Steve Erwin Has a Posse

Krikey! I was walking up 3rd street here in the city (San Francisco) and I came across some Obey-esque Steve Erwin memorial graffiti. It was under a highway overpass with one on each side of the street. The one on the opposite side I was walking on included the same graphics as the image seen in this post but also included a "RIP". Honestly, I'm surprised this stuff didn't show up earlier.



UPDATE: I got snubbed by BoingBoing. I sent them this photo last Thursday when I originally made this post. A full week later they posted about it and gave some other dude credit for the find. It's even the exact same location as my photo. It's not the first time I've sent them something, been ignored, then seen the exact same content on their site submitted by someone else. What gives, BoingBoingians?

Korgoth of Barbaria: Set Your TiVo

I've been telling my cartoon-loving, comic-book-reading, AdultSwim-watching friends about a new show I think is a must watch: Korgoth of Barbaria. It's an ultra-violent, post-apocalyptic, Conan-esque riot created by Aaron Springer, the lead storyboard artist from Sponge Bob (of all things). The pilot premiered back in June but I heard the series was supposed to premier in September. The Cartoon network website doesn't have much info so I'm not sure if we've all missed the second run of the pilot but they do mention that they've requested storyboards for two more episodes and they'll make a decision about picking it up after that. My Comcast DVR sucks so I've never been able to find it on the title search, but maybe one of the two people that read this can do a title search on their TiVo and let me know if anything is scheduled.

You can check it out on YouTube here ( Part 1,, Part 2, Part 3) or on the AudltSwim site here.

Heckendorn Portable xbox360

Benjamin J Heckendorn does it again. Ben is the guy who has made some of the coolest electronics mods on the planet -- including portable versions of the PSOne, PS2 and the N64. Now he's back with a kick-ass xbox360 laptop. Check it.

Hobbits Best Prepared for Apocalypse

BoingBoing had an article about this ultimate apocalypse home which is supposedly safe from"future plagues, biological terrorism, and even nuclear war". What I couldn't get over is how much it looks like a hobbit hole -- both inside and out.

Marvel Zombies: Shotguns Won't Help You

I'm not sure how this happened, but somehow a comic book mini-series from Marvel about their entire superhero universe turning into zombies and eating everyone on the planet slipped past me unnoticed. Even crazier, the mini-series was spawned from a storyline in Ultimate Fantastic Four, a title I was reading at the time. In Ultimate FF, Reed Richards gets lured into a parallel universe by his parallel self, only to find when he gets there that all the superheros are zombies. Anyway, I lost interest in that title shortly afterwards because I really liked the artist, Adam Kubert, and he left (as usual). Surprisingly, Marvel had the nuts to do a spin off of that parallel universe full of zombies called ... wait for it ... Marvel Zombies. It is one of the grossest comic books I've ever laid my eyes on, but it is awesome. Superheros rot, intestines are eaten, limbs are torn off, the top of Captain America's head is cut off and he walks around the rest of the story with brains oozing out, etc, etc.

I highly recommend it. Out is hardcover now.

Paris: Why Are You Famous

News yesterday was that Paris Hilton was arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving. Not that that is the kind of news I find interesting enough to blog about, but just a day or so before that news hit the press this story about UK graffiti artist/terrorist Banksy smuggling 500 doctored versions of Paris Hilton's new CD into stores across the Great Brittan. The CDs contain a remix of Paris's songs as well as doctored CD and sleeve art. He taped the whole process of purchasing the CDs, making the modifications and then sneaking them back into stores. Awesome. Links to video, flickr images of the artwork and the remix at BoingBoing.

The Little Girl Giant

I'm going to try this again (the whole personal blog thing). Just a collection of things I happen to find interesting -- mostly stolen from other blogs. Isn't that what blogging is?

Anyway, here's an amazing video of The Little Girl Giant. I saw a one-pager in Wired an issue or so ago about this giant, mechanical elephant a group of performers built. Same guys doing this (in fact, the elephant makes a cameo). It was created by French street arts group Royal de Luxe. The music is by a French prog rock band by called Les Balayeurs Du Desert (The Desert Sweepers). Apparently they play live at some of these performances. I'm trying to track down the album online now though its proving hard to find -- its called "Jules Verne Impact". This song is "Decollage". Reminds of Bjork for some reason ... as does the Giant girl.

Higher res video here.