Wednesday, January 31, 2007

225 - Galchenko

1. Vova and Olga

2. Vova

3. Vova & Olga

4. Olga

5. Olga and Vova

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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

224 - with Links!

Hail, Hail

1. Hail, Hail
It seems like there has been a rash of heavy shit falling out of the sky and smashing stuff up. This time it is another giant chunk of ice that landed on some poor sucker's car..

Giant Baby

2. Giant Baby
The average birth weight is 7 pounds, 6 ounces. Ademilton Ramos was born in Brazil weighing in at over 17 pounds. Geez.

Right to Refuse Service

3. Right to Refuse Service
87-year-old man, Jack Archer, was asked to prove he was over 21 when he tried to buy a bottle of sherry in a supermarket.

'Who You Gonna Call?

4. Who You Gonna Call?
Someone please give me $149,998.

Peter Weller, PHD

5. Peter Weller, PHD
“They thought they were going to get the easy A from old RoboCop,”

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Monday, January 29, 2007

223 - Casey Sorrow

No Quarter

1. No Quarter
While looking for block prints for last week's Etsy Monday, I came across Casey Sorrow's shop.

Jetsam

2. Jetsam
I wanted to include one of his works with the other prints, but then decided to give this SCUBA series an entire post.

Flotsam

3. Flotsam
Most of Casey's designs are inspired by vintage genre comics which have a graphic quality that lends itself well to the linoleum block cutting technique.

'Fathom 1

4. Fathom 1
His prints of war scenes are equally impressive.

Fathom 2

5. Fathom 2
Also check out Casey's webcomic, Feral Calf, as well as his blog, A Fiend's Folio.

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

222 - Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

1. Mother Teresa
Everyone knows that Mother Teresa was a great humanitarian right?
"But in the age of celebrity, nobody had troubled to ask if such a global reputation was truly earned or was simply the result of brilliant public relations."
-Christopher Hitchens

Masochist

2. Masochist
"It is the most beautiful gift for a person that he can participate in the sufferings of Christ."
-Mother Teresa

Criminal

3. Criminal
"You are suffering, that means Jesus is kissing you!"
-Mother Teresa

'Heretic

4. Heretic
“I’ve always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.”
1Mother Teresa

Glory Hog

5. Glory Hog
"The suffering of the poor is something very beautiful and the world is being very much helped by the nobility of this example of misery and suffering."
Mother Teresa

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Saturday, January 27, 2007

221 - Die Hard Edition

1. Die Hard

2. Die Harder

3. Die Hard with a Vengeance

4. Live Free or Die Hard

5. Die Hard: The Ballad of John McClane

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Friday, January 26, 2007

220 - Paris Hilton

Paris Hiton Nude

1. Paris
Even if you won't admit it, I'm sure you want to see the new Paris Hilton sex videos that are hitting the internet.

Paris Hilton's Tits

2. Paris
It seems Miss Hilton didn't pay the bill on her storage unit.

Paris Hitlon Sex

3. Paris
After multiple failed attempts to contact her, the storage company eventually auctioned off the contents of Mss Hilton's unit.

'Paris Hilton Blowjob

4. Paris
The high bidders have been cataloging the new collection of Hilton ephemera which includes not only her personal diaries but multiple video tapes of Paris and friends engaging in sexual acts and drug use.

Paris Hilton Does Cocaine

5. Paris
Out of the goodness of their hearts, they have decided to make much of this information and footage available to the public.

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Thursday, January 25, 2007

219 - with Links!

Attention Passengers

1. Attention Passengers
We have reached our cruising altitude now, so I am going to switch the seat belt sign off. Feel free to move about as you wish. By the way, Your pilot is totally dead.

Night of the Living Duck

2. Night of the Living Duck
I forgot to include this in yesterday's zombie post.

Jungle Jimmy

3. Jungle Jimmy
More information is coming out about the so-called Cambodian jungle girl and the possiblity of her having a Cambodian jungle boyfriend.

'Accident Waiting to Happen

4. Accident Waiting to Happen
Step One: Flying Manta Ray
Step Two: Broken back
Step Three: Lawsuit
Step Four: ?
Step Five: Profit!

Gaming for Fines

5. Gaming for Fines
Whatever happened to quiet in the library?

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

218 - Zombie

Drugged, Dying or What?

1. Drugged, Dying or What?
Of course you've seen it before, but you know you wanted to see the classic zombie vs shark scene from Lucio Fulci's Zombi in low resolution youtube vision.

Shoot Up

2. Shoot Up
I don't know if there is a point to this game other than just shooting zombies. Fo me they just kept coming faster and faster and nothing else happened. Maybe you can do better.

Zombie Computers a Growing Threat

3. Zombie Computers a Growing Threat
Is your computer part of a ‘botnet’, or one of tens or even hundreds of thousands of compromised computers, under the control of one of the ‘bad guys’ using your computer to commit Internet fraud and other crimes?

'Zombie Snail

4. Zombie Snail
More on parasites inducing zombi-ism in tiny animals from nature programs.

How To Make a Real Zombie

5. How To Make a Real Zombie
Create your own personal zombie slave using three common household items, Tetrodotoxin, Tropane Alkaloids and Bufotoxins.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

217 - Monkey Tuesday

Birth

1. Birth
I don't know how to tell you when to tune in for the big event, but The Prague Zoo will be transmitting live via internet, the rare-ish birth of a bouncing baby gorilla sometime soon. The translation of the site is a bit wonky, so if you can figure out when to watch, let me know.

Monkey Mouse

2. Monkey Mouse
Paleontologist, Jonathan Bloch, and a new fossil discovery in Yellowstone National Park, lend credence to the notion that early primates evolved from small mouse-like mammals that may have flourished soon after the cataclysm that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Chimpasic Park

3. Chimpasic Park
A mystery developed in Louisiana when Teresa, a primate resident of Chimp Haven turned up pregnant, even though all of her male roommates have had vesectemies. Life will find a way!

'Great Ape

4. Great Ape
A giant gorilla is on the loose in the town of Carrollton, Texas. You'll be able to recognize him because he is "wearing blue boxers and a yellow shirt."

More Birth

5. More Birth
Another primate's right to privacy was taken away when the camera crews witnessed the birth of a baby howler monkey.

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Monday, January 22, 2007

216 - Etsy Prints

Nude Lying on a Sofa

1. Nude Lying on a Sofa
In honor of the printmaking class I just started, I'm picking a few nice wood block and linoleum prints on Etsy. First is a linocut by Natalia Moroz who has a whole shop full of great prints

Along the Cabot Trail

2. Along the Cabot Trail
Magprint is another linocutter making nice prints.

Hillside

3. Hillside
Kris Shanks has a collection of woodblock and linocuts for sale as well as some very nice original still life oil paintings.

'BBQ

4. BBQ
Jonathan Apgar seems to be a screenprinter primarily, but his shop has a few sweet block prints in it as well.

Untitled

5. Untitled
This print by Connie Pierson has a softly refined quality not often seen in block prints. The fact that is is cut from wood rather than linoleum makes it all the more impresive.

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Sunday, January 21, 2007

215 - Sunday!

Post It

1. Post It
"The time of the rapture is at hand... Do you know someone who is in danger of being "left behind" because of a sinful life? Imagine if you could write a letter to a friend or loved one after the Great Day of Reckoning."

Holy Tic

2. Holy Tic
Not only has it been fairly definitively proven that there are no health benefits to be had from prayer, now it seems that there is some evidence to suggest that too much praying can actually cause health problems..

Homeless or Jesus?

3. Homeless or Jesus?
Based mostly on close ups of beards, can you tell Jesus from a homeless man?

'Letters to God

4. Letters to God
About 300 letters sent to a New Jersey minister in order to be prayed over ended up dumped in the ocean, most of them unopened and unread. An incredible book waiting to be published. More on letters to god.

Veronicas

5. Veronicas
Who knew that the Shroud of Turin was not the only supposedly miraculous image of Jesus preserved on cloth?

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Saturday, January 20, 2007

214 - with Links!

Fraud

1. Fraud
It is being reported by a lot of websites and blogs that Sylvia Browne has been caught in another in an ever growing list of "psychic errors." In 2003, she calously reported that a recently missing boy, Shawn Hornbeck was dead. You probably have heard that Shawn was reunited with his family on January 13th.

Jungle Girl

2. Jungle Girl
The BBC is reporting on a "half-human and half-animal" Cambodian girl who has been living in the wild for the the past 19 years. The article is woefully lacking in details and seems sketchy for some reason.

Bass Diddley Bow and Gas Can Guitar

3. Bass Diddley Bow
I'm not entirely sure what The Ministry of Hope is all about, but damn, these are some talented kids playing awesome homemade instruments.

'Welcome Back

4. Welcome Back
When Lewis Hill returned home to East St. Lewis from vacation he was surprised to find that the city had demoloshed his home. Another unfortunately, sketchy article without a lot of information and absolutely no input from the city about their side of the story.

Internet Justice

5. Internet Justice
Be careful about what you say to people in internet chatrooms. Painting by Tim Nyberg.

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