Coming Soon

ANGRY CLOBBER MONKEY!

LA Based Master Sculptor and Artist Dave Pressler is set to release this 8" handsome fellow and all of his chunky glory-currently in production with Munky King- sometime April '09 complete with his tiny helmsman.

"From the warped mind of Dave Pressler, LA based artist and master sculptor, comes the Angry Clobber Monkey. With his iron ball fists he's programmed for destruction! The hatch on the rear opens to reveal a little pilot who watches over the angry meter, ready to push the 'clobber' button when the metal one's temper boils over.
So Very Angry and ready to clobber!"- Munky King

Check out Dave Presslers highly impressive illustrations and sculptures RIGHT HERE.

Get to know more about the production magic that is Munky King OVER HERE.

Enjoy yourself.

Video Game Literature: Old Skool

Olly Moss has inspired a group of people to take video games and translate them into classic book covers.  He started with a few such as The Legend of Zelda:  Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye and Half-Life, which he posted on Flickr.  These were then posted on the forum at Something Awful and a windfall of others have sprung up that are equally awesome.  I will share them with you now (the last one is my favorite).

Music for you Eyeballs

Here is probably my favorite wallpaper in the world.  It is designed by Aimee Wilder who is too cool for skool.

Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io

And who might she be?  Why don't we let her tell us in her own words (because, once again, I am too lazy and just happened upon her)!

Aimée Wilder began working as a freelance graphic designer shortly after graduating from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2001. Aimée has also worked as an in-house designer for several firms including Designspace, Dwell, and Martha Stewart Living. In the past, Aimée has designed for Bed Bath and Beyond, Crate and Barrel, Urban Outfitters, Dwell, Dwellbaby, Martha Stewart Living, MTV Cribs, Skip Hop, and Gap Kids. Most recently, Aimee signed a licensing agreement with Vans to feature three of her designs on shoes and accessories scheduled for release in January 2009.

Aimée draws her inspiration from contemporary graphic art and design world. Influences include typography, logo design, illustration, textiles, urban toy design, and rock poster art. Aimée's current projects include designs for home textiles and accessories, fashion and print.

Thanks Aimée!

Super F*ckers!!

James Kochalka's high, drunk, badass super teens would crush the Teen Titans and probably you too. A 144 page graphic novel is due to be released full of fan favorites and best of issues in December of this year. Until then there are still back issues at Top Shelf worth checking out.


The Theme Song Says it All


SuperF*ckers (Theme Song)
© 2005 James Kochalka

We're always in our clubhouse getting high
SuperF*ckers!
Everybody wishes we would die
SuperF*ckers!

Here we come, like a bomb,
everybody run and hide.

Our dicks are stuck in the Playstation 3
SuperF*ckers!
Everybody wishes they could be
SuperF*ckers!

Here we come, like a bomb,
Everybody f*ckin' run and hide.

Get your Fez on!

Indie games are some of the coolest things in the world, next to hover cars and laser beam eyes, of course, and one of the most interesting looking games I can think of right now, which I cannot wait to eventually play is Fez.  This is a 2D game that has incorporated 3D in the most unique and exciting way.  This is a puzzle game that will make your brain explode with awesomeness!

I would give you more information, but all I really know is that it won the "Excellence in Visual Art" award at the Independent Games Festival.  Other than that there is a cloud of mystery around this game.  

The pixel style and the 8-bit soundtrack are beautiful and make for a really pleasurable viewing experience.  Now please enjoy the show. 

Fez 'GDC 08' gameplay

Get your planetary gear calling card today!

It has been a while since I posted anything, but unfortunately the real world of work has kept me from it.  Anyway, during my free time I like to waste it by scanning the Nets for interesting things.  I will give you a few more things over the weekend to hopefully wet your appetite for more as time goes by.  

For you right now I have an interesting little craft project for you that is pretty cool.  I would like to see more interesting designs on the front of these, but I think this stuff is awesome!  I want to make one of my own here and when I do I'll make sure to post it.

Thanks to phooky for designing, building and posting the Planetary Gear Calling Card on Thingiverse.  It is really cool what people can come up with through a bit of creativity and pure genius.

Here is one that was made by 4volt, which was built and lazer-etched.  Very cool indeed.

Kosai Sekine and the Art of Simplicity

Here is something cool that I pulled out of my files. A super cool friend of mine, Chris, showed me Kosai Sekine a couple of years ago and I have come back to his videos every now and then because they are awesome. First, his bio thanks to his site because I am too impatient to put it into my own words and restate what his site says so well.

Born 1976.

Kosai majored in philosophy at Tokyo's Sophia University, but his interest in film brought him abroad to the United States, to learn the basics of photography and film production.

He graduated from Sophia in 2000 and in that same year entered the commercial production company SPOON Ltd. After working as production manager, he signed with HAT Co., Ltd. in 2002 with the aim of becoming a director.

In 2005, his script won the competition for the short-film showcase presented by JAC held at the Asia-Pacific Advertising Festival and was selected as the Japanese representative director. Though it was his first direction, the short "RIGHT PLACE" was highly praised throughout the world, winning him with 'Best Foreign Film Award' at the New York City Short Film Festival, as well as 'Diesel Film of the Festival Award' at the Raindance Film Festival.

"RIGHT PLACE" also appeared at festivals such as ResFest and onedotzero, etc. Shots selected him as a member of "Shots New Directors", an honorable title dedicated to the world's best newcomer directors.

Kosai, having been invited to do the opening film for the Raindance Film Festival, directed "Daughter" with the sponsorship of Diesel. He was awarded in 3 categories, including the Special Jury Award 2006 (Grand-Prix), at Young Directors Award 2006 in Cannes International Advertising Festival presented by SHOTS and CFP-E, an unprecedented number of awards to be achieved in the same year in the history of the festival.

He is ranked 1st in the 'New Director' category of 2006 advertising ranking reported by SHOTS.

Kosai has directed various commercials and is currently broadening his director activities globally. He can be reached at 'hybrid' in Japan as well as the following foreign productions and agents worldwide.

Here are two of his most well-known video "Right Place" and "Daughter" (per the bio above). What I love about it is the minimalist sort of simplicity. That could just me being snobby or trying to be pretentious, but I am not meaning to be! I swear! I just like the limited use of dialog, the colors and the OCD side to it. This is a great video that will make you smile unless your heart is made of stone or coal or doo doo. Hope you like the music and quirkiness of it!

Right Place

Daughter

I just wish I was able to move like that and be so so fresh!  I love when the old lady is walking by and everything slows down.  Rad to the maximus!  Alright, enough with the exclamat!on points and on with my evening.