Vampire on a shark

"Nosferatu ditches the ship" by Graham Annable on sale for $10.

*Buy Nosferatu posters at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Cupid paper toy - - part of a promotion for the new Papertoy Monsters book.

2. Cool photo of a fighter jet.

3. Apparently sharks are swimming along the flooded streets in Australia. I couldn't find photos or video, but here's a compilation of street-level videos of flooded streets.

Plush Sharktopus

Plush Sharktopus by Suzannah Ashley, who has goods on sale at Etsy.

*Learn how to make plush creatures with these books at Amazon.

A wizard, riding a squid, with a monkey apprentice, fighting robot sharks...IN SPACE

Cthulhu and other Lovecraftian horrors star in Michael Bukowski's album covers, t-shirts and logos.

Here's a handbound book he made featuring Eldritch horrors:



And here's the flyer for his upcoming Dungeons and Dragons-themed show at Benna's Cafe in Philadelphia:



*Buy robot sharks at eBay.

Scary shark video

Chuck Patterson:

the day before I shot this video, i was SUP surfing with a couple friends and 2 sharks circled us for about 15 minutes. the next day, i decided to go back out at around the same time and take my GO PRO HD camera mounted on a 10 ft pole and do some exploring.

Sure enough within 5 minutes a 9 ft shark came out of no where and circled twice and slapped his tail on my board before disappearing. then a minute later a 7 ft young juvenile Great White swam circles around me for 12 minutes.

The sound is the key to making this unsettling. Via these sites.

*Buy the GoPro HD at Amazon.

Shark Week headquarters

Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland features a giant shark.

Shark sleeping bag

Shark sleeping bag by Kendra Phillips on sale at Patch Together. Via.

*Previously: Eaten By A Bear sleeping bag.

*Buy survival tins at Amazon.

Mummy Meatloaf (link roundup)

Go here to find out how to make mummy meatloaf.

And a few more links:

1. There's a suspected 20' long Great White on the prowl near Australia - -you can see the hole it took out of another shark here. Via these sites.

2. I didn't get very far, but you can play a free adventure game based on Hansel & Gretel here. Via.

3. Flow chart will help determine which religion is right for you. Via.

*Previously: Poster and concept art for a Hansel and Gretel film project.

*Buy mummy posters at eBay.

Split open skull cake (link roundup)

Skull cake via these fine sites.

And a few more links:

1. Man sentenced for stealing a "a centuries-old painting of the Virgin Mary in the hopes of selling it to fund an abortion for the 14-year-old girl he had raped." Via.

2. A USPS worker in Philadelphia stole over 2,000 GameFly Games (GameFly is a video game rental by mail service like Netflix) and apparently traded them in for credit at GameStop (which begs the question of whether anyone at GameStop was curious as to how and why he had so many games to trade in). Via.

3. Shark attacks a subway.

*Previously: Super Mario World as a subway map.

*Buy Start A Cake Business Today at Amazon.

The goofy initial version of Jaws

Check out the goofy shark that graced the first edition of Peter Benchley's Jaws. I wonder if the artist was just not very good, or if he/she was trying to somehow represent the affair that makes up a large chunk of the book. There are copies on sale at eBay. Via.

*Previously: If Jaws had been aimed at an older demographic.

*Buy first edition books at eBay.

Tomb of Ligea poster (link roundup)

"Even on her wedding night she must share the man she loved with the 'Female Thing' that lived in the Tomb of the Cat." Tomb of Ligea stars Vincent Price, was directed by Roger Corman, written by Robert Towne, and based on a story by Edgar Allen poe. Here's the trailer:



Found at this site, which has lots more great vintage horror movie posters.

And a few more links:

1. Various shark desktop wallpapers at the bottom of this page.

2. Fringe viral site.

3. New book alleges Bernie Madoff is a longtime, well-known liar and clumsy adulterer. Also, that he used to wear two watches so he could keep track of two time zones. (And if all that's true, then many of his "victims" must have suspected he was up to no good.)

*Previously: Fringe desktop wallpapers.

*Buy Roger Corman movie posters at eBay.

Shark anatomy model (link roundup)

Smart Lab Shark Anatomy Model - - $19 at Amazon. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Robert X. Cringely offers the most interesting comment I've read about Chrome OS:

What Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, has to fear more than anything else is that he’ll awake one day to learn that the Google search engine suddenly doesn’t work on any Windows computers: something happened overnight and what worked yesterday doesn’t work today. It would have to be an act of deliberate sabotage on Microsoft’s part and blatantly illegal, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen. Microsoft would claim ignorance and innocence and take days, weeks or months to reverse the effect, during which time Google would have lost billions.

Read more.

2. 20% off at Tenacious Toys all Wednesday with the code 500FRIENDS.

3. Obama's teleprompter is jokingly called TOTUS. (The President of the United States is POTUS.)

4. Nice photos of Yuki 7 paper dolls.

*Previously: Spider/Jellyfish/Shark chimera.

*Buy Obama posters at eBay.

Shaq dunks on a shark

Shaq dunks on a shark in one of a series of images by Creatim for Li Ning:

In July 2009, Li Ning will hold Style Fighter 3+1 Basketball Challenge and NBA Stars’ Meet in Beijing, Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, Changsha and Chengdu. Three different thematic basketball courts will be set up representing the styles of Shaq O'neal, Baron Davis and Jose Calderon respectively. Considering various interest of young basketball fans, different competitions are designed for them,including 3+1 contest, one-to-one contest, slam dunk competition, skill competition, and so on. It is a good opportunity for the youth to learn from the NBA stars.

You can see more art from the campaign at HuangCheng's site. Via.

*Previously: Shaq, LeBron, Dwight Howard in a dance off.

*Buy NBA bobbleheads at eBay.

Thriller print (link roundup)

Michael Jackson/Thriller tribute by Cesar Moreno available as a print. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Fantomah, Mystery Woman of the Jungle.

2. Disturbing animated gifs consisting of Three Frames from movies, such as Jaws. Via.

3. Adventure Time cosplay, complete with plush Rainacorn.

4. I have no interest in Alice Hoffman's books, but her Twitter feed sounded awesome - - she used it to trash a critic, even posting her phone number, before deleting the account.

*Previously: Adventure Time fan art.

*Buy Michael Jackson toys at eBay.

Beastman reflects on his life

On the occasion of Skeletor's wake, Beastman and Tri-Clops reflect on their lives. Two, of a series of four, paintings by Ryan Berkley. All four, as well as several more works of art, are part of the Pop! Pop! Group Art Show and on sale here.

Here's Ryan's personal Etsy shop, where he has various prints like this shark on sale (perfect for father's day if your dad's a lawyer):



*Previously: Chibi Trap-Jaw.

*Buy Masters of the Universe Toys at eBay.

Jim Rugg cover for the LA Weekly (link roundup)

The cover of this week's LA Weekly is by Jim Rugg.

And a few more links:

1. The Ashley Wood toys are really too expensive to have problems like this.

2. Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus starring Deborah Gibson and Lorenzo Lamas. Stills of the monsters here. Via.

3. While exploring the site of The Asylum, makers of the Mega Shark movie, I found this giant nigiri.

4. Some people create custom Thing action figures. Other people create custom Thing televisions.

*Previously: Shark plane.

*Learn how to make sushi with these books at Amazon.

New toys by Sucklord

New toys unveiled by Sucklord - - Glow-in-the-dark version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon Army Man I posted previously, and the Suck Shark. No purchase price yet, as far as I could tell.

*Previously: Sucklord's DJ Stormtrooper.

*Buy glow in the dark items at eBay.

Bioshock 2 viral ad, art deco fountain, and more

Kotaku pointed out that there's a new teaser site for Bioshock 2 - - Something In The Sea. There's really nothing there aside from an image of the plush Big Daddy featured in the teaser ad I posted back in October. (Sign me up if they ever sell a plush Big Daddy.)

The Kotaku tipster also sent in a photo of an ad for the website found wrapped around a telephone pole:



While I was looking around more information, I discovered an art deco fountain that would fit right in the Bioshock world. It's at the Niagra Fallsview Casino, and here's video:



Here's a beautiful closeup of the fountain:



You can find a desktop wallpaper-sized version at Flickr. That particular Flickr gallery is full of great images, including this shark.

And finally, here's an intriguing book named Something in the Sea:



*Previously: Download the Bioshock art book for free.

*Buy Bioshock toys at eBay.

Spider/Jellyfish/Shark chimera

Disturbing shark/spider/jellfish hybrid by Tom Rhodes.

*Previously: Lego chimera.

*Buy chimera toys at eBay.

Shark Plane

Shark plane by Craig Thompson. You can see various sketches of the plane and its interior here. The shark plane is part of Craig's contribution to Little Nemo: A Century of Dreams.

*Previously: Little Nemo comic strip by Marcus Thiele.

*Buy Little Nemo collections at Amazon.