What If Zombies Ate Most Of The Mystery Team?

i09:

“Imagine that Fred, Daphne and even Shaggy were eaten by zombies, vamps and other big bad beasties. Where would that leave Velma? In supernatural slayer mode, of course. Check out this awesomely wicked Velma-centric Scooby-Doo fan art.

Quick someone get Dr. Monster a comic book deal stat, we want to see what happens next.”

Impressionist Cake

Boing Boing:

“Flickr user Megpi made this beautiful “impressionist cake.” ZOMG.”

impressionist cake (via Craft)

Randy Ford – amazing realist painter

Um, holy crap…..

Derren Brown:

“Randy Ford is an amazing AmeRican realist painter, whose works actually look like photos, no kidding, take a loOk and see for yourselves.

Randy claims to paint, ‘For the passion derived from the process, hoping to produce works that will be relevanT during their generation and enduring through time.’

More wORk can be found on his website here: randyfordamericanartist“

This Was Painted by a Six-Year Old

Neatorama:

“Remarkable talent, don’t you think? Kieron Williamson of Norfolk, UK didn’t draw anything a year ago, but now he’s had first gallery exhibition:

Spurred on by images on the Internet and in art books – and the postcard-perfect outdoor studio that’s all around him in Norfolk, on England’s east coast, Kieron Williamson has churned out a succession of landscapes and village scenes that have critics decades older raising their eyebrows.

“I was the youngest in the class,” recalled Kieron of his only formal training ever. “Everyone else were grownups.” Asked whether that bothered him, he told Roth that during class, he simply “didn’t think about ‘em.”

Link and link via J-Walk Blog

Get Your Own Grisly Memorial Of The First Cylon War [ BSG ]

If you want to know what to get me for Christmas, it’s one of these in an old renaissance-looking frame:

io9:

“Now you too can live like The Old Man, with your own print of the First Cylon War. Take a closer look at the robot-on-human carnage — it’s art, after all.

Think Geek is selling prints of this painting of the First Cylon War, for a mere 14.99:

This painting was painstakingly scanned in archival resolution, and reproduced on 22″ by 17″ 100-pound art-quality paper. Any Battlestar Galactica fan, new and old, can appreciate this fine piece of sci-fi artwork!

Now the only thing left is to decide where to put it? Mine’s going above the bed so every night I’m reminded of the past sacrifices fake humanity had to make in order to survive the machine uprising from the PAST.”

Did Crazy Cavemen Make Those Cave Drawings?

Neatorama:

Photos: otisarchives2 (left), modcult (right)

“Are cave paintings signs of intelligence of ancient cave dwellers or are they just scribbles of crazy cavemen?

Take a look at the two photos above. The one to the left is a painting made by a patient at St. Elizabeth’s hospital. The patient had a case of dementia praecox (eventually classified as schizophrenia) and used a pin or fingernail to scratch paint from the wall, creating pictures symbolizing past events in the patient’s life and represent a mild state of mental regression.

Jeb of Modcult made this intriguing observation:

You know, everyone assumes cave paintings were made for some sort of vaunted religious or technical purpose, but maybe in olden times they just sent their crazy people into a cave. I mean, that’s basically what we do now.”

Link – via Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival

Amazing Folded Paper Art by Simon Schubert

This boggles the mind….

Neatorama:

“We’ve featured a lot of cool and neat stuff on Neatorama, but I dare say this is really hard to beat. Behold, the embossed drawings of Simon Schubert: Link – via Paper Forest”

Artist, iPhone unite to literally finger paint New Yorker’s June cover

DVICE:

“When
you think of what you can do on the iPhone, painting an iconic scene
from scratch probably isn’t up there. Yet that’s exactly what Jorge
Colombo did with his iPhone for the June cover of the The New Yorker magazine, while standing outside of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in New York City’s Times Square.

Colombo used the Brushes application, which is a cheap $4.99 app. He
said painting on the iPhone pleased him not only because it gave him a
kind of anonymity while he worked, but he also made the piece with “a
set of tools that anybody can have easily in their pocket.”

Click on through for a video of Colombo’s “Finger Painting” in
action. If you’ve ever seen videos of concept artists rolling out a speed painting, it looks a lot like that. The end result is something that’s very fluid and brushy, even though it was done on a computer.”

Xbox 360 gets stylish Domo-kun paint job

Engadget:

“It may not be quite as elaborate as some console paint jobs,
but if you’re looking to add a touch of Japan to your Xbox 360, you may
want to follow the lead of deviantART member Ricepuppet, who has
managed to create a relatively faithful Domo-kun themed console. As you
can see above, that even includes a matching controller, which we
presume is still fully functional (and, apparently, twice as likely to
slip out of your hands). Just don’t go too nuts and decide to pair it
with a Hello Kitty-themed Wii, there’s no telling how they might get along. “

[Via Engadget Spanish]

Red ring of death pumpkin wards off Xbox 360 woes

DVICE:

“This Halloween you’ll probably carve up a pumpkin with a goofy face. So
did Alan Penner from Goleta, California, but his is geeky enough to
join us here at the DVICE Tower with its instant-messenger-style smiley charm.

Penner’s other pumpkins are really flying his colors.
He’s got the red ring of death that plagues failing Xbox 360s — so I
wonder if he’s a fan of the system, or a cheeky PlayStation 3 owner? —
an Ubuntu pumpkin (for you Linux lovers), his aforementioned smiley
jack-o-lantern, and a pumpkin with the Obama logo. His porch is almost
enough to make me want to go trick-or-treating again.”