Mario’s Mustaches by Mike Stefanini
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Dorkbot SF is having their big 7 Year Anniversary Party this Saturday, June 20th at Kraftworks in West Oakland. Guest speakers include Keith Johnson and Greg Solberg (Building Electric Cars from Scratch), Jon Sarriugarte (Giant Iron Snail Car, Golden Mean, 1928 Hogan Tesla Coil, Power Tool Drag Racing, Volt-Aged Whiskey), Mike Winter (Interrogation by Robot) and Omega Recoil (Wireless Transmission: How Did Nikola Tesla Do It?). Check out Jon Sarriugarte’s write-up for more info.
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John Martz created a really cute Internet Explorer 6 denial page for Momentile.
via Ernie
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Last month Freaking News is hosted a bizzare Photoshop contest featuring Celebrities Upside Down.
via Chris Glass
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guest post by Kevin Evans
Merle Becker interviewed rock poster artists around the country who are part of the rising “rock poster art movement” for his new documentary “American Artifact, The Rise of American Rock Poster Art”. The film features interviews with such renowned artists as Chuck Sperry and Ron Donovan of Firehouse, Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso, Frank Kozik, Art Chantry, EMEK, Tara McPherson, Derek Hess, COOP, Jay Ryan, and more, as well as fans, collectors, and musicians.
Our friend Winston Smith also appears in the film and is credited (via Frank Kozik & others) in helping to define a generation’s graphic style with his iconic illustrations for The Dead Kennedys and others. Smith notoriously used the streets as his gallery displaying flyers for bands (real or imagined).
The film will be having its world premier this Saturday, June 20th (5pm & 7pm) at the Red Vic Movie House in San Francisco.
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guest post by Burstein!
Len Peralta is the Cleveland artist behind “Monster by Mail” is back with “Summer of the Supervillain”, where Len will draw you a sketch of any monster of your choosing for $25. Just give him the name of a monster, like The Dark Master of Business Intelligence & Analytics for example, and Len will give form sketch a very appropriate monster for the name and mail it to you. An extra ten bucks will get you a video of him bringing your monster to life paper.
“Diagnostico -World Domination Through Microscopy”
Of course, you can order one for a loved one because, “Nothing says ‘I care for you’ like a personalized monster, creature or spook from Monster By Mail!” Here are a couple of my favorites:
“Dr.Brandon from Skullcrusher Mountain with half monkey/half pony and Scarface”
And, of course, you can get his coloring book, AARGH! The Incredibly Ghoulish, Frighteningly Creepy Coloring Book Of Death, is still available through lulu publishing.
See Previously:
- Monster by Mail and The Coloring Book of Death
- Monster By Mail Presents: Aliens
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Here a few photos I shot this weekend during MaxFunCon 2009 at Lake Arrowhead, CA. It was really fun conference that focused on creativity, comedy and general geekiness, organized and curated by Jesse Thorn of the public radio show The Sound of Young America (see my previous post on MaxFunCon 2009).
Photo Gallery: MaxFunCon 2009
Here are more photos of MaxFunCon 2009 by Noe Montes, Nicole Lee, Douglas Dollars and Jenny Ryan.
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Today at TechCrunch’s 4th Anniversary at their new HQ in Palo Alto, our friends at Rackspace just launched their new website building43, “a community for people fanatical about the Internet”. It features interviews videos by Robert Scoble and Rocky Barbanica, who were hired by Rackspace back in March. The website was built by a team of people led Rob La Gesse, who has been our primary point of contact with The Rackspace Cloud as we launched our cloud hosting services.
At building43, we spend our time focusing on what those new developments mean to you. We go in-depth, and discuss the practical implications and the ways your business can apply the technology.
We’ve designed building43 to bring together thought leaders in a variety of disciplines and organizations, from entrepreneurs to those responsible for the latest technologies. They will share knowledge, experiences and advice on how you can use these cool new tools and apps to make your business more successful.
Robert Scoble explains what building43 is all about and how it came into existence. His first interview on building43 features Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
UPDATE: Here are a few photos from the TechCrunch 4th Anniversary Party & Building43 Launch.
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GigaOm presents Structure 09, their second annual conference on Cloud Computing and Internet infrastructure which takes place June 25th at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. GigaOm is offering Laughing Squid readers a 10% discount on Structure 09 registration.
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My friend Hugh MacLeod, a wonderful cartoonist who is best known for “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”, has just published his first book out “Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity”. Here’s a review of Hugh’s book by marketing guru Seth Godin.
See Previously: South Park Lunch With A Hugh MacLeod Cartoon Explosion
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Kasper Hauser has posted another great promo video promo for their recently released book “Weddings of the Times”, a parody of the New York Times wedding announcements. In this video the law firm of Glinder & Glinder will help you fight your rejected NYT wedding announcement.
The video features a great cameo by our friends Jim Fourniadis and Erin Ohanneson who run The Dark Room Theater in San Francisco.
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Waffle Whiffe has been documenting wonderful advertising characters from the 1960’s through today. Burger Chef, man that brings back memories of the “Fun Meal”.
via Drawn!
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/Film has a great write-up on easter eggs in the new Pixar film “Up”, including references to locations in Berkeley and Oakland (warning contains spoilers).
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WordPress has just released version 2.8 “Baker” which includes a bunch of new features, changes, upgrades and improvements.
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Hi-Fructose posted a preview of Volume 12 which will be out in early July and is now available for pre-order.
Features include an extensive interview by Kirsten Anderson on American Surrealist:Todd Schorr, a cover feature on the powerful paintings of Josh Keyes, Luke Chueh, Jingyoung Yu’s haunting sculptures, the brilliant meditations of painter Michael Hussar, survive a ride on Michael Page’s maelstrom, Fuco Ueda’s disturbing dreamscapes and Travis Lampe’s world of weeping pulps. Exposes on Mike Shine’s Art Shack, Scott Hove’s Cakeland plus toy exposes, Acquired Tastes and more.
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guest post by Burstein!
The Tamale Lady (a.k.a. Virginia Ramos) is celebrating her *ahem* not-35th birthday at Zeitgeist on Monday, June 15th from 6 to 8 p.m. Cecil D. Feeder is hosting the party and will be showing his documentary on the life and times of Our Lady of the Tamale.
Thanks to Sean Savage for the tip!
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For years I’ve been trying to find the perfect way to do a link blog. I come across so much good stuff on a daily basis that I want to share with our readers. Much of it wouldn’t need to be it’s own blog post, plus I wouldn’t have the time to write posts on all of them anyway.
My current solution is to Tumblr our link blog:
http://links.laughingsquid.com
The links from the link blog then show up on the right-hand sidebar of this blog via an RSS widget.
The shared links are also cross posted to FriendFeed.
All of our links, both from this main blog and our link blog are posted to our @ls_links Twitter account.
So that’s how I currently have it set up, of course this could all change again in a couple of months as I refine the process.
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The sketch comedy group Kasper Hauser has two new books out this week. The first one is “Weddings of the Times” which is a parody of the New York Times wedding announcements. The book was featured on a recent episode of NPR’s All Things Considered.
You are cordially invited to celebrate
A Parody of
The New York Times
Wedding Announcements
by
Kasper HauserAlong with fully illustrated guides to:
Wedding-night sex,
Honeymoon hot spots,
Formalwear malfunctions,
and much, much more.At four o’clock in the Afternoon.
Or is it three o’clock?
Didn’t you bring the invitation?
Huh? Where the hell is the turnoff?
Back there. I think I saw a paper plate and some balloons.
What’s wrong?
I just need to eat something. I’m fine.
Remind me how we know these people?
The other book released this week is “Obama’s Blackberry” which imagines what the president’s text messages might be like now that he was allowed to keep his Blackberry.
When Obama stated that if elected, he would keep his Blackberry, debate echoed through Washington and among the ranks of the Secret Service. What would it be like to have a president who could Twitter, send text messages, and navigate the web with ease? What would it be like to receive a text message from inside the Oval Office and, most importantly, what would it say?
Now, for the first time, We The People are privy to our new leader’s epistolary back-and-forths on his wily hand-held device. We’re about to discover that his emails (and the replies, from his wife and daughters, Biden, Palen, Rush, Hannity, the new first puppy, and even Bush) are so tuned in to the language of electronic correspondence they come hilariously close to the brink of legibility.
This giftable, imagined glimpse into Obama’s beloved Blackberry traverses the mundane and momentous contours of the Commander in Chief’s life, from security briefings to spam, basketball practice to domestic bliss, and the panic of oops-I-hit-reply-all, to, of course, the trauma of dealing with the First Mother In Law.
Kasper Hauser is having a Book Release Show on June 16th at Cobb’s Comedy Club in San Francisco.
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guest post by Burstein!
Journey to the End of the Night is an interactive and free street game that is being produced by SF0. While the rules are a bit more complex, the game is an extended version of tag where the players will try to make it through a series of checkpoints while being chased by the organizers. If you get caught, you then become a chaser.
It starts Saturday, June 20th, 7pm in the amphitheater at Mosswood Park near the MacArthur Bart.
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