The Ultimate Spumco Location!

A friend of mine, who happens to be a huge Spumco fan, was looking for a new home in California and came accross this listing on a street …

Explosive Magoo

Animator and eagle-eyed Brew reader Celia Bullwinkel spotted this faded sidewalk stencil graffiti of Mr. Magoo planting a bomb. The piece …

Kung Fu Panda Knockoffs

Apparently Kung Fu Panda is so popular that it’s spurred a whole bunch of counterfeit merchandise, some of which are pretty funny.

Kristen Morgin

Kristen Morgan, an artist and professor at Cal State Long Beach, has a current installation in Hollywood which combines pop culture …

Boop-Oop-A-Doop Juice

At last night’s ASIFA-Hollywood board meeting, Steve Worth handed me a can of

Grand Theft Auto IV: Almost Great Art

piece in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal that examined the new Grand Theft Auto IV and the comparisons it has drawn to works like The …

Looney Muses

Billy Collins, a former U.S. poet laureate, writes about his love for Warner Bros. Cartoons in today’s Wall Street Journal. This quote …

Bedrock City

Bedrock City, the kitschy little theme park in Custer, South Dakota, was created in 1966 by a coalition of local concrete makers. …

George Carlin, RIP

Comedian George Carlin has died at 71. Below is the 1985 short Drawing on My Mind, written and narrated by Carlin and directed by the …

Tom Hignite’s Home Imaginators

Tom Hignite, the Wisconsin home builder who thinks he’s Walt Disney, is back – in a series of local infomercials which ultilizes lush …

Hanna-Barbera in 3D

Just because a drawn-character is translated into 3D, doesn’t mean it needs to look unappealing, ugly and clumsy. These vintage …

Interactive Animated Wall Projections

“Chase” is an art project from 2005 that I only heard about recently. In it, animated cartoon characters participate in a never-ending …

Uncanny Valley Explained

This clip from the TV series 30 Rock offers an entertaining explanation of the “Uncanny Valley” (aka “Robert Zemeckis-style …

Untooned Cartoon Characters

“Untooning” cartoon characters seems to be turning into a bit of a trend, as evidenced by Jerry’s last post about live Simpsons and the …

Spanish Simpsons

There isn’t much to say about this:

Electronica Alice

“Alice” is an electronic piece of music by a young South African artist named Nick Bertke. He explains that “90% is composed using sounds …

Wall-E Builders

Talk about dedicated cartoon buffs. There’s a group of Pixar fanatics who are spending months building their own life-size replicas of …

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