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Best known for his contributions to Heavy Metal magazine, his underground comix work, and that Meatloaf album cover, Corben's style was always immediately recognizable. It was both realistic and outlandishly fantastic. His particular use of exaggerated anatomy and innovative color technique set him apart from other artists in the comic world and imprinted the minds of viewers for decades. More here via Boing Boing.
posted by Liquidwolf at 7:40 PM PST - 37 comments

Away in a Meat Manger: "The Meat Manger, created at the annual Brooklyn SausageFest. A nativity scene created with bacon, various sausages, cold cuts, pretzel sticks, and on a bed of sauerkraut." There's also a Flickr photo set.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:23 PM PST - 33 comments

A Part Song is a poem by Denise Riley about the death of her son from cardiomyopathy in adulthood. Poet Ange Mlinko wrote an essay about Riley in the latest issue of the London Review of Books, which she discussed with Joanne O’Leary on the LRB podcast, in a conversation that ranged from Riley’s poetry to their personal experiences of losing loved ones. You can listen to Riley read A Part Song either in the first link or on the LRB podcast.
posted by Kattullus at 2:17 PM PST - 3 comments

The Game UI Database launched this week, joining Interface in Game and Videogame Interfaces in documenting the ever-growing complexity and variety of in-game user interfaces, from A Short Hike’s retro pixel aesthetics to Firewatch’s 3D real world maps and journals and Destiny 2’s “Flat 2.0” menus.
posted by adrianhon at 2:14 PM PST - 10 comments

Epic NPC Man is a web series by New Zealand comedy group Viva La Dirt League "parodying the gameplay, glitches, bugs and physics of a range of role-playing games such as World of Warcraft, Skyrim and the Witcher. Set in the fictional world of Azerim in the fictional MMORPG called Skycraft, the series features a range of recurring non-player characters with varying levels of self-awareness." Also: chickens. [more inside]
posted by Joey Michaels at 2:09 PM PST - 13 comments

"Adventure Calendar" is a holiday-flavored RPG project from Grant Howitt. [more inside]
posted by Ipsifendus at 1:19 PM PST - 6 comments

A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best adaptation of A Christmas Carol - Ethan Warren, for Bright Wall/Dark Room
posted by Navelgazer at 10:58 AM PST - 103 comments

Breaking, elite breakdancing, will make its Olympics debut at Paris 2024, officials announced earlier in the week. According to CNN, it will be the first Dance Sport (no, I don't know why that was capitalised, either) event to appear at an Olympic Games, after having been staged at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires two years ago. The International Olympic Committee executive board also announced that skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing (three events that were due to debut at the postponed Tokyo Games) will be featured in Paris, too. "Today is a historic occasion, not only for b-boys and b-girls but for all dancers around the world," said Shawn Tay, president of the World DanceSport Federation). [more inside]
posted by Bella Donna at 9:47 AM PST - 70 comments

An Oral History of How Stupid, Sexy Flanders Got Such a Stupid, Sexy Ass [Mel]
posted by chavenet at 2:33 AM PST - 61 comments