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Alien Abduction UFO Lamp

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Alien Abduction UFO lamp

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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The Histogram As The Image

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on September 27, 2007
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New York City skyline in HistogramYou’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!

via Daring Fireball


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General Mills Monster Cereal Character Figurines

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on September 15, 2007
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Generla Mills monster ceral figure packagingWho 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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Zombie Presidents!

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on September 13, 2007
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Zombie Lincoln - Cartoon illustration of President Abraham Lincoln as a zombie.OK, so I am a bit jealous that I didn’t come up with the idea of turning famous dead presidents into cartoon zombies! OK OK, I’m really jealous that I didn’t come up with the idea of cartoon zombie presidents.

How cool are these? Drawn in a very 1950’s EC horror comic/Jack Davis-esque style, featuring Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. And to make sure they offended the religious folk out there, you have Zombie Pope and Zombie Jesus as well.

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Alphabits: Cool Cartoon Alphabet Woodcarvings

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on August 26, 2007
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A is for Afro: Cartoon Woodcarved Alphabet series

Just stumbled across this awesome Flickr set of cartoon woodcarved panels by ojimbo. Each letter of the alphabet (sadly, only up to N right now) has it’s own panel with excellent juxtapositions of objects that begin with each letter. I totally want these as trading cards. Pictured is A is for Afro.

The best pieces have combos and triple combos, like the “Masked Mermaid with Mohawk” in the letter M.

Be sure to check out the entire set!


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Cool Reconfigured Plastic Toy Art

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on August 25, 2007
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Plastic toy art insect bug sculptureCool plastic toy art made from recombined plastic toys by artist Sang Won Sung, a Korean artist living in Brazil. The website is in Flash, and there’s not much info, mostly just images in the Portfolio section. The bugs are especially cool, and there are some other toy designs of funky cartoon type characters (including some superheroes) as well.

Enjoy!

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Genopal Color Scheme Generator Software: Weird Name, Cool Tool

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on August 24, 2007
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Genopal color scheme generator software: sample color scheme

Genopal is a color scheme generator software application I just stumbled across, and it’s pretty interesting.

Instead of the standard color wheels most color scheme generator/explorer software programs utilize, Genopal doesn’t give you the option of choosing a color model such as Complimentary, Triadic and such. Instead there are two sliders, one for Color Diversity and one for Lightness Diversity. There’s a “Generate” button which them cycles though color schemes as analagous or as wild as you set the sliders.

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Content Aware Image Resizing - Video of New Computer Graphics Technology

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on August 22, 2007
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This one is hard to explain without watching the YouTube video over at Creative Bits: Content Aware Image Resizing

The video is a demonstration/presentation from the annual SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques) Conference. In short, the video demonstrates computer algorithms which allow an image to be resized horizontally or vertically non-proportionally, without distorting the image. Elements are “reshuffled” inside the image to keep the same basic look of the visual information.

Very interesting.


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Paintbrush: Free Bitmap Image Editor For Mac OS X

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on August 19, 2007
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Paintbrush bitmap image editor for Mac OS X screenshotPaintbrush a cool little free image editor/paint software program for Mac OS X. As the site says, this is no Photoshop competitor. It’s just your basic paint program like Microsoft Paint or the old MacPaint. It has just the basics - pencil, paintbrush, line, rectangle & circle tools, eraser, text etc. Even lets you open up an image and draw on top of it.

Still, it’s a solid application and thought out. Opens quick, runs smoothly, some cool little animations for windows and tools. Definitely designed with fun in mind.

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The Cartoon Research Library at Ohio State University

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on August 14, 2007
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Who knew that Ohio State University has a Cartoon Research Library? Who knew anybody had a Cartoon Research Library?

A quick search to test the database, I searched for “Mort Drucker, magazine cartoon, MAD Magazine” (by selecting from the pre-existing categories in the search fields). Turns out you only get a textual search result, much like an old-school computer card catalog in a library.

They also sponsor an annual Festival of Cartoon Art, which this year is held October 26-27, 2007.


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