The Linkster Blog

October 28, 2007

Anatomy of Cartoons

Michael Paulus, an artist, wanted to understand how cartoons would be if they had true physiological make up. So he selected some well known characters to experiment with, and these are what he came up with.

http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/v/character-Skeletons
Update 1/3/10: url was changed to:

http://michaelpaulus.com/section/59023_CHARACTER_STUDY.html

October 27, 2007

The Top 50 Scary Movie of All Time

An article from Boston.com (I think this site is part of Boston Globe). Nice compilations, although I disagree with some of their choices. I mean, why did Willy Wonka made the list?? Because of some orange creatures? Nightmare on Elm Street is in 32nd place and War of the World (1953) is on 22nd place?

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/gallery/top_50_scary_movies/

Topher's Cereal Guide

Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide. When I visit it a few years ago, there wasn't much info about cereal on the net as now. This site is still one of top sites for info about cereal (well, in my opinion anyway) beides the Tick Tock Toy site (which I've post already). They do have all kind of informations. For example, there is a section for fictional cereals.

http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-generalmills.html
Update 1/3/10: link expired. Go to main page:

http://www.lavasurfer.com/

i80s

A site that is dedicated to most aspects of the 1980's culture. There is also a forum. I like this site, I just wish they had more pictures beside the text.

http://www.i80s.com/

October 26, 2007

TV Cream

A British site about TV and pop culture in Britain. I just noticed that they keep changing their logo (keep refreshing the page it to see it changing). It's interesting to see how their Saturday Morning TV shows are different than the US. There is also a section about teen magazines and a whole bunch of other nostalgic stuff unique to Britain.

http://tv.cream.org/index.htm

*Update 1/3/10: Site moved to:
http://www.tvcream.co.uk/

National Toy Hall of Fame

It's a really nice museum. I visited it long time ago. If you are in Rochester, NY, I recommend you to check out the Strong Museum. They have other exhibitions besides the toys. The toy exhibition is pretty cool and informative. They have pictures of the toys early versions, such as the Silly Putty and the Crayola. The Crayola actually went through quite a transformation since their introduction in 1903. Wow they are that old!

http://strongmuseum.com/NTHoF/NTHoF.html

Scary Movies Survival Guide.

Ah, 5 more days till Halloween..

An article from Entertainment Weekly called "I Will Survive : 13 Lessons From Watching Scary Movies". The title pretty much speaks for itself, accompanies with a movie picture for each "lesson".

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,1222343,00.html

October 25, 2007

Flickr - JasonLiebig's Photos (stickers)

Jason Liebig has some several nice sets of vintage stickers. These are some ostalgic sets. I don't recognize any of these stickers, I didn't even know there were so many out there. There are even the Life Saver's sticker. It's the first time I hear of it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34428338@N00/sets/