I’ve been waiting for Deus Ex: Human Revolution to come out for a long time, so that video kind of got me even more excited about the game. Deus Ex 3 is due out on August 23rd and is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com.
World’s First Animated Tattoo [Video]
On June 16th, 2011, Paris based tattoo artist K.A.R.L., in partnership with Ballantine’s, etched what he claims is the world’s first animated tattoo. The whole process was streamed live via Facebook, where users could share their thoughts and influence the tattoo’s creation process.
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Womanthology: A Massive, All-Female Comics Anthology
Aw, yyyyeah. As a woman with a fairly well-developed appreciation for comics, I have to admit that I’m a bit giddy about this project. Womanthology is the collaborative effort of 140 female artists and writers ranging from industry veterans to girls planning a career in comics. The first issue, “Heroic”, will be published as a 300-page, 9×12″ hardcover in December 2011.
The purpose of the book is to showcase the works of female creators of every age and experience levels.
The Graphic Novel will majorly consist of many short stories interpreting our theme for this volume; “Heroic”. We’ll also have interviews and how-to’s with some of the industry’s top female pros, as well as talks with young girls who someday want a career in comics.
A Kids & Teens section will also be included, showcasing their work, and offering tips & tricks to help them prepare themselves for their future careers in comics. Overall, this is pretty much a huge book showcasing what women in comics have accomplished, and what we are capable of.
Because the team plan to donate their profits to the Global Giving Foundation, they’ve organized a Kickstarter to help allay publishing costs for 1500 books.
The list of contributors is sort of mind-blowing when you consider the scale of the project; seasoned professionals from every major comics publisher in one book? That alone is impressive, but to team them up individually with comics noobs to give them a hand up in a traditionally male-dominant industry is worth supporting.
Check out the Womanthology site and their Kickstarter campaign to get more info about the book and its contributors.
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Apple Store webcam “artist” raided by Secret Service
I suspect few among us can say we haven’t been a little bit naughty when visiting an Apple store: leaving an iPad logged into the Microsoft homepage, starting an inappropriate YouTube clip before leaving, or waiting until a local TV news presenter left the store mistakenly still signed in to Twitter and posting juvenile messages in their name. (OK, that only happened once, and it wasn’t me.)
But one New Yorker has managed to take such japery a step too far in Apple’s eyes, leading to a visit from the Secret Service.
Kyle McDonald created and installed an application that used the webcams on Apple store display models to take a photograph every minute. According to Mashable he had to return to reinstall the app every day as Apple resets its store computers every day.
McDonald then published the results to a blog with the indisputable title “People staring at computers” which is designed to inspire people to “think more about our computers and how we use them.”
That wasn’t enough to get him into trouble, however. Instead that came when he remotely triggered a feature in the app that displayed the images in full-screen on around 100 computers across two stores. Amazingly it appears customers had little response to this and didn’t alert store staff.
Unfortunately for McDonald, Apple noticed an unusual pattern of traffic between the stores and his servers. That led to the Secret Service visiting yesterday morning and confiscating his computer equipment.
McDonald hasn’t yet been criminally charged or received a civil complaint. He believes he hasn’t violated any laws, and notes that he asked permission from both security guards and customers to take photos. It appears he omitted to mention this would be through the webcams rather than with a handheld camera.
The Secret Service warrant related to section 1030 of title 18 of the US Code, which is the law on computer fraud.
We R Slytherins (Ke$ha parody)
Check out this entertaining parody of Ke$ha’s “We R Who We R” paying homage to Hogwarts’ evilest house: The Slytherin. Enjoy!
Please note that no house elves were harmed in the making of this video.
Thanks Dana!
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So he’s my father too? [Pic]
This t-shirt design is up for vote at Threadless, so if you’d like the site to offer it for sale, be sure to go and vote it up!
Portal Turret Tattoo [Picture]
This is a turret from Portal. This specific one, for those of you who have played Portal 2, is the one who escaped the production line.
The life of a turret is simple. They are built, tested, put in a box, removed from the box, recycled, used as parts for a new turret. A never ending cycle. But one got away, and when you find him, he says, “I’m different”. He looks like all the others, but somehow, he ended up different.
The words in the background don’t really say anything, I told the artist to do whatever he wanted, it just had to be garbled and gibberish. Along with the little red hearts, the background was inspired by one of the walls of a rat’s den.
Done by Rich at Body Language in Columbus Ohio.
Batman: Year One Trailer [Video]
Having grown up on Batman: the Animated Series, I have to admit that the upcoming Batman: Year One is as exciting a release to me as The Dark Knight Rises. I just have a soft-spot for the Caped Crusader in ink and paint, I guess. If you haven’t heard about it yet, Year One is the DC Universe Animated Original Movie adaptation of the classic Frank Miller comic book story of the same name.
It’s being released directly to Blu-ray, DVD, OnDemand and for download on October 18. The voice casting is pretty great: Benjamin McKenzie as Bruce Wayne, Bryan Cranston as Jim Gordon, Eliza Dushku as Catwoman and Katee Sackhoff as Sarah Essen. Dushku also stars in a Catwoman short included with the film.
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