Disneyland: How to Draw Goofy book
22-Feb-07
Jenny at The Blackwing Diaries has a great set of scans from this 60s Disneyland book “How to Draw Goofy: A Walt Disney Character Model Guide”. I particularly like the quote from Walt Disney himself.
Autumn and the Plot Against Me: One man’s long search for the location in a Windows XP desktop photo. (via Kottke) | Comments (0) »
The Rock Balancing Art of Bill Dan: Need a new hobby for the summer? How about putting rocks on top of each other. | Comments (0) »
Darth Vader on Twitter: “Sigh… some days I just miss my braided rat tail.” | Comments (0) »
Alice had a treat for the Star Wars fan’s eyeballs today over at Wonderland: a new Lego Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon set — over 3 feet in length! It’s made of over 5,000 pieces which, apparently, makes it the biggest Lego set ever made. It also includes Han Solo, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa.
It can be yours this October for a mere £350!
While you’re revelling in lost youth, be sure to check out the new Transformers toys as well.
Disney plans live action Sorcerer’s Apprentice. With Nicholas Cage as the Sorcerer. Seriously, could they not think of a worse idea? | Comments (0) »
Feodor Rojankovsky
13-Feb-07
John K has a great post on Feodor Rojankovsky’s illustrative paintings over at his blog today.
Rojankovsky (1891-1970) was a Russian-born artist best known for his animal-filled childrens illustrations. “Two great events determined the course of my childhood. I was taken to the zoo and saw the most marvellous creatures on earth: bears, tigers, monkeys and reindeer, and, while my admiration was running high, I was given a set of color crayons.”
More of his work for children can be found here and here. He also drew lady parts. Um, that last link probably isn’t safe for work.
Could California split from the USA? “California’s governor has also put his finger on a little discussed flaw in America’s constitutional formula. The United States is almost certainly too big to be a meaningful democracy. What does “participatory democracy” mean in a continent? Sooner or later, a profound, probably regional, decentralization of the federal system may be all but inevitable.” (via Kottke) | Comments (0) »
I’ve been meaning to read Cory Doctorow’s novel “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” for absolutely ages but have never managed to get around to it — until now! DailyLit are offering it, for free, emailed to you in 65 regularly sent chunks so you have no excuse either! (Incidentally, and do call me an idiot, I only realised today that Cory Doctorow is the same Cory Doctorow that co-edits Boing Boing!) | Comments (1) »
Saving Ourselves: Psychoanalytic Investigation of Resident Evil and Silent Hill (via Kotaku) | Comments (0) »
Will Eisner: The Spirit of an Artistic Pioneer: New trailer for the “documentary on the life and career of the sequential art genius.” (via Drawn!) | Comments (0) »
Now that Vista’s out, XP is old news. We always like a top 20 list and Voodoo Extreme has a run-down of the top games during Windows XP’s lifetime. I bet you can’t guess what’s number one. | Comments (0) »
Sony confirms Wipeout for PS3: “We have nothing to add, but we will be making an announcement with more details in the near future.” Hopefully they’ll bring back tDR… or perhaps another design agency that’s “de jour” to realise the visuals. (via Kotaku) | Comments (0) »
Pirates of the Caribbean Online pricing
05-Feb-07
Disney has announced the pricing structure for their forthcoming MMORPG based on the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and theme park attractions: Free for the ad-supported version, or $9.95 per month for the “Unlimited Access” level. Quite what “ad supported” actually means — bill boards for Princess dress-up clothing in-game, perhaps — remains to be seen.
The game will be released for Windows in the Spring. No Mac version, though, so it looks like Apple OS fans have to use Bootcamp or something to play. (via The Disney Blog)
Kevin Smith’s top ten films of 2006: Isn’t it a little narcissistic to include your own movie in your top ten list? (via Kottke) | Comments (0) »
Disregarding all the other pointless versions, Windows Vista Utimate Upgrade edition:
Amazon.com: $249.99 (£127.13)
Amazon.co.uk: $466.06 (£236.99)
Er, Microsoft. We’re not stupid! How about you come back here and re-price the EU editions of your (already overpriced) new operating system? Thanks.