The card above looks like Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!, but it's from the popular science fiction trading card series Mars Attacks. The bubble-gum cards were released by Topps in 1962, created by Brown and Woody Gelman and were the base of inspiration to Burton's film. The cards were painted by the famous pulp-comic artist, Norm Saunders. Check the other 65 cards on the Mars Attacks Archives Gallery. (via Pez)

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Chéri Hérouard was a French illustrator who was most famously known for his forty-five year work for French society magazine, La Vie Parisienne, which was (is?) a French humoristic and erotic weekly magazine, published in Paris since 1863.

'La Vie Parisienne' was one of the more famous and well-known of specifically Parisienne magazines. Originally intended as a guide to the privileged social and artistic life in the French capital, it soon evolved into a mildly risqué publication in which illustrations of scantily clad damsels abounded. It was all done in very good taste though it had more than its fair share of detractors. General Pershing for one is said to have personally warned American servicemen against purchasing the magazine - for little good that would have done. 'La Vie Parisienne' was also banned in certain countries such as neighboring Belgium for instance, though in war-time it appeared that such silly regulations were not always adhered to.

The marvellous art work of Chéri Herouard is very well presented by this photoset with 197 images, many of them covers of La Vie Parisienne. The set was created by asoftblackstar and contains some NSFW illustrations. For more images and covers visit this, this,this and this page. (via Hugo Strikes Back)

One more beautiful cover, from the 13th October, 1917 edition:

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Takorantis is the site of the Japanese studio Takorasu, "Las octopus" according to a weird on-line translation. On the Takorasu portfolio you will find their work of wonderful illustrations and animations with robot-like giant animals, which transport tiny whimsical steam worlds; midis from their animations, images of character design, and images (reload the page) of a web comic (now closed). Those steam worlds are inspired on the 19th century machinery and the middle ages European cities. For more information about it, watch the short video bellow by Diginfonew. (via armchair aquarium)

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The Italian artist Maurizio Savini makes amazing sculptures with fibreglass and pink chewing gum. Mario Codognato wrote about his work:

The sensual act of chewing, the voluptuous warmth of rebelling saliva, the artificial and secretly aseptic fragrance which spreads from the mouth as a promise and missed kiss. The synthetic fleshliness of the pink color, the obsessive square shape of the product unwrapped and ready to be shred to pieces by the power of the tongue, all compete in crashing on the senses. Applying all this to the power and energy of the Sculpture and its history causes a short circuit having the capacity of turning the ludic into stately and vice versa. The strict minimalism of parallelepiped is subverted by the uniform coating with many bars of chewing-gum completely cover it, rendering chewable to desire, soft and provoking to forbidden touch, what was abstract and distant.

More images of his works at Pastificio Cerere Foundation, Olivier Houg Galerie, artMbassy, Arts blog.it, Angel Art Gallery and bellow. (via Notcot)

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Wow! For the third time, Bibi's box is a finalist in the Best Latin American Blog category on the Bloggies! First, I'd like to thank all those who voted for this blog on the Eighth Annual Weblog Awards: The 2008 Bloggies, since I hadn't even annoyed people for votes. I really appreciate your support. It makes me a happy Bibi.

However, now that I am one of the finalist, and I really hope that third time is a charm.I would like to ask all of you who visit, read, or just stopped by for a peek, to vote on the 2008 Bloggies for Bibi's box and, if at all possible, to spread some love on your blog, asking people to vote for me. Specially if you are Brazilian. Think about it, I am the only Brazilian there, and a woman, and I think that is something special.

Thanks again for your vote, love and comments. And don't forget to vote until January, 31.

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During the summer and early fall of 2003 The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library featured the exhibition Ohio Cartoonists - A Bicentennial Celebration shown in the Philip Sills Exhibit Hall of the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, The Ohio State University Libraries, and The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library.

Ohio has remarkable place in the history of American cartooning. The number of well-known cartoonists who were born, educated and/or worked in the state is amazing. It was fitting during this bicentennial year to honor our state’s extraordinary legacy with this exhibition.

The digital version of the exhibition Ohio Cartoonists: A Bicentennial Celebration highlights the accomplishments of six of the state's most notable late nineteenth and early twentieth century newspaper and magazine cartoonists.

The on-line version presents the works of only six cartoonists: Edwina Dumm, Billy Ireland, Winsor McCay, Charles Nelan, Frederick Burr Opper and Richard Outcault. However, the images of comics and cartoons worth a visit.

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The Cambodian blogger Jinja , from Webbed Feet, Web Log, made some interesting discovers in the pulp books universe. Then, as a nice guy does, he blogged the "Pulp Cambodia Novel Covers" through three posts: Uth Roeun, Hul Sophon and Em Satya. I think all the covers are from 1970's, with styles going from action with romance to historical novels and revolutionary themes. (via PCL)

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Miss Tigri is a talented French painter, illustrator and designer. Her fabulous paintings of languid women have influences of Art Nouveau artists, like Alfons Mucha and Gustav Klimt, expressionist painter Egon Schiele, French comics illustrators, Milo Manara, stylists, Tim Burton and Hayao Miyazaki. (via the NSFW Erotismo Gráfico)

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Stuck In Customs is a photoblog with stunning HDR pictures from many different places by Trey Ratcliff. He made this site to explore a bit of creative photography and writing, and he was also cool enough to share the pictures under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.

If you feel inspired by his beautiful pictures, take a look on his HDR Tutorial - New and Improved for 2008, with images of all the steps to try to reproduce the effect. By the way, he's also on Flickr and has a official photography portfolio.

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The Danish artist Sven Brasch (1886-1970) created some of the best posters of the period 1910-1940 The site presents few examples, 17 only, of his art works for Hollywood movie posters, posters for events, magazine and book covers, ads from 1920's and 1930's and a self-portrait.

It was created by Peter Holst Eriksen, a collector of Sven Brasch's works as an attempt at introducing Brasch's unique and sophisticated universe and also to promote his book "Plakatens mester - tegneren Sven Brasch, which is probably very good. Few more and small images of Brasch's works here.

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Paul, the wine guy, presents his Flickr set Understanding art for geeks. My first impression was a big shock, and I asked to my buttons: what the hell? After three of four images, my artsy side went to walk and my geek side started laughing of the hilarious (explantions) combinations. Paul explains classic paintings using (classic) expressions and commands of geek knowledge. He chose a classic Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David for All Your base are belong to us, a Gerard Dou painting for RTFM, Second Life explaining Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights", and there it goes. (via MetaFilter)

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GAME OVER is a brilliant video performance project created by the Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond, using stop-motion (pixelation) technique to visually reproduce classic arcade games, pixel by pixel.

It consists of a series of collaborative animation movies which revive some of the very first video games. The pixels are replaced by a group of real human-beings that are moving from seat to seat in a theatre during about 4 to 6 hours. Each "pixel" has its own rules and decides what s/he wants to do for each picture. Once all these pictures are turned into a short animation movie, a giant human-scale video game unfolds "live".

The project started with video performance of Pong. The second video was Space Invaders on June 24th 2006, followed by Pole Position on February 11th 2007, and Tetris on November 24th 2007. The videos demanded a lot of time to be shoted, planned, and the result is great. However, two more reasons to watch them: the special effects and the soundtrack all made with voices only. Watch Tetris bellow.

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Joy Ang is a Canadian multi-artist: illustrator, photographer and designer. On her portfolio there are few, but lovely, whimsical illustrations, sketchbook images, design projects, and photos. She also started a blog with craft projects, the crafty joy, with images of her amiguri creations.

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Will Ashford searches for interesting discarded old books. Then he explores each page of the book hunting for words. That's just part of the process of his artwok Recycled Words:

At some unpredictable point along the way, in my mind, the images start to invent themselves. Using colored vellums, graphite and or India ink to highlight or obscure my words; I create the image of that invention. Though I strive to make each document visually engaging I find it is the words that I value most.

(via kottke)

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The pretty humorous cards above are part of the deck of the French card game "La Grivoise" (The Spicy). That page contains all 32 cards and the box of the game released by Grimaud in the 1960's. According to the box, it's a funny game, for laugh and amuse yourself, with 16 blue cards for women, with answers, and 16 red cards for men, with questions. (via PCL)

Posted by Bibi at 12:45 PM in Games, Illustration, Vintage ||

Some mothers are better than others, I mean, when the issue is kids' lunch box. Biggie, from Lunch in a Box: Building a Better Bento, is one of those dedicated, talented and with a lot patience, mothers and wives, in her case. She makes those adorable lunch boxes in bento style, and shares recipes, tips and techniques of their preparation. She's also a proud creator and admin of those Flickr groups: Lunchbox Recipes and Kid Eats.

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Those beautiful patterns aren't photoshoped, they are photos from wings of moths and butterflies. They are part of the project of the photographer Kjell Sandved to capture them and create this amazing butterfly alphabet, with every letter from A to Z and every number from 1 to 9.

Now, Daily Mail readers can have an exclusive, limited edition copy of this magnificent alphabet, either on a giant glossy poster (A1 size) or as 35 double-sided letter flash-cards which will allow you to make up fun messages of your own or help children with their alphabet and numbers.

More information at the Daily Mail article. (via Coudal Partners)

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On November 9, 2006 Jonathan Glancey started a blog at the Guardian Unlimited's Arts blog dedicated to the Classics of everyday design. The almost weekly articles keep going updated, and now there are 40 (and counting) Classics of everyday design.

Forget about icons, design of a kind that doesn't swank around in style magazines is all around us. Jonathan Glancey dedicates his blog to the finest examples - and he needs your help to point them out.

Among the classics listed, until now, many of them can be found on almost everywhere, and some are very British. My favourites would be: paperclip, the Swiss Army Knife, the Biro, or Bic Crystal ballpoint pen, Daleks, Lego, the Slinky and one of the greatest inventions of humanity, the anti-stressing Bubble Wrap. (Merci Bertrand!)

Posted by Bibi at 10:17 AM in Blogs, Design, Gadgets, LEGO ||

The Spanish blog Recortables shares papercraft models with political criticism, created by Sento Llobell, comics illustrator, and Toni Vaca, "speciallist on wasting time". There are papercraft caricatures of George W. Bush - El Carnicero Global, the king of Spain Juan Carlos I - El Campechano, Bin Laden - Ex-guerrero de la C.I.A., the pope Bendicto XVI and few others.They are available to download directly, as zip archive, or using eMule. (via Paper Forest)

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Melanie Pullen presents some great pictures of her portfolio "High Fashion Crime Scenes".

Melanie Pullen's collection of more than one hundred photographs that comprise High Fashion Crime Scenes is based on vintage crime-scene images she mined from the files of the Los Angeles Police Department, the County Coroner's Office, and other primary sources. Drwan to the rich details and compelling stories preserved in the criminal records, she began re-enacting the crime-scene, outfitting the "victims" (her selected models) in current haute couture, and photographing them in her staged settings.

(via Dadanoias)

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