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As a quick follow-up to our video from Keith Skretch yesterday, here’s a similar concept from two years ago by Laurin Döpfner who used an industrial sander to grind down logs, electronics, and even a skull in thin layers which he then photographed to create this amazing stop motion video. Each object is comprised of about 100 different photos, a process I can only image was extremely labor intensive.

This will be trending on /r/ThingsCutInHalfPorn/ by the end of the day if it hasn’t already. While you’re at it see also @HalfPics, and for the not so faint of heart there’s the Visible Human Project. (via Jason Sondhi)

they do oldfield, floyd and crimson on segways too

Animaleries 

Solé

goldenagecomicsvault:

Original Cover Art From
The Spirit #491 (Oct. 23, 1949)
By Will Eisner

Coyote Doggirl “All the Best Ponies”

Did you know I have this western adventure comic? I’ve been updating it extreeeeemely slowly but you can read the whole thing so far, starting from the bottom now we’re here.

This old man is doing a terrible job of pretending to be a kid. The tipoff: “I’m a kid.”

Via Jezebel

The name Hippopotamus comes from the Ancient Greek ‘river horse’. They can sleep underwater and will automatically rise and breathe without waking. They are only territorial while in the water and the reproduction and birth occur in the water. 

Hippos bask on the shoreline and secrete an oily red substance, which gave rise to the myth that they sweat blood. The liquid is actually a skin moistener and sunblock that may also provide protection against germs. They are  one of the most aggressive creatures in the world, although they look chubby, they can easily outrun a human.

Harvest mice are Europe’s smallest rodents. It is easily identified with its blunt nose, short, rounded hairy ears and golden-brown fur. It posses a remarkable prehensile tail, which is used as a fifth limb that aids climbing through the tall, dense vegetation of their meadow, hedgerow and crop field homes.

Classic cover by John Richard Flanagan from Double Action Comics #2, published by DC Comics, January 1940. This is the single rarest DC comic book with only seven copies known to exist. 

From a 2007 essay published in The New York Times, tracked down by our resident jazz aficionado and ascendant rock star, Shuja: 

"Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won’t keep reading your work. I learned the importance of rhythm from music — and mainly from jazz. Next comes melody — which, in literature, means the appropriate arrangement of the words to match the rhythm. If the way the words fit the rhythm is smooth and beautiful, you can’t ask for anything more. Next is harmony — the internal mental sounds that support the words. Then comes the part I like best: free improvisation. Through some special channel, the story comes welling out freely from inside. All I have to do is get into the flow. Finally comes what may be the most important thing: that high you experience upon completing a work — upon ending your ‘performance’ and feeling you have succeeded in reaching a place that is new and meaningful. And if all goes well, you get to share that sense of elevation with your readers (your audience). That is a marvelous culmination that can be achieved in no other way."

Also: check out this excerpt from Murakami’s new novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, coming out—barring any storms of fish, worm-triggered earthquakes, or our collective tumble into an alternate world almost-but-not-quite-like our own—any minute now (August 12, to be exact). 

Here’s a big thing I’ve been working on for about a year and a half (off and on). Micron - 03 and Faber-Castell Pitt - B on paper.

Proper scan coming soon and prints possibly.

NSFW

altcomics:

Victor Vaughn

theactionersnet:

“Who said we were terrorists?”

An interview conducted by Fox 13 Tampa Bay News.  Oh my god.  Fox 13 Tampa Bay, you are the channel of my dreams.

Based in the old industrial town of St. Etienne, France, street artist oakoak (previously) relies on a keen sense of observation to create his humorous interventions on walls, streets, and sidewalks. Cracks and crumbling infrastructure become the backdrop for superheroes and other pop culture characters who interact with their surrounds in unexpected ways. He shares with Bulkka:

Since I come from Saint Etienne, an old industrial city which is now in reconversion, I have the need to make my city less “grey” and at the same time, funnier. Humor is really important to me. It’s definitely the most important element in what I do.

My main interest is giving importance to places and objects that people don’t notice anymore. I walk a lot every day and that’s how I get to find new attractive places with urban elements such as broken walls for example. When I see something interesting during my walks, I measure it and study it, and I come back later to make the collage. I prefer to prepare the drawings and drafts at home.

Included here are several works from the last 6 months or so, but you can see many more pieces on his Facebook page.

Photographer Franck Bohbot captures the classic movie palaces of southern California [x]

The Rite-Aid receipt for a Mr. Goodbar is bigger than the Mr. Goodbar. The back of this receipt is drenched in red tape about Rite Aid’s return policy in case I decide that this Goodbar is too patriarchal a confection for our times, presumably.

Tyler Crook.

johndarnielle:

saladinahmed:

So apparently, this is a thing: Greenscreen-clad workers who secretly flip models’ hair during shampoo commercials. (via @makingofs on twitter)

if they would leave the mummy in the commercial I would be 200% more likely to purchase the product

hodgman:

Here’s @David_Rees just SMASHING movies into paste with some big old books. 

Look, you know that GOING DEEP WITH DAVID REES begins tonight at 10PM on @NatGeoChannel.

BUT I AM GOING TO KEEP TELLING YOU ABOUT IT AND HOPING YOU WILL WATCH IT ON TV TONIGHT.

That is all. 

70sscifiart:

sciencefictiongallery:

Boris Vallejo

Ad for a New York bath house. An epic one.

snowce:

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)

grand-bazaar:

1970s Afghanistan - Hunter Fox Mask

Photo © Jesse Rockwell

Photo © Jesse Rockwell

Photo © Jesse Rockwell

Photo © Jesse Rockwell

Photo © Jesse Rockwell

Photo © Jesse Rockwell

Photo © Jesse Rockwell

In most post-apocalyptic films when the camera pans down the abandoned streets of New York or Tokyo, long after people have disappeared and the buildings have fallen into disrepair, we see nature again thriving. Trees and plants take hold in the sidewalks and wild animals like deer, bears, and lions stalk the ruins left behind by humans. But after descending the staircase at a vacant shopping mall in Bangkok, professional cook and photographer Jesse Rockwell discovered a wholly different take on beasts inheriting the Earth: fish. Specifically exotic koi and catfish, teeming by the thousands in a secret subterranean aquarium. Rockwell shares via his blog:

New World shopping mall, a four storey former shopping mall. Originally constructed as an eleven storey building. It was found to be in breach of old town Bangkok’s four storey limit on building heights. The top seven floors were demolished to adhere to building codes in 1997. In 1999 the mall burned due to suspected arson committed by a competitor in the area. The disaster resulted in several casualties, and the building has remained abandoned ever since. Not having a roof, the basement floor remains under several feet of water year round.

At some point in the early 2000s an unknown person began introducing a small population of exotic Koi and Catfish species. The small population of fish began to thrive and the result is now a self-sustained, and amazingly populated urban aquarium.

What an amazing discovery. It makes you wonder what else lurks in abandoned places around the world? You can see more of Rockwell’s photography over on 500px and on his website, Taste of the Road. (via James Theophane, The Verge)

Tibetan sand foxes are famous for their distinct look—square-molded face and little, triangular ears that are situated near its head. They form life-long partnerships and live, hunt and share the responsibility of raising their young together. Tibetan foxes are not overly territorial and many pairs live in close quarters and share hunting grounds.