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Six-year-old Yu Gi Oh cardshark.



This will kill you, painfully.



Australian Peacock Spider. (You can see them dancing here.)



The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Victor Vasetnov.



Long jump landing.



Hungry slippers.



Ta Prohm temple wallpaper.

Transformers 3 posters by Jesse Philips for Mondo (and wallpapers)

Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon posters by Jesse Philips for Mondo. /Film says, "Three thousand copies of the original will be handed out exclusively to attendees of special Tuesday June 28 screenings at Arclight Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA and a variant edition will be sold on @MondoNews Wednesday June 29."

I took the liberty of cropping a few widescreen wallpapers:





*Buy Alamo Drafthouse posters at eBay.

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Scary bridge.




Moon wallpaper.




Up wallpaper.



SR-71 (?) wallpaper.



Dramatic cat.

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2001.



Striped tights.



Polar bears.




Spider-Woman and Dead Space helmet from this cosplayer gallery.



No Face mask.

Trailer for Pixar's Brave (plus a wallpaper)

Watch a very low quality version of the trailer for Pixar's Brave. Even at this terrible level of quality, it looks good. Also, here's a high-res image of Princess Merida that I cropped into a widescreen wallpaper:




Via.

Link roundup

1. Cookies N’ Cream Cake recipe.

2. Mike Krahulik's positive comments about playing The Old Republic for a month.

3. Signalnoise logo desktop and iPhone wallpapers.

A love letter to Blur and its artists

It's pretty obvious at this point that just about every great video game trailer is by Blur, including the Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City trailer I posted a few days ago.

In fact, I mentioned Prey 2 the other day, but haven't posted the terrific trailer for the game, which of course was also made by Blur. Think Blade Runner meets The Fifth Element (with a little adult language), set to a country western version of Soundgarden's Rusty Cage:



Blur's so good that the studio does little to nothing to promote itself, letting the work speak for it. And the Blur artists that even have personal websites have websites that are well out of date. That being said, here's a look at few of the people responsible for Blur's great work.

Shaun Absher's work includes modeling the Sith Inquisitor for The Old Republic opening cinematic and Batman for the DC Universe Online trailers. Since I've already posted those, here's something he created for fun:




Joshua James also worked on the Old Republic and DCU trailers (and created the tattoo for the The Girl With the Dragon tattoo):





Toni Bratincevic has posted images from some of his older projects for Blur including Force Unleashed (and also has prints from personal projects on sale):





Eric Durante worked on the trailers for The Goon, RE, Bioshock Infinite, and more. Here's a look a gladiator he created for a personal project:





Jason Martin was the character lead on the Resident Evil trailer and has also teased some Tyger Guard characters from Arkham City (see the latest trailer here):





Alessandro Baldasseroni has posted some of the models he created for ToR, The Goon, and Force Unleashed (you can watch the trailers here):






Heikki Anttila has posted several images from TFU and ToR:

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1. "The best notebooks of the year so far." (Check back in six months and maybe there will be some real bargains.)

2. If you liked that Tokyo Rockabilly Club picture I posted the other day, check out this music video - - it shows how the guy achieves such a monstrously high pompadour. Via.

3. Useful wallpaper for learning geography.

*Buy vintage maps at eBay.

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1. There's apparently some Prey 2 wallpapers available for download, but you can't use a secure internet connection to view them? (Prey 2 has a strong Blade Runner vibe.)

2. Legend of Zelda animated gif by Zac Gorman. And speaking of Legend of Zelda, check out this review of the 3D aspects Ocarina of Time for the 3DS:

While it doesn't exactly add anything to the gameplay, the title certainly looks better with the 3D enhancement. Colors are a little deeper with the 3D slider turned up, and the game appears ever so slightly washed out when you turn the effect down.

And

Gyroscope controls are also included for use with ranged items such as the slingshot or bow. Unfortunately, the 3DS' contradictory design is such that the motion control won't work with the 3D visuals, unless you rotate your head along with the screen at a perfect angle. Failure to do so results in you getting an eyeful of painful screen blur. Fortunately, the 3D slider is conveniently located, and you can always just stick to traditional controls.

If even Nintendo can't make solid use of the 3D capability of the machine....

3. New illustration chock full of comic book characters by Ulises Farinas.

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This truck has two sides.



Whale shark.



Butterfly.



Hipster Jesus loves you.



Norway.



Gandalf versus the Balrog.



Streams of water colliding.

Link roundup

1. Alice: Madness Returns is getting terrible reviews. (Not unexpected, but such a waste of the artwork.)

2. Cartoon Network and Joel Silver are going to make a Ben 10 live-action movie. (I'm not crazy about the action sequences in the cartoon, but the writing, especially anything Kevin or the tiger say, is frequently very funny.)

3. Barcelona: Year Zero video, wallpapers, posters.

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Fennec fox.



Lightning strike.



Arctic fox and meal.



Soldier after battle.



Wisdom from Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake.




Wire sculpture.



Ferris wheel on a cold winter day.