Shakespeare invented the phrase, "knock knock, who's there?"

Learn something every day.

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Insidiously cool toy packaging; Bardsploitation posters; Papercraft car (and more)

Some gems from Rory Phillips's portfolio (he won this month's art contest):




Pin-Craft Packaging:

A Model kit that allows you to turn a ordinary Bowling Pin into a wonderful toy!

When I was a kid I got a model that promised from the box to be the greatest toy ever made. Upon opening however it was obvious that only a master craftsman could hope to assemble and carve the model. And no one could ever make it match the illustration on the box.

I wanted to capture that disappointment with this project.

Posters and other promotional materials for Bardsploitation, a film series at Laurelhurst Theater featuring movies based on Shakespeare's plays.







Packaging for Tengu instant noodles.





Pages from a manual on avoiding his sister.



Car paper toy (based on one of the templates available here).

Finally, don't miss his designs for the board game Escape from The Black Briar Wood:

In Ireland 300AD the warriors of 4 waring clans are brought to the black briar wood to fight for the amusement of Morrighan the faerie queen.

*Previously: Plush Shakespeare.

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Squirrel-like creatures by Scott Radke (link roundup)

"The Five Elements" by Scott Radke.

And a few more links:

1. Plush Shakespeare and Cthulhu. Via.

2. How to get cheap publicity for a shopping site no one's ever heard of - - announce you accidentally marked everything at $49.99.

3. Amigurumi Divine & John Waters.

*Previously: Shakespeare hates your emo poems.

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A toddler practices Shakespeare (video roundup)

Brian Cox teaches a toddler Hamlet's to be or not to be speech. Via.



Time-lapse of an office building being built out of shipping containers. Via.




Timelapse video of sea stars and worms swarming the ocean floor to devour a dead seal. Via.




Watch repair in microgravity.



Butterflies in zero gravity.

*Previously: Shakespeare hates your emo poems.

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Disney to make an animated version of Macbeth!

Macbeth with Disney-esque animals by Ben Balistreri. Sounds like a great idea to me.

*Previously: Macbeth as a gangster drama.

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Barack Obama, Edward Scissorhands, Clockwork Orange papercraft

A Clockwork Orange


Wonder Woman


Shakespeare


Edward Scissorhands


Andy Warhol


Doctor Octopus


Chewbacca


Barack Obama

Believe it or not, this is just a small sampling of the papercraft toys that can be downloaded here. Via.

*Find previously posted papercraft projects here.

*The Andy Warhol Museum Collection is 34% off at Amazon.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves condom ads and a few other abuses of innocent childhood memories

Snow White and three dwarves for Primeros Condoms. Link.




Snow White and the Seven Dwarves for Bärenjäger honey liqueur. Link.




Snow White and the Seven Dwarves for Unimil Condoms. Link.

And here's Hello Kitty, Mickey Mouse, Snoopy, etc as big game trophies in "Goodbye Innocence" ads for SHS Teen Clothes. Link.




*Previously: Annie Leibovitz photographs Michael Phelps and Julianne Moore as mermaids for Disney.

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Hamlet, written as a series of Facebook entries

"Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)" by Sarah Schmelling for McSweeney's. Here's a sample:

Polonius says Hamlet's crazy ... crazy in love!

Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet are now friends.

Hamlet wonders if he should continue to exist. Or not.

Hamlet thinks Ophelia might be happier in a convent.

Ophelia removed "moody princes" from her interests.

Hamlet posted an event: A Play That's Totally Fictional and In No Way About My Family

The king commented on Hamlet's play: "What is wrong with you?"

Read the whole thing.

*Previously: "Shakespeare hates your emo poems" t-shirt.

*Buy Hamlet posters at eBay.

Shakespeare hates your emo poems

On sale at Threadless.

"Hamlet" set in Detroit

That's not a joke, that's the concept for a new show that might be on ABC in the fall. Here's a list and description for a bunch more shows we might be watching in a few months.

New movie reimagines Macbeth as a gangster drama

This sounds great:

For four centuries William Shakespeare’s plays have been reinvented to fit contemporary sensibilities. But few recent efforts can match the Australian writer and director Geoffrey Wright’s brutal and thrilling new version, which envisions the thane of Cawdor as a longhaired, drug-addled gangster and his poisoned realm as a decadent MTV dreamscape of nymphet witches, smoky nightclubs and point-blank, slow-motion gun battles.

Read the rest of the review.

Here's the trailer:


Here's the fairly lackluster official site.

And here's the Wikipedia entry.

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