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Wacky Packages: The Book

Published on May 21, 2008 in cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: art, art spiegelman, artist, bill griffith, cartoon, cartooning, cartoonist, cool stuff, Illustration, kim deitch, norm saunders, parody, trading cards, wacky packages, wacky packs.

Wacky Packages book image Who doesn’t remember those Wacky PackagesÂ collectible trading cards of cartoon product parodies growing up as a kid in the ’70’s? Well, I guess people thatÂ didn’t grow up in the ’70’s…

Anyways, there seems to be a new Wacky Packages 35th anniversary retrospective bookÂ available now (even though Amazon’s release date reads June 1, 2008…).

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Alien Abduction UFO Lamp

Published on November 2, 2007 in art. 0 Comments Tags: alien, art, artist, cool, cool stuff, design, flying saucer, software, UFO.

Although not yet even an actual product, the Alien Abduction UFO lamp is quite possibly the coolest lamp of all time, at least for geeks.

Artist Lasse Klein created the concept art for the UFO lamp with computer graphics software.

The artist mentions on her website/blog that the more people who sign up for the flying saucer lamp mailing list, the more likely she will be able to turn this into an actual product.

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Zen Doodle Sharing: Sketch Swap

Published on October 4, 2007 in art. 0 Comments Tags: art, cool stuff, creativity, doodle, drawing, fun, random, sketch.

Doodle sharing website SketchSwap.com screenshot A completely fun, pointless and very Zen website I just stumbled across: Sketch Swap. The premise is simple — make a doodle, submit it, and get a random doodle in return. There’s no eraser, only one pencil size and no color. You can’t save, link to or find your doodle once you submit it. You can’t sign up, log in, create an account, comment or vote.

In short, it’s perfect.

The Histogram As The Image

Published on September 27, 2007 in art. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, art, cool, cool stuff, fun, graphics, histogram, New York, Photoshop.

New York City skyline in Histogram You’d probably think I was crazy if I told you this image contained the New York City skyline, but it does. You have to be a bit of a Photoshop geek to see it, but it’s there.

Head on over to Ironic Sans to see the skyline, and how it was done. It took me a couple of reads to wrap my head around this. I love this kind of stuff!

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General Mills Monster Cereal Character Figurines

Published on September 15, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: action figure, art, cartoon, cool, cool stuff, creature, figurine, Frankenstein, fun, Halloween, Kubrick, monster, toy, toys.

Generla Mills monster ceral figure packaging Who didn’t love the General Mills Monster Cereals growing up — Count Chocula, FrankenBerry and my favorite, Boo Berry.

I just stumbled across these excellent Kubrick figurines of all the main monsters.

Doing a bit of research, it turns out there were two more later additions to the lineup. Do you know them? First was the Wolfman-themed Fruit Brute, which was re-issued as Yummy Mummy. I guess neither did very well on the grocery store shelves.

I was totally hooked on these as a kid, being a huge monster fan. Have not eaten them for many years as I really don’t eat sugar-coated cereal much anymore.

And just as cool as the figurines are the excellent mini cereal box blister packs.

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