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Catch up with Bret, Jemaine and the digi-folk sounds of Flight of the Conchords…

I’m probably the eternal student of the pen and pencil. I strive to create my own style which primarily I like myself. My influences are Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Ashley Wood, and a lot of comic book artists. I study Animation in Brussels.

coca cola old ads

ad for shades…

an archive of Lesbian Paperback Artwork

… poor little greeny …

an ad  from Harper’s Weekly, April 16,1904!!! President William McKinley and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were killed by Iver Johnson revolvers….

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Fashion with condoms…

An animated M. Ward journeys across wild seas and climbs a tall mountain to find a wizened sage who can give him answers to 3 of life’s eternal questions. The answer can be found in watching the birds and bees, Grasshopper.

where do you want it ….

if you’re in a romantic mood ….

funny namegame…

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which are causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner….a lot to read…a lot to understand…

A rare interview with Dr. Carl Jung - pioneer of modern psychology

een ‘kleen gedichtje’ …

one I made 15 years ago, when my daughter was newly born…

a few week before I posted a video on a magnetic train: now look at this…

mr scratch …

(link to radio program, explaining the resent crash..) NPR’s Adam Davidson and This American Life’s Alex Blumberg jointly report on how rising defaults on subprime mortgages in the U.S. became a global financial crisis. This American Life host Ira Glass talks with Michele Norris about this first ever collaboration.

A short documentary about artist Timothy Hon Hung Lee

Jack-Jack attack is a short based on the youngest member of the Incredibles, the baby Jack-Jack. It revolves around babysitter Kari McKean who was assigned to babysit him but experienced difficulty soon after discovering that Jack-Jack is one tough baby to baby sit.

… the original paintings …

To Robert Whitman, photography is about more than just the pictures - it is a way of moving through life…

Pilobolus began as an experiment among three guys and one puzzled professor in a Dartmouth dance class back in 1970. It was survival of the giddiest, as the three non-dancers goofed around with the material they’d been given — themselves — and got entangled in science-inspired poses (think: “soft-belly protoplasmic thing”) and movements.

you should know dr john…

Film réalisé comme court métrage d’ouverture pour le Festival International du Film d’Animation (FIFA) d’Annecy 2008. Par étudiants de GOBELINS, l’école de l’image.

“No Place Like Home … TO GET HURT”  (1935) and other stuff to emprove your daily life on Tamara Shopsin’s blog.

if you’re a Firefox user on a mac you should try Cooliris, it transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D experience for enjoying online media

MagLev Toy Train in action!!! the future has arrived…

I found it on a myspace page… (much a do bout nothing… )

check out his ‘flagrante delicto’: I never saw the deed photographed so arty!

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” I find it rather hard, when it comes to describing technique that I use. In my case, it varies. I started with photomontage, where I worked with elements of photographs: I would take an eye from here, a tree or its elements from there, etc. Currently all the figures I use in [...]

some real photos!

The queen of photoshop ads ….

Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, The Shock Doctrine cracks open the secret history of our era. [...]

Snow White, like most other Fairy Tales, isn’t a children’s bedtime story at all.
Sadly, we don’t know the actual account anymore. It should be somewhere, hidden in an old library. Now it’s up to you to uncover the truth about Snow White and tell us her real story.

Arnold, a.k.a. Dr. Nerenberg, PhD, has spent the last 35 years as a clinical psychologist developing his Mind-Body Workout System, which leads to mental and physical fitness. He has applied it to himself and is now the world’s strongest man for his age and weight. He has also won the title, “Mr. Universe Street Physique”. [...]

my turn!

just a link to a site where you find stuff you don’t need, but if santa claus would existe….

You will not believe what you hear or read!!!! Wing Han Tsang (曾詠韓), the singer popularly known as Wing, has in a few short years achieved world-wide fame and a cult following that transcends borders and languages. When Wing sings, you cannot miss her sincerity and the pure joy she has for singing. With her [...]

In this WWW century, still, every year we get free paper telephone guides in the mailbox (the real one).  We should stop that!!! It’s a waste of paper and wood…  Get in contact with your dealer!! For a little country like Belgium this means, every year, a waste of 6.000.000 kg of paper (and ink!!!)  [...]

diana
The Saddest Fairy Tale…

what happened on the first of september ??
BBC /WIKI /New York Times /in Canada / on-this-day.com / encarta msn / in movie land / pick-a-day /

james dean’s last words… “That guy’s gotta stop… He’ll see us.” gamblig with his life …

hitler killed 6 million jews, we killed 1million Irakees, wounded very bad 1,5 million and there are 5 million refugees….  Hitler is a bad man, we are heros … How do you like that!?

a new phenomenon? a new artist? for people like us it’s hard to believe if a god exists….

one love …. (comic relief)

een impressie …

Before Brian Eno played with Roxy Music and still in College, he became invloved with a grand project by the Composer Garvin Byars. Portsmouth Sinfonia:  The self-proclaimed “world’s worst orchestra” was founded by Gavin Bryars in 1970 when he was lecturing at the Portsmouth School of Art.

base jumping with a twist !!… don’t try this at home!

Fancy a gentle paddle down the Thames? Or a splash about in the Norfolk Broads? Or maybe something a bit more bracing? Like a 120ft vertical drop, straight down the front of a churning, thundering, pounding waterfall into a jagged mess of rocks, froth and vegetation, with just a fibreglass kayak and a jaunty coloured [...]

photos from a Blog featuring poorly selected photosfrom Real Estate Listings…

Open, Step back two metres from your screen and see…

A few weeks ago Doctor posted about optical illusions. Thake a look at the thumbnail above. Do you see it?
This blog collects these kinds of things. You can take a look at the nice collection of surreal paintings as well.

a new blog …

the ‘fire shower’ and other art… (link to cracked.com)

C.P. Snow (1961) noted that ‘when you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been [...]

We do have a strange sort of passion with knights… and their entourage….

An america minded (but soit! I’ll try to find an european and azia fan too ) film lover who makes top 10’s …

the mystery work of Timor Ernesto …

a lot of fun…

believe it or not….

idiot origamis…

LILYPAD, a floating ecopolis for climate refugees.  In 2000, Vincent Callebaut, 23 years old, graduated with the Great Architecture Prize René Serrure awarding the best diploma project at the Institute Victor Horta in Brussels for its Parisian project « Metamuseum of Arts and Civilisations » Quay Branly.  In 2001, he competed in box and won [...]

sorry, I can’t help it…this one made me laugh…

a song I wrote in flemish sang on a movie made by my son …

A very, very nice Brecht’s Poem from ‘the Life of Others’. I first read it 20 years ago and I stumbled on it right now, and it still stirred me …

some  …

he gives his photos nice names like: thinline, ultreback, ***, silver …

“… no big deal … “

fighting skulls and more …

Niki Belucci “The Topless DJ” is a former Hungarian pornstar, whose claim to fame is the fact that she performs her DJ set wearing nothing more than some strategically placed electrical tape and her headphones.

I found out hat when we try to express our feelings we accuse somebody/something outside of us, instead of looking inside.  Strange, isn’t it? As if we not really want to heal the problem.  We rather say :”I feel like left alone” instead of : “I feel lonely”.  Here a list of ‘feelings’ to brighten [...]

all photods by Gianpaolo Dettoma shot @ Seeboden

Damir is photographer in Croatian National News Agency for last 14 years. Here is a fine collection of his work.

One of the best of the Tom and Jerry series produced in the early 1930s by the Van Beuren studio. Features some great gags and musical selections including “Margie” and “Doin the New Low Down”. Music sychronization by Gene Rodemich

“Will they not then consider the camels,how they are created?”

Earlier in June, China launched a week-long series of anti-terrorist drills called “Great Wall 5″, in preparation for the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games. The drills involved emergency responders, “police forces, the People’s Armed Police, the People’s Liberation Army and the health, environmental protection, meteorology and transportation departments.” according to China’s Xinhua News Agency….

This film deals with experimentation in narrative, as well as cinematography, and symbolism. The music is exclusively from the Silent Hill games, which is also the inspiration for the style of this short film…

This film deals with experimentation in narrative, as well as cinematography, and symbolism. The music is exclusively from the Silent Hill games, which is also the inspiration for the style of this short film.

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Listen to the REMIX@ the PG site

(don’t look, please, if you are weak) Last week I drove a Porsche, very very ilegally fast.  It have me a kick.  Now I stumbled upon some terrifying pictures of a car crash… with a porche…. “don’t forget how fragile we are …”

This one legged Colombian guy  really has got rydm….!

as a kid I could get fascinated by those little toys, and I always wandered how they where  made  …

Sometimes I just look at pictures to get a helicopter vieuw of life, just to get some distance…

create poetry with google.

Shot May 7-10 in North Hollywood, CA, this video features a cast of, well, many! And what a cast! An amazing group of well known ‘Youtube celebs’ was tracked down and flown in so they could do their thing(s) with the Weezer men. Its pretty much impossible to properly describe what went down, so just [...]

See Sting like you never saw him before!!! He plays the guitar ( cello suite No. 1 in G major by Bach) and Alessandra dances a solo in a choreography by Heinz Spoerli.

soft, sweet and tender …. you wish …

“The Death & Life of Ice Cream” is a beautiful series of time-lapse videos by MindPie showing the tragic endings of various types of ice cream.

remember this one? I found more artwork on the same model…

Children in a nursery were shocked when they spotted a three-headed frog hopping in their garden.

the inspirements: find links to some JulesVerne pdf-downloads…

Today is the first time I learn about the existance of such an animal! A Liger is the offspring of a lion father and a tiger mother. Ligers can stand 12 feet tall on their hind legsand may weigh in at half a ton, up to double the weight of a fully-grown Amur tiger! Next [...]

hide yourself!! be someone else.

germseed’s videos and animations…

after all, we’ve both been lost for ages,
sketches.
Could she paint my crayons to the colours of the sun .

not artistic, no quality, just photos, people, ….

you never know, do you?…

Ropp is a very used name, among them are ….

TheBalloonProject sends a camera up into the sky hanging from helium balloons in a rain storm as they chase it from below on bikes.