Elephant Burp

We at at the zoo feeding an elephant and he burps!

Hilarious Crazy Faces

Brian Dettmer Book Autopsies - Sliced Book Sculptures

Brian Dettmer, born in 1974, was raised in Naperville, Illinois. Until 2006, Dettmer lived in and around Chicago, where he earned his BA in 1997 from Columbia College Chicago (Camper 2005). Dettmer is currently based in Atlanta, where he works full time as an artist.

Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures. A significant and notable body of Dettmer's work is created by altering books without inserting or moving any of the books' contents. Dettmer seals, then slices and carves into older textbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, medical guides, science books, engineering books, history books, comic books, and others, exposing select images and text to create intricate derivative works which impart or reveal new or alternative interpretations of the books.

The Crock Says

From the Maury show 9/20/07.

Mercedes Benz PC Case Mod

It’s a 1/14th scale replica of the Tamiya Mercedes Benz truck. It comes complete with a digital CD player, an LCD screen, and a trailer!

Technical Specs:

• Barebones MSI MEGA 651 PC

•160 GB Seagate hard drive

• MSI FX5600 128mb

•2.8GHz P4

•1gb ram

• Logitech diNovo Bluetooth keyboard

• Sony active speaker system SRS-T55

• LILLIPUT 7" Touch screen VGA TFT

• Wireless Netgear PCI adaptor

• 3 x 4” Blue Cold Cathode Kit

• Tamiya Mercedes 1/14th RC truck

• PS2 adaptor

• Panasonic Slot Laptop Combo Drive

Face Plant Into The Bricks

You know he lost a couple of teeth on... You know he lost a couple of teeth on that stupid ass stunt.

Arcade Games from the Past

An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, pubs, video arcades, and Family Entertainment Centers. Most arcade games are redemption games, merchandisers, video games or pinball machines.

The first popular "arcade games" were early amusement park midway games such as shooting galleries, ball toss games, and the earliest coin-operated machines, such as those which claim to tell a person their fortune or played mechanical music. The old midways of 1920s-era amusement parks (such as Coney Island in New York) provided the inspiration and atmosphere of later arcade games.

In the 1930s, the earliest coin-operated pinball machines were made. These early amusement devices were distinct from their later electronic cousins in that they were made of wood, did not have plungers or lit-up bonus surfaces on the playing field, and used mechanical instead of electronic scoring readouts. By around 1977, most pinball machines in production switched to using solid state electronics for both operation and scoring.

Arcade games often have very short levels, simple, easy to grasp controllers, iconic characters, and rapidly increasing difficulty. They are designed as quick bursts of adrenaline-fueled thrills, as opposed to most console games, which feature more in-depth gameplay, and stronger storylines. This is due to being coin-operated, where the player is essentially renting the game for as long as their game avatar can stay alive (or until they run out of tokens). Games on consoles or PCs can be referred to as an "arcade game" if it shares these qualities, or if it's a direct port of an arcade title.