This made me laugh more than it should have.
Category: Curiosities
Blockheads
Minifigs are great. Especially knitted ones. But if you don’t want to order a customised minifig from brickarms for your A-Team Lego movie you may have to build Mr T piece by piece…
Like this…
There are heaps of these on Flickr.
Including ninja turtles…
Comic book characters…
And transformers…
Stocking take
These are a couple of cool stocking ads – for stockings so dark you’ll be holding up inanimate objects.
Hat tip to Daily Vowel Movements – which continues to be excellent. You should subscribe. You won’t regret it.
Taking the “O” out of Lego
I love Lego. If you ask me why I want to have children one of the reasons high on the list is that I’ll get to play with Lego again.
The worst thing about Lego is that it hurts when you tread on it. It hurts a lot. Someone should invent cuddly Lego…
Oh wait, they have. You can even buy a knitting pattern.
And look, he comes apart…
Found here.
Aliens on holidays
What would happen if aliens took over all our picture perfect holiday destinations?
Something like this. Franco Brambilla took a series of postcards of popular spots and inserted aliens.
Why power dynamics are important
If you’re going to stage a protest against any organisation or individual it pays to remember who has the power. Otherwise you might end up like this guy. Who didn’t like that bulldozers were working on a project he opposed, and parked in front of them…
Lesson learned.
8-Bit Toast
Mmm, never eat raw toast again. Well, except for the bits you keep artistically bready in order to create this fantastically geeky breakfast art.
Instructions for building your own artistic toast makers can be found here at instructables.
Spellbinding art
I love books. The idea of defacing them kind of hurts… but maybe if you find an old copy of something atrocious like Joel Osteen’s “Your Best Life Now” it would be worth turning it into something truly wonderful and edifying… like these sculptures that were used in an advertising campaign in Prague…
I love gangster books. Both novels and the “true” confessions of mob informers who use their tell alls to fund life on the run. I was going to write a gangster novel once. Then I got distracted.
By medieval books… I love medieval books – all those swords…
But swords get tired pretty quickly… what really gets exciting is undersea monsters… and pirate ships…
There are heaps of other creative book based artworks here. Well worth your time.
Pet peeves
Losing a family pet is never easy. I should know. I once had about nine pet birds die in one day, and then there was the night of the long flush this year when I said goodbye to four fish in once morning. I can understand wanting to preserve the memory of the good times shared with a pet dog through the miracle of taxidermy….
What I can’t understand is why you’d then try to sell your dead dog when you move house…
Merrie Maladies
Cartoon characters have all got a little something wrong with them. But perhaps you’ve never diagnosed just what was wrong with your favourite…
This little chart does the hard work for you…
Comical dinner party
Comics are fun. I wish life was a comment. Filled with speech bubbles for my words and every thought…
That dream is a step closer. Dinner time can now be a comic conversation with these comic plates. Perfect for your next comic convention.
The Jelly Show
So you have a stack of left over jelly. You don’t know what to do with it. You’re stuck watching TV reruns. Lightbulb moment…
Because everybody needs a party with Bill Cosby jelly cups as a centre piece.
Pacman meets the flintstone
Quite literally. So long as zippos ignite the fuel using flint. I’m really not sure about that, but I’m running out of Pacman headlines. This is cool…
Bloody tea party
I still don’t know why I’m fascinated with bloodstained stuff. I’d never buy it. Unless I was directing a horror movie. Then I’d buy it all. Except this tea set. Which costs hundreds of dollars.
From here.
Pacmanwich
A manwich is apparently a sloppy joe sandwich. So a Pacmanwich is one of those shaped like Pacman. Read about it and other insane sandwiches at insanewiches.com.