3 years after hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, British artist Banksy has been leaving his trademark pieces throughout the city. You can see more of this series of work on his site.
Source - Boing Boing
Archive for August, 2008
Adam and Jamie of MythBusters created a massive 2100 barrel paintball gun to create their own version of the Mona Lisa - all in one single shot. And it looks pretty damned good.
The big gun took six months of work to create and was for Nvidia’s Nvision tradeshow. Named Mona Lisa, it was used as part of a demonstration (on an absurdly large scale) on the difference between a CPU and a GPU, the massive paint gun representing the GPU and a smaller robot seen at the beginning of the video named Smiley being the CPU.
Beyond the fact that most of us mortals could give a rat’s ass about the difference between a CPU and a GPU, this demonstration was of a typical MythBusters level of over the top we know and love them for.
Source - Gizmodo
Fancy yourself an animator? Love George Romero’s Living Dead franchise? Then NotLD: Reanimated is just for you. The premise is easy -
The project is a mass collaborative animation in which artists working in all media are given the chance to re-envision Might of the Living Dead. This can be done in any style, medium or approch. The only restrictions are:
-Must be your own work.
-Must match the original audio.
-Must be in Black and White.
Once they receive all of the submissions they’ll organize the materials and the timeline will be reanimated one scene at a time to create a completely new visual track. In other words they’re going to use various images to create a brand-new visual reimagining of Night of the Living Dead. Pretty swank if you ask me.
There’s more information and submission guidelines on the NOTLD: Reanimated site.
Below is an update of some of the materials received, giving you a better idea of what they are trying to accomplish.
Is this a simple birthday cake in the form of the iconic scene from The Empire Strikes Back of Han Solo encased in carbonite, or is this something more sinister? Look closely at the body, the face. Doesn’t look like Han Solo at all. But there is a strong resemblance to another cultural icon… Mr. Bill! Don’t believe me? Well take a look at this buck-o.
What we have here is in fact Mr. Bill frozen in carbonite. Michele’s Cakes, we here at Zombie Monkey Projects are on to your morbid and despicable deed!
The Empire has landed and occupied the city of San Francisco. Star Wars fans taunt Star Trek fans with the fact that their beloved scifi franchise is actually real. Rest of world poops pants.
Source - HelenMosher Twitter
The folks over at AMC’s SciFi Scanner present to you this PSA on how to protect yourself from the various monsters that roam the Earth.
Do you know how to defend against a zombie? How about a gremlin? No? Well watch this and learn rookie.
The Coffin is a Thai horror film based on a ritual of being buried alive to fend off bad luck. But in the case of this film it shows that being buried alive actually sucks…. a lot. Whoda thunk?
Source - Empire
& Teller is a clever little video made by Ghost Works, LLC for George A Romero’s Diary of the Dead video contest last April. The premise is simple: Teller, of the magic due Penn & Teller, is trying to survive the Zombie Apocalypse all by his lonesome.Will he make it, become slack jaw kibble or slip into zombification? Watch to find out!
Source - Chad Savage
That crazy despot, Kim Jong-gil, is at it again. His scientists claim to have invented a new kind of noodle that delays feelings of hunger. These hunger-busting noodles apparently have have twice the amount of protein and fives times the fat as ordinary wheat or corn noodles.
A Japan-based pro-Pyongyang newspaper reports “When you consume ordinary noodles (made from wheat or corn), you may soon feel your stomach empty. But this soybean noodle delays such a feeling of hunger.”
This past July, the World Food Programme warned that six million people in North Korea were in dire need of food due to the severe flooding last year.
Now if only they could invent a better hairstyle for their industrious leader and some killer dauphins with lasers shooting out of their eyes we may have the recipe to solve all of Earth’s problems.
Source - BBC
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