Just a few links today, but they’re to things I’d be pleased to own in that they stimulate the observer. First some T-shirts:
In the non-wearable corner, there’s this exquisite paper-cut art by Peter Callesen. I love the large-scale papercuts, but they’re all so beautifully imaginative!
That cryptic title just about covers the last excellent 24 hours. Last night, we went and saw the 40th Anniversary tour of the magnificent Bonzo Dog Do Da Band. An evening of mayhem, music, and madness. Truly excellent renditions of “Urban Spaceman”, “Mr. Slater’s Parrot Says Hello”, “Mr. Apollo” and much more had the audience baying for more. Guest appearances by Phil Juptus and Ade Edmonson (who were clearly in seventh heaven) bolstered the band’s complement and added to the lunacy (picture Ade dressed as a parrot wandering into the audience squawking “Hello!”)
I’ve just noticed that my list of Toons-to-read-before-starting-work-each-morning has topped 16… No wonder it’s 9.30 before I get anything I’d get paid for done :)
Of those I really love, there’s
With the Bristol Animation Festival (now, irritatingly diluted by combining with the Short Film Festival) on the horizon, some of the above (esp. Bunny) would be just fantastic done as an animation.
In a marvellous blog entry about how we need to get the whole terrorists-and-airlines into some perspective, Kung Fu Monkey wins the award for the Best Clause In A Blog This Week: “suck my insouciance”, and the FDR/Churchill (faux) quotes made me cry with laughter. Mentioning Hello Kitty panties was off-base but worthwhile too.
Read and enjoy, and possibly donate.
It’s official: the spiky club at the rear end of a stegosaur’s tail is really called a Thagomizer, named from the Gary Larson cartoon. The Smithsonian Institute has agreed it. Larson’s popularity has now spawned a name for a beetle and one for a louse.
It must be Monday…
Code Monkey sing.
I just had to write this one up. It’s hilarious – provided of course, you’re familiar with the world of Free Software and Open Source. If you’re not, what it amounts to is that some (many) programmers give away the code they write so that it can be used, altered, and/or improved by others. Don’t try to worry about where it money comes from; it’s generally not part of the equation at all. It’s the giving and the improving that matters.