Monkey Fighting Octopus
Scope this monkey fighting octopus, in jealously-inducing tattoo form:
A couple more photos over here (including some cool on-the-skin sketching). There's almost certainly an amusing little story to go along with this bit of art, but really, "monkey fighting octopus" is all the information I require.
Cube of Solitude
You can stop decorating your cube now. This guy won:
Buddy had better be writing some absolutely bad-ass code if that's gonna be the work environment. Code of intergalactic planetary proportions. (on the other hand, he suddenly doesn't look quite so nerdy wearing a cape to the office)
"Frankly, I think this place is a bit boring. I mean, it's all white! Why doesn't this Superman guy put up some nice posters here? Maybe some bullfighting stuff? Or a pool table!" -- Ms. Teschmacher, Superman II
"I remember the first time I saw the headline "Superman Rescues Orphans." It was like reading "Leaves Fall Up This Year." Up until that time I'd never thought of orphans as something that could be rescued. Back in the old days you'd see the headline "40 Orphans Perish in Flames" and think, "Poor little bastards. I guess they didn't have much to live for, anyway." Before you knew it Luthor was getting his ass kicked up and down Broadway, you kept your money in banks and you had picnics under the dam."
Insert Coin Atari.com has an "arcade" where you can play six different classic games right in yer browser. Asteroids, Adventure, Battlezone, Lunar Lander, Crystal Castles, and Yars' Revenge!
Links o' Fun Lava Volcano! CulturePulp by Mike Russell has posted a quick guide to making your own disaster movie.
Git 'er Done! Behold the Holy Bible: Stock Car Racing Edition. A 1152 page "ministry to the world of motorsports".
No Punctuation for Old Men Pretty fantastic interview with Cormac "The Curmudgeon" McCarthy in the WJS. "I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."
Make Me Mighty Transmogrify your name into the stuff of legend: "Vicroy Chrishawk, The Uber-Genius. Forthright Kaiser, Entity of Infiniteness". Ordering business cards right now...
Tauntaun Wedding Cake Our buddy Chris Trevas managed to find a wife who was cool with a dead tauntaun wedding cake (Stromtroopers at the wedding were her idea, no less). She's a keeper.
"I have heard through the 'grapevine' that the Terminator franchise is for sale, and I am prepared to make a pre-emptive bid RIGHT NOW to wrap this dealio up. This is not a joke, this is not a scam, this is not available on TV. I will write a check TODAY for $10,000, and viola! Terminator off your hands." More...
Brutal Artwork
Boing-Boing has posted up a gallery of concept art from Tim Schafer's new Brutal Legend video game. This thing looks like giant fun – capturing the style and fury of heavy metal and wrapping it all into an amusingly over-wrought video game landscape. Pretty crushing that the Nintedno Wii owners are left in the easy-listening cold.
Night of the Living Jedi
Launched the 11th annual Rebelscum.com Star Warscostume contest last night. Always fun putting the banners for these events together. This year we went with your standard shambling zombie Yoda:
Scope the complete costume contest banner retrospective:
It's the entire movie split out into 15 second chunks. Users can claim a clip, recreate that scene however they feel works best (animation, live action, puppets, whatever) and upload it. Once complete the Uncut folks will "stitch it all together and watch the magic happen." Too fun.
