Calvin and Hobbes, if Calvin was a six-year-old and Hobbes was a real tiger. Wait... he wasn't?
Darth Vader: The Death Star topiary will be completed on schedule. |  |  |
Howie Woo crochets, but not like your grandma, as you can see from the crochet dynamite above."I'm aware of the double-takes when a guy is seen working with yarn. My girlfriend overhears "grandma" when she's making a scarf on the bus. But those stereotypes will fade as more people of all ages and genders become interested in yarn-craft."I also learnt a new word today: amigurumi, which is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures. Japanese, who would have guessed? See more of Howie Woo's work at WooWork.com or his Flickr page. (Link via Neatorama)
Crochet Vices
Crochet Ray Gun
Can't an Alien and a Predator just get along? The image, along with the duo playing pool and tetherball, were created by a New Zealand ad agency for the Sky TV network, for an airing of Alien vs. Predator. I suspect the ad was better than the film.
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Wolverine and, I dunno, promote a tiny little art film they've got on the go, Marvel is issuing a number of titles with variations done in the style of some of the world's greatest artists.
Conservation Status, from Threadless designer Aled Lewis: "All the best creatures are already extinct. This chart makes for depressing viewing. Sorry."
Evel Knievel — the name is synonymous with danger and daredevil but, until now, not so much with data diagram.
Oompa Loompa doompadee dooPop artist Dave MacDowell takes on Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, with Al Pacino Oompa-Loompas. Say hello to my little candy friend!
I've got another puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doompadah dacino
Why are there seven Al Pacinos?
I can't bear scotch myself, but I'd find it hard to resist a Beam Me Up, Scotchie. Slurp back eight more nerdy delights. I'm more of a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster kinda guy.
If the drinks aren't taking you where no one has gone before, how about a wall mural that will turn your bedroom (I assume) into the bridge of the original Enterprise? You can serve everyone Fuzzy Tribbles.
If those don't work for you (or work too well) there is only one final resting place: a Star Trek casket. May you die long and prosper.
I'd want to be the rich avenger, but only if it came with real super powers. See the video at the bottom to understand why. From Threadless designer Joshua Kemble.
The Real Story of the Superheroes
Would you like some more Earl Grey, "Howling Mad" Murdock? Oh, I see you have your straitjacket on again. Bother.
I've never really understood the appeal of steampunk. It's one of those web phenomenons that has escaped me. Why would you want everything to look like futuristic Victorian technology?Geppetto is a mad and lonely old man. Since he has no friends at all, he decided to make one. With no magic or abracadabra stuff, he makes his creation alive with the power of steam.I really have a thing for variants of classic Disney images these days.
A purposed Afghanistan law could allows marital rape by stopping a wife from refusing sex and could prevent women from leaving their home without her husband's permission except on urgent business. A group of women protesting this law were driven away by a mob of men yesterday.
Flying pandas barf rainbows. Of course they do. Read pop artist Derek Chatwood's explanation of what they ate before they burst. (Link via Listicles)
Make your own movie plot in the style of QuentinTarantino, M. Night Shyamalan, Michael Moore and Michael Bay with Holy Taco's director Mad Libs. These are ____ing (Verb) hilarious! (Link via Screen Junkies)
There’s no cure for herpes, so once you get a hold of this little guy, you’ll never be able to let him go. Unlike his biological counterparts, this guy stays around all month long, rather than cycling through active and remission periods. Plus, they won’t leave you with painful, itchy and unsightly blisters.Drop those antibiotics and head to the Neatorama store and pick up a disease for the hypochondriac in your life.
This also just might be the only way you can give someone herpes while expecting them to ever talk to you again.
Ok, I know pirates aren't the romantic, comedic, swashbuckling figures of books and pop culture. Yes, they are murderous, desperate, drug-addled fiends, just like the real pirates of old. So I can't help but echo the excitement Rayne, of Least I Could Do, over the reemergence of real-life, high-seas cutthroats.
Enjoy your day egg and bunny collecting, church attending, over eating, what have you.
If Canadian history looked like this, I think I could get into it. Can Mario (Sir John A. McDonald) crush King "Louis Riel" and his rebellion? I want to play!
Who know the Last Supper would be such a popular pop culture touchstone? When I started noticing them a couple of years ago I thought it would be fun to compile a few. I figured I might be able to find 10.
"The cereal-slinging life is enough to drive almost any decent cereal mascot to a life of murder. While the police have no proof that Sonny or Cap'n Crunch are responsible for the deaths of anyone, many children go missing each year. We think it's time someone took a good, long look into these borderline psychotics who might be part of a nutritious breakfast... but also part remorseless killer."
These days I'm split between the Black Obelisk and the The Great Prophet Zarquon. Use this handy chart to help you decide.
I just found out that it is World Pillow Fight Day, so there's still time to grab a fluffy weapon and give somebody a solid thwack, just like J. Jonah Jameson and Spider-Man in pop artist Brandon Bird's BAM THWOP. Loads more photos of feathery mayhem at Flickr.
In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. Umm, robot soldiers of fortune, for some reasom. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The Android Team.
Once again a controversy has erupted over a pop culture depiction of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. Artist Glen Tarnowski's Looney Tunes Last Supper, entitled The Gathering, has been displayed in the window of the Chuck Jones Gallery in San Diego, and it has been turning heads. Inevitably it has also been sending some folks off the deep end.
A call by the Nerdist for Hogwarts snaps pulled in over 400 highly-inappropriate Harry Potter insults. Here are a few of my faves:dino_rider: Yo mama’s so ugly the Dementor’s Kiss was swapped out for a hearty handshake and a promise to give her a call sometime.Read the full list at the Nerdist.
bradheintz: Yo mama so nasty, Dobby wouldn’t take her sock
Burnaway: Yo momma so skanky, even her patronus got knocked up
chompychomp: Yo mama so stupid, she drowned in a pensieve
melgotserved: Yo momma’s so fat she got stuck in the Floo Network
"Use the glowing lightsaber zipper pull on the Tauntaun sleeping bag to illustrate how Han Solo saved Luke Skywalker from certain death in the freezing climate of Hoth by slitting open the belly of a dead Tauntaun and placing Luke inside the stinking (but warm) carcass."The Tauntaun Sleeping Bag started out today as an April Fool's joke at nerdy retailer ThinkGeek, but due to a staggering response, they are now looking into creating it for real.
"ATTN Tauntaun Fanatics! Due to an overwhelming tsunami of requests from YOU THE PEOPLE, we have decided to TRY and bring this to life. We have no clue if the suits at Lucasfilms will grant little ThinkGeek a license, nor do we know how much it would ultimately retail for. "But if you do want one, head to ThinkGeek and let them know.
"When developing out Stations, the Dharma Initiative understands the importance of combining new technologies with comfort and style. Long hours are spent in these places - why not make them as enjoyable as possible?"
Meanwhile The Ampersand has speculated what Cronenberg sequels for Crash, Dead Ringers, A History of Violence, Shivers and Videodrome would look like.
