Just look at all of them weird toys. Just imagine them on a shelf in your home, weirding up the place! Imagine how impressed (and nervous) your dates will be, when you bring them back to your place and they're greeted by that Jolly Monkey leering at them with his crazy little eyes! Well, Mr. Monkey and all of his friends can now all be yours, because this week we're selling these cute little creeps on Ebay. Monsters and Rockets HQ is groaning from all of our accumulated geegaws, gizmos and junk, and we've got to get rid of some of this stuff before a pile of it collapses and takes us one of us down with it. The bidding starts at $50, or you can buy up the whole mess now for a mere $70. So click on over there, and buy our crap!
UPDATE: Our crap has sold. You missed out. Too bad for you.
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Inverse Phase's new album Pretty Eight Machine is an 8-bit version of Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine, and it is a thing of bloop-y, bleep-y beauty.
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Daymare Town is an online point-and-click game with a nicely quirky look and tone. It feels less like a Myst clone than a short adventure you take within the pages of an artist's sketchbook, with the 3D graphics of most point-and-clicks replaced by scratchy little cartoon scenes. But just because the game has such a charmingly simple look, don't assume that the puzzles are easy to beat!
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I really liked Monster House, but didn't exactly love it. The idea was cute and the script and voice performances were good, but the motion-capture animation just didn't quite work. The characters had interesting designs, but their movements were kind of stiff and weightless and their eyes often had an eerie, lifeless quality. (Click the image at left to buy the film on blu-ray.)
I would've been just as happy if they had shot the entire movie the same way they shot their storyboard animatics, using cheap plastic toys to act out the action scenes. The clip below illustrates this process. It's taken from the Youtube page of Rob Schrab, one of the guys behind the film. He's also helped bring us The Sarah Silverman Program, Scud the Disposable Assassin and other weird delights... But somehow, I doubt he's ever had more fun with any of his projects than he did making this clip.
When he wasn't busy inventing little gizmos like the light bulb or the phonograph, or electrocuting elephants, Thomas Edison relaxed by writing surreal, jazzy poetry that would've done Ginsberg proud. Read the following untitled piece, and you can almost hear the bongos in the background.
A Bowery angel smoking a palm tree stubbed his toe on a comet, and pimples came out on his toe nail as big as mountains. He swore so much that God made eight new planets out of the conversation & peopled and fauna'd and flora'd them eccentrically. The almighty has a vein of humor. He made these planets & peopled them to give amusements to beings on the rest of the celestial plantation. The men were 800 miles long & 1/4 inch thick. They slept on telegraph poles, and animals with bodies as big as a pea with 900 eyes each as big as a saucer lived on these long men by catching them by the feet and sucking them in like macaroni.
Man, that cat they called the "wizard of Menlo Park" was, like, outta sight! To dig more of Edison's real gone prose poems, bop on over to NPR's website to listen to an interview with Blaine McCormick, editor of the Edison Papers Project.)
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