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I never laughed so hard.

I ♥ Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Foutaises (Things I like, Things I hate) is a wonderful short film by beloved director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children, Amelie, Delicatessen).  If you’ve seen Amelie, you can see how he later incorporated this idea to paint the amazing characters of that film. 

Dark Horse and Tim Burton Dolls

If you ever got to read Tim Burton’s The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: and Other Stories you’re in for a treat. Over at Things from Another World you can now grab yourself those nostalgic figures from your favorite bedtime stories. Of course me-mother didn’t take interest into what I would have considered the elite bedtime story but I can still curl up with a book in one hand and now thanks to Dark Horse a doll in the other. If your preference is more towards the Hideous Penguin Boy or Toxic Boy then the good word is they also have them for sale. My personal favorite is Stain Boy which they also have as a doll and also in sticker form. [Link]

As an added bonus I also have a Tim Burton speed painting from Nico Di Mattia at speed-painting.com.

 

The Art of LEGO ®

There is an entire hidden culture that collects this LEGO ® art. I suppose there are endless possibilities when small adjacent binding blocks are arranged in a feat of rudimentary engineering and design to complete a mathematical composed tangent of both talent and physics. Nathan Sawaya over at The Art of the Brick™ understands this to the zenith of expression. I can imagine myself in a room surrounded by hundreds of hidden shelves filled with different assortments of LEGOS ®, in fact I even dreamed about it. But Han Solo frozen in 10,000 dark grey LEGOS ® is just plain showing off! [Link]

Grossly Cute

Whenever I am confronted with something grossly cute I feel like I have stepped through the looking glass into some kind of bizarre spectrum of reality. So being the lonely chap I am and surfing through endless bento boxes and owning none I came across this startling product. What better way to serve out a load of disgusting cuteness then punching out seaweed and deploying cuteness all over everyone so they can eat it up? This little toy gets a 8/10 on the juicy scale and if I ever manage to get my hands on one you can bet your boots I will abuse the right of owning it. [Link]

Your artwork might be a counterfeit reproduction

If you’re thinking there’s something wrong with this picture then you’re on the right track. Over at Worth 1000 they have a nice little art exhibit of counterfeit art. It’s a marvelous way of learning how to find out if your art is a forgery. [Link]

Big Train Radio Puns

Sketch from the very first episode of the amazing Big Train

Kid fails driving test 5 times in a day

The California cell phone law isn’t official until July 1st

Simon’s Cat ‘Let Me In!’

A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to get indoors.

Psychotic abound

 

Usually there’s nothing like a Sunday afternoon in Akihabara. It’s fun to roam through the many electronics stores to see the latest devices, or head into one of the anime shops to browse figures or doujinshi comics. The blocked-off street (known as “pedestrian’s heaven”) is so full of shoppers and tourists and fans in cosplay giving “guerilla live” street performances that it feels like a great big carnival. This happy image was destroyed on Sunday when a crazed man drove a rented truck into a crowd then jumped out and started attacking people with a large survival-type knife, eventually killing six men and one woman and injuring ten others before police could take him into custody. Although rare in usually-peaceful Japan, these bizarre knife attacks do sometimes occur, and they’re called torima, roughly translated as “a devil who just happened to be passing by.” Sunday’s tragedy called to mind an attack on children in an elementary school by a deranged man in which eight children were killed, which in an eerie twist happened exactly seven years before this attack. All Japan is buzzing about the possible motives of the attacker, a 25-year-old temporary factory worker from Shizuoka Prefecture, who may have been set off by a mistaken belief that he had been let go from his company when this was not the case. All throughout the world and the web, people are expressing sadness over the terrible tragedy.

 

-Excerpt from www.jbox.com-“Just goes to show that tighter gun control laws won’t stop people from randomly killing each other.”