Terminally Incoherent

You might have seen this image in /dev/random feed (btw, there is a link to it in thesidebar now):

img found @ knuttz.net

This is actually a sculpture by an artist who goes by Pierre Matter. Pierre doesn’t seem to have a website of his own which is kinda lame. But Opera Gallery has some info on him and a pretty good samples of his work.

I’m showing you this to illustrate a point. Normal person will look at this and think about how this sculpture juxtaposes the organic, and technological elements. Perhaps find some sort of angelic figure rising out of dark and twisted bowels of machinery. Maybe they will find this to be a statement about technology in general? Or perhaps they will just see it as a cool, sci-fi sculpture.

But when I look at it, I instantly go “ZOMG! It’s a fucking C’Tan!”

I don’t know how big that sculpture is, but I would shrink it to about 6″ in size, and plop it on the battlefield in seconds. Yes ladies and gentlemen. Once you get the Warhammer bug, there is no going back. Your mind will be irreversibly warped by the sheer awesomeness of that game.

And yes, I do think that the C’Tan background is a wee bit lame, but they are part of the 40K cannon now so I guess we just need to get used to them.

If you have subscribed to my /dev/random feed you have probably seen this already. If you don’t know about /dev/random - it’s a tumblr to which I post funny or interesting images shamelessly stolen from other places on the web. Whenever I see something amusing, of cool I post it /dev/random. It also integrates my twitter blurbs, flickr photos and del.icio.us bookmarks.

Anyway, here is the pic that grabbed my attention today:

image © joan charmant

If you are a Futurama fan like me you should have the same reaction: ZOMG! Lucy Liubot!

If you haven’t watched Futurama, and don’t get the reference you should be ashamed of yourself, and we shall collectively shun you for 5 minutes. To make the long story short, in one episode Fry gets himself a Lucy Liubot for the specific purpose of making out with it. Now go watch that episode.

In reality, this is work of Joan Charmant. You can find bunch of similar photoshop strangeness on the official website.

Here is what happens when you combine the two most awesome animals in the universe - a monkey and a penguin. You get a friken monguin:

image © biro-art.com

Ok, so this is not a sharemonkey but it is still awesome.

Check out this sick deviant art gallery. I really like this guys style. I would describe it as hauntingly awesome, but then again I’m no art critic. All I know is that this is going to be my new desktop wallpaper:


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I said it before, and I’ll say it again: Monkeyz Frinken Rule!

Here is Alex Cherry’s official website. Go check it out.

Recently I posted two impressive pieces of ASCII art. I thought they were really cool, but I doubted they were created by hand. I just found it hard to believe that anyone would spend hours on end, tweaking the color codes on font tags of each character of the page. It just didn’t seem possible.

It turns out that these images were most likely created using mosascii m2. How do I know? Let’s conduct an experiment, shall we? Continuing with the superhero theme, please consider the Wolverine image below:

click to enlagre

I have run this image and this is what I got:

• ASCII Wolverine

Does it look familiar? Compare it to the Powergirl page - the zeros and ones pattern is almost exactly the same. My rendering is more chunky, because I used low-res image to keep the test simple.

Does the fact that these images were auto generated by a freeware application makes them less cool? Sure, they seem less impressive now, but they are still quite cool. And the good news is, you can create your own.