KOMO-TV has posted some amazing photos of the Space Needle in Seattle being washed by a cleaning crew from Karcher GmbH & Co. This was the first time that the Space Needle had been cleaned since if opened for the 1962 World’s Fair.

photos by Karcher GmbH & Co.

“Phantom of the Office” is one of the more interesting annoying employees who works at CollegeHumor offices. These videos are part of CHTV’s “Hardly Working” series.

- Phantom of the Office #1
- Phantom of the Office #2
- Phantom of the Office #3

Tech Connect: Robots takes place Tuesday, May 20th from 6-8:30pm at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of the current exhibition “Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon”.

Mission Bazaar, a unique craft and performance expo, takes place this Saturday, May 17th and Sunday, May 18th at the historic San Francisco Armory (currently owned by Kink.com). This will be the first public event at The Armory in over 30 years.

Mission Bazaar will showcase a diverse collection of artisans exhibiting their creative works, products, fashion and accessories. There will be over 20 hours of live performances on three stages featuring live music, circus and dance acts, performance artists and DJs, including gypsy jazz, bellydance, spoken word, beatbox, choral ensembles, fashion shows, puppetry, flamenco guitar, and much more. In addition, Mission Bazaar has invited a diverse cross-section of Mission-based non-profit organizations to attend.

Here’s more info on Mission Bazaar, including the full list of exhibitors.

Logoblink.com has a really great collection of US presidential election logos from 1960-2008.

via Chris Glass

“Anatomie Gummi Bär” is a wonderful illustration by Jason Freeny detailing the anatomy of a Gummy Bear. Here’s some of Jason’s previous work we have posted.

Jason has a print of “Anatomie Gummi Bär” for sale in his online store.

via LCSV4

illustration by Jason Freeny

Super-Con San Jose comic book convention takes place this Saturday, May 17th and Sunday, May 18th at the San Jose Convention Center. The event features many special guests, including Wil Wheaton, who will be there as part of his 2008 Geek Tour.

b3ta ran an interesting Photoshop contest last year where they challenged people to extend album art beyond their natural borders.

See Also: Money Celebrities & LP Portraits, Creative Image Alignment Memes

via The Triumph of Bullshit

photoshops via maninthespoon, knockear & barryheadwound

Today CBS announced that it plans to aquire CNET for $1.8 Billion, which includes websites like News.com, ZDNet, Download.com and Webware.

Marshall Kirkpatrick has a great write-up on this breaking story on ReadWriteWeb.

image by Andrew Mager

monochrom and The Billboard Liberation Front recently joined forces up to create “The Great Firewall of China” at the Google headquarters in Mountain View as part of monochrom’s Sculpture Mobs project. Boing Boing TV was there with the full report.

Here’s the press release and photos from the installation.

Coincidently, the action took place the same day as Google’s annual shareholders meeting and a news crew from the local ABC affiliate (KGO Channel 7) happened by as the Sculpture Mobs installation was in progress, including it in their report, referring to monochrom and BLF as human rights activists.

photo by Johannes Grenzfurthner

Streeter Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld recently created a series amusing Truth In Website Logos for College Humor.

Mario Amaya created some interesting corporate logo mashups “Just For Fun”.

images via College Humor & Mario Amaya

MoltenSteelMan created “The Walking Beast”, an amazing giant robot spider that walks around on eight legs. Here’s a video of it in action at Burning Man 2007.

The machine is powered by a 454 cubic inch chevy V-8 married to a modified TH400 trans coupled to two klune extreme under drive planetary gear boxes, uses a rockwell 2 1/2 ton military axle to supply power to the leg crank shafts, The final drive ratio is 125:1. The legs are supported on a 4 link system and uses 56 pivot points and 114 bearings. I am currently working on the hydraulics for the elevator. the elevator is used to get passengers to the top of the machine and doubles as a cornering device, it will have a pivot pad on the bottom that will lift one side of the machine to allow it to walk in a circle.

See Also: Mondo Spider, An Amazing 8 Leg Robotic Walking Machine

via SuicideBots

Olibith created a really cool music video of The Beatles’ song “I’m Only Sleeping” using machinima from World of Warcraft.

via Nick Douglas

Don Asmussen, who draws the “Bad Reporter” comic for the San Francisco Chronicle, explains in great detail his process for creating a blog logo for “Bronstein At Large”, the new blog of the Chronicle’s former editor Phil Bronstein. Here’s the final product:

illustration by Don Asmussen

Donald Soffritti has a great series of illustrations showing what some superheroes and supervillains might look like in their old age.

Along these same lines, Spirit Magazine, the inflight magazine for Southwest Airlines, recently published an article on Nickelodeon which includes a wonderful illustration of some popular cartoon and comics characters as senior citizens.

via Neatorama & Cartoon Brew

illustration by Donald Soffritti & unknown