Weekday WTF: The 4th Dimension

WTF? The style, the video, the music; it's pretentious 1980's "video art" meets Tim & Eric cheesiness. I find it hilarious.

A Family Portrait

A Family Portrait from Joseph Pierce on Vimeo.

A nice subtle short animation. Nothing's mentioned but everythings told. Very clever.

Scientific Illustration

Here is a nice little collection of scientific illustrations - illustrations we all love and adore:

Weekend WTF: She is your grandma.

Salad Fingers 9

It's out of the bag:

Dutch Classic: Jan van Haasteren

You might be familiar with the funny jigsaw puzzles made by Jan van Haasteren (JvH). His drawings are part of our Dutch collective youth memories, and known all over the world. Born in 1936 he is an old man now, but still produces three puzzles a year. To me, he is a hero that has had a big influence, I remember being utterly fascinated by his posters, at the butchers, in the hospital, wherever I saw his posters I would stop and try to find all the hidden jokes he squeezed on the paper.
He started out as a comic/animation artist for the famous 'Toonder studios' and worked on the various projects they produced, like Donald Duck magazine, the Smurfs, commercial illustrations, mostly anonymous in others' styles and set formats.

He got more and more credit for his work and started creating his own series in which we can see his his style devellop into the one we know.
But far more than for his comics, he is famous for his posters and puzzles. With his vast imagination he makes every scene he draws into a hilarious chaos, adding jokes and funny details in every small space available. But he does this with great craftmanship, superb drawing skills in terms of placement and perspective, character design and use of color. It is always a chaos, but never a mess. He has some copycats trying to do what he does, but he is the master, and always recognisable by the shark fin coming through and the hands coming from everywhere since those are registered trademarks!

Do you know Theo Jansen? (not the soccer player!)

This is amazing stuff; ingenious, marvellous, beautifull and spectacular. Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates creatures that roam the beaches in Holland, gracefully moving around, driven by the wind. His works are a wonderfull fusion between art and engineering. I'd love to see his monsters in real life once!










not to be confused with the other Theo Jansen:

Weekend WTF: He loves to laugh

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Michael J. Anderson.

(UPDATE: The original is almost as nightmarish.)

Up for some food?

Weekend WTF: David Lynch Signature Cup

As some of us already know, David Lynch has been selling his own brand of coffee for some time now. He's now produced a commercial for his coffee. He's voicing the Barbie head as well as himself. Well, er... enjoy.

Poor thing.

Interview

I got interviewed for this blog. Interesting questions and a lot of other interesting interviews there as well!