Garbage Bag Whale

Garbage Bag Air Whale:

We breathed life into Bertrand, but sadly, he didn't take flight. He tragically insisted upon beaching himself, and we ended up putting him out of his misery.

The idea was for him to be a solar hot air balloon, the air inside heating up and lifting him. I'm confident the main problem is too much mass of plastic in the pectoral fins, and tapered tail relative to how much volume of air those areas hold.

Adjusting the air turns it into a grey whale and beluga whale. Via.

*Buy narwhal tusks at eBay.

Sculptures by Eva Montanari

Boy reading, sled tug of war, and whale - - a few sculptures by Eva Montanari, who is also a talented illustrator.

*Previously: Video of three cats playing tug of war with a steak.

*Buy books by Eva Montanari at Amazon.

Monstro, Book Whale

Two photos by Paul Octavious: Monstro and book whale. Via.

*Previously: Fail Whale pumpkins.

*Buy Disneyland toys at eBay.

Papercraft whale (link roundup)

Download the whale paper toy here (bottom left under Free Papertoy Downloads). Via.

And a few more links:

1. Simple, yet effective Jamie Hyneman (Mythbusters) costume.

2. Particularly depressing examples of Google's suggestions for completing search queries. Via.

3. 73-year-old man arrested in Los Angeles for tagging.

*Previously: Mythbusters flu psa.

*Buy Mythbusters toys and DVDs at Amazon.

Papercraft guns (link roundup)

Papercraft armory by PostlerFerguson to eventually be distributed by Strangeco.

And a few more links:

1. Lego Max from Where the Wild Things Are.

2. Dachshund pumpkins.

3. Photo of a sperm whale eating a 30-foot-long giant squid. Via.

4. Tentacled strongman illustration.

*Previously: Plush strongman.

*Buy Nerf guns at eBay.

World of Feng Shui (and more)

A few of the highlights from a day on Oahu:


World of Feng Shui




Shows where my head is at - - I saw these parking spots and thought, wow, this would be a good viral ad for the new V series.




Projector from the planetarium at Bishop Museum.




Inappropriate quotation marks.







Traditional art at the museum.





Two of the museum's animatronic dinosaurs.






A life-sized whale/skeleton.

*Previously: Visitor from V paper toy.

*Buy tiki at eBay.

Exquisite Corpse book project

The Library of Congress is hosting an exquisite corpse adventure, where each chapter will be written by a different author. The first chapter is by child-lit god Jon Scieszka and features an illustration by Chris Van Dusen.

Over at Chris' site, you can buy original art and prints like this blue whale and retro-futuristic car:




And you can see an illustration from his new book The Circus Ship here. Via these sites.

*Previously: Gentleman Corpse illustration by Ben Templesmith.

*Buy Jon Scieszka books at Amazon.

Salaryman Whale

After watching the Beatles Rock Band trailer, I visited the Passion Pictures website and discovered a great ad for Boss Coffee, directed by Koichiro Tsujikawa, and featuring a flying whale made of salarymen. You'll have to watch it here, I couldn't find an embeddable version.

*Previously: Whale paper toy.

*Buy a $3,300 coffee maker at Amazon (it's in stock).

Whale paper toy

Download a whale paper toy (based on the Squared Eye mascot) by Matt Hawkins here. Via these sites.

*Previously: Is the Cloverfield monster an ambulatory humpback whale?

*Buy Cloverfield collectibles at eBay.

Masters of the Universe Attack Squid

Clearly I did not adequately appreciate the genius of the Masters of the Universe toys when they were new to stores. I present the Masters of the Universe Attack Squid, Spitbull, and War Whale.




Attack Squid available at eBay.




Spitbull available at eBay.




War Whale available at eBay.

Some photos via He-Man.org and Virtual Toychest.

*Previously: The worst (best!) Masters of the Universe toy ever.

Penguin escapes Orcas by jumping into boat

This video is interesting enough just because it shows a pod of killer whales hunting penguins. But then one of the penguins jumps into a boat to escape. He then just sort of hangs out watching the whales:



Via.

Have you ever seen Orcas hunt seals? They swim right up to the beach, grab a seal, and play catch:



*Previously: Penguin runs errands for family.

*Planet Earth dvd sets are on sale at Amazon.

Diagram of the delicious parts of the whale, perhaps?

Go here to download the high res version or order prints of "The delicious parts of the whale explained." Via Serious Eats, which also recently posted a handy list of ten no-cook desserts.

*Previously: Diagram of Sleeping Beauty's Castle.

*Buy "Graphis Diagrams 2: The International Showcase of Diagram Design and Technical Illustration" at Amazon.

Plush whale

Plush whale ("Whaley McBlubber") by Carey Huffman.

*Previously: Netted whale had an embedded harpoon indicating it had been hunted over a century earlier.

*Buy "Creepy Cute Crochet: Zombies, Ninjas, Robots, and More!" at Amazon.

"Harpooning The Woolly Whale" by Michael Wandelmaier

Here's Michael Wandelmaier's personal site, and you can buy prints of some of his work (not the whale, yet) here.

*Previously: Wind God, Thunder God Bearbricks.