Emmy Cicierga and Anthony "Nedroid" made some pretty fabulous sketches of just about all the important (and not-so-important) characters from Heroes. Don't miss Sylar's insane giant eyebrows, Linderman Claus, and at the very bottom, a completely adorable Hiro.
Universal Studios' upcoming Harry Potter theme park (a division of Islands of Adventure) quite frankly makes me want to be a kid again. At the very least it makes me want to visit a Renaissance fair. Slashfilm has some concept art depicting the Three Broomsticks and an overview of the "island," which is planned to open in late 2009.
It may just be the owl, the amber tones, and the wacky architecture, but looking at this gives me kind of a Labyrinth vibe. Which is a major plus.
New Harry Potter Theme Park Concept Art: Three Broomsticks [Slashfilm]
I suppose a number of people would like to see George Lucas frozen in carbonite just to ensure a lack of any future Star Wars or Indiana Jones sequels, but those people will just have to play pretend and make do with this sculpture, photographed by Bonnie Burton of Starwars.com.
George Lucas Frozen In Carbonite [Slashfilm]
A London street artist who calls himself Slinkachu, and yet is not a Pokemon, has photographed snails with miniature graffiti painted on their shells. Artistic statement on man's subjugation of nature, or petty snail house vandalism? You be the judge!
Graffiti snails roaming London [Metro]
Um.
I suppose that you can deduce for yourself what is going on here; Manbabies.com is a gallery of pictures of men and children whose heads have been switched. The effect isn't always convincing, but it's pretty consistently creepy.
Take a look at Takashi Murakami's mega-NSFW sculpture which sold for a whopping $15 million earlier this month. I'm detecting a vague resemblance to Cloud from Final Fantasy VII, but that's definitely one hell of a...um...victory pose.
Jack-Off Sculpture Sells For $15 Million [NY Times]
[via: Gawker]
Nedroid of Nedroid Dot Com wrote two hundred bad three-panel comic strips in less than twelve hours and posted them at Cracked Dot Com. So what did YOU do with the last twelve hours? Man, I'll tell you what I did, my roommate and I had rented a U-Haul pickup to move his stuff into our new place, so then me and my boyfriend drove it out to Wendy's for some midnight burgers, and then we went to make a grocery run but Stop n Shop had closed a half-hour earlier, while we were right across the street ordering our food! It was pretty funny.
But not as funny as these comic strips! I went ahead and tested all 200 of them for you and I can guarantee that they are one hundred percent funny. Well okay more like 95%. Look, it's still way funnier than The Wizard of Id, all right? Anyway enjoy.
200 Comics In Under 12 Hours [Cracked]
[via: Gawker]
I may really need to consider moving to San Francisco if these are the types of people I'd get to hang out with. Here are artist's renderings of real-life, rather interesting-looking people sighted in Frisco, focusing on their impeccable fashion sense.
I actually sort of want green highlights now. Or at least that tie.
San Francisco Market Street Fashion [Hello Damage]
Take a look, it's in a book.
By "it" I am of course referring to tentacles, butterflies, and explosions.
At least, that's what you'll find in this intriguing photo series, aptly titled "The Power of Books."
You might have seen those horrifying, horrifying real-life Homer Simpson and Mario Photoshops floating around what I vehemently refuse to call the blogosphere.
The effect is similar but exponentially less disturbing when applied to Jessica Rabbit. The artist comments:
Perhaps "untoon" is the wrong word for this but the exercise here was to take the exact cartoon proportions of Jessica and create her with realistic lighting and textures. As was done with Homer and Mario. I think because of her smooth skin the cartooniness definitely still comes through a lot more than Homer.
No kidding. Seriously you guys, if Satan exists then I'm pretty sure he looks like realistic Homer Simpson.
I'm not even really sure how to describe what I'm looking at here. It's fairly NSFW, first of all, and it's definitely Japanese. As far as I can tell, it's a series of very surreal sketches and collages with a recurring...motif.
The subject matter is pretty risque, but I gotta admit, some of these are sort of interesting-looking.
Too often, perceptions of people living with HIV are filtered through the disease. So here's photographer Wayne Martin Belger, making that distortion literal with Untouchable (HIV), a pinhole camera that gazes through the liquid filter of HIV+ blood pumping through its works.
Whoa.
Gimmicky? Exploitative, maybe? I was still a little skeptical when I saw this steampunky little device. Burdened with all that conceptual weight, it starts to seem a little... precious. But look at the pictures he takes with it! If the concept is reminiscent of Andres Serrano's body-fluid photos, the pictures that result manage to evoke the unlikely reverence of Serrano's most controversial image.
While you're at it, check out Belger's other camera/sculptures and photos here. Gnarly, morbid, sensational.
[via: BoingBoing]
