( Collaboration stuffs )
Edit: ( Eldridge take 2 )

Oh, and I also added an 'art' tag because it's difficult to find under all the complaining otherwise. It doesn't go back more than a couple of years, but to be honest, you probably don't wanna see the older stuff anyway *shudders at the memory, except at the stuff that is actually better than my recent art, wtf* (if you really want to, some of it's at DA) The 1813, fanart and discworld tags go back further.
Other stuff - an adorable Space Invaders video, and Steampunk Star Wars figures.

My paradigm, she is shifted!

(Full footage here.)

Someone asked me to describe how I drew noses, and like usual, I couldn't resist the opportunity to go on and on:

( Big images under the cut )

Edit: And a short follow-up with some step-by-step drawings.

Okay, so I suddenly got the urge to make a doll, just like that. Call it broodiness, or something. Of course it has to be 1813-themed :D (although given how fun it seems to be, I might make others). I asked about topsy turvy dolls a while ago, so the current plan is to make one of those, only with solid heads and hands (I would have made plushies, but I didn't have any felt). It's supposed to be a real version of the 'actual' dolls/puppets in the comic. If that makes sense.
So far I have the unfinished heads, which are made of Super Sculpey and, all going well, will be baked and painted.

( chrome domes )
Edit: ( And an Emyr-hand )

This country has a really, really weird attitude to young people. When they're children, they're precious, innocent angels who must be wrapped in cotton wool, have Mozart played to them and be taken away from their parents if they feed them a french fry (and around every corner is a lurking paedophile in a trenchcoat). But as soon as they become teenagers, they automatically become the scourge of society, who must be crushed into submission or they'll murder us all in our beds*. Some do, obviously, but most of them aren't, you know, crazy killers (take note, tabloid readers). Way to demonise and alienate the next generation before they've even done anything, armchair psychologists. Plus, those kinds of measures may be useful as a stop-gap, but in the long run all they're doing is treating the symptom, not the cause.
Actually, it reminds me strongly of that silly character in Escape from Monkey Island (if you've played that) - the sea captain who shoots his cannon at any group of three or more pirates, because if there's more than two pirates talking together, they must be plotting something evil!

*Not, of course, that that stops everyone and their mother exploiting the public's sexual attraction to youth for advertising.

Edit: Completely unrelated to the above, but it amused me for a good while - historical figurines gallery by George Stuart (found when looking for Nell Gwynne references). I don't know how accurate they are (since when was Oscar Wilde blond?) but the costume details are neat, and I'm a history nerd. Haha, someone just yoinked John Knox's mobile phone.

( One of those 'OMFG what is UP with video game women?' doctored screenshots )

( Oh, bother )

( Vampire velociraptor )

If you're looking for some free music, some kind person posted a download of 100 top songs of 2007 *thumbs up* They're good!

And since I looked up the music video for one of said songs: ( Drug-induced fishy singing! )

( I'm no good! Ask anyone! )

Also, have some music (from my Odo-themed playlist :3 Mostly blues, rock and folk; occasionally nautical):
O Mary Don't You Weep, Bruce Springsteen
God's Gonna Cut You Down, Johnny Cash
Ghostwriter, RJD2
My Son John, John C. Reilly
Don't Pass Me By, The Beatles
I know I've Been Changed, John Hammond
Fisher's Hornpipe, David Schnauffer

I also stitched together a few repeating borders from the patterns posted here (Egyptian, Arabian and Greek). Which was so dang fiddly I figured I might as well save someone else the trouble, although it's strangely relaxing as an alternative to drawing something complicated. Mmmm, symmetrical repeating.

And for lolz, the Onion A.V. Club interviews the notoriously unglued Dave Sim. The interviewer's notes are even funnier.
'He said that he'd once done an interview with a major news outlet, on the condition that they publish his address, with the notation that anyone interested in reading a full copy of "Tangent," his 20-page essay debunking the "feminist/homosexualist axis," could write to him, and he'd send them a full copy. He said he got exactly one query, and it was from a teenage girl, writing on Spice Girls stationary.'

For arty-types, or if you just like looking at pretty patterns, some more references:
( A few previews, and carping about technology )

Edit: Turkish patterns.

Couple of neat videos for the purposes of cheering up:


Robots on skateboards!


One of the coolest parts of any nature documentary ever (although this misses the bit where one of them sits on his tummy <3 ). I can't believe they let people get so close and yet are still so relaxed.

Also, from wtf_nature, 'magnetic liquid' (ferrofluid).

I just realised that I credited the lineart in this icon to the wrong artist when I used it, because I am a dumbass:



It's actually by the awesomely talented lucylou (although I can't find the original, boo).