Divine Comedy cover designs by Nicole PetersonNicole Peterson’s gorgeous cover designs for Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. (via)

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It’s almost here! The Venture Brothers Season 3 preview from the 2008 New York Comic Con.

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“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)

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The end of an era: Ollie Johnston, the last of Disney’s Nine Old Men, has passed away at the age of 95.

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Human organs beautifully knit and photographed by Sarah Illenberger.

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“In Vestimentis Ursum,” by designer Matt Kirkland, exposes the robots hidden inside children’s plush toys. (Via Today And Tomorrow)

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Isolation Studies by Chuck Jones. “NPR Inhale” almost sounds like a Tanya Tagaq track. (Via Waxy)

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No time to fuck: Locher’s has released the 2008 collection.

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1984 Studio Ghibli test footage for the Little Nemo animated film. Compare that with the opening sequence from the final release, directed by Masami Hata and William Hurtz. (Via Cartoon Brew)

Related: Winsor McCay’s visions of the future.

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American, Idle

Six and a half months of blogging, condensed:

  1. Hyperbolic endorsement of something ultimately fleeting.
  2. Snide dismissal of something you cherish.

There. All caught up. Onward and upward. Work on the look of the site — theoretically a cross between ThemeShaper’s tumble-enriched MNML and PlayWorkPlay’s gorgeous and understated Whitespace Nation — will continue. But instead of putting off writing until I’m happy with the appearance, a trap I’ve fallen into again and again, I’m determined to build on that “Grey Clouds” traffic with a steady stream of content.

Um… so. Any questions? Leave a comment at the end of this post. Ask me anything. Tell me what to write about. Get me rolling.

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Lava: Boys Noize + Wzt Hearts

Tungurahua, Ecuador

Grab your swim trunks and sunscreen.

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mp3 | Boys Noize – Lava Lava

Don’t be afraid to get your hair wet.

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mp3 | Wzt Hearts – Lava Nile

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Härlig är Jorden / “World of Glory”

Dir. Roy Andersson, 1991. Sixteen minutes.

Part 1

Part 2

“World of Glory” is featured on the Cinema16: European Short Films DVD set, available September 25th.

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