James Christensen was born in 1942 and raised in Culver City, California. He was classically trained in art techniques at UCLA and Brigham Young University. After graduating from art school, Christensen went on to teach art for two decades. Over the years he has produced many fine art paintings in oil paint, a medium that […]
Scrat is one of the characters from the Ice Age series of films from Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox. The Scrat character is a scrawny squirrel with bulging eyes and a long nose. His adventures were first created as a sub-plot to the Ice Age films, providing an amusing sideline for the story. Scrat’s comedies […]
Mikaël Aguirre was born in France in 1981. Video games have had such an effect on Aguirre’s life that they have even influenced his art. Mikaël creates his video game paintings in digital imaging software like Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. These programs allow the artist to work at his own pace – there are no […]
“The Boy with Tape on his Face” is a character created and performed by New Zealand comic Sam Wills. Wills refers to this character simply as The Boy and is, like his character, quite silent about where his comedy ideas come from. The Boy with Tape on his Face employs what is known as prop […]
On March 30th 1995, Brian Lewis Saunders decided to draw a self-portrait every day. He now has thousands of portraits, all collected in hard cover notebooks. Some of these portraits were created while under the influence of a variety of drugs. The artist sought out different drugs with the intention of drawing a portrait of […]
Gabriel Iglesias is an American comedian whose stand-up comedy performances center on his personal experiences. His act includes a variety of accents, soto voices and funny sound effects made only with his mouth and a microphone. Iglesias doesn’t need props on stage to help him tell a story; between his miming actions and verbal descriptions […]
A Bon Jovi fan at a Celtics game gets up and dances, exciting the crowd with his epic moves. The more involved he becomes with his dance, the more involved he becomes with the other sports fans around him, hugging random people, shaking hands in bro fashion with total strangers and encouraging others to sing […]
Here is a funny but simple way to catch a kangaroo, posted on Youtube by Kookabugga. The video shows an Australian bloke catching a baby kangaroo by simply offering the animal a shopping bag to fall into. I can’t tell if the guy is an animal handler who has trained the kangaroo to tumble into […]
The Badpiper, also known Cam Akazie, is from Fremantle in Western Australia. This kilt-wearing and mohawk flaunting rocker has a highly entertaining performance, in which his musical instrument, the bag pipes, doubles up as a flame thrower. This video, taken in Fremantle, shows the Ozzie rocking his badass boots and his fiery bag pipes to […]
Children of the 80s and 90s grow up to take their childhood pogo stick jumping games to a whole new level, transforming a simple game into an extreme sport. Any day now someone’s going to take one of these across a tight rope. Viva la evolution!