Illustration roundup

One of several roller girls logos by Seth.




SVK cover art by Matt "D'Israeli" Brooker.




X-Men poster by Josh Siegel on sale here.




Gryphon by Kevin Tong for Gallery 1988's upcoming Alice show. Here's N.C. Winters's fairly disturbing illustration.

*Buy roller derby posters at eBay.

Geek Olympathon in Portland in June

Geek Olympathon in Portland in June:

A weekend full of geeky contests and events held all over Portland culminating in an awards ceremony with live music and booze? Yes, please! Teams will be asked to travel to different locations and compete against each other in the geekiest ways to win material rewards and cash prizes. The event culmination will be an awards party where teams will be brought on stage and given their awards for both their performance and superlatives regarding their overall participation and costumes.

Contests include a wifi-enhanced bicycle race, Lego building, long box jumping, costume making, and more.

If you set up a team, Icelandic emo horse could be your mascot:

Link roundup

1. Cool Foo Fighters concert t-shirts.

2. Fascinating article at Wired about tech startup incubator Y Combinator, including an anecdote about an investor "who dropped more than $6 million on companies he knows almost nothing about—indeed, some of which haven’t yet decided what business they’re in."

3. A video game company retaliated against a negative review of their game by encouraging employees to write negative reviews about the author's novel. Via.

Alone and Unafraid military patch

Trevor Paglen has a companion site for his excellent book "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Black World" that includes various patches that didn't make it into the book. There was one Alone and Unafraid patch at eBay when I checked. Via.

Rapture Central Computing

Illustrations for Rapture Central Computing from Bioshock. Rapture's great computer will be featured in the Minerva's Den downloadable content:



Via.

*Buy Bioshock posters at eBay.

Illustration roundup

Down the Rabbit Hole art print by NC Winters on sale here.




The Intervention of the Sabine Women by Jacques-Louis David. Via.




Panel from Master of Kung-Fu #17, in which Shang-Chi heals a paralyzed man.




Varsity Donuts logos by Matt Stevens.




The Death Ray by Daniel Clowes. Preorder for $12 at Amazon.

Threadless "summer camp" contest

Threadless is having "summer camp" games May 16-20 that you can participate in at Twitter. Below are the logos for the four competing "cabins."






My favorite is Aled Lewis's Uber Wolf Cabin. You can sign up at the link.

*Buy girl scout patches at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Funny Portal 2 animated gif. And speaking of, it would be cool if Valve made a POTaTOS kit that attached to a typical Mr. Potato Head.

2. How to set up a green screen photo studio for $100. Via.

3. Gallery of beer league hockey jerseys.

*Buy vintage cameras at eBay.