This looks mighty interesting!
An exclusive production photograph from Sucker Punch, an upcoming action-fantasy film directed by Zach Snyder.
Click here to view the image in a larger size.
The Viking Answer Lady answers a question on Viking personal hygiene and grooming, and demolishes the myth of Vikings being a filthy, unwashed horde.
Although the popular image of the people of the Viking Age is one of wild-haired, dirty savages, this is a false perception. In reality, the Vikings took care with their personal grooming, bathing, and hairstyling.
Perhaps the most telling comment comes from the pen of English cleric John of Wallingford, prior of St. Fridswides, who complained bitterly that the Viking Age men of the Danelaw combed their hair, took a bath on Saturday, and changed their woolen garments frequently, and that they performed these un-Christian and heathen acts in an attempt to seduce high-born English women:
“It is reported in the chronicle attributed to John of Wallingford that the Danes, thanks to their habit of combing their hair every day, of bathing every Saturday and regularly changing their clothes, were able to undermine the virtue of married women and even seduce the daughters of nobles to be their mistresses.”
The article is a long one, but is completely worth reading through.
Link.
[via Miss Cellania and Metafilter]
“Batman vs. Penguin” & “Spiderman vs. Green Goblin” poster prints, by Simon C Page, a British illustrator and graphic designer.
The prints are from his “Hero and Villain” series.
A enjoyable little parody film from the funny folks at How It Should Have Ended.
[via Popped Culture]
I just dug these oh-so-colorful, screw-on wine bottle stoppers designed by Ori Saidi & Daniel Gassner.
The stoppers are made from silicon, and are supposed to fit most wine bottles. The stoppers are available at Mocha, and cost £6.99 (around $10.50) for a set of two.
Love, loss, heartbreak, and black eyes.
A wonderful new blog that accepts and archives photographs, which were deemed “too hard to keep” by their original owners.
Snip from the site:
I am creating a repository for these images so that they may exist without being destroyed. Please dictate whether the images you submit to the archive are:
- images not to be shown again, or
- images that may be exhibited in the future with other submissions to the archive.
I am primarily interested in receiving physical photos in the mail…digital photos can be emailed as well, I simply ask that the original file is deleted.
Link to ‘Too Hard To Keep’ Archive.
Just lovely. A collection of playing cards from Ukraine.
Via the always interesting English Russia blog.
The Monk & The Monkey is an animated moral fable, that has something for both casual viewers as well as hardcore animation fans. The film is a visually arresting piece, with its bright, pleasing colors, and terrific animation.
The story of the film is quite simple. Ragu, an excitable, but determined lad, is on a quest to become a monk. His final task given to him by his master, though seemingly trivial at first, soon puts him at his wit’s end. Whether Ragu becomes a monk or fails in his mission, forms the crux of this tale.
Watch the film after the jump.
Continue reading ‘The Monk & The Monkey–Animated Short Film’
‘Heart On Stage’, an unique art project by Luiz Risi and Leena Yliportimo, combines evocative poetry with gorgeous illustrations. Though the duo are based in Amsterdam, the project is a cross-cultural collaboration, as Luiz is Brazilian, and Leena is of Finnish origin.
They have an exhibition coming up in Amsterdam, sometime in March, 2011.
Click on the images to view them in a higher resolution. There are more images after the jump.
Continue reading ‘‘Heart On Stage’ – Stunning Illustrated Poetry Art Project’
“Predatoddler”, by Michael Dashow.
Also, visit his wonderful blog. Affordable prints of his works are available here.
One badass mofo.
[via Derek Eads]
FoxTrot takes on the amusing ‘Double Rainbow’ meme, and wins our collective hearts.
Link to the source.
A Flickr gallery with sketches by Rick Tulka, an American illustrator now based in Paris, France.
More galleries of his works here.
