Giant Mechanical Elephant

By François Delarozière and Pierre Oreficee, giant mechanical animals are exhibited at Nantes, France. Including the elephant, a squid and a manta ray. Site HERE.

Born Standing Up

Just finished reading the brilliant book ‘Born Standing Up‘ by Steve Martin.. It follows his rise to stand up stardom, then how and why he had to stop. A fantastic insight into what it’s like being a stand up comedian. 

 

In Today’s Headlines…..

 Click on the magic word HERE to see a random news headline generator. Much funly to be had x

 

Louis Tussaud’s Head Sale

Louis Tussaud’s wax heads are going on sale on February 12th 2008. Selling between £50 – £80 at Keys in Aylsham, Norfolk. See more HERE .. they look too scary for me. 

 

 

Oops… Might Want to Re-design That

Unauthorized C-3P0’s

StarWars.com has posted a list of unauthorized C-3P0 knockoffs HERE. There craptasticly good.  

Street Sketchbook

Just bought myself the Street Sketchbook by Tristan Manko. It features pages from a long list of super crazy artists personal sketchbooks .. including Andy Rementer, Ekta, Blu, Zozen and many many more. Well worth checking out x 

Best Animation Short Goes To….?

Yes it’s that time of year again when the bloody Oscars come to piss out awards randomly on what’s almost always undeserved pap. Grrrrrr …. I’z ‘ate de Oscarz  ):^(    There is always one good side to these such award thingys .. they do draw attention to some fantastic animation that might otherwise pass us bye. A couple of this years nominees are ….  Even Pigeons go to heaven (Meme Les Pigeons Vont Au Paradis) (Samuel Tourneux)   Madame Tutli-Putli (NFB, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski) See the Trailer HERE … or watch a short making of that sums up life as an animator.     

Biceps – Crash And Burn Stand Up

Click the linky poos HERE to see a dick with biceps do the worst stand up performance that a racist homophobe could possibly do.. What an arse hole.  Update: found it on YouTube below. 

Star Trek XI Teaser Trailer !

It’s not giving much away as of yet, but there’s enough to get all those trekites wet at the gills (me included). Just the sound of Leonard speaking those famous words and the classic original backing track – oh it sends shivers up the spine …Yep I’m a big geek at heart.