Back in September 2006, after reading this post, I sent in an SASE and a phrase for Exploding Dog’s ‘Drawings by Mail.’ May got hers last January but mine never showed up. In the meantime, Sam (of Exploding Dog) had a baby and I figured he’d (understandably) stopped the drawings. But last month they started appearing on the website again. Well, yesterday I spied a large envelope addressed to myself in my own handwriting and for a second, I was confused but then it hit me. It’s HERE! And here it is. PS. May, you never told us what your phrase was.

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Found on Etsy by my friend mikepop (check out his new blog Grok Robots - a blog all about robots)

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Rescued from our collective electronic trash bins and lovingly preserved for posterity, here’s a set of doodles inspired by spam subject lines. viagra and boob boosting vitamins never looked so good.

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Check out this impossibly-cute fake laptop keyboard. Someone call TikiRobot HR.. We need to hire this kid, stat!

Apparently the pet keys are shortcuts for webkinz. Via Shifted Librarian

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A choose your own adventure story, told in graffiti:

The mission stencil story is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure story that takes place on the sidewalks of the Mission district in San Francisco. It is told in a new medium of storytelling that uses spraypainted stencils connected to each other by arrows. The streetscape is used as sort of an illustration to accompany each piece of text.

Its a love story with 2 characters who start in different locations. His story starts at 16th and Valencia, in front of the Crown Hotel / Limon Restaurant with the text “He Leaves his Lonely Apartment.” Her story starts at 21st and Guerrero in front of a stunning mansion with the text, “She Leaves her Lonely Apartment.” Eventually their paths merge, at the point where they meet, and their paths travel together until drama pulls them apart.

via BoingBoing

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Here’s a link to the finished drawing. (and where you can get one too.)

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Check out these neat illustrated playing cards. I ordered 3 different decks so we need to have a poker party when they arrive. You can order them here if you want a deck too.

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For a friend’s birthday yesterday, we went to see The Marvel of Manga at the Asian Art Museum. The exhibit features the work of Osamu Tezuka, who created characters like Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion and is also known as the father of manga. An interesting thing about Tezuka is that he had no official art training but actually graduated from Osaka University with a medical degree. The breadth of his work is amazing and it’s worth checking out. The exhibit runs through Sept 9th and the museum is free on the first Tuesdays of the month.

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Here is how I chose a new cell phone. I ran all the cell phones through this flow chart, and added up the scores. The BlackBerry 8703e on Verizon came up on top, but only because the 8800 isn’t out for another two weeks. I have a pretty specific set of requirements, so this probably won’t be useful to you, but here it is anyway:

Here are a few things I forgot to add to the chart (the BlackBerry 8703e has none of these):

• Trackball/D-pad
• Camera
• Touchscreen
• Transflective display
  

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Adam Koford is a cartoonist who runs the distributed E-Hobo effort that illustrated the 800 hobo names from John Hodgman’s Areas of My Expertise. He was also selling custom-painted postcards illustrating your own hobo name, and Mikey commissioned a drawing of TikiRobot Raj and his Superdog Zara!

Mikey gave me the art-card yesterday at the Ranch and it totally blew me away! So beautiful and perfect! I love the way Adam captured Zara’s Z-tag, and floppy ears, and my flaming head! Thanks much to both of you!

Links!

• TikiRobot Raj on flickr
• TikiRobot Raj on Adam’s blog, Hobotopia
• Your Hobo Names set on flickr
• The 700 Hobos Project on flickr
• e-hobo.com
  

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I got sick of our SecureImage captcha. I couldn’t type in the correct code a third of the time, and it looked ugly. So I wrote a new hacked up our existing captcha plugin to show pictures of graffiti and street art instead of computer-generated text!

Please help me test it out by leaving a comment with a link to a picture of street art. I found some great ones in this Flickr set by Trois Tetes. You can also use Flickr Creative Commons search to “find content to modify, adapt, or build upon”. Please make sure that the image has a CC license!

I’ll add attribution for the images and then post the code if no one finds a bug!

Update: Get it here!

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A while ago I sent a caption to Sam Brown of exploding dog and today I got a drawing from him in the mail (he was doing an experiment which I posted about over here). The drawing fits my caption perfectly, which I am a little embarrassed to divulge right now. Maybe I’ll tell you later when I’m feeling less embarrassed.

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Make apple crisp of course. Tom Dickson demonstrates much better on his ipod below (though i think he’s blending up a smoothie).

I tried this recipe today and it was good, but the “crisp” was not as crispy as I would have liked. Anyone got tips on how to make the “crisp” part extra-crispy???

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Look what I found on the blog of someone who recently left a comment on our site.
 

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We played Telephone Pictionary last night, where you write down a sentence on a piece of paper and then pass the paper to someone else who draws a picture of your sentence. That person folds the paper over so the sentence is hidden and then passes the paper to someone else who has to come up with a sentence of the drawing. The round keeps going until everyone has either written a sentence or drawn a picture. It gets ridiculous pretty fast. I have no idea how we ended up with sharky here:

Now it’s your turn! Can you guess the sentence that goes with this picture??

Thanks to Thea for suggesting the game! Both these pictures were drawn by Jess :)

Update: You can find more at Eat Poop You Cat, and an online version at The Sentence Game.

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When I was at Giant Robot last Saturday, I picked up this adorable book called The Little Book of Hindu Deities: From the Goddess of Wealth to the Sacred Cow. It’s the kind of book that makes me want to learn about all the deities. If only my math books were this gorgeous when I was in school, I’d be a genius (okay, maybe not…nonetheless, i wish all books were this beautiful). I remember meeting the author at APE a few years ago and seeing the illustrations before the book was out, so was really happy to finally find a copy.

He’s also got a website called GheeHappy where he sells super cute prints and tshirts too!

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Kate Bingaman, a professor of Graphic Design at mississipi state university, draws pictures of the things she buys every day and posts them on Obsessive Consumption. Dorothy Gambrell, who draws Cat and Girl (my fave comic), draws comics of how she spends the donations that people send her, and posts them at Donation Derby.

People send pictures of the views outside their windows to Kirsty, and she posts them at The View From Your Window. People send in their anonymous secrets on homemade postcards to Frank Warren, and he posts them on PostSecret.

I find these kinds of sites facinating. My current favorite is brownpeople. No commentaries, no biographies, just pictures of brown people.. All macaca all the time :)

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Remember that silly Vox ad with the hipster? Well, it turns out that the hipster in that ad was wearing a Appley Rotten T-shirt! I would totatlly get one of these but they only come in girly tees, which I probably couldn’t squeeze into..

Here are some Appley Rotten animations, and here are more cute things by the same team. Apparently they will be showing and selling stuff at Feria Urbana at the Canvas Gallery on November 18. (via this incoming link)

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For those following along with The Fart Party, our heroine Julia told the jerks at the café to stuff it, and now she’s hanging out in Vermont. Sounds like she’s having a good time.

Doodling in a sketchbook and then taking a picture of it to keep the comic going while traveling … That’s brilliant! Have fun Julia…

Link to The Fart Party

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if you tell me i can help you…

Next to Andrew Bell, Sam Brown makes my very favorite web doodles. All of his drawings are based on titles that people submit to him…And if you send him a title for a drawing by September 30 (via snail mail), you’ll get an actual drawing back! (via snail mail). Here’s what he says:

from monday october 2st to friday october 6th i will be doing drawings from titles mailed to me. mailed in a truck. i will mail you the drawing back to you. in a truck.

mail me an self addressed stamped envelope, and include a note with the title you want. you must include a title. even it is just a throw away title. please have it arrive my mailbox before september 30th.

i am just trying this out, i am not promising anything. the drawings might be good they might suck.

for the self addressed stamped envelope. you can mail me any size envelope you like as long as there is enough postage to get it back to you.
if you send me an envelope that can hold a 8.5 x 11 inch paper, i can use some cool paper and don’t need to bend or mash it to get it in the mail.

all mail goes to:

sam brown
explodingdog
po box 274
derby ct 06418

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Mike explored an abandoned warehouse full of beautiful graffiti and took lots of pictures:

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This is a painting that I bought from Jesse Reno, an artist I discovered on myspace a while back and it finally arrived this week! I love all of his beautifully strange and scribbly paintings, but this one in particular made me want to laugh and cry at the same time (for very personal reasons), so I had to get it. In addition to the paintings, you’ll also find his work on skate decks, toys, tshirts, large scale urban murals and in a new Fantagraphics book coming out this fall called Beasts.

oh and be sure to check out his music too. he’s got some enigmatically moody tracks to match his paintings over here. i like the one called may :-)

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is a gallery of old boxes turned into monsters, robots, animals and other fun things!

Speaking of doodles, if you like watching people doodle as much as I do, then you might find this pretty mesmerizing.

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Hee, I love love LOVE this! Combinatoric critters is an experiment in generating unique organisms by randomly combining sets of different attributes (from a set of pre-rendered graphics). The result? a whole town of utterly charming and whimsical loopy-heads!

If you click on the interactive illustration it generates a random individual, so I took the liberty of picking some out for us. Can you guess which one is you?

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