Eric Tesroete is a 3d Artist by trade - you wouldn’t have guessed it eh. He created this head for a Halloween party out of 370 triangular planes of card before taking these beautifully lit photos of him in it. If he could make a service out of this I’d totally pay to spend some time in big-head mode (despite the fact that after a recent dusting off of our studio N64 it turns out I’m the WORST GOLDENEYE PLAYER EVER).

Airfix for Narcissists. Love it.

Belgian animator Kristof has a great showreel - the newest bit of which is the above video for Hermanos Inglesos’ new track, ‘Wanderland’, an animal escapade featuring a lot of birds and a couple of randy unicorns. Be sure to check out his vimeo for loads more stuff.

So this dude lobs a load of ants in his scanner then scans them for 5 years. What’s the betting he’s single. Still, at least he has his ants (not one of which you can see in this video).

It reminds me of an early version of Sim City set to a soundtrack of obscure Middle Eastern Trance. Actually, that’s sort of what it is. Enjoy.

Can it be true that I hold in my mortal hand an issue of purest AMMO?* With issue three, the cutest little inspiration mag in the planet brings us words and pics from Peskimo, Jam Factory and a favourite of ours Jessica Hische (cue glow of envy due to epic typo-crush) as well as loads of others. You can fit this baby in your back pocket but it’s jam-packed with artists that will make you quiver (ie. Pat Perry - never heard of him before but my is he good…) and is well worth picking up from the AMMO store.

*You’ll be pleased to know that our propensity to shoehorn content into barely-relevant quotes is as yet unabated.

New work from the Blu, now using more and more of the environment in his work. And bloody loads of paint, obv.

The day has finally arrived when we can announce our print mag - 64 pages of B5 glory wrapped in an Eboy original limited-edition-for-this-magazine-only illustration which also extends onto a B3 poster (included for free, naturally) all for £2.50. It’s taken tiiime to get to this stage and we’re über-excited to bring this beast to life.

The launch party is being held at our stand at the D&AD New Blood fair at the Truman Brewery on the 26th of this month (Saturday innit) - get there for 5.30 to ensure you get some of the booze. At 7 we will then trundle of for a curry and a serious pub sesh.

If you’re keen, check our facebook event here - If you can’t make it do not fear, there will be plenty left to pick up a copy at your leisure from our shop or from various other outlets. If you sign up to Stack by the end of the month you even get it for free!

Some of the topics covered:

Cake, ITV’s Gladiators, paid placements, Eboy, Glug, Moustaches, Haikus, “Industry-ready?”, Adrian Shaughnessy on lobsters in shoes, rickshaws, nudity, FFFFUUUU, Are D&AD any good at pool?, creative tics, idea vs execution, mums on Facebook and much much more. We’re so proud of it, we put our name on it.

That’s all. Good tings.

They’ve done it again. Had to post this, it’s just so good, especially the end bit with the crowd of people and the duck. Enjoy

Mike Crozier, AKA Croz, is a 21 year old designer based in Leeds. Currently in a year in industry (something we think every course should do), he has so far worked for La Suprise in Paris (for whom he created the poster, top) and SNASK in Stockholm (the pretty little stop-frame) - now on to ilovedust. And all in one so young. JEALOUS!

Being a stereotypical middle class white boy, I am obviously fascinated by street art.  In the past we’ve posted about the likes of JR, Blu and the Wooster Collective, and, as promised to a nice young man at VS, we are planning a graffiti-mega-post in the near future.  But in the meantime, to wet your whistle, here is a new Blu-style stop motion by Israeli team Broken Fingaz.

Via Fubiz as usual!

Edit 11/04/10: more lo-fi animation awesome here! MF

This quirky stop-motion animation is a segment from artist Rob Carter’s video Metropolis which chronicles the evolution of the city of Charlotte in North Carolina.  The full version is being screened at New York’s Museum of Art and Design.

(via PSFK)

UGBOT, aka Gavin Edwards, is an illustrator with a strange imagination and a real talent with vector-based doodles. On browsing through his website one gets the impression that everything is in some way linked to a grand narrative that you will never truly comprehend (a bit like star-wars but more bubbly).

That said, his chock-a-block website is proof that ignorance can be bliss.

There haven’t been enough genitals on SSZ lately.  Anti AIDS spot by TBWA Paris - lads!

In ‘98, aged just 14, aspiring cartoonist Amir Avni wrote to his then hero and creator of the brilliant (if nightmare-inducing) Ren and Stimpy, John Kricfalusi. Above is one page of the extraordinary reply he got from the great animator, the rest of which can be read here. So inspirational was it that Amir, currently in his fourth year of studying animation, is rather good himself.

Skills like these should never die or become irrelevant in a digital age so it’s encouraging that there are still those willing to devote themselves to them. And if it means our children grow up watching beautifully rendered masochistic pets break each other, so be it.

Martin deserved a shout for this video months ago - and really we should have been the ones to do it first as it was a joint decision between us at ShellsuitZombie and Adrian Shaugnessy to award him Best in New Blood for it in July. However, as often happens, it got lost in the mist of time so here it is now.

Yes it’s 14 minutes long, but yes, it is also interesting and rocks an epic beat. Worth a watch.

Carlos Garde-Martin is an illustrator who also likes to make games. Try ‘Two of a kind’, a pairs-style format which also cunningly shows off some of his nice line and fill work. The Tits and Ass print he recently submitted to threadless can be seen above - my favourite character is definitely the ‘I don’t give a shit, I’m on the T of the tit’ moon.