Promotional images for Crazyboat

Propaganda images by Joe Alterio for Facebook game Crazyboat.

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1. I love when artists sketch their roleplaying characters.

2. Serious Eats gave McDonald's new oatmeal a terrible review.

3. Collection of old Mickey Mouse versus the Nazis comic strips.

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Leftovers 2010: TEOTWAWKI - The end of the world as we know it

Art from the Teotwawki show by EA Byrne and Jamie Lau at Fold Gallery:

"Unlike previous alarmist responses to a crisis which focused on one main threat - for example, nuclear war - today's survivalism is driven by an unbounded imagination of anxiety." Prof Frank Furedi

Summertime in London brings an air of festivities, the sound of children's laughter carried on the breeze as we sip our ice-cold drinks. However, the news on the radio seems intent on destroying this idyll. We are constantly informed by the persistent drone of the media, that 'the End of the World' is upon us.

Ash falling from the sky, terrorist attacks, tsunamis and meteorites, economic meltdown - modern-day society is subjected to a sense that we are in a constant state of threat, apparently living on the precipice of disaster.

It is the realisation of this, and the view from the precipice, that has conceived TEOTWAWKI.

Via.

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1. Comment and win Day & Night.

2. "The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years." Via. (Did the Soviets did the same thing with ballet?)

3. I've never seen anything interesting in the Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark Twitter feed until Saturday, when it's full of replies to people asking for refunds. (I hope it all works out, I can't wait to see the designs.)

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Star Wars travel posters and propaganda

Travel posters for Degobah and Mos Eisley, Imperial propaganda, and more by Steve Thomas. These aren't on sale yet, but he has lots of great posters on sale at Zazzle.

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Cobra propaganda poster

Cobra propaganda poster by Tom Whalen to promote the new G.I. Joe Renegades cartoon at Hub.

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Ogre propaganda

Pro-ogre propaganda by Struck Axiom for Shrek. The illustrators are Tosh Brown and Valerie Jar. Via.

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Star Wars propaganda poster

Star Wars and G.I. Robot propaganda posters by Dan Duncan.

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Anti-droid propaganda poster

Propaganda poster by Tim Fischer reminds everyone of the importance of restraining bolts. He has prints for sale and is accepting $25 commissions as described here.

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Bioshock Inifinite propaganda posters and swag

Propaganda image visible in the Bioshock Infinite demo.




Propaganda posters given to news outlets.

The posters were part of a gift box that included a box of chocolates and this crow-shaped bottle for Murder of Crows tonic (drinking it gives the player character the power to summon a murder of crows):



You can see video of the gift pack here:



And find more photos of the gift packs here, here, and here.

Finally, check out some of the great buttons you can achieve at the Irrational Games forum:



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1. Teri Hatcher posted unflattering photos of her wrinkly forehead to prove she hasn't had botox.

2. Paul Robertson posted a bunch of the adorable character designs he created for the Scott Pilgrim game.

3. Fark:

Proving he's the most awesome world leader ever, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin personally pilots a plane that's fighting the fires in Moscow.

4. Slate:

For the disastrous Russian heat wave has exposed a key failing of Russian society: The flow of information has stopped. There is not a single newspaper that even strives to be national in its coverage. The television is not only controlled by the Kremlin; it is made by the Kremlin for the Kremlin, and it is entirely unsuited to gathering or conveying actual information. Even the Russian blogosphere is bizarrely fragmented: Researchers who "mapped" it discovered that, unlike any other blogosphere in the world, it consists of many non-overlapping circles. People in different walks of life, different professions, and different parts of the country simply do not talk to one another. The same is true of political institutions: Since the Russian government effectively abolished representative democracy, canceling direct elections, there is no reason—and no real mechanism—for Moscow politicians to know what is going on in the vast country. Nor do governors need concern themselves with the lives and the disasters in their regions—they, too, are no longer elected but are appointed by the Kremlin.

As a result, no one knows where the fires are burning—unless they are burning right next to you. There is no map that would tell you whether your loved ones are safe or whether there is a fire along your planned travel route. Often, there is also no way to call for help.

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Bioshock Infinite trailer and desktop wallpaper-sized stills

The new Bioshock game trades the art deco and neon for airships, Main Street Americana, and a bit of steampunk:

BioShock Infinite is a first-person shooter currently in development at Irrational Games, the studio behind the original BioShock (which sold over 4 million units worldwide). Set in 1912, BioShock Infinite introduces an entirely new narrative and gameplay experience that lifts players out of the familiar confines of Rapture and rockets them to Columbia, an immense city in the sky.

Former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt has been sent to rescue Elizabeth, a young woman imprisoned in Columbia since childhood. Booker develops a relationship with Elizabeth, augmenting his abilities with hers so the pair may escape from a city that is literally falling from the sky. DeWitt must learn to fight foes in high-speed Sky-Line battles, engage in combat both indoors and amongst the clouds, and harness the power of dozens of new weapons and abilities.

Here's the official site. Below are the trailer and desktop wallpaper-sized stills I pulled from the trailer.












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1. Read about Shin Sang-ok:

(1926 - 2006) was a Korean movie writer, director and producer, who studied film in Japan and returned to South Korea, where he gained fame and became the uncontested leader of the film industry in the 1960s, in a time when regulations on the industry limited other studios. In the 1970s under the Fourth Republic of South Korea, the film industry was even further limited, which lead to Shin's studio being closed. Things went from bad to worse, when "the Orson Welles of South Korea" was kidnapped by request of Kim Jong Il, the son of North Korea's dictator, Kim Il Sung. The reason? Kim Jong Il wanted the nation's film industry to promote the virtues of the Korea Workers' Party to a world-wide audience.

He eventually escaped and went on to make a movie with Hulk Hogan. Via.

2. Two looks at new Double Fine game Costume Quest. Via.

3. Google's finally added spam filtering to comments for Blogger. (Hopefully that'll mean less time deleting/rejecting viagra ads for now on.)

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