Nathan Love and NBC Artworks explore the origin the NBC Peacock. Nathan tips his hat to Spumco promos by John Kricfalusi in 1993. Here is a behind the scenes look how the short promo was created. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love […]
Ardent fan of the Mad Men TV show Dyna Moe will have her first book out this fall. Mad Men: The Illustrated World contains original text and illustrations on the 60’s culture that the show is based on. What started as a commissioned design from Rich Sommer for a custom Christmas card for the cast […]
In 1967, Claude Tchou published an oddity called La Vilaine Lulu, the only comic strip written and drawn by Yves Saint Laurent. In this book Yves Saint Laurent sometimes cruelly mocked his contemporaries, his relatives, the world of fashion of the time. This is not Dr. Seuss by any stretch, it will offend some. La […]
Love him or hate him, Bugs Bunny turns 70 today. He was first introduced in A Wild Hare, directed by Tex Avery and released on July 27, 1940. “What’s up, Doc?” Animation historian Joe Adamson counts A Wild Hare as the first “official” Bugs Bunny short. It is also the first cartoon where Mel Blanc […]
Velocommerce is a very common way of doing business in India. If you can fit it on a cart with wheels you can just about sell anything to your heart’s desire. You can even be your own pharmacy on wheels if you want to. Free enterprise in India is practiced a bit different in the […]
I think my kids would eat up the Jelloware glass concept. Mind you the paper towel usage would increase in our household. My kids always leave cups training around with half full drinks. The novelty would wear out pretty fast. Yanko Design are the Einsteins behind this tree-hugging idea. Jelloware re-imagines the concept of drinking, […]
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9696629&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=1&color=ff0179&fullscreen=1 The dog days are upon us once again. California is drying out in a recession. The Utopian dream and borrowing on credit is over. Those pools have literally dried up as many homes are abandoned or the bills are just too high to maintain. As the Lords of Dogtown did before, the subterranean youth […]
I hate mimes. This would have to come in second. The 2010 US Air Guitar Championships in New York City brought in a motley crew of basement living headbangers to strut their stuff or lack of depending how you look at it. I hung up my air guitar a long time ago. The strings broke […]
Crap At My Parent’s House is a site about your parents. Parents are hoarders of some unusual things. They hate throwing things out and in essence become a museum of their own past. My folks have stuff older than me and then some. If you have parents with crap in their house you can showcase […]
There was a time when Ask.com was strictly a Q&A site and it went a bit off course and became more of a search engine. Well it has a new slick friendlier interface and is returning to their original business plan. They were always taking questions but veered off a little from their claim to […]
The tallest log cabin was built by a Russian gangster, Nikolai Sutyagin. It’s located in Arkhangelsk in northwest Russia. This monstrosity is 13 floors high and a fireman’s worst nightmare. The neighbors are so scared of this pile of wood called an abode that it might just one day take the whole neighborhood down with […]
When you become a parent things change around your life. The sweetest thing is watching your baby sleep and trying your best not to make a sound while the tyke is in slumberland. Ever wonder what they are dreaming off? Here is synergy between Adele Enersen and her baby. Mila’s Daydreams is about what Adele […]