I downloaded this completely cool desktop wallpaper that makes your LCD look like it has been broken, and a bunch of people at work keep asking me what happened to my monitor. Awesome!

Ok. This was e-mailed to me, and when I first saw the title I almost didn’t watch it. I thought it was going to be some sort of gimmicky video featuring exploited elephants or something.

But I went ahead and watched it. Wow! I’m simply stunned! I’m not going to spoil it for you guys, but you aren’t going to believe what you see…
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Some of you may have seen one of these videos before, as they’ve been watched a total of like 10 million times, but most people have not see all four of them. The choreography and coordination to create these videos are both incredibly creative and extremely well executed. A little about the project:

GAME OVER is one of the art projects developed by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). It consists of a series of collaborative animation movies which revive some of the very first video games. The pixels are replaced by a group of real human-beings that are moving from seat to seat in a theatre during about 4 to 6 hours. Each “pixel” has its own rules and decides what s/he wants to do for each picture. Once all these pictures are turned into a short animation movie, a giant human-scale video game unfolds “live”.

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It’s been a little while since I’ve dished out my weekly links. Let’s see if I can get back in the habit from here on out…

• Threadless Wall Graphics Shop - Very cool! And Cheap!
• Spade High School’s Last Graduation
• Cool Cars We Miss - #1 My NSX!
• TripIt is a travel assistant that automatically organizes travel plans.
• Bubble Guru is totally cool. But way, way too expensive. Where is the free version?

When I first encountered Juan Francisco Casas’ art I was stunned. Sure, there are a lot of artists out there that can draw lifelike figures. But how many of them work with nothing but a blue Bic pen? And draw photographs up to 10 feet tall? As far as I know - exactly one.

Here is what the Daily Mail had to say:

They may look like pin-sharp photographs - but these amazing pictures are actually drawings created with the humble ballpoint pen.

The stunning pictures, measuring up to 10ft high, were drawn by a rising star of the art world, Juan Francisco Casas.

Casas, 31, can use up to four 14p ballpoint pens for a canvas and his works are already a sell-out at exhibitions.

Formerly a traditional painter, Juan began the drawings three years ago based on photographs of nights out with his friends.

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Several months ago I was pleased to be contacted by Dr. John Silber’s assistant about a photo featured in my article about a Weekend in Denver. Dr. Silber, who spent 25 years as President of Boston University, was completing a new book entitled Architecture of the Absurd: How “Genius” Disfigured a Practical Art, and was interested in using my photo of the new Denver Museum of Art as the inside cover for the book.

I was quite pleased to provide the original images for Dr. Silber’s book, and even more pleased when he generously sent me an autographed copy! Thanks Dr. Sliber!
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Once again from the mind of Colby Jones, the truth about weather in Texas.

Yet another funny one from Colby Jones. How does he come up with this stuff?!?

Cartoon courtesy of Colby Jones…

This weeks theme… Art!

• Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor
• Adam Burn: Burn Comics (Contains nudes. You have been warned.)
• Matt Bilfield (make sure and look around the site, not just at this one piece)
• Bob Staake Illustrations
• The Beauty of MS Paint
• Peter Callesen Paper Art
• Paintalicious

This video is as cool, or possibly even better, than my previous post on Incredible Japanese Kinetic Machines.

In this video, the creators of this Rube Goldberg machine (a machine that performs a simple task in a complex way) have woven the kinetic reactions all over an entire house!

As it weaves it’s way throughout I can’t help to wonder if someone’s mom is about to come home and freak out at what the kids did when the parents were out of town or something (like with the 60 foot slip-n-slide).
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