work
· Yet more Glen Baxter
· And finally an audio interview with Glen Baxter
All via this Metafilter thread
"It's a pretty weird feeling when you come across them unsuspecting."
Colorado Springs mailboxes receive a threatening makeover in the name of one hell of pun thanks to the artists of Chaos Studios. Here is Edwin Gore's flickr set of the boxes.
Edwin Gore's photos - Blackmail Boxes [flickr]
Via Boing Boing
"Cosmetics Bureau"
Seen @ Fudge Factory Comics
"Sure, I like typing" you mutter to yourself while plucking your nose hairs and cursing in Swahili, "but how can I make the experience more, I don;t know, Gallagher?"
The Sledgehammer-Operated Keyboard [Taylor Hokanson].
Seems like the sort of thing the owner of a Digital Turntable-in-a-Tree Stump might like.
Also, for vague reasons the Gallagher Smash Flash game thing, which you should probably just ignore.
From the site:
"-each of Greg’s works should display the following warning: Watch your step: Your misconceptions may send you flying and you will need a hard hat to protect yourself from unsettling contradictions."
Or, with the grandiloquent artsy speak filtered out : "Fucking trippy, dude."
The Art of Greg Brown
via JimWich
Reminds us of Julian Beever's sidewalk stuff a bit.
The name says it all- a large graffiti mural sort of work done all with the limited graphics program MS Paint, which seems to bemoan the current state of Rage Against the Machine, Futurama, Che Guevara, and how that clown from McDonald's still isn't dead.
Best MSPAINT EVAR! [uber site]
You likely either find this a sphincter-compacting thrill or completely pointless, we don't imagine there's middle ground here. We're fans, we can't help ourselves.
Paris-based illustrator and comics artist, and sometime Métal Hurlant (Heavy Metal) magazine contributor Beb-Deum has a cool gallery site up displaying his work from the past couple of decades or so, all wrapped up in a crisp Flash candy shell so you get the art in your eyes, not on your hard drive. Or something.
The never boring DJ Spooky teams up with the Museum Of Contemporary Art in this Flash toy that allows you to remix artist Marcel Duchamp with suitably poppy-clusterfuck sound and vision. Not hard to draw a nice straight line from Duchamp's "found object" style of mix art and DJ Spooky's sonic pallet.
Errata Erratum [MOCA]
A couple of Duchamp sites we like : Duchamp.org, and Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp
And of course, DJ Spooky's site
Photoshop Thundedrome Worth 1000 gives everyone the big eye with their contest to see who can anime up a celebrity the freakiest.
Reality Manga [Worth 1000]
Our favorite, just for raw concept alone, is Manga Ike.
Jason Shiga's new interactive comic Meanwhile is somewhere between those old Choose Your Own Adventure books, and recent indie film sensation/fondue fork shoved hard in the average stoner's ear Primer.
Good luck.
"Meanwhile begins as our young hero in dire need of a bathroom, knocks on the door of a mysterious recluse. His mansion is in fact a wonderous laboratory filled with amazing inventions: A mind reading helmet, a doomsday device and a time travel machine (although it can only go back ten minutes)."
Photoflavor: 243 wallpaper-worthy photos by color-minded photographer Zac Doob. The site is very well indexed, and expanding.
Director / animator / motion graphics designer David Foote's short unsettling bit of strangeness that feels like Marilyn Manson's Thanksgiving dinner if he were having it in a George Orwell novel.
DINING HALL 838 [agrobaby]
"Liquid Sculpture is the process of creating shapes by dropping and splashing water, or other liquids. These sculptures are then photographed, since they last only a few thousandths of a second."
Sweet, and every single one of these would make completely bitchn' Trapper Keeper inlay graphics.
A pretty amazing gallery of photos of a parade in France in which.. well, a giant Bjork puppet fights a giant elephant puppet to see who gets to eat thousands of hotel concierges and women in wooden swimsuits. The French, are we right? Frickn' wacky.
Actually it was a celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days.
Royal de Luxe Parade in Nantes (the visit of the Sultan on his elephant to travel in time) [royal_de_luxe_2005]
via art dorks
A nice freaky bit of photo-realistic otherworldly plantlife rules this 1st Ave Machine created video for Alias. We don't know if Alias is the band, the track, or 1st Ave Machine's title for their own composition, so if we're snubbing someone their due credit, let us know.
Alias [1st Ave Machine]
Via Tween
Update: "Alias is one person. his name is Brendon Whitney, and he's part of
the collective/label Anticon. the song is called Sixes Last."
Large thanks to Matt for the info, also a part of Anticon, as is Dosh.
A fine collection of animator / illustrator Devin Clark's bumper spots is to be found at his website. You've probably seen his stuff wedged between the shows and ads on Comedy Central. His characters feature that sort of loopy retro-ness that makes John Kricfalusi's work so much fun.
Very detailed instructions on how to create one of those Post-it note mosaics that have been hopping around the web for the past year or so, in this case in the image of Elvis. Handy for warding off Michael J Fox, if you should find him in your personal space*.
· Elvis Spotted in the Conference Room [capstrat]
· *Elvis is Everywhere video - Mojo Nixon [Real Player file, apologies]
Nipping and tucking like a motherfucker: The Gucci Chainsaw- "commissioned by fashion-forward national-socialists", the work of subversive weapon sculpture freak Peter Gronquist.
The Gucci Chainsaw [Spunker]
Sculpure + Weapons [Peter Gronquist]
With thanks to Cardboard Monsters
Artist Ji Lee takes an open source approach to graffiti:
"I printed 50,000 of these speech bubble stickers. I place them on top of movie posters, ads and signs all over New York City. Passers are invited to fill them in. I go back and photograph the results."
The results are hilarious more often than not.
Speech-Bubble Stickers [Please Enjoy]
Group member Wolfgang Gantner said: "It's supposed to make you feel small, like Gulliver. You walk around it and you can't help but smile."
Giant erection [ananova]
Stickfigure Ninja: creative oddites that go on for pages.
Via Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival
Also, we think we have found the Branch Davidians for the David Koresh that is our masthead logo : BIGEYEART.COM
The online portfolio/marketplace of illustrator Kristian Olson. Funky stuff with a kind of future carnival vibe going on about it.
Martin Schoeller's Close Up is a quick photo series to promote the photographer's book which features close-ups of famous faces. An interesting experiment in which we learn two things: first, naturally attractive people look a hell of a lot better without all of the anti-age fudging that turns them into frickn' balloon animals, and second, Marylin Manson and Mary J. Blige clearly share DNA, but not on Mary's chin or in her hair, as the previous sentence would have led us to believe. Also, we think Prince might be made out of crayons.
You'll need two things to enjoy Sound Artist Jon Brumit's page: speakers and the ability to enjoy odd THX-1138 sort of sound bursts. Explore around the page, embedded are links to all manner of sound warps.
Public Works [Jon Brumit]
Not the Walrus, just the Eggman. Well, men. Well, not so much men as hideous mutants, really. Well, adorable hideous mutants, but they're eggs. A bunch of hideous adorable little eggmen by an artist named Tofer.
Two guys and a couch see a little bit of the city; 35-freak laden NYC blocks, in fact. Check out this photo journal in which porn, pizza, fat guys in Hummers, and an accordion slinger all glide past as a humble bit of furniture has a night on the town. Includes some great pictures, a few short videos, and for some reason a person freely choosing to eat at a Domino's Pizza in New York City.
nyc day 11a [clivity's live journal]
With thanks to Silicon Druid
Some notable inkslingers illustrate their favorite literary characters and/or the authors themselves in this gallery that has been growing since 1998. Pictured above is Stuart Immonen's take on Dorothy Parker.
Artistic Interpretations of Literary Figures Version 8.0 [Digital Medusa]
John Cake and Darren Neave as The Little Artists have created a mini-exhibition of Lego versions of famous pop art. Minifigures pose before Dali's Lobster Phone, Warhol's Money, and Damien Hirst's ever-creepy Shark Tank. If you're in Liverpool, you can see it in the flesh at the Walker Art Gallery until the 29th.
Art Craziest Nation Inventory [Walker Art Gallery]
Webtoon Get Your War On comments on the Hurricane Katrina failure.
Previous to The Clones of Fu Manchu and Sumuru webpage we're linking to here, we took Dr. Fu Manchu, "the yellow peril incarnate in one man", as that sorta campy cheap serial villain from early last century American xenophobia. Turns out Fu Manchu is an enduring archetype, popping up again and again ever since, most recently as Ra's Al Ghul in Batman.
Paul Gadzikowski's pencil-drawn crossover fan fiction and comics. The artwork is primitive, as these were originally intended only for his own amusement, but the writing is kind of engrossing, particularly if you're Nerd enough to follow these series. Includes Paul's take on the Buffy, Dr. Who, Star Trek, Batman and Superman universes, among others.
Ryan Hayes' flat out amazing photoset from the recent Burning Man festival, including the usual extreme fashion choices. Black rubber in the playa? Fabulous, sweetie darling! Hopefully the next of kin reads this site.
Until the hard governmental clench on stem cell research relaxes a little, allowing science to get back to the hardcore tossing of babies into blenders and wood chippers like it really wants to, we'll have to make due with these small perversions of nature: bees and dogs, forced to have dirty sex and produce an unholy army of... oh. Well, these are just dogs in bee costumes. That's not nearly as cool. Why is this popular?
Starting today and going through until October 22, the Gigantic ArtSpace in NYC will be featuring the work of "culture jamming" term-coiners, cut ups, remixers, intellectual-property-rights-as-toilet-paper-using-individuals, and all around fine folks Negativland to celebrate their 25th(!) anniversary.
Negativlandland [Gigantic ArtSpace in NYC ]
via Stereogum
Unrelated, but yippie: Adult Swim episodes on Friday nights, on the net, for free. Adult Swim throws fans broadband lifeline [Yahoo]
Also unrelated, but a fine idea : Kanye West for President
Candykiller is the pleasantly twisted illustration work of Brian Taylor. Includes killers, puppies, Tor Johnston, the Devil, sushi, fishes wearing fezes, and adorable little things with their intestines trailing behind them, among other such nuggets of eyeball pleasure.
The Worth 1000 pixel pushers envision serious amusement park rides in this popular contest. We're fond of this idea in particular. We think the Disney in France tried something like this for a while, but Gerard Depardieu eventually got tired of being slapped.
Bizarre Attractions 6 [Worth 1000]
Tammy Fae Baker penpal Jason Mecier takes the arts and crafts approch to the celbirty worrship art. The end results are, well, mostly kind of disturbing.
A Flikr photoset of illustrations featuring pirates doing the sorts of things we wish would happen to just one of those RIAA/MPAA lawyers so they'd find a more correct term for what it is that they're trying to combat.
"My friend found a Howard Pyle book printed in 1903 titled Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates full of his wonderful (now public domain) illustrations. Enjoy!"
Howard Pyle Illustrations [flickr]
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates [Project Gutenberg]
Cigar label art: incredibly pretty, intricately crafted, and about as racist as the sledgehammer they used to hobble Kunta Kinte with.
Cigar label art [in stone.inc]
If you've ever thought to yourself "Self, sure life is good and all, but what we really need is to watch a performance artist get inkless tattoos of names of hate crime victims all over her body for eight hours", you're in luck because there'll be a webcast of Mary Coble doing exactly that tonight for your... well, whatever it is you do while watching that, pleasure.
· NOTE TO SELF Performance (webcast, tonight, 6 p.m EST)
A really fantastic Flickr set of stamps which serve as business cards/ graffiti tags/ dogtags for the illustrators who create them to be shown off at the ICON Illustration Conference in San Francisco. They are, to a one, sweet eyecandy.
Pantufla's ICON4 Illustration Conference Flickr set
Via Drawn
Check out the ridiculously expressive illustration work of Bobby Chiu.
While you're at it, check out Bobby's hilarious student film Cosbee.
"This image is a photomosaic of the famous painting 'Starry Night'. The image is made with over 210.000 tiny photographs and a total size of over 1.500.000.000 points in other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Click over the image (Zoom In) until you start to see the tiny images."
Neat effect, achieved with previously mentioned Flash doodad Zoomify.
Van Gogh - Starry Night
"I am concerned with presenting the absurdity of human history and culture by assembling disparate objects and images into new objects of great humor and meaning."
San Diego artist Jason Sherry creates mixes of photo images, physical mechanisms and the mainstream medicascape to create art that lives in its own oddly non-specific period of time. Plenty of videos, photos and collages to check out at his site.
"No animals were harmed in the creation of this web page. All of us, however, were humiliated and demoralized by the actual events that inspired it. Everything worked out okay, though."
One man's quest for a clear bowel'd cat, and the hastily-drawn cartoon of his perilous journey. For something that is merely a vague cultural bias away from being a snack, we admire this owner's willingness to spelunk.
I Gave My Cat an Enema
Bluejake and the Wooster Collective have launched a daily streetart blog called Streetsy. 7-10 pictures of street art go up daily, mostly from New York City. The public domain nature of the images is touted as a feature, inviting remixing and personal use.
I draw these after a days worth of manual labor and people yelling at me." Owltooth: creations by Porous Walker and Randy Laybourne showcased in a website which plays French pop music at you. Odd, slightly knuckle-dragging art where everyone sort of looks like Bababooey and seems deeply pent up at the cellular level.
While we're basking in the glow of Porous Walker, enjoy this fine explanation of how dinosaurs became extinct. [Fecal Face]
NY-based architecture weblog Transfer has brought Helicopter pilot / photographer Oscar Ruiz's Aerial shots of Mexico City to everyone's attention today. The second largest city in the world seems simple and organized from Oscar's POV. Reminds us of the Alex S. MacLean aerial shots which made the rounds a year ago.
Nextoons is Nickelodeon's Nicktoons tiny, week-long short films festival featuring fresh animated work from new filmakers. Three shorts are up now on the Nicktoons site, with three more to go until Saturday the 28th.
Nextoons [Nicktoons]
Via Cartoon Brew
Roberto Parada paints fantastic cartoony portraits of celebrities, often seen in entertainment magazines and the like. Here he is doing the reverse with Homer Simpson.
This thing, and we say this with all due appreciation of a great piece of pop art, gives us the motherfucking creeps.
Homer Simpson [Roberto Parada]
"Intelligent Design" finally broken down into something we can understand, in this fairly genius and really funny bit of impromptu comic mongering. God's kinda wacky, you know? He's completely wrestling with his medium.
This Might Explain A Few Things [Don't Drink The Koolaid]
The mysterious artist Egg pulled his chair up to the ArtPad flash painting toy and felt a wave of Murphy take hold. The result is the finest impromptu RoboCop art you're likely to see.
A similar idea as those porn interiors Adobe'd so that the people are removed, Evil Interiors is a collection of classic scenes from darker movies with all the bad folks missing. More interesting than the concept is the creation process: the information of the space is used to recreate the interior using the first person shooter game Unreal Tournament 2003. Pictured is Hannibal's transfer cage from The Silence Of the Lambs.
Evil Interiors [palletorsson]
Via We Make Money Not Art
A post-tsunami'd NYC 30 years from now is the setting for this William Gibson-ish style comic, designed to be read on the Sony PSP, one panel at a time. A neat idea interestingly done, and under a creative commons license to boot.
The Retro Kid has a pretty interesting Flickr set happening:
"I'm interested in anything associated with illustrated children's books from the mid-1940's through the mid-1960's, give or take a few years. As long as it has that cool mid-century modern styling that was so popular during that time."
The Retro Kid [flickr]
Artist Ben Harben gives the flotsam of our pop culture the medium it deserves : used bubblegum. Check out a small gallery of frankly amazing portraits featuring recognizable individuals rendered in ABC gum. Subjects include people like Puck from The Real World and American idol ... there has to be another word for that than "winners", but we digress- American idol winners, reality television personalities... again, we're choking on the language here, so we'll quit while we're ahead.
Ben Harben's Bubblegum Society
Also on the pop art front, check out some completely lovely piss pots. [Clarkmade]
Food, fingers, and random lumps of stuff argue, fear for their lives before being eaten, and make faces at the camera in this almost unbearably cutesy Korean Flikr photoset currently making the rounds.
Come from the Korean creativity [Flikr]
Distressed with the relative lack of internet abuse "'Dumbass Yankee Fan" Scott Harper has received for his brilliance, Gorillamask has opened the previously restricted to their forum Photoshop contest to the masses, along with a gallery of the current entrees.
The Best of the 'Dumbass Yankee Fan' Photoshop Contest [Gorillamask]
Artist Kenji Yanobe's creations are a whimsical look at post-apocalyptic survival technology, usually with a sort of manga bent and a pretty great sense of humor. "Foot Solider", for example (pictured), allows an army of one to stomp around the ruins like Godzilla. Real Geiger counters are installed, just as a little menacing reminder of the real dangers these creations are born of, and possibly, into. Yanobe likes to espouse a little suitably playful paranoia about it all : "I am just making things for what I need now and for my family."
We're linking to two fresh posts over at we make money not art which link to and briefly discuss examples of Kenji Yanobe's work. His website with an indexed gallery is here.
Postapocalyptic Survival Gear, Cinema in The Wood [we make money not art]
Listen to a pretty great BBC phone interview with Ghost World / Eightball comic book ( not "graphic novel", thankfully) creator Daniel Clowes. He goes into some detail about the creative process behind his work. Pick up an Ice Haven screensaver while at the site.
Daniel Clowes [BBC Collective]
Remember Jose Avila, that guy who made all the furniture in his room out of FedEx shipping materials? Guess who is claming trademark and copyright infringement on his website and has pressured him to take it down? The website that does nothing but unironically glorify not only FedEx but, and we're not kidding, the strength of their boxes? Good move, FedEX. not since Michel Jackson dangled his kid out a window have we seen this kind of image-crafting genius.
Jose Avila's FedEx Furniture [dot] Com site has the details of his troubles, and photos of his rather well crafted cardboard furniture.
Via adfreak - Pack it in, FedEx tells its biggest fan
The whole comic strip generator thing isn't new, but this one features a very slick Flash interface, stylish heavy black vector style line art, and plenty of options. It produces some pretty impressive output, and there is a gallery. So far, "My Mother's Thighs" by Woogie is our favorite.
Comic Strip Generator [Thirdframe Studios]
Via MofI
Sometimes, just sometimes, a simple invitation to a barbecue rises to the level of high art.
High like Chong, not high like daVinci, but still, extremely impressive.
Well, Tremble's racist aunt. We agree with the bagel thing.
The United States of America, According to My Racist Aunt [Tremble]
Patryk Rebisz's short film Between You and Me is technically an animation, as it is composed entirely of regular still photo shots stitched together to produce a sort of jerky, otherworldly "Hey what was that powder at the bottom of my drink?" kind of a feel.
Between You and Me [patrykrebisz.com]
The "Broadcast Machine" we noticed in May, billing itself as "Internet TV on Your Mac", and the "open-source platform for internet television and video", DTV will be basically a media player/ front end for a torrent community, the content for which is wide open. Not the first time we've seen something along these lines, but probably the approach with the best shot at living up to its claims of becoming "Internet TV" in the way that the term makes you think of the concept. You're still on the unlucky side of DTV Beta if you're using Windows, but they're working on it, this is just a peek into what's in the pipe.
DTV Beta [Participatory Culture]
Drips, the act of letting gravity do the heavy lifting with your graffiti. The street art movement of the moment, maybe? Hard to say. Beats plain ol' mailbox utility enamel. Kinda looks like Bush Co. got paranoid and tried to redact the public utilities. This gallery is (likely) the work of one King Razor, or a King Razor admirer.
Drips - [ni9e]
This won't be for everybody, but if you like, you'll love it. The comics remixing of nidrian shrugged, page two.
Nidrian shrugged, page two. [Live Journal]
Previously mentioned page one.
Unrelated, but possibly with an overlapping cross-section of appeal: Billy Bartys Anthill. Funnier than your average blog.
Via the gun totin' Bunny Mcintosh
Know how you have that relative or friend who has Smurfs in the bathroom, troll dolls in in the windows and that matrix DVD box set that has the big gaudy plastic Neo display case thingy?
Amateurs. Rank, piddling, amateurs.
Dream Homes [SeattleDreamHomes.com]
via Boing Boing
Quick and fun interview with designer Samara Boon in the new Tokyo - based design magazine Ping. Former architect Samira slaps a little whimsy into otherwise boring day to day stuff, for example the pictured animalized breath masks.
· Samira Boon - Dutch design from Japan [Ping]
· Pingmag front page
The Guardian offers up a recap and a selection of images from Banksy's recent art done to the West Bank barrier wall Israel is errecting aginat the Palestine.
Banksy at the West Bank Barrier [Guardian]
We tend to openly mock children here at Screenhead, or rather the ones we suspect are victims of their frightening parents' performing version of Munchausen By Proxy Syndrome-- you don't want to feed into that, we mock them out of love for our fellow man. Also, they tend to make us ill.
Not the deal with six year old Art Lad, who is genuine in his abilities as an artist, and keeps a blog chronicling his output. He's also cute as the Dickens. We bet Van Gogh woulda been able to to keep using both earmuffs if only someone had called him "cute as the Dickens" once in a while. Yes. Right, anyway, Art Lad's site is waist-deep in the joy of creation, and the kid is good, check out the T. Rex head.
Shouty Internet sensation Maddox is hard at work penning a ... well, a screed or something, and evidently it requires a few purdy pitchers to flesh things out, so a call for illustrators was bellowed forth from his site a week ago. The results, such as the work above by Clay Hoffman, are pretty great. Should be a funny manifesto.
Illustrator Results [the Best page In The Universe]
Girl Being Fed Eyeball by the wonderful Trevor Brown.
Check out Trevor's home site Baby Art.
Not safe for work or breakfast.
Canadian open source television Zed TV presents us with something very special:
"We thought we were going to shoot a buncha pictures of meat. Hell, who doesn't love a meat montage? But when we arrived at Vancouver's legendary 'Save-On Meats' we found someone who was so passionate about pork chops and cold cuts...he couldn't help but rap about it."
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is our pleasure to relay upon to you The Meat Rap. [ZedTV]
A comic based on H.P. Lovecraft's writings has been released with a Creative Commons license, inviting people to create and release their own versions, following Lovecraft's belief in the creative concept of "Divers Hands."
Return To Arkham [ Skotos / Lovecraft Country ]
via Slashdot
Check out the gleeful, flesh-biting artwork of Nicholas Di Genova at his crispy website Medium Phobic. Do as it says, and no one gets hurt.
Entirely unrelated, but too cute to pass up: Asshat.org
Filkr user Sem caught a legion of super bouncy balls blasted into the streets of San Francisco from an air cannon for a commercial shoot*. The resulting Flikr photoset has what are easily our favorite images to come out of the Filkr community so far.
Update: it was Sony, and the video is up at ifilm
60s/ 70s horror tree pulp blog The Groovy Age of Horror is featuring all of Michael O'Donoghue's late 60s great spoof of pulp adventure comics The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist. In the strip Phoebe ends up naked a lot, racial stereotypes abound, and plot cliches are the point.
The Complete Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist [The Groovy Age of Horror]
Program For Escaped Extra People (PEEP), is a charmingly odd web toon sort of a thing in which odd narratives sprawl out around the central charters, little Popsicle stick people.
Program For Escaped Extra People (PEEP) [Weirdshadow]
A web toon in which the tale of a life unfolds using little more than stick figures, non-descript as the name of the central character, and yet the story manages to be one of the more involving we've seen. If this fails to make you feel something, cancel your next check up-- you're just wasting the nice doctor's time.
The Tale of Smith [XyHapu / Etherkillers]
Flickr user woodcreeper (now one of a million, congrats Flickr) documents his brain tumor and its removal. Cool photos if you're medically currious, or you want to make your coworker make a crinkly face at your monitor.
Also on the photography front: They found a frozen lake on Mars. From this we may deduce that the invading alien army will have boats.
The Alien [Flickr / woodcreeper]
Lake On Mars [NASA]
Danny Brown balances piles of rocks, and makes a short film of himself balancing piles of rocks, and somehow this winds up being actually sort of cool to watch.
Balancing Point [Sensei Studios]
Not stoned enough? Check out YoshidaTatsuya's Stones of the World photo gallery.
The inner thoughts of nocturnal are isolated and contemplative. Argentinian artist Ernesto Lavandera adds Flash visuals to Marvin Bell's poem in this animation.
Why do you Stay up so Late? [Born Magazine]
An often mind-boggling collection of digital images created with The Persistence of Vision Raytracer program. Images which have never felt the sting of actual film or light occasionally seem like real life traditional photographs... that is when the artists can be bothered to depict real life; the fantasy images are a whole story unto themselves.
The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is free, by the way, and may be downloaded here if you're feeling inspired... and extremely patient.
Modern Thought is a dark little collection of animations/poetry from Glasgow artist David Shrigley. Soft, lullaby-like, morbid, and feeling like a teddy bear on the side of the road with blood and tire tracks on it, these shorts are as fine a way to slide down the receding crest of a sugar high as we can recommend.
Modern Thought by David Shrigley [BBC collective]
"DQ Issue 3" is a (still ongoing) collection of extremely cool sketches done with ballpoint by a range of artists bound into a Flash approximation of a paper notebook. Flip through and be deeply impressed-- one sketch is more impressive than the next, it was hard to choose one for the index graphic.
Show me the DQ
With thanks to Z-Claire
Solipsistic.org: a fantastic multimedia art site which, to steal a popular phrase, is "so Goth it shits bats." The site seems not intentionally Goth however, not in the Hot Topic sense of "Goth", Solipsistic is more like Grant Wood’s American Gothic painting, it comes by its dark tone featuring work with a squint-eyed look at the absurdity of human beings.
Ala Metafilter
You young punks with your computers have it so easy. Why, once upon a time, if you wanted to see a giant snake eating the lead singer from your band, you had to do more than borrow some freaky stuff from Ogrish.com and slap your band's logo on it. You had to give yourself several life threatening slices with an exatco knife.
Over at Fecal Face Anthony Skirvin painstakingly shows you how to do screen print posters. Sure, you can fake that sort of look very simply with a modern photoshop style program, but sometimes the long way around is simply cooler.
How to Screen Print a Poster, Start to Finish!
[Fecal Face]
We're not sure if we're the last passenger on this thing or not, but didja know you can make your own Google page with your own Google style logo? We feel like some sort of god or something!
Gary Schroeder's collection of labels created by Pat Ryan and Dave Sheridan for use on bags of marijuana. The first eight were included in a pack published by the California Homegrowers Association in 1982. Pat Ryan and Dave Sheridan (along with Alton Kelley ) were founding members of Artista, the first "art gang" in the U.S.
Pot Stickers [ infostations / cyberman ]
Professor know it all finds himself flummoxed by the ponderances of life and adrift in questioning during a lecture on how to focus on the big picture in Kareem Thompson's animated short The Big Picture. Art style is very 50s, complete with Saul Bass style opening titles.
The Big Picture [putfile]
Via Drawn
Detailed instructions on how to Macgyver a rubber band and three "Mauly 51" hard German paper clips into a pencil-launching, employee-blinding, potentially giant grizzly bear defeating insurance nightmare.
Super Maul [officeguns]
Check out the skunk works of Adobe in this photo gallery peek at the home office. You can actually see Photoshop getting more bloated and slow with every panel! The building reminds us of that building they took Buck Rogers to when it was time for him to receive his instructions for the episode from that table full of robots that look like Flavor Flav neck clocks.
A Visit To Adobe [Photoshop news]
Via Waxy
TV 4 All is a handy website which indexes 983 (so far) televsion streams from all over the world. Wonder what kind of crap people watch in Latvia? Wonder no more.
TV 4 All [tv4all.com]
The image we used in the index comes from that Simpsons spoof of inscrutable poltically charged cartoons, Worker and Parasite, which you can watch here, which is part of this.
The charmingly hand-crafted, by which we mean shitty, zine of the 70s punk movement in America Punk Magazinehas a web site going where you may flip through scads of lovely old material, which is a fine way to pass your useless time until you finally drop dead. See wonderous things like AC/DC before they got around to going to the dentist, and the joyful Bosko.
Punk Magazine
via Drawn
Ballad is a lengthly and intensely drawn gothic style comic strip from artist Deadmouse about "a little boy who was dead but now finds himself alive, much to the surprise of the little girl who made him."
Too much Deadmouse right off the bat? Check out six page Oshidori to get into his meticulous style.
Deadmouse's Ballad
Deadmouse's site
Seen @ Monkeyfilter
Comic art genius Sean Phillips envisions a moment of soul searching for Tony Blair at the Gleneagles Hotel during the G8 convention.
The Photoshop geniuses of Worth 1000 show us what happens when hell becomes full, and celebrities are forced to walk among us. Some of these are truly disturbing, others... well, they sort of seem like a goal weight might finally have been reached.
Zombie Hollywood 7 [Worth1000]
The first issue of Abe Lincoln Jr's PDF format street art magazine StreetRes is up for your downloading pleasure, and it's a blast. 4 megs of ideas and images, flipping through Feels like an IV feed of that one arty bit you find in any city. If you get the vibe and feel like you've got something to contribute, they'd like to hear about it.
8×6! [StreetRes]
Note: For you Windows people, we recommend the Foxit PDF Reader which (so far) seems much more nimble than ye olde Adobe's bloated version.
Not particularly beloved DC area graffiti artist Borf was nabbed Wednesday morning. Essentially Borf's deal was to write self aggrandizing statements on street signs and walls.. and that's about it, really, save for an odd stencil which people took for actor Jerry O'Connell. Turns out that face was the real Borf, a suicide'd friend of the artist, which became a tag for whatever struck him as wrong with the world at the moment. The Metafilter Borf-bash is rolling along, and it makes for an amusing read, as does the Washington Post article with the details.
· The Mark Of Borf [Washington Post]
· Borf is a dork [Metafilter]
· Tags / borf [flickr]
(The borf image used in the image marker for this post is from glueslabs' filcker gallery.)
On August 16th the Ramones box set Weird Tales of the Ramones will be unleashed from Rino. Three CDs (85 songs), one DVD (18 videos) and, interestingly, a graphic novel featuring a shopping list of fantastic outie stripper talent, including Sergio Aragones and Carol Lay.
Aragonés, Hernandez, Woodring and more bring you the Ramones [Comic Book Resources]
One fine day a praying mantis busted into Yay Hooray! forum member Health's house, and laid eggs on his monitor. Health wisely photographed the process all the way through to the hatching, and posted the series of pics to the forum, resulting in an interesting journey with funny comments from the other forum members.
MANTIS! shits eggs on monitor *with Pics* [Yay Hooray!]
via linkfilter
Cliff Pickover's image museum of odd miniature carvings done on pencils and pinheads by insane or imprisoned Japanese men. As far as we can tell, Avril Lavigne serves only as eyecandy for this page, as she severed all ties with the Yakuza shortly after her first record went platinum.
Avril's Museum of Unholy Micro-Sculpture / Japanese Men Carve Insane Miniature Sculptures [Reality Carnival]
In Dave Milloway, Matt Wood, and Stephanie Freese's comic strip Chocolypse Now, the grown up Golden Ticket kids are sent by Slugworth to the heart of darkness, Loompaland, to find Wonka. Ironically, Veruca Salt becomes the Courtney Love clone that the band Veruca Salt never quite managed to. A pretty fantastic comic strip parody of both Willy Wonka and Apocalypse Now.
Chocolypse Now [Likely Stories]
via the mighty Accordion Guy
Amazing sculptures made entirely from stacking cans. When we stack cans all we make are enemies and pee, so we have no choice but to be impressed with the level of artistry, here.
Canstruction
via Fazed
Reminds us slightly of this less stacked art made with Red bull cans.
The term "sequential art" has come to be used by many comic strip creators who simply want a more high falutin' term for what it is that they do. Istvan Banyai's Zoom is a fine example of what the term "sequential art" originally meant, and a real treat for the eyes.
Zoom [KAK]
via Hatena Diary
A "mobile sculpture designed to allow for instances of anonymous public speech", One Free Minute is basically a (200 watt) megaphone connected to a cell phone, conveniently wheeled into populated areas. Call, speak your mind, and upset the neighborhood-- all in the name of art. We're almost certain this is how Bart Simpson once got sent to military school. Watch a video of the sculpture in action here.
We've seen the (Esquire Magazine) graphic with flies glued to a balsa wood airplane acting as tiny engines just like anyone else with an internet account most likely has, we're pretty sure that email is part of the Windows installer. Here's a site which explains the process, going into considerable detail, and also offers up a fabulous history of bug-powered aircraft.
John Allison's Scary Go Round takes the Outstanding Comic crown, with James Turner's The unfeasible adventures of Beaver and Steve! as the Outstanding Newcomer for 2005.
We don't know what this award means for the winners, or if they receive a small plastic fat guy who never goes outside trophy for their respective mantelpieces or what, but the site is a fantastic "greatest hits" starting point if you're new to online comics.
The 2005 Cartoonist's Choice Awards
· Scary Go Round
· The Unfeasible Adventures of Beaver and Steve!
Comic strip CulturePulp drops in on B-Actor / Cult movie god Bruce Campbell doing his cooler-than-mere-puny-humans thing at a Q & A session to promoting his film Man With the Screaming Brainamong other projects. So rightly enamored of Mr. Campbell, a moment is taken to ponder the meaning of his existence.
The Sorry Everybody sort of approach to protest, where people are encouraged to send in their images of resistance to the recent terrorist attempt at, well, terror. A tiny bit corny, but it beats the complete shit out of a yellow ribbon magnet on an SUV.
If you like William S Burroughs, you probably know that he would sometimes take a razorblade to pages of written text and physically make edits that resulted in new words and stream of consciousness concepts. If you don't like William S Burroughs, you probably just learned why. Website Language Is A Virus (name taken from a Burroughs quote) is an index of on-line word hack toys so that you may get your Beat on, without all the shooting up and shooting your wife and so on. If you like the David Bowie Outside album, David evidently used something much like this when channeling the lyrics... back when the the internet had more art than ads on it.
We're more about the cheap thrills than the useful information, so we'll direct your attention the Cynical-C Blog, which is dedicating the day to covering the terrorist bombings in London, and doing a pretty thorough job of it, including this link to a map of London based bloggers indexed by their location relative to the nearest tube station. [London Bloggers]
It always rings cheap and hollow to pay lip service to the victims of something so terrible from the safety of an ocean away, but we are truly saddened with today's events, and we extend genuine sympathy to those effected.
The Princeton Art Of Science competition Online Exhibition: an amazing gallery of science photos presented as art. Pictured above: Individually Marked Ants.
The Princton Art Of Science competion Online Exhibition 2005
Least Wanted is a Flickr member who posts images of old mugshots pinched from all over the last century, many of whom we're sure would have turned out much better if Angelina Jolie had been there to shepherd them into better lives.
Least Wanted [flickr]
Via the tan, rested, and ready Telescreen.org
James Mundie's remarkable Prodigies are pen and ink portraits of prominent sideshow performers in "contexts borrowed from art history”. For example, the image above combines Siamese twin performers The Tocci Brothers with Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy. Great works centered around an interesting and macabre concept.
Gawker Media Travel site Gridskipper finally has a stable captain at the tiller, one very capable Chris Mohney, and they'd like your input as to T
