Link roundup

1. "In honor of the new crime thriller video game L.A. Noire coming to Playstation®3 and Xbox360® on May 17, 2011, the Los Angeles Times and Rockstar Games present this special archive edition Crime Map detailing just a few of the fascinating and frightening crimes that made 1947 such a landmark year for LAPD detectives." Via.

2. From a longer article about design school, advice I wish I had when I was still in school:

Ask anybody that went to school what they thought of it, and you will get the same response. “It was ok, not great. But this one teacher changed made it all worth while.” It’s exactly that one or two teachers that you connect with that make the school experience “worth it”. When you find your mentor, go out of your way to take more classes with them. Ask them for guidance and have them critique your work HARD. Their advice will be more than worth the tuition.

3. Plastic Army Men with PTSD and various injuries. (Some might find these offensive.) Via these sites.

*Previously: Killzone Army Men.

Lego Army Men vehicles, Ecto 1, Pelican, and more

A few gems from Alex "Orion Pax" Schranz's Lego collection:





Army Men vehicles.





Halo Pelican.




Ecto-1 with Ghostbusters.




Power Glide Transformer: part of a huge collection of Transformers.



Hip Hop Robot. Via.

*Buy Army Men at Amazon.

Advertising roundup

Creepy clown mask used by 1789 to advertise Ads of the World.



Plastic "soldiers" turned into children playing by Y & R to support Unicef. Via.



Poster by Juniper Park for the Breast Fest, a film festival targeting breast cancer.



McCann Erickson co-opts Jesus for a little self-promotion. Via.



Advertisements co-opted and turned into vampire victims to promote Twilight.

*Buy army men at eBay.

Papercraft umbrella monster (link roundup)

Download the umbrella monster paper toy here.

And a few more links:

1. Toy soldiers at war.

2. Magnificent photo of New York, circa 1931, by Samuel H. Gottscho.

3. I'm not sure when the contest expires, but Nancy Dorsner is giving away 500 blank postcards (you can put on them whatever you want).

4. Apparently the Montana towns of Bozeman and Missoula have laws against "peeping persons."

*Previously: Umbrella monster.

*Buy the Umbrella Academy PVC Set at Entertainment Earth.

Papercraft umbrella monster (link roundup)

Download the umbrella monster paper toy here.

And a few more links:

1. Toy soldiers at war.

2. Magnificent photo of New York, circa 1931, by Samuel H. Gottscho.

3. I'm not sure when the contest expires, but Nancy Dorsner is giving away 500 blank postcards (you can put on them whatever you want).

4. Apparently the Montana towns of Bozeman and Missoula have laws against "peeping persons."

*Previously: Umbrella monster.

*Buy the Umbrella Academy PVC Set at Entertainment Earth.

New toys by Sucklord

New toys unveiled by Sucklord - - Glow-in-the-dark version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon Army Man I posted previously, and the Suck Shark. No purchase price yet, as far as I could tell.

*Previously: Sucklord's DJ Stormtrooper.

*Buy glow in the dark items at eBay.

New toys by Sucklord

New toys unveiled by Sucklord - - Glow-in-the-dark version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon Army Man I posted previously, and the Suck Shark. No purchase price yet, as far as I could tell.

*Previously: Sucklord's DJ Stormtrooper.

*Buy glow in the dark items at eBay.

Blue-helmeted army men on the loose

If it has a meaning other than silliness, it eludes me, but there's a street art project called "Miniscule Blue Helmets On A Massive Scale" that's active in Europe. For example, here's 500 blue-helmeted army men taking over a phone booth in the Netherlands:





Via.

*Previously: Protest the war by placing army men in public places.

*Buy army men at eBay.

Blue-helmeted army men on the loose

If it has a meaning other than silliness, it eludes me, but there's a street art project called "Miniscule Blue Helmets On A Massive Scale" that's active in Europe. For example, here's 500 blue-helmeted army men taking over a phone booth in the Netherlands:





Via.

*Previously: Protest the war by placing army men in public places.

*Buy army men at eBay.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon as a little army man?

I love this Creature from the Black Lagoon/Little Army Man mashup toy by Suckadelic. On sale for $25 here, and you can see photos of the creation process here.

Relatedly, check out this Creature from the Black Lagoon wind-up toy I just spotted at eBay:



*Previously: Suckadelic's DJ Stormtrooper.

*Buy Creature from the Black Lagoon collectibles at eBay.

Gummi Army Men

Gummi Army Men, available at Amazon.

*Previously: Website devoted to plastic army men.

*Buy army men at eBay.