Kathy Staico Schorr

Bubblecat Round-Up
Check out Kathy Staico Schorr's show at the Mary Karnowsky Gallery.

next-generation ASIMO

Honda announced the development of new technologies for the next-generation ASIMO humanoid robot, targeting a new level of mobility that will better enable ASIMO to function and interact with people by quickly processing information and acting more nimbly in real-world environments.

Camille Rose Garcia

Camille Rose Garcia was born in 1970 Los Angeles, CA and grew up in the generic suburbs of Orange County, visiting Disnyland and going to punk shows with the other disenchanted youth of that era. Her paintings of creepy cartoon children living in wasteland fairy tales are critical commentaries on the failure of capitalist utopias...

Sandra Bernhard

This spring Sandra Bernhard’s brand new show, “Everything Bad & Beautiful,” premiered at the Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood!

Check out this fabulous review at the WOW report!

Snakebot

A virtually unstoppable "snakebot" developed by a University of Michigan team that resembles a high-tech slinky as it climbs pipes and stairs, rolls over rough terrain and spans wide gaps to reach the other side.

Sweet cell of success

New research suggests Adult stem cells harvested from the nose have the same potential (even advantages) over embrionic stem cells!
New nerve cells, glial cells, liver cells, heart cells, muscle cells -- all were grown in a dish from stem cells from the human nose. Establishing the versatility of these adult stem cells was in itself a significant scientific achievement, but the Griffith University team's experiments also uncovered a raft of additional advantages.
"Our experiments have shown adult stem cells isolated from the olfactory mucosa have the ability to develop into many different cell types if they are given the right chemical or cellular environment,"

David Cross, Amy Sedaris and PETA

David Cross is known for the outrageously funny Mr. Show (who can forget the famous Tofutti sketch?!), his stand-up comedy, and countless comedic movie roles, but one thing that he is serious about is cruelty to animals. So he agreed to help educate consumers about what really happens to animals who become victims of fashion.


Meanwhile comic genius Amy Sedaris also did a poster for PETA!
Comedian Amy Sedaris reprises her role as "Jerri Blank"—the 47-year-old high school freshman and self-proclaimed "boozer, user, and loser" of Comedy Central's cult hit Strangers With Candy—to parody Blackglama Mink's "What Becomes a Legend Most?" ads. In PETA's latest campaign, a fur-clad Jerri asks, "What Becomes a Loser Most?" and advises consumers that "if you wear fur, people laugh at you, not with you."

Mars still alive

New data from Europe's Mars Express spacecraft suggests liquid water, active volcanism and large glaciers scoured the Red Planet in recent times.
Signs of a huge frozen sea on Mars hint the planet could still hold the right conditions for microbial life.

Todd Schorr

Todd Schorr's artistic journey is one that hardly conforms to the time-honored stereotype of Bohemian artist. It is rather a post-war tale bracketed by an America infatuated with the limitless potential of consumerism. His formative years were spent in a world surrounded by the atomic and space ages, by Saturday morning cartoons and racks of comic books at the local drug store, a land populated by Revell models, Mad Magazine, Testors glue, Mickey Mouse and Rat Fink.

Exeter Release Delayed

"Tressaurian" Premier Now Slated For July 1, 2005
Sorry, folks. The post production team for STARSHIP EXETER "The Tressaurian Intersection" has decided to reschedule the release for July 1, 2005. For the last several weeks, our team has been pushing to make the March 17 deadline. But with just one week to go, it has become clear that some elements critical to the film are not ready and will require more time.

Roof Tiling

David Firth continues to push the limits of Flash animation in yet another provocative cartoon. His web site Fat-Pie has a fabulous archive of his previous work. The Salad Fingers series is brilliant, I can't get enough of it and am anxiously awaiting the next episode! Meanwhile his recent Valentine's Day Special is consistantly twisted!

Billy's Balloon by Don Hertzfeldt

Don Hertzfeldt of Bitter Films has created some classic short animations over the years. He somehow makes a simplistic style bleed creativity and originality, and he's got both "wickedly immature" and "brutally accurate social commentary" stashed away in his comedic repertoire, sometimes unleashing them both in the same animation.

Ecobot Eats Dead Flies for Fuel

Robots walk, robots talk and, soon, robots will eat, too.
Researchers at the University of the West of England, Bristol, are working on creating autonomous robots that power themselves using substances found in the environment. Professors Chris Melhuish and John Greenman plan to give robots their very own guts -- artificial digestive systems and the corresponding metabolisms that will allow robots to digest food.

Apes meet Twilight Zone

A Dimension of Sound. A Dimension of Sight...
"I started Planet of the Apes: The Forbidden Zone because I wanted to learn more about Planet of the Apes myself. I looked around the web for a good Apes site, but only found a couple of episode guides for the TV series. When I first started gathering information about POTA, I was surprised to learn that Rod Serling co-wrote the screenplay for Planet. Then suddenly it all made sense. "Of course! Planet is a two-hour episode of The Twilight Zone!"

Dr Zaius! Dr Zaius!

Stop the Planet of the Apes - I want to get off!
The Simpsons check in with the primates of the future...

Rod Serling's Night Gallery

For those old enough to remember, Night Gallery was creator-host Rod Serling's follow-up to The Twilight Zone. Set in a shadowy museum of the outré, Serling weekly unveiled disturbing portraiture as preface to a highly diverse anthology of tales in the fantasy / horror / science fiction vein.

Evie Harris: Shining Star

In 2001 Jack Plotnick (Evie Harris) and Dennis Hensley made a 13-minute film called Evie Harris: Shining Star .
Evie, a fictitious has-been Hollywood star, takes Dennis for a walk on Hollywood Blvd in search of her star which she cleans each month. Along the way she dishes dirty gossip on the other living and dead celebrities. Click on Evie's pic to watch the movie, it's outrageously funny!

Brainwashing America

The puppet Bush regime is using new, aggressive forms of brainwashing to change the very way Americans think and feel. We are living under the beginning stages of a military dictatorship in precisely the same way that 1930s Germans suffered under the Nazi regime. Click the PIC above to read more.

Meanwhile check out Micah Wright's brilliant collection of propaganda posters.