A comical obsession

I've been reading and enjoying a hella lot of webcomics lately. (There are some new additions over there on the right...check 'em out.) I've been kicking around making a comic of my own, but all these other guys do it so well, I just don't think I can do it. Ehh, we'll see. For now, here's t-shirts that I am enjoying:

Now if only I had a printer...

From Crafty Computer Paper: Temporary Tattoo computer paper! A very easy way to get designs from your computer to your skin with no commitment. (Finally I can create and have my giant bald eagle with the American flag on a Harley!)

via NotCot

I'm researching

Because this is my site, dammit, and I'm attempting to get together a large collection of classic examples of 40's and 50's comic strips, you get to see what I've found so far. (If you have any other suggestions that also have the crime/romance/pinup style, feel free to share!)

Dick Tracy - one of the big classics

Crime Reporter

Crimes by Women (damn them! And how dare they want to vote! Get back in the kitchen and raise my babies!)

(I think the one on the right is my absolute favorite so far!)

First Love - they have the whole comic scanned for your entertainment

Popular Teen-Agers Secrets of Love (with a title that fantastic, how can you not love it!?)

What do Jodie Foster and doves have in common?

Here's a collection of photographs done for Vanity Fair that feature well-known actors of today in the Hitchcock classics of yesteryear. Such a great collection! (link via Neatorama)

Too amazing not to post

Comics that amuse me:

This one pretty much sums me up to a 'T' right now:

Mac is now selling a larger iPod touch and iPhone:

I sometimes wish my entire staff was made of up seals...

Comical goodness

Little Gamers

And because I haven't perused the shirt circuit in a while (hah, shirt circuit...no disassemble!), here's some that I have found amusing and that everyone should buy for me.

From Diesel Sweeties:

From A Softer World:

From Questionable Content:

From Wondermark:

Fact of the day: It's Bacon day!! Well...sort of. It's philosopher, Francis Bacon's birthday. But instead of rambling on about his political scandals, let's discuss bacon (as in my favorite food).

"You are probably familiar with the phrase 'bring home the bacon.' In the twelfth century, a church in the English town of Dunmow promised a side of bacon to any married man who could swear before the congregation and God that he had not quarreled with his wife for a year and a day. A husband who could bring home the bacon was held in high esteem by the community for his forebearance." [source]

New Webcomics to Read and Enjoy!

Rob and Elliot

The Joy of Tech comic...laughter is the best tech support

Doing it on a large scale

I love performance/installation art so very much, but even more I like the idea of large scale performance/installation art that is borderline absolutely silly. Some favorites:

About 500,000 colored balls were released down Rome's Spanish Steps. Graziano Cecchini, also responsible for dying the waters of the Trevi fountain red last October, wanted to call attention to lies being told by the Italian government (the Italian word for balls also means 'untruths'). Link to story and more pictures [via NotCot]

I've definitely mentioned this one a bagillion times, but I love the big pink bunny installed on a hillside in Italy by Gelitin. You can go and play on its pillowy softness. [link]

The Gates by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. These orange structures were all around Central Park for most of February in 2005. I was in town when they were still up and it was fantastic. The colors just popped against the snow. [link]

Okay, there's no picture for this one because I don't think this is one of my favorite artists, but certainly an artist that commandeers the concept of performance art on the edge of complete sillyness. It's Paul McCarthy, here's a link to some information about what he's done. Probably the most memorable for me would be the piece that he did where he simulated people chopping off each others' limbs. So yeah, it's some crazy shit.

An honorable mention goes out to the Sony Bravia ads. Yes, they are created in the name of consumerism...but that doesn't change the fact that they are awesome and large-scale and beautiful. [link - see the bouncing balls, clay bunnies and the great pyramid being taken over by ribbon]

Busting out some improvisational hardcore - 12/12/07

Reflections on Quitting Starbucks - 12/11/07

A gift idea for management...

Not since 1985 has Microsoft Paint Entertained Someone for this Long

Content? We don't need no stinkin' content!

found via those crazy kids at Gizmodo:

Shoebox: A little tiny division of Hallmark

Sample these gems:

Now go here and read some more.

Friend Bear!

Link!

Comic fun!

"Every body knows that chocolate rules the world of ice cream flavours with an iron fist, like some sort of dairy Ghengis Kahn."



http://www.beaverandsteve.com/index.php?comic=254

Mmm severed body parts

Found via Cribcandy:

It's bread. Seriously. Art student, Kittiwat Unarrom, creates these amazingly detailed pieces out of bread. They are completely edible with the intention of people not judging by outer appearances.

Tasty!