Monthly Archives: April 2008
Characters from The Wire drawn in the style of The Simpsons. (via)
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“Is it pretty? No. Does it work? It appears to. So what’s the big deal?” George Saunders on the ethics of washboarding.
Never Imagined Myself In This Zoo
From May 7th, 2005 to November 8th, 2005, director Maro Chermayeff — one of the minds behind the PBS series Frontier House — joined the crew of the USS Nimitz on its six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf. Chermayeff and her seventeen-person team were given an unprecedented degree of access to the ship and its [...]
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Nicole Peterson’s gorgeous cover designs for Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. (via)
“Knuckle” Buster: This is a black t-shirt with a screen print image of Iron Man beating up a helpless sidewalk groin. Tuck it in for even more fun! Insert hilarious geek/virginity boilerplate here. (via)
The end of an era: Ollie Johnston, the last of Disney’s Nine Old Men, has passed away at the age of 95.
“In Vestimentis Ursum,” by designer Matt Kirkland, exposes the robots hidden inside children’s plush toys. (Via Today And Tomorrow)