Posts from — April 2008

This is cool and weird at the same time. John Martz redrew the entire student body from his mothers 1968 high school yearbook as cartoons, which contains more than 1,000 heads. He debuted the book, titled Excelsior 1968 at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival last year. The book is now published and can be purchased on his site. This is such a creative idea. He must have had a hell of a lot of time on his hands, I guess. He’s also mentioned that if he ever did it again, he’d like to use an 80’s yearbook, to capture the great clothes and haircuts. I hope he does. By the way, clicking the photo above goes to his Flickr set.

If you liked this, there’s also a similar project from John Ralston titled “The Liner” which has less cartoony drawings from a yearbook. These ones were all done in pen and ink and watercolor, or colored pencil and watercolor. Why does everyone have so much creativity, and I have so little? Oh well. I’ll just keep writing about it.

Do you want the new Gnarls Barkley album, The Odd Couple, completely free? Well, it’s all yours if you go here to download it. There’s only one catch…the entire album is backwards. Oh, and it’s just one long MP3. So if you have some kind of audio editing program, you can re-reverse it and break up the tracks, but I think it would just be better to purchase the album. Anyway, if you’re into weird music, not that Gnarls Barkley isn’t already weird enough, download Elpuoc Ddo Eht right now.

For most professions, tools are just an aid for your job. But in art, your tool can do more than aid, it can become a piece of art in and of itself.

Wayne Belger, a fine art photographer, uses his own pinhole camera that he has made to photograph his subjects. He explains, “The same air that touches my subject can pass through the pinhole and touch the photo emulsion on the film.” So what does Wayne make his pinholes out of?

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If you ever had to put together a ransom note before, you know it’s a tedious task that you wouldn’t want to endure again. Collecting old magazines and newspapers, spending hours and hours cutting out little tiny letters and phrases- don’t let your kidnapping career run short on the hand of carpal tunnel syndrome.

Ransom Note Generator takes away the hours of snipping, turning the task into a quick and easy way to get your demands out in seconds. Now, if you end up getting abducted because the perpetrator had so much extra time on his hands- don’t go blaming the messenger… Enjoy!

Sometimes when there’s no work to be done (or if there’s tedious work that you can’t bring yourself to do), we look to games. It’s okay, you can admit it. There are many games out there to choose from; stick figure games, rag doll games, jelly guy- people- character games… So, what’s the best game suited for you?

For people who have a bit of an obsession with typography, this game will fulfill your font mania well. The Rather Difficult Font Game has about 34 fonts that you must identify by picking one of the multiple answers below. The higher the score, the more obsessed you are! Enjoy!