from 10 Funniest Bill Watterson comics that aren’t Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson on Licensing
October 8th, 2009 · Kickass Artists
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Foot Soldier
October 7th, 2009 · Kickass Artists
Kenji Yanobe’s Foot Soldier
spotted on Brandon Graham’s blog. “I really like that he makes shit that works.”
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Trailer
October 6th, 2009 · movies
Hooray! I finally figured out how to disable Facebook’s feature that was posting my WordPress posts automatically and polluting the public quiz stream with my personal projects and influences. My fault for turning something on in FB.
Apparently, if you want to edit your note settings, you shouldn’t click “note settings” you just click “notes” and then if you want to remove a blog, of course you click “import a blog”, and then remove the one you already have. Now onto some inspiration…
You’d think Terry Gilliam is trying to fail, casting dead guys and naming his movie so that audiences will think they already overlooked it. But damn, this new trailer looks pretty cool.
And speaking of getting your hopes up, the first reluctantly positive review of Where the Wild Things Are is up at Rotten Tomatoes, calling it a “fine attempt”. Read here.
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A poem by Google
September 28th, 2009 · comic
Written by Google. Illustrated by Google Images and me.
I just stumbled on Google’s sensitive side the other day and had to do this. There’s a gold mine of terrible beat poetry in “why” derivatives alone. I took screen grabs of a few. You can see here. What do you think? Should I do more or cease and desist?
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Brown Bag
August 18th, 2009 · Brown Bag
Link drop
Dog in a swing watch
Cobra conquers Kansas City watch
Art & Copy Trailer
Using InDesign for preliminary comic layouts watch
NSFW! Eric Wareheim’s video for Flying Lotus’s Parisian Goldfish watch
Slightly safer for work substitute Major Lazer’s Pon De Floor watch
I Just read this review of Maximum FF and instantly ordered a copy off Amazon for $7 plus shipping read buy
Top 10 Comic book cities from The Architect’s Journal read
Transcendent Man Trailer watch
10 Tips on how to think like a designer read
PSA’s from the future watch
This kid almost makes me like Black Eyed Peas watch
A nice list and discussion of comics’ most influential artists at Comics Comics read
Humane Fois Gras and the future of food watch
Robot Link of the Week watch
Animals Helping Link of the Week watch
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Brown Bag
August 11th, 2009 · Brown Bag
Long week and I’m busy so just a few things…
Herds from above see
The New Mediators and visual language read
Wee See see
Pacemaker’s portable DJ system watch
Comixology’s “Comics” app for iphone read
Paper Mill watch
Peter Jansen sculpts human movement see
The Ballad of GI Joe watch
Giant carniverous plant named after Richard Attenborough read
Use Kickstarter to find backers for your genius idea see
Movie Title Stills Collection see
Animals Helping Link of the Week: Ants build life raft for Queen watch
Robot Link of the Week: Bipedal Jumping Robot watch
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Brown Bag
August 4th, 2009 · Uncategorized
Busey-approved interestingness from the past 7 days
Japanese scientists remove the cute from ladybugs read
Fox corrects erroneous report that EATR military robot consumes humans for fuel read
Humans Glow in Visible Light (but by visible, they mean “not visible”) read
The Tianzi Hotel see
Great use of space see
RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE! – Resurrecting extinct species goat and pig
A decade of falling comic sales in Japan is saved by the cell phone and inhibited female shojo readers read
Epic Mickey, concept art for a shockingly interesting looking Disney Wii game see
Self-portrait machine see
STL local alleges Apple conspired with Mafia, put hidden receivers in iPods for transmitting death threats read
Kuroshio Sea Aquarium watch
Polyvore is a fashion 2.0 site that lets you create looks with items from “your favorite stores” see
Dear Computer is the quest for beauty in algorithmic randomness see and they have a nice google image ripper that generates a page of interesting images for inspiration. see
World’s Fastest Everything watch
Robot Running watch
Laser cut leaves see
Modular, moving skyscrapers watch
12-year-old makes feature length movie: Zombie Girl (not to be confused with Dead Girl or the 13 other zombie movies coming out) watch
Robot Link of the Week: Advertise on the moon watch
Animals Helping Link of the Week: Monkeys riding capybaras watch
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Brown Bag
July 28th, 2009 · Brown Bag
Links that make you go NOM NOM NOM
I just got tired of looking at that flaming bag of crap over and over on my blog. It’s like it was saying to me “This is what you are Nick. You’re a bag of crap. That you just stepped on.” Plus the “Brown Bag” came from just having lunch and sharing links in the office at Xplane. And the porch poop gag really doesn’t need to survive if people happen to continue the tradition of eating lunch, while clicking. This site might be NSFW but I’ll be damned before its NSFL! So maybe I’ll just have one visual for each week to sum up my feelings over the last 7 days, as this one does so well. Onto the links!
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Pac-man infographic see
Banksy gets full access to the Bristol Museum watch
3D sketch software Rhonda watch
Building projection round-up at Motionographer see
Health Care flow charts see
The Batman Villain Project see
Typefaces Give us Signals watch
PUMA L.I.F.T watch
Toyota’s iQ font watch
Adam Wentworth’s pitch for The Nickelodeon Machine see
Death Sheep! watch
Juan Francisco Casas does 10 foot tall photo-realistic portraits with ballpoint pen see
Marvel aquires the rights to Miracleman read
$20,000 Fabrication Labs create anything or “products for the market of one person” (Its pretty long. I’d skip to 6:00) watch
Roomba labs makes the world “clickable” read
“We are 10 years away from a functional artificial human brain.” read
Wiener Animals Helping Link of the Week watch
Robot Link of the Week – “Zeno is the hero of the singularity” read
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Yellow Drum Machine
July 24th, 2009 · Update
Okay, since I skipped Brown Bag this week, I’ll post this video Drew just sent me. It’s enough amazing for one week, in my opinion.
It’s like a roomba drum machine, with twitchy eyes!
We went up to Mackinac Island over the weekend, and I forgot about the rest of the world for a few days. I’ll be back with links next week and an update on the comic soon too.
Brown Bag
July 14th, 2009 · Brown Bag
Links to stuff.
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Marvel’s 1993 Annual Report see
Scrabble’s inspired “Beautiful Word” Campaign explained read
Hong Kong in 3D see
Dan Z. painting of a squid eating a hot dog see
Salvadore Dali and Disney’s collaboration watch before its removed
Scribblenauts is a clever new game that (among many other things) allows you to pit God against the Kraken watch
Ben Jones interview read
HAL body suit by Cyberdyne?! read
Persepolis 2.0 read
NiceType on Vimeo watch
Vitsoe home organization video watch
Robot teaches itself to smile read
Paul Pope’s Adam Strange in Wednesday Comics read
Ant Zoom see
Origami City see
Wonder Twins packaging watch
Tom Whalen’s illustration and design see
“I never want to see Supergirl’s panties again” read
Animals Helping Link of the Week watch
Robot Link of the Week watch
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