For those of you who have never run across the artwork of Jim Woodring, you’re missing out on some of the most surreal (and sometimes disturbing) pen and inkwork that I’ve seen. Woodring based a lot of his subject matter on hallucinations he had as a child, and decided to record them on paper.
His most recognizable character is Frank, a good guy who goes on bizarre adventures, often accompanied by Madame Pupshaw (sort of a cat) and Pushpaw (sort of a dog). None of the characters speak.
Woodring’s online store is awesome. It’s full of delightful oddness, perfect gifts for the hard-to-get, and presented for your review on The Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: Art, gift ideas, Jim Woodring, Oddities, Open thread, Video
Nice cartoon.
LOLcats from before.
Rodan wrote:
The guy is awesome. I ordered some stuff for my mom’s birthday a couple of years ago, asked him if he’d autograph a book. (Mom is suffering alzheimers, but she always liked good artwork.) Woodring went over and above, included a freehand drawing of Frank in the book’s inset.
the cartoon…its like eischer meets the very early mickey mouse…
Why don’t stuff like this get in the Smithsonian?
Urgh…NatGeo assholes.
Follow up the presentation of an outstanding documentary with utter garbage about the Mexican cartels getting their guns from US gun stores.
@ Bunk X:
My father has alzheimer’s.
coldwarrior wrote:
Escher’s work was mostly woodcuts and lithographs. Woodring mimics woodcuts with pen and ink. One of these days I’d like to meet him.
mjazz wrote:
Sorry to hear that. My dad is beginning to show signs… Let’s not kill the OOT with depressing news… I come here to have fun.
@ lobo91:
We should build a big wall to save Mexico.
Viva Mexico.
@ mjazz:
Sorry.
unspecial wrote:
Only if we can put Bloomberg on the other side of it first.
And Hillary Clinton.
Why did he have hallucinations as a kid?
hey ya’ll
have you guys seen THIS!
U.S. Army Unveils ‘Revolutionary’ XM25 Rifle in Afghanistan
After years of development, the U.S. Army has unleashed a new weapon in Afghanistan — the XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System, a high-tech rifle that can be programmed so that its 25-mm. ammunition detonates either in front of or behind a target, meaning it can be fired just above a wall before it explodes and kills the enemy.
It also has a range of roughly 2,300 feet — nearly the length of eight football fields — making it possible to fire at targets well past the range of the rifles and carbines that most soldiers carry today.
“With this weapon system, we take away cover from [enemy targets] forever,” Lehner told FoxNews.com on Wednesday. “Tactics are going to have to be rewritten. The only thing we can see [enemies] being able to do is run away.”
“We have found that this has really made our soldiers so much more accurate and being able to deliver this high-explosive round in about five seconds,” said Lehner, taking into account the time it takes a soldier to laze, aim and fire the weapon. Once fired, Lehner said, the round will reach its target in a “second or two,” meaning the entire process from aiming to direct hit lasts less than 10 seconds, compared to 10 minutes or longer for traditional mortar fire.
A potential battlefield scenario, according to Army officials, might go something like this:
– A patrol encounters an enemy combatant in a walled Afghan village who fires an AK-47 intermittently from behind cover, exposing himself only for a brief second to fire.
– The patrol’s leader calls for the XM25 gunman, who uses the weapon’s laser range finder to calculate the distance to the target.
– He then uses an incremental button located near the trigger to add 1 meter to the round’s distance, since the enemy is hiding behind a wall.
– The round is fired, and it explodes with a blast comparable to a hand grenade past the wall and above the enemy.
“This is a game-changer,” Lehner said. “The enemy has learned to get cover, for hundreds if not thousands of years.
“Well, they can’t do that anymore. We’re taking that cover from them and there’s only two outcomes: We’re going to get you behind that cover or force you to flee. So no matter what, we gotcha.”
…this is one SWEET looking weapon..
@ Bunk X:
I know. Just thought I’d mention because you did. Get’s scary when you start forgetting stuff, and, before we move on, I just wanna mention that it seems like almost every other person you run into has a parent who has some form of that.
@ unspecial:
I say bases along the border in Arizona every 15 to twenty miles.
@ unspecial:
thanks
I’m not much of a “Japanimation” fan, but this is a well-done loose-adaptation of Hellenic Mythology, from 1986, entitled Arion…
Part 1
@ lobo91:
Even better, loan them all our progressives, until Mexico surpasses the USA.
mjazz wrote:
I don’t know. That’s his story. Apparently he dropped out of art school because of them.
@ mjazz:
Cool with me. I only mentioned it because Woodring went the extra mile.
@ rain of lead:
So when does Obama start selling it to his friends the peaceful Muslims?
@ rain of lead:
It’s basically a development of the grenade launcher portion of the old OICW (Objective Individual Combat Weapon) project from the late ’90s.
The results from the Afghanistan deployment should be interesting. I hope it’s durable enough to survive over there.
@ rain of lead:
It is a game changer. Literally a “rain of lead,” as the weapon delivers an air-burst of shrapnel over the targets heads. It is like having a mini-bomber over-watch on every patrol. One capable of close in support and pin point accuracy.
@ rain of lead:
Wow! I love it! Make those mujahedeen taste the death they so desire!
Ok, I’ll post part 2 of the cartoon…
Bagua wrote:
heh
think I just got me a new avitar
global warming
minus 20 C windchill…-70F!!! I sure hope that the -20C is a typo!
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@ coldwarrior:
Shhh! Don’t you know 2010 is the hottest year or something?
coldwarrior wrote:
Climate Injustice, indeed!
This calls for keeping the poor poor and making the rich poor through Utopian Socialist Wealth Distribution!
Part 3
Take a look at the woman in the foreground c. 1:28 in — she turns her head at around 180°!
Ah, the possibilities inherent in drawing…
@ Bagua:
@ Philip_Daniel:
-70F wind chill is lethal.
so…BILLIONS WILL DIE!!!!
@ coldwarrior:
Possibly, the actual science shows that cold is a far greater killer than warmth.
Add to this the obvious fact that the Climate Delusion™ is greatly threatening food production, both indirectly and directly, and yes, we have a situation in which Global Warming Alarmism could cause millions of deaths world-wide.
Bagua wrote:
Civilization thrives during warming periods, declines during cooling periods.
@ Bagua:
The people who believe this stuff do not produce food.
Bagua wrote:
It will work only if the ROE allow our troops to use it whenever necessary.
@ coldwarrior:
We’re doomed™
1389AD wrote:
The Rules of Engagement only permit us to “live under the Muslim rule & agree to pay the Jizyah.”
I. Am. Serious. Our RoE = National Suicide.
@ coldwarrior:
-20 C is only -4 F, not -70
lobo91 wrote:
yer right…i converted on the fly!
still way too damn cold for the UK.
(this is what i get for trying to write posts and read this at the same time)
@ coldwarrior:
Leia says that sounds pretty nice.
lobo91 wrote:
she can have it.
night all!
@ coldwarrior:
She has the fur for it.
@ coldwarrior:
Night
Philip_Daniel wrote:
History says just that.
Bagua wrote:
…Which indicates how truly anti-Civilization al-Gor’ists truly are, given their dread at the notion of the atmosphere warming even ever-so-slightly-as-to-be-nearly-imperceptible…
Philip_Daniel wrote:
Much better — notice I used the feminine Arabic plural suffix “-at”, not the masculine “-in”…
Herman Munster tells Israel to give itself to the Arabs;
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/11/29/wikileaked_john_kerry_calls_for_israel_to_cede_golan_heights_and_east_jerusalem
@ Philip_Daniel:
There was an interesting comment in Military Magazine, December issue, entitled “Irresponsible ignorance allows socialist errors.” Unfortunately, there are no links on their website. What caught my eye was this paragraph especially:
“According to socialist strategy, control of the economy allows the control of every aspect of life. Control of energy allows the control of the economy. Control of fossil fuel (the socialist term for petroleum and coal) allows the control of energy. Control of carbon dioxide (literally, your breath) allows the control of every aspect of life.” –Sheldon B. Graham, Jr.
There’s more to the article than just that paragraph. Maybe I’ll scan it in for a post.
All of Drudge tonight looks like an issue of The Onion. It’s crazy out there.
@ Bunk X:
Good idea.
@ yenta-fada:
@ Philip_Daniel:
Isn’t all of that a clear statement of what most Muslims believe? It is official CAIR, ISNA, MSA, Muslim Brotherhood, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, etc. doctrine, no? There were never a tiny majority of extremists, but the West persists in this delusion. The 70′s oil money fed radicals and still do so. The dimmhi governments must honestly believe they can ‘negotiate’. They have never fought to win.
It seems like the civilizations that had to learn to deal with the cold did better.
@ mjazz:
Funny that.
Not coincidentally, they needed fuel to survive the cold. They developed a strong supply of coal, and later oil and natural gas. That same fuel proved useful for more than heating and cooking, it fueled the transportation and manufacturing revolution that “developed” the modern world.
Desiree Bassett- 15 yr old girl guitarist playing “Dreams” by Van Halen…Oh, and she’s really good, although her singing isn’t the greatest.
Here are some tips for travel for those who want to get out and have fun in the upcoming global warming;
http://www.travelyukon.com/winterpackages?utm_source=casale&utm_content=s699&utm_campaign=wintercampaign2010
coldwarrior wrote:
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Hasn’t she been 15 for about 10 years by now?
[...] [Crossposted here.] [...]
*sniffs at #63 and thinking SpamBat would be a nice snack*
@ Bunk X:
She’s actually 18 now, born in 1992. But the video was recorded when she was 15.
Mongoose wrote:
Yeah, one rare blogwhoring crosspost. I don’t see you chewing on any of 1389′s tweets.
mjazz wrote:
I guess I’m pretty much at a dead end here in Hawaii then.
Morning, anyone still awake?
Well for those of you awake and lurking, here’s the start of our photo walk Christmas/Anniversary party.
Hey Cold. Just a quick drive-by. I guess you saw the news that TCU will be joining the Big East. Frogs and Panthers will be bangin heads next year.
We need to pass this START treaty, or the Russians won’t trust us:
You know, I don’t expect thousands of Russian tanks to come storming through the Fulda Gap if we sign this treaty, but I am suspicious of its utility when the Russians are already in breach of promises made to us since 1991 about their tactical weapons. There seems little point in sigining yet another treaty that America will live up to but the other side will not. We have enough of those treaties on the books now.
@ PaladinPhil:
Morning!
It’s nice to get together this time of year.
The wife and I recently celebrated our first anniversary at a place here in Pittsburgh, and our table was so awesome that I wished that I had a camera with me.
This image was taken from our table (not by us!).
If you’re ever near Pittsburgh and need a nice dinner, I highly recommend the Monterey Bay Fish Grotto. Used to work there, never seen a bad experience.
@ Iron Fist:
We are Charlie Brown to their Lucy.
Top o’ the mornin’, all!
@ huckfunn:
From a Louisville fan, welcome to the Big East.
@ Bumr50:
I have a list. :p
/always growing never shrinking
@ Bumr50:
Pretty much. You can’t really blame the Russians for taking advantage of us if they can. They have to do what is in their national interest. We just shouldn’t be fools and sign on to this. We need desperately to modernize our weapons and to develop the “micronukes” tactical weapons that Bush tried to get started and the Republican Senate (John McCain) killed. Russia is no longer our main strategic concern, and we shouldn’t be making treaties pretending otherwise. Our main strategic concern is the Ummah, our main enemy Islam. That is what we should be posturing our strategic weapons to fight.
@ Iron Fist:
Whenever we do this we smell of weakness and fear. In an agreement, everyone should get something, and the more I read of START, the less I see how we benefit. No, I don’t trust Russia. On the other hand, I sense no real fear of imminant war with them, either. As Reagan said, “Trust, but verify” – that, plus actual benefits to US should be the starting point of all arms control talks.
When your stated objective is, as Obama has stated, to rid the world of nuclear weapons, you’ve already pretty much lost since you’ve shown your hand.
@ MacDuff:
Ridding the world of nuclear weapons isn’t a realistic goal. It is also unclear as to how this will make things better, as historically war is much more common and brutal in a nuclear free world. What you do when you disarm is give massive incentives to those would would cheat. Nothing more. Weakness invites attack. If we were to unilatterally disarm, that would simply make attack on us inevitible. OTOH, if we had a policy of utterly destroying anyone who attacked us, we would, at most, be attacked only once.
Okay, got to drag my sorry ass off to work. See you folks later on.
Iron Fist wrote:
Absolutely. The world has been literally free of conflict between major powers for more than 60 years, primarily, I think, due to the fear that a conflict could go nuclear. Nukes have been a major reason for the reletive peace we now enjoy.
Alas, that strategy only works between developed, and somewhat reasonable nations. Should we allow rogue states like Iran and North Korea to become fully operational nuclear states we all (including Russia and China) will be the losers; that is where the real threat lies in the modern world. China is becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the destabilizing antics of North Korea, and the Muslim world, while still enemies of the US, are far more fearful of Iran than they would appear from the outside.
And let’s not forget Pakistan and India. While India becomes more developed by the day, Pakistan is following the opposite road. Pakistan’s nuclear capability is the stuff of nightmares.
If anything, we should be modernizing our arsenal to meet the challenges that we currently face, and those challenges are real and grave. Talk about a “nuclear free world” are, as you say unrealistic, and are the stuff of sheer fantasy to anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the real, and very dangerous world.
@ Iron Fist:
in the Left Behind series the one world leader
convinces all countries to give thier nukes to
him.
//trust me it’s for your ow good
@ mawskrat:
I enjoyed the first two books.
I’ve heard that the the rest, er, not so much, but I haven’t read them. Any thoughts?
Someone needs to tell Kourtney Kardashian that she looks REALLY ugly in that getup on F &F.
@ Bumr50:
Kardassians never look good with the off-the-shoulder look. It’s the scales…
@ Iron Fist:
*boooo* *Hissssss*
/sad, I was thinking of Cardassians too when I saw her name passing through the malls food court this morning.
Obama should have to answer for :
Let me repeat: Obama knew all along that Israeli concessions had nothing to do with stopping Iran’s march to nuclear weapons. Yet he persisted in linking the two, even though it raised the risk of an atomic conflagration that could engulf the world.
I’d like to know: does it get any more irresponsible than that?
Of course, you won’t see the MFM (not even Fox News) raise that question to teh Won. I wish they would. It would be interesting to watch Obama’s head spin around while he was puking pea soup…
@ Iron Fist:
Additionally it would be interesting to see the response of j-street and abe foxman, norman finkelstein, noam chumpsky, and other so-called friends of Israel, Jews and the wrongly named peace process.
@ Iron Fist:
Obama’s palpable antagonism toward Israel, and warmth toward her enemies is destructive to everything we have tried to accomplish in the Middle East. It’s so obvious that it’s vitually impossible to assume anything other than that destruction of previous policy is premeditated.
If there were ever any doubt, his decision to not support, even verbally, the Iranians during the uprising in the summer of ’09 erased it. He lent tacit support to the current regime and the US missed a golden opprtunity to eliminate a major Islamist theocracy. There can be no other conclusion than his reticence was deliberate.
He ignorantly believes that his policy shift will endear him to the Muslim world when, in fact, they may well end up hating him more than Bush. Weakness is despised and exploited in the Muslim world and I find it impossible that he doesn’t know that. Again, one can only assume that his moves, or lack thereof, are calculated to a specific end.
Two more years of this is a frightening thought.
huckfunn wrote:
Its a good thing too, the big east needs some cred in football something fierce.
@ MacDuff:
Yep. I don’t disagree with any of that. For all I despise him, I do not believe that Obama is dumb. Weak, yes, that is obvious, but not dumb. He knows what he is doing, and is doing it because he wants the results he will get. That conclusion is inescapable.