Pat the Zombie

Pat the Zombie, "A vibrant new retelling of the beloved children's story." Preorder for $10 at Amazon. Via.

Link roundup

1. Part of the Bulletstorm promotion is a full downloadable first person shooter called Duty Calls that mocks the Call of Duty series. (Alas, my computer is too old to run it.) Via.

2. Funny "complimentary" email to an artist.

3. Ice cream princess.

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Masters of the Universe x Appetite for Destruction

Appetite For Eternia by Joe Spiotto on sale at Etsy. (The album was the best gift I got for my 13th birthday.)

*Buy the Lowbrow Art of Robert Williams at Amazon.

Sloth; Ultra-80's action figure

Two Threadless designs that caught my eye. Click on the voting widgets for a chance to buy:



Sloth by Katie Campbell:







80's Toy Mutation by Keith Carter:



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Top Gun in sixty funny seconds

Top Gun parody by Mark Wong for Empire's Done in 60 Seconds movie remake contest. (Seems like half the time is devoted to beach volleyball.)

Here's two more entries:





Super There Will Be Blood by Tomfoolery.



Tron by Mawgan Pengelly.

Via.

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Ultimate Simpsons couch gag by Banksy

Tonight's episode of the Simpsons features an opening storyboarded by Banksy. It starts off with a few fairly predictable jokes, but then the couch gag goes off in a very different direction. The opening takes a journey through the Chinese sweatshops that make the Simpsons, including abused pandas and unicorns:














Via.

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Link roundup

1. Photoshop Phriday: Porn Versions of Classic Films!.

2. New t-shirt design based on The Thing at Last Exit to Nowhere.

3. Google is road-testing cars that drive themselves. Via.

If Rembrandt had watched Sesame Street

Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp meets Sesame Street by Hillary White.

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Horror Forest

Horror Forest t-shirts and shorts on sale here.

And speaking of t-shirts, all shirts are $15 at Design By Humans right now.

Star Wars Blaxploitation Film

What if Star Wars had been a Blaxploitation flick starring Lando Calrissian? You'd have Black Star Warrior: "Get between this brother and his woman and space ain't black enough to hide from him." Via.

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Steven Seagull in Under Siege

Two silly Threadless designs. Click on the voting widgets if you'd like the chance to buy them.



Steven Seagull by Steven Rhodes.






The Very Greedy Caterpillar by Craig Watkins.

Law & Order-themed art show at Gallery Meltdown

A few of my favorites from the upcoming Law & Order-themed art show at Gallery Meltdown curated by Brandon Bird:

For twenty years, the fictional prosecutors and detectives of "Law & Order" have navigated literally hundreds grotesque tragedies, moral quandries, and improbable crimes.

Each piece is an artist's interpretation of a one-line episode summary from the DirecTV program guide. Like the series that inspired them, they are sometimes straightforward and sometimes offer a twist; sometimes they contain no easy answers, and sometimes they are just plain goofy.

"These are Their Stories" will run July 24 to July 30, 2010 at Gallery Meltdown, 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046.

Join us for a cake & ice cream reception July 28 at 8:00 pm.

Death of a Bully by Box Brown



A Rich Man and His Very Young Daughter Are Shot by Julia Vickerman



Radiation Kills a Tormented Scientist by Lacy McCune



Killer Has a Foot Fetish by Ben Walker



A Lawyer is Secretly a Stripper by Brigid McCabe



Victim Falls Off a Subway Platform by Lisa Hanawalt



Two Teens Disappear from a Museum by Dyna Moe



A Missing Boy is Found by Kate Beaton

*Previously: Law & Order-themed Valentines.

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Ron English's Sugar Smack

Man, I'd buy this cereal in a second. Via.

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Toothless (link roundup)

Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon by Zach Bellissimo.

And a few more links:

1. There's an XBox game called Hieronymus Bash.

2. Videogum on the latest episode of True Blood:

Bill is still being held captive by the King of Mississippi who wants him to change his allegiance. Honestly, I do not understand anything that is going on in this entire aspect of the show, and I do not care. If I wanted to understand the intricacies of VAMPIRE POLITICS, I would have STUDIED IT IN SCHOOL.

3. Nora Ephron mocks The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo:

But where in Sweden were they? There was no way to know, especially if you’d never been to Sweden. A few chapters ago, for example, an unscrupulous agent from Swedish Intelligence had tailed Blomkvist by taking Stora Essingen and Gröndal into Södermalm, and then driving down Hornsgatan and across Bellmansgatan via Brännkyrkagatan, with a final left onto Tavastgatan. Who cared, but there it was, in black-and-white, taking up space. And now Blomkvist was standing in her doorway. Someone might still be following him—but who? There was no real way to be sure even when you found out, because people’s names were so confusingly similar—Gullberg, Sandberg, and Holmberg; Nieminen and Niedermann; and, worst of all, Jonasson, Mårtensson, Torkelsson, Fredriksson, Svensson, Johansson, Svantesson, Fransson, and Paulsson.

Via.

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