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• Duct-tape and Sharpie AT-AT
• DIY Video festival at UCLA and Kansas U
• Wire anti-thumbsucking implement for infants
• Mouseland: a parable from the father of Canada's healthcare system
• ElfQuest fan-film blessed by the Pinis
• The cocaine you found lodged 'twixt my buttocks belongs not to me, officer
• Quack remedies of yore - Corrects Perverted Secretions

Duct-tape and Sharpie AT-AT Posted: 03 Oct 2010 10:48 PM PDT eBay seller Komanac is flogging this 4' high, 5' long AT-AT model made of wood, cardboard, duct-tape and Sharpie: "This was created for an art show: 'Star Wars 33&1/3 anniversary' during Art Walk here in Lethbridge Alberta. I would love to keep it but not enough room. It was created July/August of this year - it took several rolls of duct tape and 30 - 40 hours to create." GIANT Duct Tape AT-AT Star Wars Fan Art Model/Sculpture (Thanks, Fred!) AT-AT jungle gym from a lost and golden age AT-AT wedding cake

DIY Video festival at UCLA and Kansas U Posted: 03 Oct 2010 10:58 PM PDT Mimi Ito sez, The State of the Art of DIY Video is a feature-length program of the best from the world of do-it-yourself video. The screening will feature the latest in online, geek, remix, and fan culture, curated to highlight the most recent trends and techniques emerging from anime music videos, political remixes, fan vids, videoblogs, and the YouTube scene. Organized by Steve Anderson, Hollly Willis, and Mimi Ito at the University of Southern California's Institute for Multimedia Literacy, curators include Matteo Bittanti, Francesca Coppa, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Ryanne Hodson, Jonathan McIntosh, Tim Park and Mike Wesch. In LA, the screening at the UCLA's Hammer Museum starts at 7:00PM, followed by a presentation and discussion with transmedia guru Henry Jenkins, a special appearance by Matt Harding of Where the Hell is Matt? fame, and a courtyard reception with performance by audio/video mashup artist Mike Relm. http://hammer.ucla.edu/calendar/detail/type/program/id/601 At Kansas U, also at 7pm, YouTube ethnographer and video maker Mike Wesch is hosting a parallel screening. Future screenings planned in San Francisco and other locations. 24/7 2010: The State of the Art in DIY Video returns! (Thanks, Mimi!)

Wire anti-thumbsucking implement for infants Posted: 03 Oct 2010 10:11 PM PDT Worried about your child's thumbsucking? Why not simply encase it in this horrific, bizarre wire torture-implement? Stop Thumb Sucking!

Mouseland: a parable from the father of Canada's healthcare system Posted: 03 Oct 2010 10:08 PM PDT Tommy Douglas was the socialist premier of Saskatchewan, the father of Canada's healthcare system, and the grandfather of actor Keifer Sutherland. In this short animated video introduced by Sutherland, Douglas delivers his famous "Mouseland" parable, about the day the mice decided to elect their own to government. Mouseland (Thanks, Hagrid, via Submitterator!) Democracy Trying to Work Classic Canadian social-democratic parable Myths about Canadian healthcare

ElfQuest fan-film blessed by the Pinis Posted: 03 Oct 2010 10:04 PM PDT A group of ElfQuest fans with a good track-record for producing excellent web-videos have secured Elfquest creators Richard and Wendy Pini's permission to produce a fan-film based on the series. The movie is to be crowdfunded (they need $5,000) and the Pinis are donating original art and personal phone calls as premiums to spendy donors. Rhodes reached out to Richard Pini via Facebook to get his blessing on the project, and while the Pinis have always been open to fan-created projects, Rhodes and Thorpe's proposal struck them as something special. "It sounded so incredibly wonderful and exciting, especially when we saw what they'd already done," Pini said via phone. "This is the most professional, enthusiastic bunch of folks who have ever approached us; they've already demonstrated that they know how to make web video and get people excited about watching it. It's a first for us and a first for ElfQuest, and we knew that we wanted to take advantage." Creator-Blessed ElfQuest Fan Film Crowdsources Funds ElfQuest Fan Film on IndieGoGo (Thanks, Tavie, via Submitterator!) Every issue of Elfquest free -- oldest independent comic goes ... Elfquest movie inches closer to actual existence Wendy "Elfquest" Pini's artwork for the never-made "Stormbringer ... A girl at the 1978 comic-con

The cocaine you found lodged 'twixt my buttocks belongs not to me, officer Posted: 03 Oct 2010 11:01 AM PDT "The white stuff is not mine, but the weed is."—The response of a 25-year old Florida gentleman, after a traffic stop led to a police officer's discovery of one bag of cocaine and one bag of marijuana lodged between the man's buttocks. "While searching Roberts' person, deputies felt a soft object in his buttocks. The report said Roberts then said, 'Let me get it.'" (via Tara McGinley)

Quack remedies of yore - Corrects Perverted Secretions Posted: 03 Oct 2010 11:02 AM PDT Vintage Ads

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