fucking heart you buddy. r.i.p.

title: Bam Thwop

Brandon Bird does a lot of this odd sort of lives of normal people with celebrity stand-ins.

I posted this one before and I have to again because it is so hilarious:

title: Brandon Bird: “No One Wants to Play Sega with Harrison Ford”

This Bakshi retrospective book entitled Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi (The Force Behind Fritz the Cat, Mighty Mouse, Cool World, and The Lord of the Rings) was release April 1 of this year.

Here’s a tiny excerpt from the interview on BoldType:

BT: Do you see some of the same shifting values [as there were in culture post world war II] when it comes to art?

RB: My whole thing is to just move on. You have to try different things, change styles, test yourself, to try different genres: I went from the blackness of Coonskin , which was largely about race, to the science-fiction style of Wizards , which dealt with the Holocaust. That’s what the challenge of art is all about. Artists have to keep moving on. You have to grow as a person, your reading habits have to change, everything has to go along with changing. And what I despise about Walt Disney is he never moved on.

You MUST read the article to hear Ralphy boy go on to rip Disney a new one.

via | BoldType

“Another Hole in the Head”
Two weeks of horror, sci-fi & fantasy

Check out the trailer for The Machine Girl directed by Noboru Iguchi:

The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge…

ackshun

thx crazywanda

fantastic sound I

fantastic sound II

fantastic sound III

all uploaded to flickr by Nod Young

Looks like a lot of art and more at the intersection of art and digital culture.

An overview of the festival taken from 01SJ Website:

The 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge is North America’s newest and largest festival of digital arts, and a great deal more. From a hip hop, multi-media meditation on Antarctica to robot art, from conversations with artificial intelligence to operatic performances of Google headlines about the environment, from avant-garde cinema to new musical forms – well over 100 artworks, performances, screenings, talks, and workshops will be featured at 01SJ. Festival organizers expect it to be a perspective-altering experience that entertains, enlightens, educates and involves attendees in a new understanding of our changing world.

Promo video produced by Lucaso Media

Octopus and Robot (Title: Rise of the Red Star), originally uploaded by xtopher42.

really nice illustration. not just because i’m biased toward octopuses

In the summer of 2007, an enormous spider web was found in East Texas. It caused scientist to ponder its existence and visitors to gasp at its profound beauty.

Ok, ok, Texas. I guess you can be pretty sweet at times. The idea of all these different species of spiders working together to make a football field sized web is a pretty good metaphor for what humans are incapable of doing. Humans are a little too enthnocentric and in need of borders. I can’t tell if the inability too see beyond one’s own tiny little made-up world is sheer laziness mixed with generally being dumb, or if it’s because there are people who have large monetary investments and therefore a great stake in keeping peoples’ worlds small — like if there were no borders defined then they would not be able to logistically maintain control and subsequently profit. How ironic that this happened in Texas, a place that I stereotypically think of as culturally intolerant and as a place where ignorance is virtually encouraged. You guys should thank those spiders for a little positive PR, Tejas. Suriously.

via | Current.tv