The Atlantic rounds up “A Visual History of Literary References on ‘The Simpsons’,” with help from the Lisa Simpson Book Club
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Entries tagged “humor”
“9 Famous Sweaters,” from Bill Cosby to The Dude
On August 6th, 2011, Google Doodle commemorates the 100th birthday anniversary of comedic actress Lucille Ball with a sweet “I Love Lucy” video homage.
pages with Matt Groening’s illustrations for an old Student’s Guide for Apple
After the season finale, FOX and The Simpsons leave the audience a cliffhanger on the fate of Ned’s new relationship with Edna. Through a fun marketing campaign, complete with Facebook and Twitter icons, “the love and future happiness of Ned Flanders and Edna Krabappel are in your hands.”
Welcome to the Twitter newbies, @GSP
Ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, heavily contemplates the appropriate concept, grammar, design and first words for their introductory tweet. In a humorous short video, the old school advertising agency documents their anxiety through the process. Fittingly, the agency behind “Got Milk,” goes with “Got tweet?” to get started. We might be waiting awhile for the second tweet…
(first discovered via AdAge)
Photographer Christian Gideon plus two partners in action have some fun playing house at an IKEA store.
buy or die: vintage b&w commercials by Jim Henson for Wilkins Instant Coffee
(via consumerist)
“What If Your Favorite Album Was a Book?,” spoof cover designs inspired by rock albums reinterpreted by Christophe Gowans
(more via Mother Jones)
“This Dev Team Don’t Stand for No Bugs”
“Angry Nerds,” a spoof on Angry Birds for April Fools’ Day.
With meticulous attention to detail and approximately tens of thousands of bricks, Buckingham Palace is reimagined with LEGO. The Royal Wedding, LEGO-style, includes Kate Middleton, Prince William, the Queen Mother, guards, and A-list guests (including Sir Elton John with new baby, Victoria Beckham expecting a baby) with a careful eye for fashion and placement…
“…The Royal Wedding scene including crowd, guests and balcony took model makers over 30 hours to build using 10,000 bricks. Each Miniland figure took one hour to build and contains 30 – 40 LEGO bricks. Buckingham Palace itself features 160,000 individual bricks and was built on a 1:50 scale and took 550 hours to build…”
—press release from Legoland
The display will be on view at Legoland Windsor themepark’s Miniland attraction.
(detail image above from Getty/via Daily Mail)
In case we forget, Khoi Vinh made a diagram for “How to Use Magazine.”
(via Subtraction, print for Stack America)
