Karl Meersman

Clint Eastwood; Kim Clijsters; Keith Richards; Prins Laurent

Karl Meersman is an illustrator, cartoonist and designer based in Belgium, who is particularly known for his caricatures of Belgian politicians and celebrities.

Anime-Style Simpsons artist gets hired by Matt Groening

Remember my earlier post about the picture above, well it got so popular over the internet that the designer was contacted by Matt Groening’s comic book company to make a comic in this style.

Long story short: Bongo Comics, Matt Groenings comic book company, is hiring me to do the pencils for a short manga-style Simpsons comic. Also, Ive been contacted by 20th Century Fox. They want me to do work for them somehow. I might get a design job for the upcoming new Futurama series

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What if the Simpsons had been drawn like Anime?!

Artist comments:

Oh man, this got on the front page of deviantART, and now it’s on digg.com. If I knew this piece would receive so much attention, I would’ve done a better job.

This guy did a great job if you ask me.
Also check out his Futurama picture.

Rubber Johnny

Rubber Johnny is a 6 minute experimental short film and music video directed by Chris Cunningham in 2005, using music composed by Aphex Twin. The name Rubber Johnny is drawn from a British slang for “condom” as well as a description of the main character. The DVD comes with an art book, containing stills from the film, as well as conceptual drawings, photographs and more.

This must be the creepiest and weirdest video ever, except for David Lynch’s Rabbits of course. I first saw this about the time it came out and I always remembered the “hyperactive, shape-shifting mutant child”. A Cunningham and Aphex Twin combo can’t go wrong.

Also watch this surprisingly good parody and the Cunningham Portal.

2007

Let’s just knock it all out of the way now….
Here are some new year’s eve Flickr sets.

Múm and El Topo

This is a great combination of the song “The ghost you draw on my back” from an Icelandic band called Múm and scenes from the fantastic 70s western “El Topo”.
If you haven’t seen El Topo, you should. Props to the director of this clip.

Ninja Obsession - Amon Tobin, The Cinematic Orchestra

Just had a look at Ninja Obsession, the Ninja Tune record label’s fan site, and read about some upcoming releases from:

The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur: Very pleased to hear that they’re still making music, it’s been like 4 years since the release of Man with the movie camera.

Amon Tobin - Foley Room: I’ve heard about this one since he put two interesting trailers on his myspace page. I’m bursting with anxiety for this one.
trailer#1
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Genius of noise manipulation and uncompromising musical auteur, Amon Tobin will shortly be releasing his new album for Ninja Tune, “Foley Room”. For this new project Amon and a team of assistants headed out into the streets with high sensitivity microphones and recorded found sounds from tigers roaring to cats eating rats, neighbours singing in the bath to ants eating grass. Tobin then took this wealth of source material and twisted it round into the haunting, muscular music you can hear for the first time here.

2 Killed by Floating Artwork

vrtnieuws.net - Kunstwerk eist zijn tol
I laughed my ass off when I saw this, ..till I heard two people died.

Mr Clark said: “I was walking along the river front with Sophie and we just saw something coming towards us. It was very large, sort of rectangular shape, it’s hard to describe really.

Community in shock after tragedy

deviantART v5: where ART meets application!

deviantART: where ART meets application!
Great news,.. I think. DeviantArt recently announced their v5 to be released on August 7th; it’ll be their 6th birthday.

It can only be an improvement I think.

First and foremost, the layout. It’s the first thing you see when you visit a site, it’s the first thing you really gauge your opinion of a website on. Combined with the colorscheme makes it just plain ugly.
Navigation is a mess, deviations are nested inside multiple categories. I’m no expert but I think it would be better to use tags instead of categories, like Flickr.
Ads, the homepage doesn’t have ads below the navigation, but every other page has a big block of google’s adsense crammed in between.
I can’t really flame on ads because everybody’s got to make a little money and they got their servers to pay too. Although, I bet they make enough money off of the custom prints they sell.
Aside from the website itself, it’s a great community of talented artists giving away their creations for free.
I go their about once a week to pick out a new dual screen desktop wallpaper(not bragging or anything :-)). I always end up satisfied and astonished.

Here are some of my favorite deviants.(deviants=users, deviations=creations)…
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