Worth1000, a website of photoshop contests, recently concluded a site of strange animal manipulations. Unfortunately, Batbear did not win.
Thx ADK

PsD loves to make fun of botched head replacements, shoddy reflections, oddly sized appendages, horrible movie poster, and girls without nipples - but my favorites are the images that just have extra body parts just hanging out - like this rather lonely hand.

Another fave - Kinda makes you think you could do it better yourself, huh?

Great site - mediocre writing.

Pretty weird. Check it out.

This Saturday in Santa Monica there is an all night art festival. From the Site:

Glow will fill the hours between dusk to dawn with compelling, enchanting and effervescent sights and sounds situated in spaces and times that expand possibilities for where, how and when the public experiences contemporary art.

With the historic Santa Monica Pier and adjacent world-famous Santa Monica Beach as their space, artists were commissioned to create unique and inviting works of art that welcome the public to be both audience and actor for twelve celebratory hours. Inspired by the wildly successful Nuit Blanche in Paris, Glow takes its spirit from the fabled grunion that live in local waters and come ashore several times a year to spawn in the sand creating a momentary sensation of iridescence.

Sounds like something worth supporting to me and it could be a hell of a lot of fun to chill on the beach into the wee morning hours.

Anyone into it?

Wow this out of control animation - shot on the streets of Buenos Aires - must have taken days and days. Extra props for the special attention to the soundtrack. Great find Addy.
Link

This animated documentary was the most interesting film I read about coming out of Cannes. From the sounds of things it tells a story in a way I have certainly never seen. From the Variety review:

Here, video-filmed interviews were used as visual references to create reportage focusing on one key historical event: Israel’s 1982 invasion of Beirut and, more specifically, the massacres of Palestinian civilians in the Sabra and Shatila camps by the Christian Phalangist militia, which Folman and his fellow Israeli soldiers witnessed and failed to stop, that happened in the wake of Lebanese president Bashir Gemayel’s assassination.

Folman is effectively an onscreen (but animated) narrator and reporter here, whose interviews with other soldiers (voiced by the real people themselves, apart from two individuals) form the film’s narrative spine. Each interviewee’s story is illustrated, with often startling results.

I’ll be keeping my eye out for this one.

Site - Trailer

Jax at Pixeloo has “Untooned” a new shot of Jessica Rabbit (full size). Untooning is his process of using different reference photographs to make photo realistic versions of cartoon characters (you may have seen Homer and Mario). Here is a comparison shot of the Jessica work.

But what is really cool is he has just posted a video sped up showing his process. Very interesting to see how he does it.

pixeloo.blogspot.com

(Thx to Oliver for the find …finally)

Video after break

Someecards.com is awesome. Check out their plethora of sarcastic cards for any occasion.

More after the break

All this weekend from noon to 11pm there is a big anti-war festival happening at The Firehouse (map ) downtown.

LA vs WAR highlights the travesty of a senseless war now going into its 6th year, giving LA artists a platform to exercise their freedom of speech. Hundreds of artists representing our diverse communities unite in delivering a universal message of peace and understanding, and offering resistance and opposition to the US government’s war policies.

With print and graffiti exhibitions, live djs, film events, and plenty of anti-war info - this should be a pretty positive and interesting event.

Link

This is for Oliver, Gerrard, and Pettler.  Always good times guys (oh and some bad times apparently).

And also for all those awesome clichéd college posters (avail on amazon) and the many jokes to be made about them -  though these lists are missing the ubiquitous Pink Floyd Albums on Girls’ Backs.  Love it.

So does Shepard Fairey.

What may become a semi regular feature around here, I’d like to bring you some of this week’s best/funniest/most popular web videos.

First is the DeLorean Dance Jam Ghost Ride the Whip.

See more of this week’s best after the jump…