Really very cool promotional video for Neil Krug's Pulp Book. Really nails the sleaxy pulpy exploitation movie type vibe it's going for. Stephane Coedel's "A Kiss From Tokyo" Theatrical trailer for Kevin Dart's book "Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7" did a similar thing. Using the power of online video is an exceedingly good way to promote concept books.

Pulp Book is collaboration between supermodel Joni Harbeck and photographer Neil Krug. The book will feature 200 pulp inspired images.

Neil Krug's Pulp Book - Images

www.pulpartbook.com

The music in the commercial is "The Lions and the Cucumber" you can get it by picking up the Vampyros Lesbos (Sexadelic Dance Party) OST or The Jackie Brown OST ... though I say a Sexadelic Dance Party  is the way to go.

This "Zaire '74" design is the original, official artwork created for the 3 day festival.Worn by crew members and performers like James Brown, Bill Withers, sister Sledge and The Spinners throughout the festival, this shirt is featured prominently 35 years later in the documentary Soul Power and it's predecessor the 1997 academy award winning documentary When We Where Kings.

Soul Power - UK Trailer

www.soulpowerfilm.co.uk | twitter.com/soulpowerfilm

www.misswit.net/soulpowerfilm

years ago, I was walking out a door — I'd been having a conversation and I was walking out the door, and this guy said to me, "Chris," and I stopped and I turned, and he said, "Be careful." And I never forgot that. And it comes back to me often: Be careful. That was good advice.

... Christopher Walken: What I've Learned

"History Channel, together with the University of Oslo and the Senckenberg Research Institute, yesterday revealed a landmark scientific find: the 47 million year old fossilized remains of a primate. The most complete fossil primate ever found, the young female specimen -- known as "Ida" -- is set to revolutionize our understanding of human evolution. Twenty times older than most fossils that explain human evolution, "Ida" is a transitional species showing characteristics from the very primitive non-human evolutionary line (prosimians, such as lemurs), but she is more related to the human evolutionary line (anthropoids, such as monkeys, apes and humans). This places Ida at the very root of anthropoid evolution -- when primates were first developing the features that would evolve into our own. The scientists' findings are published today by PLoS One, the open source journal of the Public Library of Science."

Find out more at the History Channel website.

www.revealingthelink.com

This Coca-Cola ad was by directed by Dougal Wilson for Mother London Advertising Agency. I'm a Pepsi drinker myself, but I rather like the happy vibe of this Muppet esque TV spot.

Video from Direto Do Forno

Pulp Book is collaboration between supermodel Joni Harbeck and photographer Neil Krug. The book will feature 200 pulp inspired images. I love the images availble on Neil Krug's flickr and the gallery at the books website. Shades of post-apocalyptic futures, crime capers gone bad, primeval past, the wild west and cult auteur Alejandro Jodorowsky.

www.pulpartbook.com

"Bumblebees" is a computer generated image created by Till Nowaks to participate in the "strange behaviour" contest at cgtalk.com in 2007

You can view Tills portfolio at www.framebox.de make sure you check out the much larger images and making of PDF.

I’ve always rather liked the giraffe, and this marvellous 6ft tall, steampunk sculpture by artist Andrew Chase has made me like the long necked funniosity even more. Taking over 80 hours to build this fine fellow owes his body to a cleverly composed concotion of transmission parts, electrical conduit, plumbing pipe and a whole series of gears and levers that grant the giant giraffe the jointal movements of his not so metallic counterpart. Andrew Chase has then produced some mighty fine steampunk art featuring his gear-giraffe.

To see some other examples of creatures both real and imagined that have been steampunked by the talented Mr Chase, check out his website www.andrewchase.com

bookofjoe.com via ecofriend.org

Claire Merry who modeled under the name Nicole Merry arrives at the UK Premiere of Star Trek.

Claire is Ex wife of French football player Thierry "Va-va-voom" Henry whom she took to the cleaners for a sum reputed to be just south of £10 million pounds in a divorce settlement. (I admit I looked that up, my knowledge of minor UK "celebrities" and wags is minimal to say the least. I do remember thinking the girl in the Renault Clio advertisements was rather attractive and Claire was that girl.

Anyway while it was most probably a profile raising stunt (instead of actually doing anything that requires talent, as is the way these days), I'd like to think she was wearing it as a tongue in cheek homage to the the show / genre. Anyway it's nice to see someone embracing the women-in-silver-cat-suits future, sci-fi shows promised me as a kid.

www.startrekmovie.com