the dollar bin

otto and azure...

2010-10-19T19:50:00.000-07:00

my good friend emma made this awesome pencil test.

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medusa

2010-08-13T12:08:00.000-07:00

more cool animation

2010-06-20T23:33:00.000-07:00

"The Music Scene" from Anthony Francisco Schepperd on Vimeo.

Animated/Directed by Anthony F. Schepperd.

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Night Parade...

2010-05-03T12:32:00.000-07:00

awesome cal arts animator, Sabrina Cotugno, made this cool animation.

via cold hard flash

second wind!

2010-04-19T21:48:00.000-07:00

Second Wind from Ian Worrel on Vimeo.

via drawn

loops...

2010-03-11T17:00:00.000-08:00

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WTF

2010-02-02T19:17:00.000-08:00

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kung-fu bunny 3

2010-01-20T09:29:00.001-08:00

this is pretty amazing! although i ended up feeling more sympathetic for the dog than the rabbit.

by vince
via: cold hard flash

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a good idea...

2010-01-07T08:26:00.000-08:00

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cool old timey video for team william.

2010-01-05T07:45:00.000-08:00

and it all came true

2009-12-06T21:37:00.001-08:00

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ran into this guy the other day!

2009-12-04T09:05:00.000-08:00

help me publish my new graphic novel.

2009-11-17T10:39:00.000-08:00

this post is a little different than what i would normally post here but i need all the help i can get.

About a week ago I finished my newest graphic novel, a 288 page book collecting all 7 issues of my comic “Life of a Fetus.” The collection, "Escape from Dullsville" contains over 80 pages of new material including the previously unpublished L.O.A.F. issue 8.

Unfortunately, pre - orders were not high enough for my publisher SLG Comics to justify printing the book just yet, so unless i can raise enough pre-order sales quickly it might NEVER BE PRINTED

That’s where you come in!
My hope is to get everyone who would normally buy the book when it comes out to preorder it from Amazon.com ASAP! If we can get enough pre-order sales the book WILL BE PRINTED! If you can pass this message along to anyone you think would be interested in it, that would help a lot too!

Not only is it super easy to preorder the book from Amazon, you’ll be getting the book at $6 less than the cover price! Just click the Amazon links in this post. Amazon will not charge you until the book ships so if the book never gets printed you won't ever be charged.

As a bonus, if you email me a photo of yourself holding the book, I’ll will personally send you an original sketch of a character of your choosing from "Escape from Dullsville!" I'm sure with your help we can this thing printed lickety splits.

to preview some of the art or for more information about the book click this link

Thanks again for your support!

- Andy Ristaino

the symphony of science...

2009-10-21T13:28:00.000-07:00

"We Are All Connected" was made from sampling Carl Sagan's Cosmos, The History Channel's Universe series, Richard Feynman's 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson's cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye's Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking's Universe, Cosmos, the Powers of 10, and more. It is a tribute to great minds of science, intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music.

and Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking.

go here to download the mp3's.

jesus 2000

2009-10-17T21:17:00.001-07:00

JESUS2000 from jesus 2000 on Vimeo.

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slow motion...

2009-10-16T00:19:00.001-07:00

blow up the moon...

2009-10-09T09:51:00.000-07:00

in celebration of the moon bombing.

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Brule's Rules...

2009-10-08T17:41:00.000-07:00

where would we all be without Dr. Steve Brule to tell us how to live out lives.

(from tim and eric's awesome show great job!)

Cube Dudes by angus!

2009-09-22T13:13:00.000-07:00

old school chum of mine, Angus MacLane made a bunch of cool lego cube dudes. below are a few of my favorites. check out the entire collection here. (photos by scott clark.)

lion-o

cobra commander

walter sobchak

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ikea heights...

2009-09-15T05:28:00.000-07:00

ikea heights was filmed entirely in the burbank ikea without the knowledge of the ikea staff for channel 101.

IKEA Heights from DaveAOK on Vimeo.

you can find episodes 2,3,and 4 here.

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'Trichrome Blue by Lois van Baarle'

2009-09-14T05:12:00.000-07:00

Trichrome Blue from Lois van Baarle on Vimeo.

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the cat piano...

2009-09-09T09:19:00.000-07:00

The Cat Piano from PRA on Vimeo.

Latest short film by The People's Republic of Animation. Narrated by Nick Cave. Directed by Eddie White & Ari Gibson. Produced by Jessica Brentnall

via roque

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baman and piderman

2009-09-05T09:30:00.000-07:00

Alex Butera and Linsey Small and mondo minishows bring you baman and piderman.

you can see more of baman and piderman here.

the imfamous super go!

mysterious universe is back!

2009-09-04T08:06:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite podcasts, Mysterious Universe, is back after a year and a half hiatus. It a podcast that covers alot of the same subjects as coast to coast with George Noory. UFOs, Ghosts, Cryptozoology, shadow people, all that weird jazz, but the host Benjamin Grundy has a great attitude towards the paranormal and takes everything with a grain of salt and a sense of humor. Instead of an interview format the show is set up more like a this week in the strange and bizarre news with Grundy reading from stories he's found round the net or sent to him from listeners. The first run of the show was one of the best produced and put together podcasts i've ever listened to and you can really hear how much he enjoys talking about these subjects in his voice and enthusiasm. MU was definitely something that i looked forward to listening to every week and missed once he had stopped podcasting.

Season one of Mysterious Universe consisted of about 94 long format podcasts ranging from 60 - 90 minutes, 91 shorter format "Mindshot" episodes (maybe 20 minutes) and a bunch of specials in there somewhere too. If you can get your hands on them each episode is amazingly put together and proven to withstand multiple listenings. Unfortunately the back catalog of episodes from season 1 are no longer available for download on itunes but if you want you can buy a limited edition dvd set of all the episodes including the ultra rare first 7 episodes which Mr. Grundy finds completely embarrassing (I'm guessing because you can still hear him cutting his podcasting teeth and the production values are really low).

the the start of season 2 of Mysterious Universe, Benjamin Grundy is joined by scientist Aaron Wright. I've listened to the first episode of the new season and while it is a little rough around the edges they seem to work well together. It will be interesting to see how the more skeptical Wright will counterpoint Grundy's views.

if you have a free ear to listen to some fun spooky stories give the podcast a listen.

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cool link!

2009-09-03T10:16:00.000-07:00

movie posters from ghana. for more click the link.

via boing boing

a story from north america

2009-09-02T09:45:00.001-07:00

i don't know why i didn't post this a month ago. i 've been obsessing over it for about that long. it's totally jawsome.

"Story from North America" by Garrett Davis and Kirsten Lepore
Music written and performed by Garrett Davis
More animations at http://www.kirstenlepore.com
and http://garrettmdavis.googlepages.com

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covered!

2009-09-01T11:48:00.000-07:00

this is one of the coolest blogs i've seen in a while. different artists drawing covers of comic book covers! sweet! i'm hoping to submits some covered covers to it in the next month or two when get some time to do something.

Brian McDonald drew this cover of a paul murry comic from 1954

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bobby mcferrin tears your brain open...

2009-08-02T13:13:00.000-07:00

exerpt from an interesting science lecture via boingboing.

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

also this is really really really cool!

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insanely twisted shadow planet...

2009-07-27T13:12:00.000-07:00

Video Games | Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet | Exclusive Extended Trailer HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

new game by michel gagne. i love the effects animations on this.

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robo geisha...

2009-07-09T13:19:00.001-07:00

i'm not quite sure what to say...

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new next generation

2009-05-31T08:39:00.000-07:00

with all the hype about star trek i figured you've all heard of the new next gen episodes they're making. below is a clip.

more here
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great panels: the stroke of everlasting doom...

2009-05-17T18:19:00.000-07:00

another panel from baffling mysteries. this time from issue 18 published in 1953 from the story "12 hours to doom" art by Lou Cameron not sure who wrote it.

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Great Panels: Under the tigers head...

2009-05-13T23:23:00.000-07:00

todays panels come from "Vengeance of the Tiger Queen" which appears in Baffling Mysteries number 12. published in 1951 by Ace magazines. unfortunately they didn't give anyone any credits so maybe that's what the title baffling mysteries is refering to.

man this story had so many good panels in it it was hard to choose just one (so i posted two). you can see the whole story over here at the awesome the Horrors of it all blog.

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great panels: All-Star Team...

2009-05-12T07:14:00.000-07:00

this panel is from the devilishly good story "to beat the devil" which appears in dc comics Strange sports stories published in 1973. written by frank robbins. art by curt swan and Dick Giodarno.

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Great panels: SLAM!

2009-05-10T20:49:00.000-07:00

this one is from EC comics tales from the crypt reprint i have. originally published in suspense stories #8 in 1951 from the story "out of the frying pan" drawn by Johnny Craig and written by william gaines and colors by Marie Severin

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great panels 06: special mystery edition...

2009-05-09T08:23:00.000-07:00

i scanned this panel in about a month ago and never posted it. and unfortunately i dont remember what comic it's from. i'll edit this post later if i can find the info.

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Great Panels 05: AAAGH-GH!

2009-03-10T08:19:00.000-07:00

this fine panel is from the story "the Life of Riley" in BEWARE #7 printed in 1954 by Trojan Magazine inc. Art by Myron Fass? unsure who wrote it.

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Great Panels 04: krull-nrk

2009-03-09T19:28:00.001-07:00

here's a great panel from Marvel Tales 112 published by marvel comics in 1953. written by stan "the man" lee and drawn by...no artist is credited.

pretty amazing video

2009-03-02T08:32:00.000-08:00

Watch the people's reactions as a camera makes the rounds at a local sushi restaurant in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan.

coen brothers anti clean coal commercial.

2009-02-26T13:35:00.000-08:00

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Review: Above Top Secret Comics

2009-02-06T01:00:00.000-08:00

so in order to get me off my butt and kick off this whole comic review blog for comics that wouldn't normally get reviewed, i'm going to transpose and expand upon some reviews i did back in 2004 on my livejournal. so lets start with...

ABOVE TOP SECRET COMICS "the comic the government doesn't want you to see".
I first stumbled upon ATSC a while back (2002-ish) looking through black and white backstock at Al's comics in San Francisco (backstock being something that al's has in spades check it out if your in town). He only had issue two which is what my original review focused on but now i have finally gotten my hands on issue one... so let's take a look at the entire run.

below are the cover to ATSC #1

Above Top Secret Comics issue one, published by Eyes Only Comics in 1995-1996. Written by and featuring the artwork of Wes Crum. I did a google search to try to find more about the history of the artist and was able to find out a little bit more then i was able to back in 2004. Then all i could find on him was this link, which features some more images from ATSC, but now i've found that since ATSC he's done a lot of covers and more for many an Adult Comic available through last gasp, some even keeping with the alien theme with titles with unfortunate names such as Anal Intruders From Uranus... But i digress. I was immediately drawn to ATSC by the artwork, the format of the book and the subject matter (me being one to have known bouts of obsession with aliens from time to time). Although the same print size as a standard comic it wasn't so much a comic book as a collection of highly rendered pen and ink illustrations.

The first issue ATSC is a whopping 48 pages of the best in alien conspiracy. Issue one focus mostly on documenting in exacting detail the history of landmark alien encounters on earth (starting in 1944), important figures in the field of Xenoarchaeology (not sure if i'm using this terminology correctly), and conspiracy whistle blowers throughout recent human history ...with a few exceptions of pages devoted to important cultural moments such as the release of The Day the Earth Stood Still (the 1951 version), lost in space, and star trek the next generation. Below are some of the weirder images from issue 1.

caption: On the night of october 11, 1973 two very frightened men from Pascagoula, Missisippi presented themselves at the Jackson County Sheriff's department and told and increadible tale. Charley hickson and Calvin Oarker claimed that while they were fishing in a local river they were abducted by three bizarre robot-like creatures, taken aboard a UFO and physically examined. (click on image for larger image)

George Adamski meets with a woman from Venus

While issue one seemed to focused more on the "truth", issue two ( a 32 pager published by Eyes Only Press in 1996) focus' more on the conjectured happenings as imagined by the artist. It still has it's fine figures of humanity in the fight against our alien abductors but where the first issue had paragraphs below each image explaining the history and back story behind the illustration, the second issue has several words, maybe a name or if we are lucky a short descriptive sentence. Mysterious titles for the illustrations such as "Inside the Tent", "Briefing in the Blue Room" or "Childhoods End".

ATSC #2 at your service

There are some really great illustrations. like one on the "ufo's of the third reich" and two of my personal favorites "the night shift of area s-4" and "the weirdest dream".

I think the best thing about Wes Crum's approach to the book's illustrations is that each image is portrayed as being fact or an important facet in the development of humanities relationship and acceptance of alien existence. The art and the context of the text seems to scream these things happened. You can tell how focused and into getting every detail down on paper he is. How carefully planned, researched, and painstakingly built from a combination of photo reference and the mind of the artist each illustration is. The artwork is a tempered mix of skill and planned ugly with just a whiff of outsider. Enough outsider to make it fascinating. Through his ability to create the otherworldly melded with the mundane we get a glimpse into the frightening reality that perhaps the artist lives in.

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all artwork appearing in this review copyright wes crum

zeitgeist...

2009-02-05T16:42:00.000-08:00

and

that is all

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McCloud kicks it a new one...

2009-01-28T09:33:00.000-08:00

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Great Panels 03: tok blag k-chunka k-chunka chankaa

2008-12-31T13:22:00.000-08:00

House of Mystery #269 brings us this lovely panel, demonstrating the innerworking of your local mint. From "Heart of Gold" brought to life by the hand of Ruben Yandoc. Stuart Hopen and C. Barrett Andrews teamed up to give us "tok blag k-chunka k-chunka chankaa."

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Great Panels 2: Mumbo Jumbo

2008-12-30T08:49:00.000-08:00

This is out of left field even amongst it's fellow panels in the story "the Curst of the Harappa". dc comic's the House of Secrets # 106 march 1973. art: Ruben Yandoc. words: Maxene Fabe (sorry this link was the best i could find.)

i love that he's walkin around with a rifle.

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Great Panels 1: Ga-Ga!

2008-12-29T13:05:00.000-08:00

here's a great little panel from gold key's "the Owl" issue 2 by Jerry Siegle and Tom Gill in 1968.

(perhaps one of the greatest of all time!)

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i am somewhat excited about this...

2008-10-30T11:12:00.000-07:00

(edit: it was dissapointing)

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