Image roundup

Gallery of nighttime wildlife photos.



Translucent frog. Here's the wikipedia entry on glass frogs.



Cactus.



Chestburster chicken.



Submarine in ice.



Smiling dog. (Even creepier photoshops at the link.)

Lost World Fairs

Microsoft has a new site called Lost World Fairs to show off fancy fonts available in its latest version of Explorer. Right now, there are three fairs: El Dorado by Naz Hamid, Atlantis by Frank Chimero, and the Moon by Jason Santa Maria.

Atlantis is particularly fun to explore, and I took the liberty of cropping it into several widescreen desktop wallpapers (what you see below is probably roughly half of Atlantis):









*Buy World's Fair posters at eBay.

Submarines rotting on a beach in Scotland

Aberlady submarines:

The submarines are XT-Craft, training versions of the X-Craft that attacked the Tirpitz in 1942. In 1946 two of these vessels were towed to Aberlady Bay and moored to a large concrete block, then used as target practice and gun tests by RAF aircraft. Afterwards their badly damaged remains were simply left to rot.

Via.

Blue Submarine

Submarine-esque spaceship by Taehoon Oh.

*Previously: Steampunk submarine.

*Buy submarine toys at eBay.

Blue Submarine

Submarine-esque spaceship by Taehoon Oh.

*Previously: Steampunk submarine.

*Buy submarine toys at eBay.

Rocky Balboa was a G.I. Joe character (link roundup)

Rocky Balboa was (very briefly) a G.I. Joe character.

And a few more links:

1. Advanced Dungeons and Dragons costumes circa 1983. Via.

2. World War 2-era Japanese subs found (sunk) near Oahu. Via.

3. Zombie in a bag figurine.

*Previously: Homemade Snake-Eyes mask.

*Buy submarine toys at eBay.

Did you ever think you'd want to buy a poster for Innerspace?

Posters by Brandon Schaefer for Innerspace, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Murder by Death (which I watched until I knew it by heart), The Goblet of Fire, Ghostbusters, and Blade Runner. So many more on display at his site. Alas, I saw no purchasing information.

Oh, and in case you were wondering:





Actually it would be quite a conversation piece to have all three of those up in your office.

*Previously: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou...in Lego.

*Buy Polish movie posters at eBay.

Did you ever think you'd want to buy a poster for Innerspace?

Posters by Brandon Schaefer for Innerspace, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Murder by Death (which I watched until I knew it by heart), The Goblet of Fire, Ghostbusters, and Blade Runner. So many more on display at his site. Alas, I saw no purchasing information.

Oh, and in case you were wondering:





Actually it would be quite a conversation piece to have all three of those up in your office.

*Previously: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou...in Lego.

*Buy Polish movie posters at eBay.

Poster for Fathoms (link roundup)

Poster for the shirt film "Fathoms." This website features concept art for the project.

And a few more links:

1. Obama's top science adviser advocated the "de-development" of the industrialized world.

2. Apparently, it's common for magazine/newspaper editors to "know what they want the story to look like, right down to the quotes, before they even assign it to a writer."

3. Photo gallery from a Katamari Damacy-themed wedding.

*Previously: Victorian submarines.

*Buy submarine toys at eBay.

Book cover roundup

A few book covers that recently caught my eye. Links are to Amazon.


A Bad Day for Sorry: A Crime Novel




The Coyote Road




The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm




The Affinity Bridge (Newbury & Hobbes Investigation)




The Kingdom Beyond the Waves

*See more great book covers here.

*Buy zeppelin toys at eBay.