The Light Fantastic

Light-Paint Piano Player from Ryan Cashman on Vimeo.

Light-Paint Piano Player on Vimeo

"F" is for "FIRE!" - Drawing Spongebob & the Gang

Awesome Spongebob model sheets and tips here and here!

via Cartoon SNAP: How to Draw Lively Poses - SpongeBob Tip Sheets

Don't You Know There's a War Going On?

Great, nice size scans of WWII posters from the American Legion.

via American Legion Posters | American Legion

That Thing is Huge!

Check out the outrageous collection of GIGANTIC air machines at Dark Roasted Blend, like the flying cruise ship above.

via Dark Roasted Blend: Monstrous Aviation: World's Biggest Airplanes

Color This Book!

Comics to Go! is a book of fun cartooning activities for kids by the previously-blogged Mike Herrod.

The book contains 19 comics that kids can finish with their own
drawings. As the book progresses, the reader is asked to contribute
more to the stories, and by the end of the book, they’re writing and
drawing comics of their very own.

The publisher has posted downloadble PDFs of a black-and-white version of the book, which is perfect for printing out (and suddenly it’s a colouring book, too!).

Thank you's to:

Comics to Go: cartooning exercises for kids » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Big Ol' Stinky Feet

Check out a stablized version of the famous film here: mk_davis_pgf.gif (GIF Image, 1070x216 pixels)

and check out the rest of the site for more stories and videos.

Set a Course for Adventure

Cool retro-futurist travel posters by artist Steve Thomas.  These would make cool stickers to put on your suitcase, too.

via Rocketship Tours - Baekdal.com

How Come Nobody Told Me Tasting Stuff Tasted So Good?

via Amateur Chemist’s Robot at ModernMechanix

Out of Cluck

Once upon a time, way back in 1945, Mike was but another unnamed rooster, just one of many chickens living on Lloyd and Clara Olsen’s farm and destined for the refrigerated section of the grocery store. On September 10, Mr. Olsen selected several chickens for the chopping block. As usual after decapitation, each chicken scrambled and scratched for a moment by reflex. One rooster, however, kept running around the yard, as if it hadn’t realized its head was sitting on the ground.

The next morning, the headless chicken was still proudly strutting around as if nothing had happened. Surprised and curious, the Olsens began feeding it, dripping a gruel of crushed grain and water down its throat, to see how long it could survive. And the rooster thrived—as much as it could without a head—climbing onto perches, making gurgling noises in an attempt to crow, and futilely attempting to preen its feathers with its phantom head.

Click the link below for the rest of the story.

And here's what it would have looked like with a Woody head stuck in his neck:

via Happy 63rd birthday to Mike the Headless Chicken - Boing Boing

I Have a Fever, and the Prescription is for:

Add More Cowbell and Christopher Walken to any song, babies!


via MoreCowbell.dj

Every. Episode. Ever.

via Watch The Simpsons Online - FREE!

Get Godzilla's Good Side

Lots of cool Godzilla and other monster pics here.

via An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla: Godzilla

Remember What the Dormouse Said

Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sabahkamal/472227153/

via Feed The Head

I am a Washing Machine, Do What I Say

Check them out!



via Dark Roasted Blend: Toy Robots to Have and to Hold

Canned Horror

The above items were made for only a couple dollars each! It's easy if you have a few things around the house and a dollar store nearby. You just need a little imagination and an eye for mixing and matching.

Who needs off-the-shelf seasonal Halloween decorations when you can make your own in an afternoon for a fraction of the price and get ten times the quality - not to mention something wholly unique?

via I Make Projects - Making Canned Halloween Monstrosities

The End of the Broadcast Day

The most recent episode of Mad Men showed a bit of an old television sign-off, called "High Flight." I have dim memories of watching it as a kid, and I wanted to see the whole thing, so I started looking for it. It turns out there are a bunch of versions using different aircraft and different narrators reciting John Gillespie Magee, Jr.'s poem "High Flight." The one above is in color. I'm not sure if it's the original, which appeared in black and white. Maybe it was in color -- our family had a black and white set.

via High Flight, 1960s TV sign-off shown on Mad Men - Boing Boing

Big Tanks go out to Everybody

Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster

In 1942 Hitler approved the design and construction of an extremely large tank, but the project was cancelled in 1943 before any actual construction had begun. The tank was supposed to be more than fifteen times as big as a normal tank and it should have been armed with a 800 mm Krupp cannon (the main cannon on a normal tank like the M1 Abrams is 105 mm).

The 800 mm Krupp cannon is the largest artillery weapon ever built. Each projectile weighted 7 tons and it could be fired up to 37 km (23 miles). I haven’t seen any pictures of the Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster, so you must make do with a picture of the Krupp cannon (check out the soldier in front of the cannon).




Dora Krupp Cannon

via Top 10 Heaviest and Biggest Military Tanks Ever