SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED

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Calabi-Yau Manifold Crystal on sale here. Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. A bunch of Lego cats.

2. A bank across from police headquarters in Los Angeles has been robbed twice in the last six months.

3. It used to be that the day I.D. magazine's annual design review came out was one of my favorite days of the year.…

Self-Description

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Mario Scene Made Entirely Out Of Push Pins

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Book Review: The Art of Greg Capullo

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The book is a collection of some of his cover works, notably Sam and Twitch, and Spawn, other titles, unpublished works and some personal pieces such as the one on the cover page.

The art is fantastic, especially the Spawn art, which are deadly. The use of blacks and lighting is great. I like…

Rafael Grampa's Mesmo Delivery
I wish Dark Horse would ensure that its comics featured better covers (see previously Grandville, Goon). Check out this cover for Rafael Grampa's Mesmo Delivery:

There's too much going on, the wings look like a brown smear, and is there anyone who sees the creepy cigarette smoker and thinks, "Yes, I want to know more about him?" You'd buy…

The Perks Of Being Geeky

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Worst Star Wars Picture, Ever

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Sneak a Look at Plympton’s Cheatin’

Oscar-nominated animation maestro Bill Plympton has revealed his latest short, Cheatin’. However, it’s not finished. What you’ll watch below is a (lavish) pencil test, that includes the entire story and a near full realization of the animation. Plympton has been steadily releasing his traditionally-animated dog series (Guard Dog, Guide Dog, etc…), and you’ll see a brief…

Fidel Castro...

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John Reese and Frank Kern Visit Anthony Robbins

John Reese and Frank Kern Visit Anthony Robbins is a post from: Blog Marketing Tips by Blog Marketing Expert Jack Humphrey

Drop what you’re doing.  You’ll thank me.  Below is a great, GREAT video chat with Tony Robbins, John Reese, and Frank Kern. A buddy sent me the link and 1/2 way through the video,…

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Aging Family: One Year At A Time

Source: Zone Zero

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Peter de Sève has a blog

Peter de Sève has a blog.

via Irene Gallo

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The New Windows Live Movie Maker is Here

Microsoft has just released a new version of Windows Live Movie Maker which is a free video editing software available for both Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Windows Live Movie Maker now includes several new and impressive transitions and visual effects that are easily accessible from the new Office 2007 like ribbon toolbar. You can…

This cartoon is child friendly

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Search Ads WordPress Plugin

I am glad to finally release the Search Ads WordPress plugin, which allows you to display content blended ads only to search engine traffic, in a quick and simple way. There are a couple of advantages connected with this strategy. First of all you will be able to add another revenue stream to your site, as organic traffic…

Buff Dude!

Mike Dougherty posted a photo:

©MikeDougherty2009/ I've been so busy designing some HUGE shows for OddParents lately that I haven't had much extra time to do my own stuff...until this morning when I drew this buff dude pumping iron. Arrrrrgh! Grrrrrr!

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Meet Headway: The Next Evolution in WordPress Themes

With the new Headway WordPress theme, you can visually design your blog through simple drag-and-drop editing… without needing to know everything about HTML, CSS, and PHP. In the past few years, premium WordPress themes have evolved to employ greater and greater functionality and sophistication. First, there was Revolution (which really created this whole…

Exclusive Freebie: VectorLab Sample Pack

I can’t think of a better way to start the week than some yummy free vectors, can you? Our friends at The Vector Lab have offered BittBox another exclusive freebie for everyone to enjoy. If you’ve never been to TheVectorLab.com, it’s a site that sells high quality, royalty free vectors on the cheap. (I especially like their…

AIGA President Debbie Millman on spec work

1968 AIGA Annual cover, by Paul Rand

Cat Wentworth, the Bangkok-based force behind NO!SPEC, has conducted an excellent interview with newly-appointed AIGA President Debbie Millman. Here are a couple of choice quotes.

“AIGA has reiterated its longtime position that spec work is not in the interest of either designers or clients and we are now redoubling our…

Paul Conrad Documentary

Click here to view the embedded video.

Above is an hour long PBS video documentary about Los Angeles Times’ editorial cartoonist and terrific caricaturist Paul Conrad. Whether you are a fan of caricature, or of hard hitting and brutally honest editorial cartoons, it’s a great tribute to one of the giants of the cartooning world. You can watch it…

An Ode to Odosketch!

‘O’ – is for the Pwning! Which you are about to do…(when it’s spelled correctly, not like the chatspeaking crew.)
‘D’ – is for the, uh…yeah, the doing! That I previously mentioned to you.
The other ‘O’ – is for online! Where this application nests.
And ‘S’ – is for the sketch…which really covers all the rest.

The webs are full…

Awesome Cartoon Billy Mays Caricature

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This is a great caricature of Billy Mays

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Crime spree.

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Another awkward combination business.

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32 Ways to Use Facebook for Business

4 Free Open-Source Tools for Working With Video and Audio

OReilly and Klassen take on U2

Super talents David OReilly and Jon Klassen teamed up to produce this jewel of a video for U2’s new single, “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”. Beautiful!

(link via CartoonBrew)

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Sylvester Stallone Caricature

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Here's a great caricature of ol' Sly Stallone in his later years... awesome!

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Cartoon Portrait of Andrew Wyeth Caricature

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RIP Andrew Wyeth... you were awesome

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Harrison Ford Caricature - Cartoon Harrison Ford Portrait Drawing

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I love Harrison Ford and I especially like this caricature of Harrison Ford... aka Indiana Jones and Han Solo!

http://janopdebeeck.blogspot.com/2009/07/harrison-ford.html

Forrest Whitaker Caricature - Cartoon Forrest Whitaker Portrait Drawing

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Here's an excellent Cartoon caricature of the great Forrest Whitaker

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Over on Offworld, our Brandon's spotted step-by-step instructions for carving Mario mushrooms from radishes!

Someone at the Food Network is asleep at the wheel for not giving reigning bento champ Anna The Red her own games-related cooking show. The latest: this step by step tutorial to turn your ordinary radishes into Mario mushrooms, with the help of two bits of seaweed.…

I've posted before about body integrity identity disorder, a condition in which an individual has an overwhelming desire to have a limb amputated. ABC Catalyst posted a fascinating short documentary about an man who purposefully destroyed his leg with dry ice so that a physician would have no choice but to cut it off. "The next time I woke up, it…

The re-release of Pixar’s first movie franchise, the Toy Story series, hasn’t gotten much publicity… until now.

I’ve been looking forward to it for a while, and now an official poster is here, finally!! The one sheet, discovered by our friends at Collider, depicts one of the Little Green Men wearing 3D glasses, a nice touch. Apparently the tagline of the two week…

Freedom Watch show #23 is ready for viewing. Also, be sure to visit Foxnews.com for a high quality version of the show when made available.

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Great caricature of The Beatles' Ringo Starr.

Today Firefox / Mozilla launched the ability to create public collections that other people can subscribe to so I though it about time I publish a list of most of the plugins I currently use that are specific to what my readers are interested in.

Some of them are fairly common, others a little geeky and for specific uses.

These are however the…

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Very funny Pinocchio cartoon

Bizarro is brought to you today by Parenting Made Simple.

Yes, it is a political cartoon I have posted here.
No, I do not feel like getting all political today.

Instead, let's talk about the weather. Here at Bizarro International Headquarters in New York City, it has been raining most of the time for weeks. The entire month…

Today's Bizarro is brought to you by Eight Dead Pop Stars.

So Jacko is dead. I've done a few Michael Jackson cartoons and posts over the years and I was no kinder to him than any other humorist. I've always felt sorry for him, though, he was obviously a supremely talented kid driven mad by a strange life and family.

Preliminary rumblings are that…

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I enjoyed this little video

Meeting Brad Guigar from Rafael Irizarry on Vimeo.

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Awesome roundup of some sweet new wordpress themes

You can never have a too wide choice of templates for your blog, especially if you’re the experimenting type, Blogger is probably one of the earliest service providers for blogging,so this time i concentrated on collecting fresh and beautiful blogger templates, Free Themes don’t have to be ugly, cluttered,and boring, Some…

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This was a great movie... saw it in 3D this afternoon.

The latest Upisode featurette for Disney/Pixar’s Up has arrived. This one features Russell’s trap-setting skills and a bar of chocolate. Up, which was directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, floats into theaters on May 29, 2009.

Ahhh stone textures, the staple of every good texture diet. Layer them, tile them, map them, they are as versatile as can be. Hopefully you can find some good uses for the ones below. Enjoy!

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#99 - Week of February 16, 2009

How Canon Prototype Cameras Are Made, steps - [fascinating]
Sound of Neuron Cells Firing - [creepy]
Visualizing Large Numbers of Consumerism - [wow art]
South Celestial Pole Time-lapse Video - [space] - via
Fantastic Street Art: Ice Age Crevasse! - [wow art]
Perspective: Writing in the Age of Distraction - [thought-provoking]
Spectacular photos of Antarctica, luminous ice - [nature]
Britain from above: awesome data visualization - [interesting]
Bruce Sterling speaks about…

The latest casual Flash game from Amanita Design (Samorost) is on track to release in the Fall, and the team has now dropped a second teaser on us. The game is about “a little robot who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard behind the city must return and confront the Black Cap Brotherhood and save his robot-girl friend.” Have a…

The Lovely Anna and I are on our way to London for a week of sightseeing and relaxation. We are travelling with her parents, staying in thier timeshare in the heart of the city. I’ve never been other than trapped in Heathrow wating for a connecting flight, and have always wanted to visit England. I’ll have some posts from the other…

Cross posting is all about spreading the reach of your blog content with minimal effort - you just publish an entry on your main blog and it gets mirrored across all your other blogs.

Here are some scenarios where you may consider cross-posting your blog articles:

Why Cross-Post your Blog Entries?

1. You have just one blog but are looking for a…

The latest Upisode featurette for Disney/Pixar’s Up has arrived. This one features Russell’s trap-setting skills and a bar of chocolate. Up, which was directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, floats into theaters on May 29, 2009.

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