It’s very hard to go cold turkey when it comes to the Internet. The lure of magical eye candy that it offers is like a Pandora box for some. Some might say it’s almost like a drug. Ditching the Internet is hard for some. Cartoonist James Sturm plans to give up on the net. He […]
No game rule is finite, Scrabble is allowing proper nouns to come into play. Is this a lack of word reservoir from players or changing with the times? Place names, people’s names and company names or brands will now count as words. True connoisseurs are frowning at the newest prospect. The game Scrabble was created […]
Big brother is going to get more interesting as smart-phones start making internet access more mobile. Some of the top social network sites are exposing you more geographically accountable to where you are located and hopefully creating a business model for people to churn a profit off your whereabouts. SimpleGeo is as simple as it […]
Illustrator M.S. Corley is an exceptional cover artist and he is heavily borrowing from the classic Penguin designs of old. The classic Penguin covers were collected a few years ago in Phil Baines’s Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005. His new interpretation of Harry Potter, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Lemony Snicket gives it […]
For inept artists who can't draw if their lives depended on it, Flame is a nifty online tool for experimenting with colors and design. Peter Blaškovi? the 3d animator and designer from Piestany in Slovakia is the mad genius of Flame the online drawing tool.
The Daily Dish is Petri dishes painted by Klari Reis who has found himself a niche market. Who would figure you can paint on Petri dishes and create exciting results. These quasi-psychedelic images hark to days of 60's counter-culture acid images or even weird-looking marbles at best.
Some might consider hoarding a disease or perhaps just a way to fill a void where happiness is empty. It has become a business where people are hired to de-clutter our lives of useless objects that we really don’t need. This obsessive behavior is a short term happiness that needs constant feeding with getting more […]
The truth is out, Lost is finally revealed. Mmm… Cake. That’s it! Jorge Garcia, Elizabeth Mitchell, Yunjin Kim and Michael Emerson all love cake. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love to hear from you. Send me an email at sandboxworld@gmail.com. I read […]
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6687510&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1 Maggie and Mildred is the hand-stitched animated story of the friendship between two girls. These girls aren’t your usual friends, however! The film was created by Holly Klein who lives in London and works in the animation industry. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something […]
Gone but not forgotten, Beatrice “Bea” Arthur’s wisdom lives on the internet. That’s What Bea Said randomly displays some of Bea’s wit of wisdom. Never one to mince words, Bea Arthur was a comedian and observer of daily life. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something […]
Mike Mitchell the artist behind the “I’m With CoCo” image that spun into a grassroots support for the dethroned Tonight Show stalwart Conan O’Brien helped Conan become the sweetheart of the internet community along the way. The image has helped Conan build and increase his savvy online supporters. Conan who has become the multimillionaire of […]
The Way the Future Was by great Science Fiction writer Frederik Pohl has morphed into a blog. The writer was coaxed into writing a blog by his publisher who felt he would become more relevant to new and old readers. Bless his heart, the man who could see the future still holds dear to past […]