December 30, 2010

The Art of Enkel Dika

Enkel Dika’s mash up shirt design “Late Night Barbarian” is on sale at Threadless for only $12! Cheap way to show your Team Coco pride.
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Late Night Barbarian by Enkel Dika / buko (Flickr)

Enkel Dika’s mash up shirt design “Late Night Barbarian” is on sale at Threadless for only $12! Cheap way to show your Team Coco pride.

December 28, 2010

Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (1987)



Ralph Bakshi himself having a story meeting with some writers & artists:

More from Jude Buffum

"8-Bit Keyboard Cat T-Shirt" by Jude Buffum
An oldie but a goodie t-shirt design. Check out Jude's Portfolio and Blog for more great stuff!

Check out his other pixel art:


A Huge Solar Filament Erupts



This unusually long filament exploded out from the Sun. The filament had been seen hovering over the Sun's surface for over a week before it erupted earlier this month. The image sequence was taken by the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in one color of ultraviolet light specifically emitted by helium, and another color of X-ray light specifically emitted by iron. The explosion created Coronal Mass Ejections which dispersed high energy plasma into the Solar System. This plasma cloud, though, missed the Earth and so did not cause auroras. The above eruption and an unusually expansive eruption that occurred in August are showing how widely separated areas of the Sun can sometimes act in unison. Explosions like this will likely become more common over the next few years as our Sun moves toward Solar Maximum activity.

December 23, 2010

X-mas

How to Wrap a Cat for Christmas

Epic Christmas Meal Time

Review - Scott Pilgrim Vs The World

Shamefully ignored at the box office, this hyperactive and wildly inventive comic book adaptation is destined to become a defining film of Generation Y, and an instant cult classic.



 I finally got to see this film and it has an almost overwhelming barrage of quirks, the adventures of Scott Pilgrim come at you at a million miles a minute but you won't mind because it's so damn entertaining.



Pilgrim (Cera) is a Canadian 20-something who plays bass in a punkish band Sex Bob-omb, has a 17-year-old girlfriend Knives (Wong) and his life is peachy.

That's until the colourfully coiffured Ramona Flowers (Winstead) skates into his dreams and then his life and Pilgrim falls head over heels.



The downside, apart from the fact he already has a girlfriend, is that to be Ramona's boyfriend he must defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends, all of whom have magical powers.



Pilgrim is packed full of pop culture references and swings from being a fight film, a rom-com, a sitcom (complete with Seinfeld theme and canned laughter) and a fantasy in a matter of frames. It's also overflowing with cinematic tricks including pop-up information, characters with blanked out swearing or who melt the snow when they pass, computer game moments, and strange voice-overs.



The film is hilariously funny, perfectly paced and filled with great performances. Cera has the downtrodden indie-kid underdog market well and truly cornered by now (see also Youth In Revolt, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Superbad), but the real surprises are Culkin as his gay room-mate Wallace (who gets all the best lines), Winstead as the so-cool Ramona, Anna Kendrick's bit-part as Scott's sister and some of the exs, notably Chris Evans and Jason Schwartzman.



Deserving of repeat viewings, it will provide you with a large dose of frenetic fun, this Hot Fuzz and Shaun Of The Dead director is now three for three, I highly recommend it.