Showing posts with label specimen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label specimen. Show all posts

Link roundup

1. Homemade bottled monster specimens. Via.

2. "Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work." Via.

3. Blade Runner cityscape animated gif. I wish it was my screensaver. Relatedly, the BBTS now has the Blade Runner spinner in stock.

*Buy Blade Runner posters at eBay.

Super Big Micro Show

A few of my favorites from tomorrow night's Super Big Micro Show at Gallery Nucleus:


Mark Walton




Jeff Ranjo



John Puglisi



Ryan O'Loughlin



Leo Matsuda



Norman Lemay



Denise Koyama





Cassia Harries



Justin Cram



Mike Gabriel

Rancid specimen jar



Go here for a tutorial on creating a Lovecraftian horror in a jar. Via.

The Faun specimen by Alex CF





The Faun specimen - -a failed experiment by Dr. Moreau by Alex CF. On sale here.

*Buy glass bell jars at Amazon.

Bad Egg (link roundup)



Sentient egg specimen by Wendy Given, who has a show opening today in Oregon.

And a few more links:

1. "Cleveland County prisoners wear jail-issue uniforms of hot pink shirts and yellow-and-white striped pants, which some say make them look more like clowns than criminals." Photo link. Via.

2. The crystal skull that inspired the Indiana Jones movie is a fake. Via.

3. It wasn't pretty when god took Adam's rib.

*Previously: Fairy specimen.

*Buy bell jars at Amazon.

Anthropomorphic CFL (link roundup)



Personable lightbulb by Maria Barga.

And a few more links:

1. Glowing fairy in a bottle.

2. William Gibson's thumbnail idea for a Western.

3. "Rainmaking bacteria that live in clouds may have evolved the ability to spur showers as a way to disperse themselves worldwide." Via.

*Previously: "F*ck the rain" umbrella.

*Preorder William Gibson's new book at Amazon.

Fairy specimen (link roundup)




Specimen found by Mrs. Rosalyde Wright, Cottingley. April 1874. (By Jacob Petersson.)

And a few more links:

1. By Dawolu Jabari Anderson: The Grits of Wrath, and the Diabolical Uncle Ben.

2. Giant panda head in a subway.

3. Amigurumi viking.

*Previously: Cthulhu specimen in a jar.

*Buy strange specimens at eBay.

January by Tofer Chin (link roundup)



January by Tofer Chin. See the other seasons here. Via.

And a few more links:

1. J.A.W. Cooper is giving away art (but by all means don't enter, I'd like to win).

2. Captured goblin specimen.

3. Supposedly, Disney has put out a casting call for actresses for the next Pirates of the Caribbean and has specified that actresses must have natural breasts. Also, Keira Knightley says makeup artists painted on her cleavage. Via.

*Previously: Monkey's Paw specimen box.

*Buy pirate toys at Amazon.

Twitter Tights (link roundup)



"Follow Me" Twitter tights on sale at Etsy. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Act fast to download a free game starring Trogdor. Via.

2. Revoltech has a website devoted to its scfi toys, including the new Alien. Via.

3. The Museum of Supernatural History. Via.

*Previously: Trogdor fan art gallery.

*Buy Revoltech toys at eBay.

Abominable Snowman specimen (link roundup)



Go here to see how to make a bottled Abominable Snowman specimen.

And a few more links:

1. M.S. Corley shows off his childhood drawings of Mega Man characters.

2. The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio (funny and tame, but NSFW). Alternate, less clever posters at Amazon.

3. Beaker from the Muppets animated gif.

*Previously: Nabokov specimen boxes.

*Buy Muppets toys at eBay.

The collected Eldritch horrors of Merrylin




The collected Eldritch horrors of Merrylin - - a new specimen collection by Alex CF on sale here.

Update: Alex also just posted an ad for his new line of handpainted statuettes. The first is H.P. Lovecraft:



No purchasing information yet.

*Previously: Merlin's tale illustrated by Rex Crowle.

*Buy King Arthur toys at eBay.