Groonk's Newsmine 2.0

May 06, 2008

Beautiful Agony: Watch People "Die" a Little, Orgasm

0_o

Beautiful Agony is an art/erotic site. Of course, you have to pay to see men and women experience La Petite Mort. Because "art" is never free. Right?

I should pay attention to Buzzfeed more often.

(via buzzfeed, beautifulagony)

Posted by Groonk at 06:25 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Sex

April 18, 2008

The Internet's Getting Interesting Again

I take a few days away and an artist named Aliza Shvarts shakes up a few people.

Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement.

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

This turned out to be as Mr Ellis predicted: "the first "great" conceptual artist of the internet age."

I'm not one for performance art, but this little stunt generated some curious reactions. And, it seems to have some actual thought behind it. Unlike other performances I've seen.

Statement by Helaine S. Klasky - Yale University, Spokesperson

New Haven, Conn. - April 17, 2008

Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials. She stated to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and that she did not induce any miscarriages. The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman's body.

She is an artist and has the right to express herself through performance art.

Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns.

(Via warren ellis: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Posted by Groonk at 02:21 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Intertube Madness, USA

March 11, 2008

The Buddha Machine is Curious, Confuses

The Buddha Machine is a little plastic box that plays music.

Specifically, FM3 constructed nine drones, varying from two seconds to 42 seconds, which repeat endlessly in the listener’s ear until the “track” is switched to the next drone (or the two AA batteries run out).

The machine has its own built-in speaker, in case one would like to fill a room with the drones, but there is also a headphone jack for more personal meditative experiences. There’s a switch on the side that allows for traversal of the tracks, and a DC jack (though an adapter is not included) for those who would like the Buddha Machine experience be truly endless.

In a way, it’s like the cheapest pre-loaded IPod you’ll ever be able to buy."

(via Internet Jesus tweet, pop matters, FM3)

Posted by Groonk at 04:57 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Music, Research, Technology

March 05, 2008

Lit By the Power of Magnetic Fields

This field has 1,301 florescent bulbs planted in it, and they're all glowing. They aren't plugged into anything, however; they're powered solely from the magnetic fields produced by the power lines above. It's all a large art project by Richard Box...

Looks like a Jedi graveyard or a Tesla experiment gone right.

He did it first, you know.

(via gizmodo)

Posted by Groonk at 06:18 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Tesla

Typography as Couture

I'm not one for the fashion industry but sometimes, just sometimes, they hit on interesting concepts.

And by interesting, I mean wtf that's kind of cool in a ridiculous way.
(via notcot.org)

Posted by Groonk at 06:03 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Research

February 20, 2008

Strange and Beautiful Architecture

One more of the Biblioteca under the cut.

(via notcot.org 1,2)

Posted by Groonk at 08:52 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

Listen to the Internet. If You Dare.

Listening Post allows its audience to eavesdrop on the online world. Sampling text from thousands of chatrooms, message boards and forums, the artists have created a huge display that attempts to "hear the internet".

Artists Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen have forged a giant curved stand that is built out of 231 small electronic screens.

Those screens display text fragments, which are accompanied by the rhythm of computer-synthesized voices reading - or as some put it "singing" - the words that surge and flicker over the screens.

Those words are uncensored and unedited: they may be four letters but they are predominantly "clean ones", such as "skin" and "bone".

Posted by Groonk at 04:56 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Intertube Madness, Just Freaking Neat

February 02, 2008

Grand Central Station Freezes. New Yorkers Freak Out

There's a much higher resolution video on Improve Everywhere's site. I recommend it.

I dropped the You Tube version below that cut.

(via stillness you tube, ze frank blog)

Posted by Groonk at 09:01 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Just Freaking Neat, Video

January 24, 2008

Sundance gets Access to One Last Shot

Last year it was that "What's Your Crime?" bit. This year, it's polaroids of celebrities.

I'm not as amused as I was with last year's scheme, but professional photos of "celebrities" always tends to draw my eye.

(via ontd,instyle magazine, One Last Shot Project Polaroids )

UPDATE: more Sundance polaroids

Posted by Groonk at 08:08 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Marketing, Movies, Photos

January 23, 2008

Banksy Strikes True, Again

(via digg, sepultura's flickr)

Posted by Groonk at 12:54 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Flickrlicious

January 21, 2008

Let's Take that HELL RIDE Together

Movie one-sheets have been dismally unimaginative the past, let's say, decade. So when I see one that stands up and asserts itself in badassery, I take notice. HELL RIDE. Quentin Tarantino backed the movie. Larry Bishop wrote it. I'm ready to see it.

Bring it!

(via iwatchstuff )

Posted by Groonk at 05:54 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Just Freaking Neat, Movies, One Sheets

January 07, 2008

Graffiti Artist BANKSY Remains Unknown

I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.--BANKSY

(via ontd, swindle magazine)

Posted by Groonk at 12:23 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Artist, Quotables

January 03, 2008

Best Movie Posters of 2007

Somehow I missed/never even heard of number 10 here:

10. Teeth
Not too many people saw this small release that played well at Sundance, but it certainly has an interesting premise: A girl’s vagina grows some teeth and starts terrorizing her lovers (and for that matter, her va-jay-jay doctor.) The poster doesn’t tell us that — it also doesn’t tell us that this movie is more of a horror movie than a comedy. But that’s what I loved most about it — sometimes deceptive is the right way to go.

The other 9 are after the fall.

(via ontd, official TEETH site)

Posted by Groonk at 05:48 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Movies, One Sheets

December 19, 2007

(Not Completely) BLIND CLICK 21

(via some twitter link)

Posted by Groonk at 03:06 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

December 05, 2007

Challenges were Made. Art was Shared.

P&P introduced me to a forum.site called eatpoo.com were art challenges are made.

Your mission this time : Show us what the devil does, what he whispers to our ears during our daily routines, how he intervenes during our work hours, draw the string he pulls and the buttons he pets. What Would the Devil Do ?

Posted by Groonk at 02:21 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

October 29, 2007

Put Words in the Mouths of the Dead

An American mashup artist let passers-by put words in giant zombies' mouths last week.

The show, called Txt of the Living Dead, projected 15-foot-wide, black-and-white stills from George A. Romero's classic 1968 horror flick Night of the Living Dead onto buildings. Text messages from random people on the street then filled comics-style speech balloons that were added to the images in what New York artist Paul Notzold called an "SMS-enabled interactive street performance."

"It's all uncensored, and that's the beauty of it," said Notzold...

[...]

Notzold smiled as he told the story of projecting one night beside a public-housing project in the United States. A small boy looked on thoughtfully, then beamed up at him and said: "OK mister, now I get it: I can make the windows speak!"

(via wired news and txtual healing)

Posted by Groonk at 06:26 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, On the French

October 22, 2007

Unique Hitler Items Found in SLC

The hell?

(via msnbc)

Posted by Groonk at 10:23 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, History, USA, WorldWarII

October 19, 2007

Man Sets his Camera: RUNS!

He has a site full of these.

(via popbitch and flickr and the running man)

Posted by Groonk at 08:32 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Blogged, Flickrlicious

October 18, 2007

Those Who Live in 1/4" Steel Plate Houses

28 years in the making, he says. The steel skin is the main support for the entire structure. Bruno just wanted to do something new with steel. He's a sculptor. He sculpts.

(via robert bruno and vrogy)

Posted by Groonk at 05:01 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Research

September 25, 2007

Mid-20th Century Artwork: And You'll See them By Name

A Flickr fellow has collected the art and illustrators of the mid 20th century and put them in his rather extensive collection set.

(via leifpeng's flickr)

Posted by Groonk at 02:07 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Flickrlicious, Research

August 02, 2007

Sexy Robot Women Collected on One Poster

Ain't It Cool ran a Robot Poster contest and the winner was this:

And a mighty fine winner indeed.

I can name about half of them. The rest, well even *I* am not that geeky.

(via ain't it cool and some random search i was doing)

Posted by Groonk at 09:40 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Robots, Sex

July 21, 2007

BLIND CLICK 13: Japanese TV doing Strange/Wonderful Things...AGAIN

You have to watch that link to believe anything I just wrote. And when you watch it, prepare to have your shit rocked.

Officially.

(via geekologie and real-timed bullet-time you tube)

Posted by Groonk at 05:04 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Only in Japan, Video

May 23, 2007

Worth 1000 Blasts Your Soul

Fine art mixed with current marketing schemes equals rollicking good times for all.

(via boingboing and worth 1000)

Posted by Groonk at 03:26 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Funny, Marketing

May 11, 2007

In Belarus, They Hand-Paint Hollywood Movies to Winful Effect

Also: For reasons unknown, SHALLOW HAL is called EVIL LOVE in Russia.

More movies after the hop.

(via ontd and englishrussia.com)

Posted by Groonk at 04:10 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Culture, Movies, One Sheets

April 08, 2007

The Typography of PULP FICTION

Bloody marvelous this is:

HI RES version here.

(via texted YouTube and jarrat moody )

Posted by Groonk at 12:08 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Movies, Quotables, Video

April 04, 2007

Chocolate Jesus and Peanut Butter Evolution

Those are two things I never figured on typing in my lifetime.

(You thought I would make that joke didn't you? Fooled ya!)

Artist Cosimo Cavallaro's 200 pound, milk chocolate sculpture of Christ was to be exhibited next week at Manhattan's Lab Gallery but the Roger Smith Hotel that houses the exhibition space cancelled the show
(via boingboing)

The video explains that evolutionists claim that energy plus matter sometimes results in the creation of life. But since no one has ever found spontaneously-generated life in a jar of peanut butter, that means that matter plus energy from the sun couldn't have caused life on Earth.
(via boingboing)

Correct me if I'm wrong but that's what we in The Biz call a fallacy. Also, your stupidity is mighty and I fear being quashed by the sheer size of it.

(via boingboing)

Posted by Groonk at 12:34 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Religion, Video, Weird

March 21, 2007

Explore 71 Optical Illusions and How They Work

These pages demonstrate visual phenomena, and »optical« or »visual illusions«. The latter is more appropriate, because most effects have their basis in the visual pathway, not in the optics of the eye. When I find the time I will expand the explanations, to the degree that these phenomena are really understood; any nice and thoughtful comment welcome.

You may be glad to know: Not a single demonstration here contains tasteless surprises; you know, these infantile pranks where you scrutinize a picture and suddenly an ugly face screams at you…

(via 71 optical illusions and medicmike)

Posted by Groonk at 11:33 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

March 15, 2007

BLIND CLICK: Cube

(via shilodesign; rocketboom)

Posted by Groonk at 11:20 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Just Freaking Neat, Video

February 24, 2007

Radiation Gets a New, Supplemental Brand

It's like a mini-comic of doom.

"We can´t teach the world about radiation," said Carolyn Mac Kenzie, an IAEA radiation specialist who helped develop the symbol, "but we can warn people about dangerous sources for the price of sticker."

The new symbol, developed by human factor experts, graphic artists, and radiation protection experts, was tested by the Gallup Institute on a total of 1 650 individuals in Brazil, Mexico, Morocco, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, China, India, Thailand, Poland, Ukraine and the United States.

The symbol is intended for IAEA Category 1, 2 and 3 sources defined as dangerous sources capable of death or serious injury, including food irradiators, teletherapy machines for cancer treatment and industrial radiography units. The symbol is to be placed on the device housing the source, as a warning not to dismantle the device or to get any closer. It will not be visible under normal use, only if someone attempts to disassemble the device. The symbol will not be located on building access doors, transportation packages or containers.

Comics save the world again. But they keep me from developing my awesome Spidey powers.

(via iaea.org)

Posted by Groonk at 10:08 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Comics, Science

February 11, 2007

3D Tree of Life Visualization

This picture is a visualisation of the entire tree of life. The tree of life (cellular organisms) has three main branches:

• The bacteria (unicellular prokaryotic microorganisms) which are in focus in this picture and represented by orange nodes.


• The archaea which are probably more closely related to the eukaryotes than they are to the bacteria even though they lack a cell nucleus and represent some of the most extreme forms of life on earth. They are represented by red nodes and near the top and in the background of the picutre


• The eukarya (all cellular organisms with a cell nucleus) represented by yellow nodes and are located on the left hand side and in the background of the picture.

(via neatarama)

Posted by Groonk at 07:56 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Research, Science

December 07, 2006

Weird Clipart will Rot your Brain

I think I was looking for a santa hat clip art.

(via weirdclipart.com)

Posted by Groonk at 04:22 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Web Design, Weird

November 17, 2006

Jill Greenberg Takes Surreal, Shiny Photos

Greenberg has this odd way of making her subject look like they belong in a Tussaud museum.

(via pentacleus and, of course, jill greenberg)

Posted by Groonk at 05:32 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

November 06, 2006

The Dancing Pandas

What in THE hell...?

(via neil gaiman and yuko shimizu who also has "letters of desire")

Posted by Groonk at 09:25 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

Venus Gets a Once over by Airport X Rays

ATLANTA - Conservators trying to restore a 1,900-year-old statue of Venus have put their heads together with airline maintenance inspectors who usually scrutinize welds and repairs in jet engines for any cracks.

Officials at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University this summer bought the Roman marble statue and its head, which had broken off sometime in the past 170 years.

On Thursday, they enlisted the help of Delta Air Lines inspectors at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, who took X-rays of the statue and the head to try to determine where the statue has been broken before and how old repairs are holding up.

Conservators will look for rusting metal pins that might have been inserted to fix cracks. Once they establish the condition of those repairs, which could date from antiquity to as recently as 200 years ago, they will know how best to put the 4-foot-6-inch statue back together.

(via yahoo news)

Posted by Groonk at 04:44 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

October 30, 2006

The Eye of OMAC

That's so wrong:

(via cbr:lying in the gutters volume 2 column 75)

Posted by Groonk at 12:25 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Comics, Sex

October 06, 2006

It's Halloween, So there should be Costumed Art

(via julian Beever/Kurt Wenner and pentacleus)

Posted by Groonk at 03:40 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Holiday

August 27, 2006

Gigantic Little Girl Enjoys a Day in London

If you're good little boys and girls, The Little Girl Giant will let you ride her forearms like ponies.

(via ze frank)

Posted by Groonk at 07:25 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Video, Weird

July 12, 2006

Han Solo is Full of Rainbows

Diesel Sweeties creator, Richard Stevens, has much to answer for...

Not sure why I'm finding so much Star Wars bukkake. These finds usually happen in threes, though.

(via rstevens journal)

Posted by Groonk at 10:51 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

Han Solo is a Rocker. He Rocks Out.

(via 80s rewind)

Posted by Groonk at 12:13 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

June 30, 2006

Visual Candy for the Summer Movie Soul

A wiley movie one sheet artist thought it a neat idea to make a skull out of posed ladies. A wiley-er ONTD reader noticed that the idea was nicked from Salvador Dali.

I'm partial to the original Dali. And that's not just cause Dali had the prescence of mind to make his gals naked.

And this one... the name is priceless:

Many more posters on ONTD after the jump.

(via ONTD)

Posted by Groonk at 07:50 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Movies, One Sheets

June 11, 2006

How To Stump Encylopedia Brown

As far as I can tell, the book(Encyclopedia Brown and the Mysterious Presidency of George Bush by John Warner) is a real live thing. Only I can barely find anything on it. Which is odd and more than annoying.

(via The Beat)

Posted by Groonk at 07:41 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Funny, Politics

June 07, 2006

Ms Monster Hunts and Kills the Unworthy

1) I don't know Ms Monster or Her Monster Melons.
2) It appears that she has a TV show(Hel on Ice)/Flickr site/ comic thing going.
Editor's note: 3) d tells me something. I didn't dig deep enough into the Lickr site. She's a what now? I'm insanely disconcerted. Disturbingly disconcerted. I need a shot of whiskey and a corner to crawl into the fetal position for a few hours. Then the world will be peas and carrots again.

The pics still make me laugh, though.

(via warren ellis)

Posted by Groonk at 01:58 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Artist, Flickrlicious, USA

May 12, 2006

Another use for dead babies

No, it's not really dead babies. It is fucking weird to my eyes, though.

I see something like that and I'm reminded of Eddie Izzard in "Dress to Kill". That's not exactly 'babies on spikes' but it's equally as disturbing.

Definitely not a donut.

(via rocketboom blog)

Posted by Groonk at 04:55 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Weird

May 05, 2006

Secret flesh art makes you special

Now I can finally get my face tat.

Chameleon Blacklight Tattoo Ink allows the tattooed to walk about their day seemingly unmarked. Put your inked up area under a blacklight and the truth is revealed.

You'd be all the rave at strip clubs, night clubs, and retro parties.

Because of what, I've no idea. The text cuts off like that on their main site.

If this article coincides with the above, the new hidden tattoo technology is backed by science.

Posted by Groonk at 03:23 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Research

April 24, 2006

Naureen Zaim is Superhot

Just had to say it. She's a feast of fine for my eyes.

If I'm reading her website right. She's an artist to boot.

Sexy. Athletic. Smart. What can't she do?

I should star a supermodel category. I will when I'm ready to be super-spammed straight to hell.

(via Mr Playboy Radio AJ Gentile and Naureen Zaim)

Posted by Groonk at 12:33 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Artist, Sex, Sport

April 12, 2006

Silver Age Comics with inside jokes

Dial B for Blog has been Boingboinged(meaning their bandwidth has gone to hell cause Boingboing linked to their site).

GNET Steranko roundup:
» NYC Comic Con: day 3 with Jim Steranko
» Finding that Kirby Krackle
» Return to Steranko

(via boingboing via dial b for blog)

Posted by Groonk at 07:31 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Comics, Just Freaking Neat

April 11, 2006

The case of the fake Rockwell

A stranger than fiction New York Times story involving Ross Perot, Grandama Moses, a forged classic and secret spaces in a Vermont family home.

(via the beat)

Posted by Groonk at 08:57 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

April 02, 2006

Remixed Propaganda posters

Worth 1000 has'em:

So many more ready to enjoy.

(via boingboing)

Posted by Groonk at 04:35 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Culture

March 23, 2006

Best. Masthead. Ever!

Custom T-shirt blogger Preshrunk's Jason Cosper has the best personal blog masthead I've ever seen.

Posted by Groonk at 01:49 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Blogged, Funny, Religion

March 06, 2006

COMICS: Steampunk Transformers

Prime example of too much information. The longer I read that promo, the more I began to think, 'That's gonna be some silly shit.'

(via boingboing)

Posted by Groonk at 08:51 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Comics, Marketing

March 05, 2006

HOW TO: Make Life Sized Posters

The Mike Matas Blog gives instructions on how to make a life poster.

I was sure The Rasterbator was already in my archives. I was wrong.

Posted by Groonk at 04:21 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Tutorials

January 21, 2006

Liquid Metal Art

WATCH=> Ferrofluid Sculptures by Sachiko Kodama

Next come the knives and stabbing weapons.

(via digg)

Posted by Groonk at 08:36 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Video

January 20, 2006

...you can't take the sky from me.

Jim O'Malley from Starshipmodeler wins heaps of praise from me for making a neat as hell model of Serenity.

Ebay searches for Firefly models reveals only one currently for sale.

(via medicmike via starshipmodeler)

Posted by Groonk at 09:21 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Just Freaking Neat

Scanner Photography distorts reality

Thanks to Pentacleus for sending this one over.

A quick scan of Boingboing yesterday shows that they posted on her too and broke her site. it didn't help that I think it was on Slashdot as well.

(via pentacleus)

Posted by Groonk at 08:14 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Research

January 17, 2006

Naked Lady Taiko!

Oiled-up, glistening, and totally naked japanese women performing taiko.

Is it my birthday?

(via tokyo times)

Posted by Groonk at 04:11 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Only in Japan, Sex, Video

January 16, 2006

Cool, Daddy-O

(via bbcnews)

Posted by Groonk at 08:25 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

January 07, 2006

Somewhere in Glasglow...the truth was written down

(via boingboing)

Posted by Groonk at 02:23 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Culture, Funny

December 19, 2005

Open Directory: Hanna Barbera toon cels scanned

An open directory of scans from buttloads of Hanna Barbera cartoons. Some of the pics are teeny tiny. But some are of a fair size.

For example:

It's either a promo poster or from a comic. Not sure which. It is signed though, I notice.

I spy stuff from Godzilla, The Gary Coleman cartoon(80s thing when he was a do-goodin angel), Casper the Friendly Ghost, Scooby Doo, Smurfs, Samurai Jack, Dexter's Lab, etc etc etc.

Kinda neat actually.

Another HB related link is The Internet Hanna-Barbera Fashion Database. It hits on funny once in a bit.

Posted by Groonk at 09:11 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Just Freaking Neat

December 10, 2005

Finding that Kirby Krackle

The internet's a strange and unforgiving beast. If i wanted information on the latest shameless whoreslut or new trends of crazy and lazy, all I need do is walk into the room with my hands outstretched.

But when I need information on something pure or any kind of worthwhile enterprise(like the art of Steranko). I have to kick the door in, wave a shotgun in one hand and a twinkie in the other and shout at the top of my being, "Where in FUCK is the shit?!?"

And still I get nothing.

This time the search invovled "Kirby Krackles" (or "Kirby Dots"). Those various shaped circles that usually denote crackling energy blasts or power sources.

The secret, I've gleaned, is the negative space around the dots. That's where the power lies.

Kirby did this little trick back in the 60s. He really was ahead of his time.

Here's a screenshot of the first page of Penciljack's forum.

A more formal critique of the Kirby Crackle is at Two Morrows.

Posted by Groonk at 01:54 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Comics

December 08, 2005

Mondolithic Maxim World Mash Ups

Over at Mondolithic, KennB shared his World Power Mashups that he made for Maxim magazine.

Here are a couple:

The gallery for all 10 of them begins here.

Be sure to sign up for his Image of the week newsletter.

Posted by Groonk at 06:19 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

December 01, 2005

Classic Poet's Speak from their Grave Through the Interwub

You can find The Poetry Archive after the jump.

(via bbcnews)

Posted by Groonk at 05:04 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Digital Share

November 30, 2005

Flipbook Action

In dabbling with the idea of simple animation, I racked my brain for weeks figuring out how to do it. There are books and internet tutorials of course, but I just have to do things the hard way.

In the latest Bre Petis Room 132 podcast, he had his kids make simple flip book animation. Which re-reminded me to KISS.

There are lots of things eating other things in the Room 132 flipbook action though. I wonder if his kids are mental.(I like the demon turning into penguin then eating a fish book the best. Maybe that makes me mental.)

Man I was so burned when it came to my public education. Did we make flipbooks back then? Hell no!

Just call me Bitter Groonk.

Posted by Groonk at 02:43 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Podcast

November 10, 2005

Rows of Nude Ladies Far as the Mouse can Scroll

Mise a Nu is an interesting/odd work by Reynald Drouhin. Be sure to mouse over the scrolling ladies:

(via DT)

Posted by Groonk at 02:54 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Flash, Sex

October 26, 2005

Ready Mechs

Tiny-ish boxes of death that you download, print out on 8.5"x11" sheets, and fold into creation:

(via Fwis)

Posted by Groonk at 10:45 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Holiday, Robots

The Octacube Delves into the Fourth Dimension

Sometimes you think on an idea so hard and for so long that the 'verse can't help but send you what you need.

There's a flash video of the thing here.

(via warren ellis)

Posted by Groonk at 12:36 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Flash, Research

October 19, 2005

Jim Bumgardner is an App Creating GENIUS

On the one hand Jim Bumgardner made this mind geekingly cool collage of covers from the visual index of science fiction cover art which is arranged horizontally by time, and vertically by average hue.

I waste hours flipping around in there.

He also made a Flickr texture picker.

(via boingboing)

Posted by Groonk at 04:29 AM | Comments (2) | Ministry of Apps, Art, Flickrlicious

October 04, 2005

La-la Land Lunchbox Art Show

The show is over but there are lots of lunchboxes still available for buying.

(via boingboing)

Posted by Groonk at 12:34 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

October 02, 2005

You Can Talk to a "Psycho" Like a Normal Human Being

My favorite Flickr photographer, Rebekka, gets her first interview.

Posted by Groonk at 04:19 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Flickrlicious, Interviews

September 13, 2005

Hand-Carved with Love... from Russia

(via boingboing)

Posted by Groonk at 01:49 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

September 12, 2005

The Art of (Red) Bull

Found this Flickr set by coda and was all ready to mock the hell out of it. Then I found these photos:

...and was thus put in my place. Pretty good shit there.

Maybe the Red Bull Art of Can exhibit will become an annual thing.

As per usual, click on the pics for bigger images.

Posted by Groonk at 03:32 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Flickrlicious

September 06, 2005

Another way to Shoot a Script

Screenwriter Tom Benedek has decided that shooting the shit out of his unproduced scripts is a good idea.

(via nytimes)

Posted by Groonk at 09:21 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

August 29, 2005

It's Monday

(via vinathegreat)

Posted by Groonk at 12:22 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Animals, Art, Flickrlicious, Funny

August 27, 2005

Twisty Building

And it's the Nordic's tallest skyscraper.

(via ponzu)

Posted by Groonk at 10:26 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

More than one way for a bunny to commit suicide

I now know it to be factually true.

UPDATE 8-28-03: I found an entire Flickr set of Bunny Suicides with a handful of new ones.

(via aj's piece o the web)

Posted by Groonk at 09:41 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Comics, Funny

August 16, 2005

Babes of Flickr

There are lots more flickrlicous babes to be found at the Babes of Flickr.

Posted by Groonk at 03:16 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Sex

August 04, 2005

Not a dog but a god

(link via b55seddel)

Posted by Groonk at 01:48 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Culture, Myth, Research

August 03, 2005

Freaky Fractals

More fractal art. Still researching that too.

I would post a sample but they disabled right-click. And it's a bother to make screen caps and the like.

Posted by Groonk at 02:44 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

August 01, 2005

Paper Masters

Beautiful shapes made from paper:

(via goto+play)

Posted by Groonk at 05:26 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

July 27, 2005

Klown Papers

Pretty cool wallpapers done by a bloke named Klowner.

(via digg)

Posted by Groonk at 07:55 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Wallpapers

All over the world

I went browsing Flickr's most popular tags. I found some interesting photostreams.

The Solo Backpacker's been all over the world. I'm extremely jealous.

Freddy lives in Portland, OR. She's 30 but already taken.

Following a London tag revealed a very evil looking Yoda on tathei's stream.

A mega city shot from Tokyo Tower drew me to Shagadelicbabe's stream.

I'm stopping this tour with notforsale's view of New Zealand. His Lights and Urban Environs set is nothing short of inspiring.

To me anyway.

Posted by Groonk at 03:23 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Culture, Photos2, World

June 29, 2005

Communist propaganda posters collected

A pauper's graveyard full of vintage propaganda posters from Russia.

The gun to the back while viewing is optional.

(via boingboing)

Posted by Groonk at 05:57 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

June 28, 2005

Art of Science

Tons of eye pleasing images taken from all fields in the science community now featured in the 1st Annual Art of Scince contest.

Shown above, ants color marked for lab study.

(via boingboing)

Posted by Groonk at 04:10 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

June 16, 2005

More War Propaganda

Notice that it is a very female hat. I find this strange since soldiers gossip more than a neighborhood bridge club.

(link via MedciMike)

Posted by Groonk at 11:03 AM | Comments (1) | Ministry of Art, WorldWarII

The Dream Project

Neil Gaiman had a strange and wonderful dream. Someone saw fit to animate it.

But he's not the only one who gets dream animation interpretation.

I should send in some of my dreams.

Posted by Groonk at 10:44 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

May 06, 2005

Excellent Photoshop Funnies

worth 1000 mates films with other films for funnies

something awful transforms Superman w/o a phonebooth

I would post examples but Ican't be bothered at the moment. Trust me when I say they're worth mulling through.

It's Friday. What else you got to do?

Posted by Groonk at 02:11 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

April 22, 2005

I Forgot "Howls"

I grabbed this Howl's Moving Castle one-sheet some time last week and forgot all about it.

brought to you by storytelling god: Hayao Miyazaki

Following the picture link will lead you to a trailer.

Posted by Groonk at 02:15 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art

April 19, 2005

Twisted Toyfare Theatre