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Dear Puffin
Forbidden Planet is selling Doctor Who shirts for each of the Doctors. It is totally essential that I own all of these immediately. IMMEDIATELY!
I must tragically report that this glorious Art Nouveau style Inara appears to be a once off. I would give my right arm to see a full set of these, much in the style of Bill Mudron. But in the meantime Tiffany is a WINNER.
This purports to be a graphic representation of the development of Science Fiction. I’ll admit that I haven’t really looked at it in detail, but it looks pretty neat. Click to embiggen.
This leaves something to be desired graphically, but the thought behind it is so perfect that I’ll let it pass. From Deviant Summerfic
I also found some fun minimal comic book posters by Greg Guillemin
We also have Rebel Alliance and Imperial snowflakes. Yu can also get them as tshirts at Redbubble. I really want to get these somehow laser cut and available as Christmas tree ornaments.
And finally, someone possesses the greatest of all possible hot air balloons. A Darth Vader hot air balloon, for your delectation:
And on that note, I am off to frost a gigantic birthday cake. Because happy birthday Jeremy!
Love
MacGuffin (who is trying to decide between dark chocolate and bittersweet chocolate ganache for the frosting. Thoughts?)
Dear Puffin
Bill Mudron has struck again. This time he’s done two new posters. One is a superb Rory Pond (née Williams) in centurion mode (be still my heart!) and the other is a version of the 10th Doctor that makes me want to forsake reality entirely and live in a fantasy world like Davy Jones’ locker from Pirates of the Caribbean 3, but with David Tennant, John Simm and Timothy Dalton instead of Jack Sparrow. Although I guess a few Captain Jack Harknesses wouldn’t come amiss. And Johnny Depp can come too, as long as he understands which Captain Jack holds precedence. I will have so much fun! You may remember Mudron from the outstanding Deco Doctor poster that I’ve been bragging about for months now, and which we featured in our last big Doctor Who roundup.
You can buy them both here, Mr. Pond is here and Allons-y is here.
Puffin, I am buying these instead of paying the electric bill this month. Who needs lamps when 10′s smile can light up a room?
Allons-y!
MacGuffin
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Dear Puffin
As you know, I have a dear love for weird and wonderful language. Especially collective nouns for groups of animals. On that note, here are some of my favorites from this site, which is the most complete list of names I have yet found. See the rest here.
| Alligators | Congregation |
| Apes | Shrewdness, Troop |
| Badgers | Cete, Set, Company |
| Barracudas | Battery |
| Bees | Grist, Hive, Swarm, Nest |
| Buffalo | Obstinacy |
| Bullfinches | Bellowing |
| Butterflies | Flight, Flutter |
| Cats (General) | Clowder, Clutter, Pounce, Dout, Nuisance, Glorying, Glare |
| Cats (Kittens) | Kindle, Litter, Intrigue |
| Cats (Wild) | Destruction |
| Cheetahs | Coalition |
| Cobras | Quiver |
| Cockroaches | Intrusion |
| Cormorants | Gulp |
| Crocodiles | Bask, Float |
| Crows | Murder, Horde, Parcel, Storytelling |
| Dogs (Curs) | Cowardice |
| Ducks (Water) | Paddling |
| Eagles | Convocation, Aerie |
| Eels | Swarm, Bed, Fry |
| Elephants | Herd, Memory |
| Ferrets | Business, Cast, Fesnying |
| Finches | Charm |
| Flamingoes | Stand, Flamboyance |
| Flies | Business |
| Fox | Skulk, Earth, Lead, Troop |
| Geese (Flight) | Skein |
| Giraffes | Tower |
| Gnus | Implausibility |
| Goldfinches | Charm |
| Goldfish | Glint, Troubling |
| Guinea Fowl | Confusion |
| Hawks (Flight) | Kettle, Boil |
| Hedgehogs | Array |
| Hippopotamuses | Bloat |
| Horses (General) | Team, Harras, Stable, Troop |
| Hummingbirds | Charm |
| Hyenas | Cackle, Clan |
| Jays | Party, Scold, Band |
| Jellyfish | Smack |
| Lapwings | Deceit |
| Larks | Exaltation, Ascension |
| Leopards | Leap |
| Lizards | Lounge |
| Locusts | Plague |
| Magpies | Tiding, Gulp, Murder, Charm |
| Martens | Richness |
| Mice | Mischief |
| Moles | Labor, Company, Movement |
| Monkeys | Troop, Barrel, Carload, Cartload, Tribe |
| Mosquitoes | Scourge |
| Otters | Romp, Bevy, Family, Raft |
| Owls | Parliament, Stare |
| Parrots | Company, Pandemonium |
| Peacocks | Muster, Ostentation, Pride |
| Pekingese | Pomp |
| Penguins (General) | Huddle |
| Penguins (Nursery) | Crèche |
| Raccoons | Gaze |
| Rattlesnakes | Rhumba |
| Ravens | Unkindness, Storytelling |
| Rhinoceroses | Stubbornness |
| Rooks | Building, Clamor, Parliament |
| Skylarks | Exultation |
| Snails | Escargatoire, Rout, Walk |
| Squirrels | Dray, Scurry |
| Stingrays | Fever |
| Storks | Mustering, Muster |
| Swans (Flight) | Wedge, Flight |
| Thrush | Mutation |
| Tigers | Streak, Ambush |
| Trout | Hover |
| Turtles | Bale, Nest, Turn, Dole |
| Vultures | Venue |
| Vultures (Circling) | Kettle |
| Wombats | Wisdom |
| Woodpeckers | Descent |
| Zebras | Crossing, Zeal, Cohorts, Herd |
On that note here are some glorious posters of animal groups from Woop Studios.
This is my favorite word ever. An implausibility of gnus. Wtf, awesomesauce:
And this, Puffin, is for you:
There are tons more here. Now what I want to know is this. What is the collective noun for us MacGuffins? A pointlessness? An ennui? An ignorance? What are your thoughts on this important matter?
Well Puff, hopefully this represents the end of my radio silence.
Love,
MacGuffin
Dear Puffin
Somehow my brain is not on track and I can only seem to think in bite sized chunks. So here are some bite sized bits of random from around the internet:
A Ministry of Silly Walks minimalist poster by Daniel Norris. Because obviously:
A Game of Thrones infographic, for those of us who have trouble keeping the 7000 plots and 20,000 POV characters straight. It’s nowhere near good enough, but it’s a little bit of fun. Click to embiggen:
There is a whole website of Tom Haverfoods, which makes me happy on so many levels….
In honor of May 4th, aka Star Wars Day, I have some new Star Wars propaganda posters by Cliff Chiang:
And these are from Joe Corroney:
The most cutest Star Wars art that has ever or will ever be made from James Hance. His daughter is suffering from a rare medical condition so buy a print to help them out and also because look at them! They’re awesome!
The first ever Zombie-proof house. It goes from this:
To this:
It has a freaking drawbridge Puff. We need to live here. Liquidate all our assets. How much do we have left from that job in outer Mongolia?
Travis Pitt’s minimalist Robocop poster:
And Peter Weller’s thought on Detroit’s totally pressing need for a Robocop statue, which is actually happening by the way, and the world will be better for it.
Something that I desperately want- it’s a paper art thingy of the Doctor and Madame du Pompadour dancing and I love it! From etsyer Shake the Dust.
The gifs have been exploding on Tumblr lately. Robert Downey Jr is irritable and Tom Baker is awesome:
And this is the biggest/best eye roll ever. I save it for people I need to truly scorn.
A minimalist Thor poster by Dave Williams! Because May 6th is finally coming!!! Asdfghljk!
Tetris sugar cubes. Yeah.
Hopefully at some point in the near future my brain will return from its safari and let me form coherent thoughts. The passing of HR3 will, I’m sure, result in some major ranting. In the meantime I leave you with this, which warms my heart.
Love
MacGuffin
Dear Puffin
Despite rumors to the contrary, I am still alive! My brain, however, has not not yet recovered, so rather than launching into my new rant about reproductive rights or my collective bargaining health care conspiracy theory (I will fill you in later Puffin but spoiler alert: I’m pissed at everyone except Antony Weiner) I will instead drop an awesome-bomb on you in the form of assorted Doctor Who stuff. Am I excited about the new season, which starts on Saturday? You bet! Will I be able to watch it? Of course not.
This is an AMAZING Dalek propaganda poster, by the fantastic Francesco Francavilla.
This is another one which was actually produced by the BBC themselves. Of course, it was a tie in to my least favorite episode ever. Honestly, Victory of the Daleks was awful. But the poster is good, and can be downloaded in hi res here. You can also get it as a tee shirt from, sigh, Hot Topic, which I refuse to link to.
Here is a Skaaro Institute of Extermination mug that I obviously need to own.
These are some minimalist Doctor Who posters from Etsyer Geekasms.
This one has a bit of a German/Weimar Republic feel to it. From deviantartist LycanLauren.
These are a series of Doctor Who travel posters, or the closest thing I can find to them. Follow the link to find a few more. With all the crazy worlds the Doctor visits you’d think there would be tons of awesome posters, like Steve Thomas’ wonderful Star Wars advertising posters and Middle Earth travel posters. But this seems to be pretty much it.
This is from the vault, and I may or may not already own the first one, but they’re still my favorite things ever so I will continue to blog them every couple of months until I grow up a bit and stop feeling the urge to show off. From Bill Mudron. Purchase info is here.
This is a fantastic French Tom Baker era poster. Unfortunately it’s a terrrrrrible quality pic. From flikr.
Next we have a mild riff off the Social Network’s extremely repurpose-able poster. From tumblr.
And this is just to settle an argument I’ve been having with certain truly stupid male relatives. Karen Gilliam is HOT, ok? End of story. Pics or it didn’t happen? Fine. From a photoshoot for Marie Claire. (I know at least 3 people who are going to need to change their trousers after looking at this.) Her legs alone warp the space time continuum.
This is a Tardis infographic. Click to embiggen and make it, you know, legible and stuff.
Next there is this great design from the wonderful Krystin, who also made the image that we sort of stole for our blog header. Hope that’s ok Krystin…..
And to finish off I present you with possibly the most impressive thing I have ever seen. A Tardis cake that is a) incredibly pretty and accurate and b) is bigger on the inside!!!!! How is that possible???? Well, as far as I understand it, the cake-engineer (I don’t even know who this person is, but I want them to be my friend forever) did something clever with mirrors to make the inside seem bigger than the outside. Puffin I cannot even cope with awesomeness of this magnitude.
That is a CAKE! WhatisthisIdonteven…..Look at the detail!
I am flabbergasted Puffin. Flabbergasted. I hope the season premier is awesome enough to live up to all this crazy coolness. Watch it for me.
Love
MacGuffin
Other geek stuff roundups:
My obsession with Tron Legacy, including TRON CAKE,
More minimalist Doctor Who posters,
Thor roundup, because May 5 is way too far away,
Poster art roundup 1 (Ghostbusters, Naria, Tron etc)
Poster art roundup 2, movie posters as icons and some Formula One stuff
Poster art roundup 3, Back to the Future and more
Vintage Star Wars posters by Steve Thomas
Check out the poster art tag or the category in the drop down menu to the left. Also, please submit stuff! I love nerd-phenalia, so drop stuff in comments, send it to tumblr, whatever. I’m always looking for more.
Dear Puffin
Please forgive my little dalliance with professional sports. I don’t know what came over me (oh wait, yes I do). Anyway, these delightful additions to the nerd shrine art gallery chez MacGuffin represent a return to form. Today I added some lovely minimalist Doctor Who posters to my collection. Voila!
I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. Especially when I tell you that there are more here.
Love
MacGuffin
Dear Puffin
I desperately need a palate cleanser after that last piece, which brought so much bile to my throat that I think I permanently damaged my teeth. So here is a change of pace, or perhaps a return to form, since I think this blog is evenly split between my movie poster obsession and our various political rants. So here we have some pictogram posters of famous movies by artist Viktor Hertz. Follow the link to see many many more.
And a great painting of Quorra by Peter Breese. I like that he even got her highly improbable shoes right.
These are fantastic Formula 1 Grand Prix posters from PJ Tierney. I love the way he integrates the shape of the car into the dominant shapes of the flags. Especially the one for Japan. Although now I want to see rip offs featuring the Stig.
And here are some comic book travel posters by Justin Van Genderen, who is responsible for the Superman posters I so fell in love with last week.
Enjoy
MacGuffin
Dear Puffin
Masterpiece Theater has outdone themselves and managed to combine two of my favorite things: infographics and bracketology. Admittedly the two often go together, since a well constructed bracket, when graced with good graphic design, is very much like an infographic.
I think this is great, although the idea that Francis Urquhart, the modern machiavel, would lose to anyone, let alone Will Ladislaw, is completely ridiculous. Also if Rumpole doesn’t beat Lynley then this whole thing is a crock, and the same with Miss Marple and Foyle. No offense to the sweet old lady, but Foyle is rock solid.
And this, by the way, is why Urquhart would never lose.
Will I photoshop this bracket and bring FU forward, to hell with the democratic process?
You might very well think that Puffin, but I couldn’t possibly comment.
Wander over to the PBS facebook page and vote your little hearts out. Candy and karma points to anyone who votes for Rumpole in the next day or so.
Love
MacGuffin
Thanks to Matt at The Album Project, without his timely facebook update I would never have discovered this.
And this, incidentally, is another extremely pertinent infographic.
Dear Puffin
A final parting comment on the advertising world. While their tastelessness is legendary (go look at Copyranter if you don’t believe me) they also come out with stuff like this:
(Click to embiggen but it should be immediately obvious that this is hugely NSFW)
Possibly the best ad ever. Since I know you are at work I shall explain that this is a sex themed amusement park, where the safer you play, the longer you stay. Never have I been so motivated to stay safe. Via The Inspiration Room. Illustration by Rod Hunt, from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.
Stay safe!
MacGuffin
Dear Puffin
The vintage poster obsession got to me again. But I can’t help it! When Russell Walks puts up things like this:
Or this
Or this
Whats a poor little MacGuffin to do? When I see these my little nerd heart goes pitter patter and I hatch grand schemes to increase the wall space in my bathroom nerd shrine. What with the Deco Doctor poster, the Blue Sun travel ads and the random assortment of Wes Anderson-alia….. Im rapidly running out of space Puffin!
All of that pales, however, compared to this poster, which is actually, really and truly, my favorite sci-fi poster of them all.
Anyway Puffin, if you ever wondered what to get me for my birthday, now you know.
All my love
MacGuffin
