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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:
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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.
