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Invading The Vintage Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
Cute aliens invading grandpa' postcards
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The 80s: A Decade of Disturbing Films for Children Posted: 4 months ago by Bingo
If you were born in the late 70s or early 80s, you too have most likely visited the psychiatrist to try and erase the painfully disturbing memories of movies from the 80s. Just about every film made from 1980 to 1990 had the same underlying theme: sci-fi fantasy crap mixed with children in danger, bad singing, and unexplained and unnecessary horrible situations and characters.
Comments: 15 Score: [-] 375 [+].
Belgian museum exposes celebrity underpants Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
It is a little known fact that Belgium's finance minister wears blue and white striped boxer shorts and the Brussels underpants museum has a pair to prove it.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 156 [+].
Cooking With Coolio!! Posted: 4 months ago by nateebiinature
A cookbook arrives at Stew Headquarters. Happens every day. The face on the cover looks familiar. Where have I seen the guy before? Not Julia Child ... not Jamie Oliver ... not Rachael Ray ... It’s this guy...
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 58 [+].
Alien Statues Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew, Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash and Captain Dallas, are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 250 [+].
Electrified flowers make astonishing artworks Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
Flowers were electrified with 80,000 volts of power to produce dazzling images of the natural world.
See picture gallery
Comments: 7 Score: [-] 255 [+].
How to Create Stick Figure Animations Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
Stykz is frame-based, letting you to work on individual frames of your animation. Figures can be rotated, scaled, flipped, duplicated, colorized, and relayered.
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The Destructive Beauty of Demolitions Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
Whatever else may be raised on the grave of the structure being razed, demolition itself can be a thing of beauty.
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Art for a Dollar Posted: 4 months ago by nateebiinature
Critically acclaimed tattoo artist, Scott Campbell, recently showed his work at the O.H.W.O.W. gallery in Miami, FL. The highlight of the evening was a series of laser-cut etchings, each on a stack of $1 bills.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 41 [+].
A definitive collection of 800+ Photoshop tutorials, plugins and brushes Posted: 4 months ago by axxon2008
Everything is here: Photo effects, Photoshop brushes, text effect, lighting and grunge effects, videogames related tutorials, superheroes themed tutorials, complex lettering, movie posters, horror photo makeover, you name it.
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Artists with Abilities Born of Brain Damage Posted: 4 months ago by Bingo
Sometimes talent is sparked, or maybe just revealed, in the strangest ways.
Imagine having a stroke, a severe brain injury or a tumor and suddenly waking up one day to find you’ve developed artistic talents to rival Picasso. It sounds impossible, but the brain is a mysterious organ, and sometimes, damage causes it to rewire itself in ways that reveal new talents even in people who could barely doodle a stick figure.
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Bach’s Forgotten Horn Posted: 5 months ago by Bingo
In 1737-8, Johann Sebastian Bach composed and performed a cantata. Among the instruments called for are “two Litui.” No one has played or heard the instrument in modern times; there aren’t even illustrations of one.
Musicians at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB), had heard of a computer program to help in the design of modern brass instruments. The SCB provided scientists with design requirements, and they built two.
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The first of 12 exclusive Superman comics Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
Every week, usatoday.com will feature a new episode of the Superman serial running in Wednesday Comics, a weekly collection of 15 newspaper-sized comic strips from DC Comics.
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Analysis of Norman Rockwell's illustrations for Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer... Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
I guess today the schoolmaster switching Tom would be suspended and investigated for child abuse, but in those days the schoolmaster was appropriately named. He maintained discipline with an understood authority.
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Music Labels Reach Royalty Deal With Online Stations Posted: 5 months ago by 2manyusernames
Internet radio, once on its death bed, may survive after all. Radio stations have to pay a fee to run commercials (songs) for record companies. New higher fees for online stations threatened to put them out of business. A new agreement has changed that.
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Pez sues museum over giant dispenser Posted: 5 months ago by DerAlt
The company that makes Pez candy is suing a California museum, seeking to have a giant Pez dispenser created by the owners destroyed.
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Father makes sculptures from unwanted toys Posted: 5 months ago by topofall
A father got so fed up of discarding his children's unwanted toys that he is now turning them into giant sculptures instead.
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Artist wants you to be his next Zombie! Posted: 5 months ago by Bingo
Professional comic book artist Joel Micah Harris is running a unique promotion on his website. For the month of July, he is willing to "Zombify" anyone who sends in a photo of themselves to him, absolutely free of charge. There is no catch- Harris himself says "...it's just something fun to do. The people who I've already zombified seem to get a big kick out of it".
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Awesome Messiness: Incredible Sloppy Artwork Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
It takes a special kind of person to actively pursue a messy career, be they a port-o-potty cleaner or a technician on an oil rig. Messy artists, you know, ones who cherish a sloppy line here and a paint splotch there, their canvases falling apart at the weight of their paint, belong in those ranks.
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Kelburn Castle Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
This is the Kelburn Castle in Scotland, close to a wonderfully-named Fairie village (Fairlie, actually) - see here - painted over by Brazillian street artists from Sao Paolo Nina and Nunca Os Gemeos (completed in June 2007)
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Ceiling Porn Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
i'm a big fan of ceilings and it never fails to amaze me how drastically they can change the appearance and atmosphere of a space yet at the same time be completely ignored by most of the room's occupants.
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The Human Printer Posted: 5 months ago by suebe
The Human Printer is a group of people who print photos in CMYK or B&W by hand!
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The Wind Knitting Machine Posted: 5 months ago by suebe
With the power of the wind, a knitting machine knits from the outside towards the inside of the building. The knitted material is harvested from time to time and rounded-off in individually packaged scarves. Each scarf has its own label which tells you in how much time it has been knitted and on which date.
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10 Edible Artistic Expressions Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Food art, not to be confused with the culinary arts, requires the use of food as the main component of an artistic creation. Over the years, this unique form of expression has proven an ever-expanding enterprise, incorporating candy, vegetables and fruits in various colors, shapes and sizes.
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The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
Where tools of the trade that have died or have just about died a slow slow death are cheerfully exhibited.
*I have a lot of this stuff*
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