Just stop what you’re doing, stop it RIGHT NOW, and go check out Amanda Wachob’s abstract tattoos. They’re breathtakingly amazing. Seriously, go now. (Via Metafilter)

A robot in Japan. I have the feeling that is just the first step

Craig Kanarick makes collages out of candy. I just want to know how he avoids eating his materials!

Delicious slices of visual magic, served warm, by artist Dmitry Maximov

We went to see Coraline this afternoon, on a whim, because hey, it’s stop motion animation and by Tim Burton, so what’s not to love?

Well, it was stop motion, but it wasn’t by Tim Burton and man it showed. Visually stunning (and in 3D), the first few minutes were wonderful, as we settled in to something that we just knew was going to be amazing as fantastic graphics flew out from the screen, in beautiful color and gorgeous motion.

But someone forget to get the story, characters, character design, and pacing right. The movie quickly took on a too dark tone, shepherded forwarded by an unlikable lead character and her unlikable parents in a plot that plodded along like a solar powered wheelchair going uphill on a cloud filled day. It had all the elements of a good story, but ultimately it fell down like a tired drunk person: you were glad when they finally shut up and passed out.

The worst part was the 3D glasses. When I was kid, they were cool to keep, they’d turn the world red in one eye, blue in the other. The ones we got were just cheap nerd like frames that made the regular world appear dimmer when you looked through them, which after seeing the movie, makes sense.

Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god: pure cartoon geek goodness is on the way. Fantagraphics is releasing “Willie & Joe The WWII Years” in March 2008. Willie and Joe (previously mentioned) is one the greatest comics ever made, done by Mill Mauldin, it captured the war through the infantry’s eye, boring, nerve wracking and tiring, criss crossed with moments terror.

I can’t wait.

Tom Hubberstone did a 24hour comic that describes in heartbreaking detail, what it’s like to live with Crohn’s disease. Lovely artwork and good storytelling. What really fascinates me though is rather than focusing on what the disease is, he tells of the effect it has had on life, a text book case of showing as opposed to telling.

Adam Zaretsky is a bioartist, whatever the hell that means. Still, what he’s doing is so “WTF?! COOL!”. Imagine taking a class where you ” create transgenic phaesant and quail embryos” in order to investigate the ethics of creating or shapping life and then having to chose the way they’re killed, as such embryos are not allowed to remain alive.

Stop what you’re doing RIGHT NOW. No, seriously, STOP IT. Go look at Jason Turner’s art and fall in love.


and while you’re at it, stop by S. Blake’s site for more gorgeous goodness.

Noah Kalina has been taking a photo of himself for the past six years. He’s made them into a movie.