Our Week of Reading! Vol. 3!

I didn't think we had it in us, but the team came through! We are LITERATE (barely), and a few of us actually read stuff this week, even though many of those things were obscure, ridiculous, or very, very, very short.

Join us after the jump to shake your head disapprovingly at our reading level!

Amusing Pop Culture Art at Society6.

Inspired by J's post, I see so much amazing pop culture homage, parody and mash-up art being showcased online that it's very easy to lose track of my favourites. Society6 is a hub site where thousands of artists sell art prints (plus less appealing things like iPhone cases, but don't let that throw you) and it's a pretty solid sampling of the work that's out there. I don't know anything about the quality of the prints themselves, but as a gallery to browse I was certainly pleased to make some new finds and to be reunited with some forgotten gold.

Voltron Dans Les Coquelicots by Hillary White.

Join me after the jump for more!

Project Runway Recaps: S09 E06

 

Did you watch Project Runway this week? No? Well, would you like to see some hastily drawn illustrations done from memory without any reference photos? You WOULD?!? Well step this way!

Mega Buzz Lightyear and more Nerd Shenanigans by Dan Hipp!

Someone thankfully retweeted Dan Hipp's awesome mega Buzz Lightyear illustration a few days ago, and I immediately had to check out his website. Maybe the comic peeps here already know about him, but the last comic I bought for myself was Batman: A Death In The Family like 20 years ago.. so I was really excited to see his style and pop culture goodies.

Here's a selection of AWESOME illustrations that I found on his website, including Ackbar, bounty hunters, turtles, pizza, zombies and more.

Is that a Lovely Package or are you just pleased to see me?

I can't even remember where I first stumbled over Lovely Package , but it was complete love at first sight. The premise is very simple - product packaging, of any type, that is unique or innovative or has something very different about it. It covers all products and can be either authentically created products or student work.

A helluva lot more after the break...

The 1950's. When Coffee was Terrible and Men Were Jerks.

I first enjoyed these vintage coffee commercials some time ago, and now someone has put together all the best bits in a crowd-pleasing compilation, with the brilliantly apt title Coffee Jerks. Hollywood, you are leeching off everything right now - please make a big screen movie adaptation of Coffee Jerks starring George Clooney. Preferably playing the amazingly in-your-face guy who upends his coffee in the garden. Women of the fifties had only two simple jobs and it's astounding to me that they could mess up one of them so badly...

This time via The Mary Sue. But join me after the jump and I'll show you my other most favourite set of commercials, this time combining a psychotic panda and cheese!

Thank Gif it's... Saturday?!

Whoops! So it seems that this week Team Fruitless Pursuits didn't watch many movies, didn't read any books, and couldn't post any gifs!  We're operating on a skeleton staff this weekend! Possibly me sitting alone at my computer in my cave, but dammit, Dear Reader, I will still do my dardenest to entertain you! Please except this unorthodox Saturday gif as a peace offering:

Thundercats Thunder-recaps Episode 7: Legacy!

How many episodes is this series anyway? What have I unknowingly committed to here? Ten? Twenty? Fifty-five? A thousand? How long can a group of homeless man-cats, led by the super dickish Lion-O, wander aimlessly through a forest?

That said, last week's episode was pretty great, with C3-PO style cock-blocking,  Indiana Jones style traps, obscene mummy Mumm-ra hulking out and spewing lasers. You know what else I've been watching? Hell's Kitchen. And that Gordon Ramsey hulks out a thousand times worse than Mumm-Ra. That guy would head-butt Wolverine and dent his adamantium skull. He's all, "YOU! DONKEY! WATCH YOUR F***ING MEAT! OR YOU'LL BE WATCHING MY F***ING MEAT, FLAPPING AGAINST YOUR FAT F***ING FOREHEAD!" Ha ha! I love that show.

Oh right! Thundercats! Here's the preview image:

Hmm... an episode called "Legacy" and here's Ye Olde Mr. Muttonchops Cat. I can sense some flashbacks coming on...

Join me after the jump and we'll figure it out! (SPOILERZ!):

We Used to be (Super) Friends.

After reviewing the new Justice League #1 I was pretty shocked and how often the so-called Super "Friends" punched each other in the face. Was this a new thing? Or were they always not-so-super-friendly? I did a little bit of research and the following graphic represents my findings. With friends like these...

Friday Night Movie Review 3!

On Fridays it is traditional (this is the third time) for the Fruitless Pursuits staff to post their mini movie reviews of any old movie that was made whenever. This time we've only got three movies. "WHAT A DAMN OUTRAGE!" you bellow. I hear you, pal!

While the FP staff have been watching a lot of things this week: their weight, the skies, their 'p's and 'q's, paint dry; it appears that they have not had time to watch many movies! The lousy bums! Shiftless deadbeats!

 And the three movies that were watched? Well, I'll let you judge for yourself:

And if that banner isn't the most unappealing thing you've ever seen in your life, then please join our skeleton staff of avid, dedicated, movie-watchers, who have suffered cruel indignities to put your entertainment ahead of their own...