An inspirational moment...

Because seriously - if these guys can do... going out in public wearing really bad homemade Star Wars costumes, you can obviously do whatever it is is you secretly dream about.


Just look at the helmet on the right. What kind of person makes this? My suspicion: a blind woman with delusions of artistic competence, obsessed with her ballad-singing stalker.


"a pic of Orvie and friend (who appears to be a bear with a lipstick belt!)"
- Room of Doom website, source for all these amazing photos.


I want to meet this kid!

Room of Doom , from their website:

StarWarsHelmets.com features the VERY BEST helmets and costumes that have ever been created - from all over the World. However where there is Light, there is Dark. Wherever there is Beauty............
..There is sheer unadulterated pain, flatulence and ugliness!!!

Blog be Ballin!

You know, the blog's first birthday on Monday, and I am just beaming with maternal pride. It's no longer breastfeeding although its sleep cycle is still erratic, it weighs a healthy 202 posts, and it is growing robustly.

How can a glowing mommy not gaze on her rosy-cheeked cherub and reminisce about how far we've come? And what better proof than the following email, which I received this morning?

Dear blog author:

We recently came across your site, beccatronic.blogspot.com , while searching for bloggers who blog about Lamborghini issues.

A small group of us have started a new site called Lamborghini Bloggers . Our intent is to bring Lamborghini bloggers closer together, and make a positive contribution to the Internet community.

Would you be interested in joining Lamborghini Bloggers ? Please take a few minutes to have a look at what we are trying to do, and if you are interested, there is a sign up page to get the ball rolling. We would greatly appreciate your support in this endeavour.

If you do not feel that your blog would be a good fit for Lamborghini Bloggers , but enjoy this subject area, come visit us and one of our member bloggers. You can also check our FAQ Section to learn more about Lamborghini Bloggers .

We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you on Lamborghini Bloggers.

Their site is down at the moment, but I'm sure it's a compendium of hot wheels.

TRAGIC NEWS UPDATE!!! There is no lamborghini-bloggers.com. I repeat - there is no lamborghini bloggging group! The "site" is live and it is a spam blog used to exploit Google Adsense and gullible Lamborghini afficionados. Won't someone please think about the Lamborghini people for once?!?

Skittles goes to the Weird Side...

Holy crap - amazing and weird! I like it. A lot.


Uh...mazing.


I want one of those singing rabbits daddy! I want it NOOOOOWWWW!!!!


Hee hee! He pulls him out of a bag!

These are all TBWA/Chiat/Day productions. And, like... woah.

Canada is the new Estonia...

So you know how people are always saying that beef is the new chicken, white bras are the new tank tops and yeast infections are the new irritable bowel syndrome?

Yup, it's an annoying little phrasing that is so overused it's pretty much meaningless, but which we're all guilty of using once or twice.

You've got to love Leisure Art's contribution to The Diagram magazine, where they mapped every occurance of the phrase in various sources over the course of 2005. The resulting diagram is funny, nostalgic, and a good illustration of how an idiom reaches critical mass and becomes meaningless (see 'bling' circa 2003).


Check the full diagram here

My personal favourites? Space travel is the new HIV; cheese is the new morphine; and thug shooting is the new lovemaking.

Clearly.

Julie Dermansky: Adventures in Natural History Museums..

One thing that makes photography such an interesting medium is that it documents and captures something real. Whether the subject is found accidentally or constructed artifically (see the amazing Cindy Sherman), it happened.

So how great is it to find a photographer who is not only making beautiful images, but is also documenting something important and fascinating?

Enter Julie Dermansky, an artist across a range of media, but best by far at photography. Some of her photo sets interest me more than others, but just take a moment to enjoy my personal favourite - Natural History Museums around the World.


Clockwise from top left:
Elephant Fetus - Kruger National Park's Elephant Museum In South Africa
Ethiopian Hyena: Natural History Museum in Addis Ababa
Giant Squid: Capetown's natural history museum
Desert Landscape: Former display in Las Vegas' Natural History Museum
Bird with nut in mouth: Pretoria's Transval Museum
Ape: Capetown’s NH Museum


Not impressed? Well how about when she explored the storage rooms at the Everhart Museum of Science and Art in Scranton PA , and found a muthafucking BOX OF WEASELS. Yes, you heard that right - A BOX OF WEASELS PEOPLE. Have mercy.


Holy crap! It's a box of weasels! Insert joke about lawyers at a baseball game here.

Or how about you get ready for your head to blow off, when you see what she found in Pretoria, South Africa. Only maybe the greatest piece of taxidermy ever performed. The creativity! The artist's touch! Manifique!


Leopard, Transval Museum. Eating the... eyes... of a... seriously though, the eyes?!?

She has a lot of great stuff on her site, including a series called Mankind’s Monuments to Barbaric Act and Other Unusual Vacation Destinations, in which she visits and documents places like genocide museums in Rwanda and Apartheid museums in South Africa.

Amazing, amazing stuff.

Only funny to designers...

Hey, it's a cartoon that will be lost on 95% of the general public, and hi-LARIOUS to nerds in the design/advertising/branding world.

Perfect!


Holy crap! It's like Dilbert got a job at DDB!

Lots more similar funny on skydeckcartoons.com, where Tom Fishburne cartoons about branding, business, parenting, and a million other things I'll deny being into if we meet at a party.

Instead, you'll meet my alter-ego Muffy McBeav, a nightclubbing euro-skank with a badger-like love of cocaine, tanning beds and Lamborghini Gallardos.

Circle Circle Dot Dot

Jamie Kennedy and Stu Stone made this. I think Jamie Kennedy is played here by the African Legonian actor.

This is pretty random, but infectious and funny.

Gangsta lego guys? Obviously awesome!

It took me a second to figure out the title. Then I was all 'ohhhhhhhhh, I get it'.

Gold Pants Lullaby

Leslie Hall, gem sweater collector and conceptual/media artist. Such goodness!

I can promise one thing:

when the day comes that I spawn mini-Beckstars to dominate the multiverse with their inestimable radness...

...this will be the song that lulls them to sleep every night.

I work mainly in kittens...

I dare you. Watch these paper-cut-out-style animations of adorable kittens rocking out to classic hits, and deny that we're living in a wonderful age.


The kittens cover Emerge by Fischerspooner.


Chinchillas. DMX. Consider that this video, and the genus mammal, are likely the only links between these two creatures.


And the amazing continues - Joan Jett as played by a kitten. You know which song.

This is all the work of UK artist/experimenter Joel Veitch from rathergood.com. He also does commercial work [see below] much in the same vein, as well as some interesting experiments which can be seen on the site. He's also a member of the ska band 7 seconds of love. He also... what... can breathe underwater?


I'm not sure what they're selling... but I'll take three cases.

Let's Get Em. Let's Party.

So so so amazing. Just enjoy it.

You've probably seen this, as it's been passed around like crazy, but if not... it rules!

Erin + Dale: Argyle Extravaganza!

Saturday night saw us toasting Erin and Dale's engagement, an event which happened about a year ago, but which is obviously worth celebrating at any time!


Awww... such a lovely couple!


A small part of the infamous Argyle Gang, repping their pattern.


Eileen and Brandi share a laugh.


Eileen and Robin share a moment.


Here I am fearing Erin's alleged giant head.

Their wedding is going to be be even more fun, so... yay! Any event with a cupcake-pyramid cake is obviously tops.

How Friday Nights Get Out of Control Part III: Tickle Trunk!

So... what can you say about the spontaneous costume party that occured later back at the townhouse?


So cute.


So debaucherous.


So weird.


So adorable.


So Nickelback Roadie.

And a shout-out to K-Dizzle, the man on a mission to make the blog, and someone who clearly earned the title of Party MVP. So fun to have him in town!

What other photo could round out the evening?

So disurbingly hot and yet so very wrong.

How Friday Nights Get Out of Control Part II: Chill Winston

Watch closely now. The leather pants are stowed away tidily in their pant-cave BUT a large disco phallus and a dozen drunk friends have arrived. Witness the mayhem:


Bride-to-be Jelena wears disco phallus with luminescent pride.


For real though, WTF is up with this photo?


During this night, I found a camera setting that looks way better for clubs and night shots. Score!


KT and D getting their shine on.


KT and The Beckstar, roommates, friends, sister-wives.


Miss Moore (as her students, whom we ran into later, call her) and I work weekends as professional bangs models.


Brandon and Ken! Ninjas of obscure pop cultural knowledge!


Party MVP K-Dizzle, faced with the complicated situation of having a best friend's wife's tongue in his ear.

How Friday Nights Get Out of Control Part I: Leather Pants!

Obviously any night where the following stars are in alignment is going to get pretty messy.

Check it:

- Jelena in town from New Zealand
- Mel in town from Norway
-Kyle in town from Sunshine Coast
-Steve with new job to celebrate...

and The Beckstar starting the evening off wearing a mindblowing pair of leather motorcycle pants. Hotness!


It is possible that in a parallel universe, this is a typical moment for Beckstar 10892.


Re-tooling and finetuning of the replicants is a full-time job.


My alter-ego: Beefstar the Disco Sleaze.