Red is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood that avoids the cliches and delivers a dark little tale told mostly via silhouettes. Created by Jorge Jaramillo and Carlo Guillot, with music composed by Manuel Borda, Red is a stylish adult fairy tale that's bloody good fun to watch.
This boldly stylized animated short is by Evan Seitz, who you may remember from his recent release ABCinema, which challenged you to figure out the movie based on letters (link).
This time around, Evan wants you to figure it all out by number, with bonus points for figuring them all out from just one viewing.
Serious art lovers living in, or visiting, New York City are going to love this new app, which shows the location of all artworks contained in the subway stations across the city.
Created by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the Arts for Transit app makes finding your favorite piece of public art a snap, so you won't have to miss your train to admire works from the likes of Lichtenstein and Sol Lewit, just to name a few.
There are hundreds of works throughout New York City's subway system, so having an app at your fingertips that shows you the location of each individual piece is quite convenient, and may make for a fun day of public art viewing.
Strange things are afoot in the Chinese city of Changsha, where a shopper discovered he'd purchased a four legged mutant chicken and promptly snapped this picture to share with the rest of the world.
According to scientists the chicken is fine to eat despite the extra appendages, but I don't think I'd want to take any chances by chomping down on a drumstick from this monstrosity.
If you encounter one of these amazing 3d murals by John Pugh painted on the side of a building, you might feel like you're peering into a tear in the space-time continuum. Don't worry, they're just incredible works of art, no need to call The Doctor.
Pugh describes his work as "monumental mural art", and he masterfully utilizes the trompe l'oiel technique to give the illusion of depth in works which are epic both in scale and lifelike detail.
If a roadrunner ever seems to run straight into one of these murals, don't race after him or you might end up as flat as a pancake!
It's not surprising that the Disney writers and animators came up with a plethora of dwarf names to choose from while working on Snow White.
What is surprising is that they were left with a whopping 47 unused names, and some of the names on the list are just plain awful. Names like Biggo-Ego, Flabby, and Thrifty certainly don't conjure up mental images of dwarfs heroic enough to help save the fair maiden, but I would love to see what a dwarf named Neurtsy looks like!
This public service announcement was brought to you by Star Wars, where things almost went horribly wrong between siblings Luke and Leia.
If you'd like to further explore this incestual possibility check out Splinter Of The Mind's Eye, a novel by Alan Dean Foster which was published in 1978 and takes place between Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
What would your father Annakin/Darth think of what you two are about to do?!
It has to be a great feeling to see your father return home from military duty overseas, but when he comes home dressed as Captain America it elevates him to superhero status.
That is, if you're a little kid, with eyes full of wonder and a streak of innocence which allows you to believe, even for a moment, that your dad might be Captain America after all. Welcome home, super soldier!
Gundlach Bundschu Winery would like to share their take on the modern history of Merlot with you, and they've chosen to do so via comedy video. Bold move Gundlach, but the end result is a rather cheesy video that's laughably bad at times.
Still, it's an entertaining way to advertise your role in the expanding Merlot market, and I guess if you're a few bottles deep it might be the most hilarious video you've watched all day.
The mastermind behind this hilarious infomercial for the Cacto-Matic is none other than Thu Tran, creator and star of the IFC show Food Party and one heck of a funny gal.
Here she is peddling a fake product by using her powers of comedy and hallucinogenic sorcery, both of which have definitely put me in a buying mood!
Judith Schaechter is bringing an antiquated art form into the 21st century with her fantastically imaginative stained glass artwork, like the piece pictured above entitled "The Battle of Carnival and Lent", which is on display at the Eastern State Penitentiary art installation program.
Judith's works are constructed using traditional methods and materials, incorporating glass painting techniques in order to tell a story which Judith describes as “addressing in a non-religious way the psychological border territory between ‘spiritual aspiration’ and human suffering.”
You can see detail photos from this amazing piece, along with some rather interesting process shots that show it all coming together, at the Creep Machine link below. And be sure to check out her website for more stunning works in stained glass.
Having to endure the mind numbing monotony of duplicating manuscripts by hand every day of their cloistered lives, medieval monks vented their frustration by adding cartoons and statements in the margins.
Surprisingly, many of the statements are obscene and quite blasphemous, especially considering their source. What's not surprising is that historians are finding these unedited remarks quite illuminating, giving them a rare glimpse into the daily lives of the original office workers.
Hit the links for a sample of the comedy stylings of medieval monks, courtesy of Colin Dickey and the Lapham Quarterly.
A man dressed as Batman was pulled over by the Montgomery County police department in Maryland for not having plates on his Batmobile Lamborghini, and what appeared to be nothing more than a silly photo op actually had a pretty heartwarming story behind it.
The Batman in question is an anonymous rich fellow who dresses up and visits sick children in the hospital to cheer them up, and he was heading home when he got pulled over, to the delight of the officers involved.
He explained that the suit's really hard to take off, and he was waiting until he got home to change back in to his rich guy clothes. However, he offered no explanation for why he drives a car worth a quarter of a million dollars, yet can't be bothered to slap some license plates on the back.
Bruce Wayne would have known better, Mr. Rich Guy.
This web spot by Lithuanian mineral water company Vytautas keeps coming at you like a comedy tsunami, with super cheesy animation to match.
The narrator has definitely taken a few pointers from the recent Old Spice ad campaign, but emulation doesn't stop the funny from raining down like water that fish haven't pooped in yet.
People who go through life with limited mobility quickly realize that one thing most modern wheelchairs lack is the ability to help them stand up, thereby leaving many things in life out of reach.
Enter the innovative new TEK Robotic Mobilization Device, basically a wheelchair with a sling crane for your butt that can help the handicapped stand up and get what they need out of life.
The TEK recently began shipping in Turkey for around $15,000, which seems like a small price to pay for the huge improvement this device will make to people's lives.
