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Bit-52's: Robot band plays B-52's party classic "Rock Lobster"
Happy Friday, everyone. Tara McGinley at Dangerous Minds found this sweet video of a robot ensemble performing an all-machines cover of the classic '80s party hit "Rock Lobster," by the B-52's. It's the work of a fellow who goes by the name bd594 at YouTube, aka one mister James Cochrane of Toronto, Canada.
Video's at this YouTube link, and read more about it at Dangerous Minds.
Just look at this awesome banana boat.
Just look at it.
Banana Boat. Wood, string and banana. 2010 (Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen, Denmark) (Thanks, Austin!)
Sweet vacuum-cleaner assemblage sculpture clock
Here's an archival thing of beauty from steampunk assemblage clock-sculptor Roger Wood of Klockwerks, who notes: "All I've been creating lately are clock-on-wheels so I'm showing one of my favourites from a few years ago."
saddondraper.tumblr.com: What does this mean? Don Draper all the way across the sky. Oh my god. It's so intense.
(Meme provenance: A defining scene in this Mad Men episode + Sad Keanu)
Photo gallery of vintage Soviet arcade machines
Connal Hughes and Anjel Van Slyke's photos of a 1980s-era Soviet arcade machine reveal that even light-hearted recreation was a grim affair behind the iron curtain.
Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines (Thanks, Rachel!)
Bizarre animation shorts by artist Joe Seigenthaler
I'm happy that Amy Crehore alerted me to the macabre animation of artist Joe Seigenthaler.
See more of Seigenthaler's work after the jump.
Above are stills from a lovely biomechanical bug animation by Autofuss. It's titled "The Experiment" and you can watch it here. (Thanks, Stacey Ransom!)
An assortment of 1970s cover scans from the motorcycle magazine Easyriders.
Articles included: "How to Get Rid of Your Woman," "Trouble With Twats," "Why Men Wear Beards," and then: "Positive Prison Reform Plan."
Above, the cover art for an issue which contained a feature article titled "How to Select a Good Ol' Lady." Apparently, the courtship ritual involves strangling her. Then, meth!
Some of the images on the aforelinked link are not work-safe.
(Submitterated by MikeOliveri)
I was going through my photo archive and came across this sign for funnel cakes that I photographed in Austin a couple of years ago. Doesn't it whet your appetite?
If you enjoyed the CB QSL cards posted on Mitch O'Connell's blog, myQSL.org has 8,372 more. Hurray for weird America!
I've posted a few choice examples after the jump.
Giant, fetishistically detailed Little Nemo art
Zak sez, "If you've ever seen Windsor McCay's LITTLE NEMO -- particularly the gorgeous full-sized collections -- you know how involved the illustrations got. Cartoonist Jeremy Bastian just did an enormous commission of Little Nemo that captures McCay's style perfectly. It is 13 by 9 inches and is inked by brush. According to the person who commissioned it, it took Jeremy two weeks of 10-hour days to draw it. The person who commissioned it has several close-ups of the details on this page."
Jeremy Bastian, The Little Nemo Commission
(Thanks, Zak!)
Odd CB radio cards from the 1970s
Artist Mitch O'Connel bought a some unusual CB radio cards at a flea market.
Love these personal CB radio cards, the more homemade looking the better. The sometimes naive art seems more personal, contains great left field imagery and, as an artist, less threatening!CB radio cards: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
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