Author Archives: Niall Murphy
It took Patrick Acton 420,000 matchsticks and the best part of three years to create this scale model of the city of Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings.
Meh.
It’s not bad.
(Escalated by Diddley)
Who’s sick and tired of Beanie Babies? Designer Patricia Waller, for one. Check out her range of morbid plushies here.
Wait till you see ‘slaughtered-Bambi’ and ‘meat-grinder-Miss-Piggy’. Nice.
From Rolling Stone’s rather excellent behind the scenes Mad Men photoshoot. Check out the whole set here: none of which – mercifully – landed on the desk of the photo-editor who created the now famously mong-tastic front cover.
boingboing
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ba1BqJ4S2M&feature=player_embedded
Sylvester Stallone had his fun with YouTube recently. But these guys have their ‘sticky marketing’ technique finely-honed.
Plus, it’s fully interactive.
Proceed with caution: extreme risk of time-wasting.
boingboing
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zPv3bklAKY&feature=player_embedded#!
Pac Man Paranoia by Swedish ‘Nintendo death punk’ band Bondage Fairies. Doing the rounds at the moment even though the song’s over a year old.
The squeal of dial-up modems won’t suit everyone’s ears, but the video’s great.