I frequently refer to my copy of Robots! Draw Your Own Androids, Cyborgs & Fighting Bots, by well known animation designer and comic book cartoonist Jay Stephens. It's only 64 pages, but it's packed with tips and examples of whimsical robots, with lots of examples of limbs, bodies, heads, control panels, sensors, etc. Stephens has ...
The Kinkade Family Foundation turned up this Thomas Kincade unseen masterpiece "Untitled (Toilet Paper)," c. 1978, oil on canvas, 8" x 10, and have issued it as a puzzle and print. The proceeds benefit the New Art Dealers Alliance's (NADA) fund to support galleries impacted by COVID-19.
The canvas print is $150.00 unframed and ... Last week David posted about the Aquarium Drunkard music stream and I quickly signed up on Patreon. I also listen to Chilled Cow, a streaming lofi hip hop radio show on YouTube. Those two streams are enough to keep me happy throughout the day, but I just came across another awesome stream:
With Hollywood shuttered, movie and TV production shut down, red carpet events cancelled and coronavirus keeping celebrities behind closed doors, there’s not a lot of material for the tabloids to be working with this week - but that doesn’t stop them from making it all up. ... Introverts were enjoying the lockdown. Suddenly they had no social obligations nor the social anxiety that goes along with declining invitations, canceling them, or attending them. Introverts were reading, gardening, baking, making things, learning languages, sharpening skills, and basking in quietude. The extroverts, however, took note of this new state of affairs and declared it intolerable. ...
JB Rhine (1895-1980), the founder of parapsychology, spent the bulk of his career attempting to scientifically investigate ESP, psychokinesis, and clairvoyance at Duke University. While Rhine debunked numerous claims, he also reported on many experiments that he argued were evidence of psi phenomena. In 1952, the US Army consulted with Rhine on their idea to ...
In 2018, Barry Lawrence Ruderman, a rare map dealer from California, bought a folder of documents and blueprints related to the Statue of Liberty. What they didn't realize is that the lot contained almost two dozen original engineering drawings for the Statue produced by Gustav Eiffel's workshop. Ruderman and Alex Clausen, director of Ruderman's gallery, ...
Swedish artist Daniel Björk is the mad mind behind these wonderfully evil visions of classic horror films reimagined as Disney's Wonderful World of Reading vintage children's books. My wish upon a star is that they were real! See more at Björk's Instagram.
Cory reports on a gem of a utility called Falsisign. Falsisign takes in 27 variants of your signature and then feeds these sigs and your PDF to it, with the (x,y) for each signature blank as arguments, and it will produce a slightly off-center, slightly degraded new PDF that looks like you actually signed ... A post shared by Danny Casale (@coolman_coffeedan) on Apr 7, 2020 at 10:05am PDT Danny Casale, coolman_coffeedan on Instagram, made this perfect animated song to summarize his experience of ...
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How to draw robots – excellent instructional book
Thomas Kinkade painting of toilet paper available as puzzle and print for charity
Hollow Earth Radio: “local music, found sound, paranormal encounters, crank calls, dreams, etc”
His Royal High-ness Prince Harry’s *** Farm, and stars with only months to live, in this week’s dubious tabloids
Introverts’ joy of lockdown getting ruined by extroverts filling their schedules with video appointments
Tessie and Binnie, the US Army’s psychic dogs
Recently discovered: Eiffel’s drawings for a slightly different Statue of Liberty
Artist reimagines classic horror films as vintage Disney children’s books
Automating fake PDF signatures
“I don’t know what day of the week it is” song
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