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earth invaders is moving

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:38:00 +0000

earth invaders is moving to a new address.

Strangely enough the new address is earthinvaders.blogspot.com (there are things which have no explanation).

The new earth invaders address has also a new layout and some implementations, like tags by subject, to find all the information related to one topic, and more.

So, from now on, the new posts are made at the new address, but, the moving process also involves transfering all the posts from this address to the new one, so the posts appearing now at earthinvaders.blogspot.com are the early posts from this blog.

Making it a good opportunity to read some news from the archive.

Pixel Tshirts

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:34:00 +0000

Visit pixelshop and buy some cool Tshirts, mugs, mouse-pads and pins with unique designs.

Westfalia mobile home

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:36:00 +0000

A modern design VW Westfalia mobile home, designed by verdier team of designers.

typewriter art

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:20:00 +0000

1948 typewriter art, the grand-daddy of ASCII art.

Little People living in desserts

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:11:00 +0000

More little people doing their daily activities.

Fun mit Banknoten

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:05:00 +0000

Fun with banknotes.

Little People

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:58:00 +0000

Little People is a street art project, with little hand-painted people, left in London to fend for themselves.

Banksy targets Disneyland

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:56:00 +0000

Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California.

The sculpture was attributed to banksy.

Read more from the BBC news.

Matchbox cars

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:46:00 +0000

Nice collection of classic Matchbox Cars from the 70's.

More Matchbox cars produced in the 1950's and 1960'.

A webpage with Matchbox from 1967 to 1969.

1-75 range of Matchbox miniatures that have been released in the UK from 1969 until today.

A collection of Matchbox boxes from 1953-1979.

The Matchbox miniatures range 1953-70.

The flickr pictures with Matchbox tag.

ArtCar Fest

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:17:00 +0000

100 of the nation's best ArtCars will converge on the San Francisco Bay area again this year for ArtCar Fest to demonstrate why Harvard's John Beardsley called ArtCars the "quintessential public art of our time."

If you have $500 to spend why not join the 24 Hours of LeMons, an endurance race for cars purchased, fixed up, and track-prepped for a total of 500 bucks or less.

update: flickr photos artcar

Jim Flora marine art

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:37:00 +0000

More works from Jim Flora: marine art.

And another flickr photoset: the future according to Jim Flora, showing images from an article of 1960 LIFE magazine (spanish edition) about life in the future (1975) illustrated by Jim Flora.

Previous posts about Jim Flora here and here.

Un chien andalou

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:04:00 +0000

Un chien andalou is a 16 minute surrealist short film made by Luis Bunuel (Writer/Director) and Salvador Dali in 1928. It is one of the best known surrealist films of the 1920s French avant-garde film movement. It stars Simone Mareuil and Pierre Batcheff as the unnamed protagonists.

Dowload the movie from the internet archive.

See more information about the film at wikipedia.

Tilt-shift photography

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:33:00 +0000

Hamish D. Grant made a page of links to information about tilt/shift photography and to galleries of photographers who use t/s in their work. Tilt-shift photography as it applies to creating a 'toy-trainset' effect in scenery is catching on all over the world (mostly via flickr, the online photo sharing community).

Simpsons shorts episode guide

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:57:00 +0000

The very first glimpse of The Simpsons.

Simpsoncrazy has a list of The Simpsons short clips to download.

These clips aired on the Tracey Ullman Show 1987-1989, before and after ad breaks, and you can download all 48 episodes.

The page also serves as an episode guide.

Link

Binvention - home recycling organizer

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:19:00 +0000

The Binvention is Sprout Design's first self-initated batch production project. Hailed as 'Super slick' by Time Out, it's a new flexible way of re-using shopping bags to collect cans, bottles and papers for recycling at home and comes in four colours:

3-D Nightmare Before Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:00:00 +0000

Joel Fletcher was an animator at Skellington Productions for The Nightmare Before Christmas in the early nineties. Whenever possible, I took the initiative to photograph the amazing setups in 3D stereo.

It seems that Joel was a bit ahead of the times, as In October Disney will re-release the movie in Digital 3D utilizing computer techniques to convert it to stereo!

Watch the trailer here.

Bugs Bunny dead or alive

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:42:00 +0000

Bugs Bunny is wanted "dead or alive" by the Mounted Police, led by Elmer Fudd. Animation by Manuel Perez, story by Michael Maltese, supervising producer I. Freeleng. Produced in 1942.

Recycled Art Bazaar

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:56:00 +0000

In Senegal, Mali, Kenya and other countries in Africa, resourceful people have long excelled at fashioning toys from the available materials - tin cans, wire and scrap rubber and plastic that we would discard as trash.

In addition to brightly colored trucks made from beer cans and wire bicycles, Indigo offers buckets constructed of tomato cans, and lunch-boxes and suitcases from tuna cans (lined with Senegalese funny papers!).

Continually searching the world for more such innovations, Indigoarts also offers cars, planes, purses and frames from Vietnam, tin ornaments from Mexico, papier-mache bowls from South Africa and cars and trucks from Cuba!

Tom Wilson

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:20:00 +0000

Tom Wilson starred as "Biff" in the now classic "Back To The Future" film trilogy.

Wilson is also an accomplished painter. In 2006, he was selected to join the California Featured Artist Series at Disneyland.

Tom Wilson's paintings can best be described by the reactions they receive — a moment of joyful surprise, and happy longing. After studying fine art photography at U.C.L.A., he followed the path from photography, to mixed media works, until he finally found a home in color and canvas. Tom studied drawing and painting at the Art Academy of Los Angeles, as well as the California Art Institute, followed by extensive study in painting with the noted abstract painter Rene Amitai, as well as the renown California impressionist Arthur Bjorn Egeli.

The Alphabet

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:14:00 +0000

The Alphabet David Lynch second film.

Lynch's wife, Peggy, told him of a dream her niece had during which she was reciting the alphabet in her sleep, then woke up and starting bouncing around repeating it.

Lynch took this idea and ran with it. First he painted the walls of his upstairs bedroom black. Lynch painted Peggy's face white to give her an un-real contrast to the black room, and had her bounce around the room in different positions as he filmed.

This footage was edited together with an animated sequence where the letters of the alphabet slowly appear and a capital A gives birth to several smaller a's which form a human figure.

David Lynch: Lumiere et compagnie

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:59:00 +0000

David Lynch: Lumiere et compagnie 55 seconds short filmed with an original Lumiere camera.

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumiere Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895.

There were three rules:
(1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds,
(2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and
(3) no more than three takes.

Remember while watching that all the effects are in-camera and there is no cutting for scenes.

For more details and the complete list of the other directors in Lumiere et compagnie project visit the IMDB page.

ZenKaya

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:33:00 +0000

Zenkaya design is an international Design Company Specializing in Prefabricated structures. Eric Bigot was the Designer for ZenKaya. Trained as an Architect in France, he has lived in New York, Japan and several parts of Africa. His interest for prefabricated was born out in New York and Japan where construction method are much more rationalized and cost effective.

ZenKaya name is born out of a name play. Zen because it is a trouble free experience and Kaya means home in vernacular South African language, where the concept was first sketched.

The Abandoned City San Zhi

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:52:00 +0000

On the outskirts of Taipei, Taiwan there is an abandoned housing project, the area is called San Zhi and commissioned by the government and several local firms. They were trying to create a posh luxurious vacation spot for the affluent and rich streaming out of Taipei.

After numerous accidents during its construction locals say the area is now haunted by those who died in vain and because they are not remembered, they linger there unable to pass on.

This explains why the area was abandoned.

Ralph Goings Hyper-Realist paintings

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:40:00 +0000

Ralph Goings is a realist painter who is recognized as one of the original members of the Hyper-Realist or Photo-Realist group of the late 1960's.

He is best known for his highly detailed paintings of hamburger stands, pick-up trucks, and California banks, portrayed in a deliberately objective manner.

Ralph Goings studied art at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.

Banksy Punked Paris Hilton

noreply@blogger.com (brunurb) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:16:00 +0000

Banksy does it again, he took 500 copies of Paris Hilton's debut album, and given them his own unique makeover before smuggling them back into stores across the UK for sale.

He switched the CD's in store, taking the old ones out and putting his version in, but he left the original barcode so people could buy the CD without realising it had been interfered with.

He tampered with the CD's in branches of HMV and Virgin as well as independent record stores in Bristol, Brighton, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow and London.

Some of the CD's appeared for sale on ebay.

flickr user sharl bought two of those cd's and posted the photos to flickr

Watch the video of the Banksy opperation at you tube.

For more about Banksy visit earth invaders previous posts here and here.

The flickr photos tagged Banksy

And also the Banksy locations map.