Timeshare Linky

My laptop is in laptop hospital right now, so I’m timesharing with Cal on her laptop. I get 11pm onwards. This actually suits me pretty well. But I forgot to copy over my friday linky bookmarks folder, so here’s what I’ve cobbled together in the last 24 hrs…

Guy making art out of chewing gum stuck on the sidewalk

My buddy’s Dave’s game + comic shop in Fife gets some nice media coverage

Great Halloween comic by Emily Terrible (via Kate Beaton, Svend, and sundry others with excellent taste)

Incautious time traveller (prrrrobably not actually a time traveller – intriguing video though)

Jamie Hewlett’s comic of Pulp’s Common People.

Mr Ritchie shared this one – “Real in-game footage from the SNES release of Academy-Award winning motion picture ‘There Will Be Blood’, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano”

Super There Will Be Blood from Tomfoolery Pictures on Vimeo.

He was one of several people sharing this one – a newspaper corrects an error that only geeks care about,
and does so with great style

Dennis Hopper vs. mermaid flick from 1961 now free to watch online

This one’s getting linked everywhere, for good reason: Charlie Stross points out some extremely weird stuff getting said in the UK House of Lords. Like, extremely, deeply weird. So weird that “I laundered money for the IRA” is a casual aside, quickly forgotten because of the rest. Read.

And finally… (first minute is the best bit, remaining minutes just bask in the awesomeness of the first minute)

10 thoughts on “Timeshare Linky”

  1. People should be warned that the There Will Be Blood game footage spoils the entire movie. It’s a brilliant movie, so it should not be spoiled.

  2. That Common People comic I’ve always meant to go back to and see if I couldn’t turn it into a YouTube animated comic. It’s great stuff!

  3. The last line of that retraction is possibly the greatest thing to ever be printed in a serious news article.

    He is a handsome fellow, indeed….

  4. I am so in love with the His Face All Red comic, and like seemingly everyone else in the world I have pushed it on people everywhere I’ve been this weekend.

  5. Yes re: face all red. Quite apart from its obvious brilliance, there is so much to say about the techniques used – like, the final panels are all massively enhanced by on-screen presentation. It only works as a comic, but it also only works in a serial slideshow presentation, rather than a spatial arrangement. You could approximate the effect by arranging the panels of separate pages and forcing the reader to page-turn, but the immediacy and control and juxtaposition achieved by this form – I mean, it blew me away. Technically, the most proficient web-presented comic I’ve seen. Bloody marvellous.

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