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Vampire Domestication
A hilarious spoof of the sort of Powerpoint presentation you might run into at a “Big Pharma” conference. This is a Flash approximation of of a real presentation given…The Cybernetic Parrot Sausage
Footage in which electronic artist Paul Granjon crams the innards of one of those plush parrot toys that flap their wings and squawk when you trip their sensors, and…
The Peckham Rock
Banksy’s latest hide and seek art project, his sculpture “The Peckham Rock” was tucked away in The British Museum among slightly older chunks of rock as the target item…
The Brain Mirror
An interesting video of the Brain Mirror in action, an exibit that imposes a 3D brainscan over a mirror image of a person… presumably so you can convince everyone of…
24 hours with Enrico Casarosa
Enrico Casarosa’s highly appealing, done in nearly 24 hours, watercolor-on-napkin comic strip. ·A 24 hours (almost) comic by Enrico Casarosa ·The making of the comic Seen @ Cartoon Brew…How to go to prison in under three minutes
One of those filthy “hacker” type people shows us how to free laptops from those restrictive silly desk locks using a piece of toilet paper roll and some tape, MacGyver…The Storker Project
A gallery of photos in which clear plastic babies are dropped around the DC area by artist Mark Jenkins’ alter ego Storker, as if Storker were a clear plastic teenager…Vinyl Video
Kempa Dot Com checks out Vinyl Video, a company marketing a technology which allows one to make a (very lo-rez, obviously) video recording on a LP style slab of…
Tavofono | Telepafono
A couple of neat aimed-at-children art projects with funny videos that didn’t see their intended light of day at this year’s E1 exhibition. Tavofono is a project in which a…
The Oozak sound
Kazoo renditions of popular tunes. It’s not indexed by name in the Geneva Convention and it should get your subject to talk in under an hour. In both 64k,…
Garnier Fructis Manga Head
Ever really wanted to look like Goku on Dragonball Z, Gary Busey after a quality weekend, or Phyllis Diller discovering her personal limit in butt plug circumference? Garnier Fructis has…
Women as portrayed in British world war II advertising
A website that offers exactly what it says: images of magazines and Ailed war effort posters from the WWII era, featuring the ladies. Extremely hot if you’re into women wearing…Fine Art
Artist Wednesday Kirwan’s work stays with you in a way that the memory of being raped by a bear would envy. The whole site is great, the portraits of carnival…
The Gaping Maws
A fine collection of animal photos in which the critters are showing the camera their tonsils, or gills or whatever. Occasionally freaky. Reminds us to remind you that Mother’s Day…
The internet-
-it makes a fabulous tee-shirt. The Internet [Threadless]…
Hooked
Hooked is a 1966 comic distributed to NYC methadone clinics. A fine plan, mythologizing heroin use to recovering addicts. Ethan Persoff kindly shares scans of the comic, as well as…
Douglas Adams: Parrots, the Universe, and Everything
A complete 87 minute Real video stream of Parrots, the Universe, and Everything lecture given at UC Santa Barbara only a month before Douglas Adams’ death. Doug speaks about…Zak Smith’s Illustrations For Each Page of Gravity’s Rainbow
“So I illustrated Gravity’s Rainbow— nobody asked me to, but I did it anyway. Most of the pictures are drawings— ink on whatever paper was lying around, but there are…
Art Crimes: War Art
A collection of graffiti artist war reactions from 2003. Still entirely fresh. Unfortunately. Art Crimes: War Art…Contact Juggling
We expected something called “Contact Juggling” to involve a carnival geek with no bridge in his nose trading a mismatched pair of Marilyn Manson eyeballs in some gruesome sort of…Lost America
Lost America offers galleries and some text excepts from Troy Paiva’s book of the same name which feature “Night Photography of the Abandoned Roadside West.” The images are either manipulated…
PictureTubeRadio
An interesting short video in which cathode ray style television and the radiation they pump out is captured with an antenna, and the tube is played like a musical instrument…The Museum Of Retro Technology
The Museum Of Retro Technology: a fine collection of odd inventions which confirm one of our long-held beliefs: everyone in the past lived on a steady diet of cocaine. Lots…Joe Ledbetter’s Toys
Dozens of pleasing, eyepokeingly candy-colored little critters inhabit artist Joe Ledbetter’s website; it’s the ones which have managed to push out into the third dimension where innocent people live that…
