Hello everyone I hope you all survived the giant feast and then the black Friday craze. I had a lot of things I wanted to post today but I figured that a good laugh was in order. It has been a while since I posted any really good YouTube crap so today is the day and I have a goody, House Of Cosbys.

Created by Justin Roiland, House of Cosbys is a funny show that takes liberal use of Bill Cosby and his character played on the Cosby show.  Here is the plot as stated so eloquently on the great wiki:

The cartoon features main character Mitchell Reynolds (voiced by Jeff Davis) who invents a cloning machine in order to create his own personal Bill Cosby to entertain him. He then begins cloning several more Cosbys to help him around the house, much like in the plot of the 1996 film Multiplicity. However, the quality of the clones seems to deteriorate as the process is repeated, and he decides to stop using the machine, but when one of the clones subversively activates it, he discovers that every tenth Cosby he clones has super powers. At the suggestion of Data Analysis Cosby (the first super-powered Cosby) they decide to continue cloning Cosbys so that their super powers can be used to help the world.

The show was first aired on an internet streaming service called Channel 101 and only lasted 4 official episodes. I say official because a 5th unnoficial episode was made in retaliation. Retaliation to what you ask? Well it turns out that Bill Cosby got wind of this show and he was uterly appalled to say the least. So he did what any comedian would do that lost his sense of humor. He got a lawer. Here is the actual cease and desist letter that was sent.

Dear sirs, we are counsel for Mr. William H Cosby, Jr. We have just learned that you offer a deeply offensive animated film that you created, entitled “House of Cosbys”. […] As you are certainly aware, none of you are licensed or in any way authorized to use Mr. Cosby’s voice, name, or likeness. […] Therefore, we demand that you immediately cease and desist from any use of our client’s name, voice, and likeness, including the development and distribution of the “House of Cosbys” series.

So what about this 5th unofficial episode that was made. Well Justin Roiland the show creator was not allowed to create anymore episodes because of that letter above. That however did not stop a third party from creating the episode on their own. This final episode looks nothing like the previous 4. This final show was created solely for the purpose of attacking the lawyer and Bill Cosby. They also wanted to let fans of the show know what the reason was that they would no longer be able to see new episodes.

Very truly yours,
John P. Schmitt ^[1]

So here they are in order from 1 to 4 official and 5 unofficial.

That was the end of what could have been a really funny and successful show. I thought this show was hilarious and I hope you do too. Until next week I’m Street Fece and I’m out! Boop boop boop beep boop. Haha yeah I thought so to Robot Cosby.

Hello again. Today it is all about Designer Con 09. What is Designer Con you ask? Here is some brief history in their own words.

DesignerCon was founded in 2006 under the name of Vinyl Toy Network. The show was created to bring together the artists, manufacturers, distributors and retailers of the vinyl toy/collectible figures market. When it first started the show was brought to Pasadena Convention Center in one of their 1100 sq.ft. meeting rooms. Even since the first show the artists and collectors came out to support the show.

This is a pretty cool event that I am bummed I have to miss. A lot of artists come from around the world to show off their works and mingle with fans. If you are in the area you should check it out. While your their stop by and say Hi to one of our comic sponsors Spanky Stokes. He has a booth down there and is streaming the whole event live via web cam.

Here are some pics of events past to give you an idea of what you will find at this event.

All in all this is a really fun event with lots of great art and great people. Until next week, Street Fece

Hello and welcome to another Geek O da week. Today its all about a FaerieCon. I have just recently found out about this event that has been going on for years now. I was reading a blog somewheres on the Internet and there was a link for FaerieCon. I was like what the hell is FaerieCon? Well I found out and I will share this info with you.

This is taken strait from their site: “Faericon brings magic of Faerieworlds, the West Coast’s premiere mythic music festival, to the East Coast. Array yourself in your most beautiful faerie finery, don your wings, gather your friends and family and cross the threshold! Once inside, you will find the largest gathering of faerie artists and authors in the world who look forward to meeting you, amazing, magical apparel, beautiful jewelry, mysterious masks, handmade crafts, fashion shows, performers, musicians, storytellers, exhibitions, panel and workshops.”

You had me at Faericon but I will stay to see my friends and family cross the threshold. Right? I mean come on who wouldn’t want to don their wings and release their inner faerie that shines in all of us. So Faericon started because they wanted to bring the magic of Faerworlds to the east coast.  I was like what there is another con that spawned this con and then I saw the videos for Faerieworld.

The event looks crazy with Ents and giant Centaurs walking around. Maybe this is what hippies have transformed into. From the looks of it there seems to be a pretty decent amount of people that participate in this thing. They have live bands and other performances. There is a full vendor section so you can swap incantations and buy the latest in Faerie gear. They also have the typical Con costume contest. I think I have seen most of the same people appearing at the SD Comic Con.

All in all it looks pretty interesting and I am pretty sure that if I was in the area I would definitely go and check it out. It looks like a people watchers paradise. The whole thing probably smells of patchouli and sage, which unlike most people, am completely fine with. If you need more info check out their sites: Faeriecon.com and Faerieworlds.com.  You will find a lot more info, photos, videos, and Faerie products that should satiate your interests. Until next time, Street Fece out!

I love Macro Photography. I find them to be one of the most interesting of photos to look at because they give you a glimpse into a smaller world that cannot see with you naked eye. There are also some things like big spiders that you just wouldn’t want to  put your face up close to even if you could see the detail without the need of a nice camera lens.

So what is Macro Photography?  This has to be one of the simplest definitions. Macro Photography is close up photography. Wow some definition. How bout we just enjoy some great macro photos now.

If you feel inspired after seeing some of the pictures above well then here are some great tutorials.

If you have an iphone then your in luck. A lot of people are posting great tutorials for getting macro photos using the iphone and the solutions are fairly cheap and easy to do.

Code Retard: Using a telescope lens

If you feel like busting open your iphone then this is the tutorial for you.

DIYPhotography.net have one of my favorite tutorials.

So there you go. You should now have enough info to go out and take your own macro photos now. Be here next week for another geek of the week.

Happy Halloween! This is going to be another post with a lot of pictures of unique costumes. I love how Halloween has become a way for girls to try and see who can wear the sluttiest costume. Sorry I won’t be posting any of those photos but I’m sure if you head over to SlumSpace or FaceKrook and see a whole bunch of these types of photos. For this assortment of costume goodness I wanted to only post costumes that made me laugh out loud .

Here are some great little chillin costumes.

Funny Pet Costumes: Animals are funny. They can have a look of so much attitude and when you pair that together with a funny costume the results are just amazing.

And these just made me go WTF? I don’t know what these people were thinking. Adults are definitely not as funny as the above. All I know is that I am glad someone had the sense to take a photo and post it to the web. The last photo is one that, well, maybe the parents got a call from CPS when this photo made it to the web.

Well until next week. I should have something Geeky. Have fun and be safe this Halloween and would someone please tell her to stop touching that!

Hello again and welcome to another geek of the week. I hope you enjoyed last weeks post about the upcoming CS5 as much as I did. I am really really looking forward to using the new brush and cloning features. The speed of the new clone will save a lot of time and the new cloning features are still just blowing my mind.

This week I felt that I should learn ur sumptin good. If you want to have a career in lets say comics then you as an aspiring artist must always be looking around and taking notice of things. Things like when drawing a face the eyes should have about an eyes width between them. Another example is how when drawing landscapes objects get smaller and lighter in color the further they are away from you. Looking around you is a skill that all successful artist master. You may be the best observer though and still not know everything about certain objects. You cannot just pick up a rock and see the mineral structures to get a better understanding of the science of how the rock is. This is where your simple observations turn into research.

Research is fine and all but that takes time and sometimes a degree. We really don’t have time to get degrees we need to know some stuff fast. Luckily we have many options for learning on the quick. There have been some great TV series that help us. Sorry the horrible Heroes show will not help. Actually you could use your new looking around abilities to observe what a bad show looks like.

Mr Wizard and Look around you are two TV series that I’m pretty sure all scientists and doctors use one of these on a regular basis in order to learn the dynamic intricacies of life. If its good enough for Doctors and Scientists then it should be good enough fur us arteests. (I think that’s how you say it in French)

Mr. Wizard is the man. This guy will show you the proper techniques for using a pickle as an alternative to light bulbs by electrifying them. He is such a powerful wizard that he doesn’t even need a fancy lab to do the powerful experiments. Mr. Wizard just has no need for these things and continues to mock the scientific community by using children to carry out the experiments. He does all this to show everyone that science is really magic and that we should respect our wizards. Rumor has it that Mr. Wizard was the last apprentice of Merlin. Don’t let the end of the video where it says were just for kids. This was actually done purposely. Mr Wizard called everyone a kid and he liked to make fun of all the doctors and scientists trying to learn the real secrets of life. After Mr. Wizard tired of this series he disappeared never to be seen again. Some say the new movie Paranormal Activities is really Mr. Wizard just messin around with people. Haha Mr. Wizard real funny. Wizards have a weird sense of humor.

With the great vacuum created from Mr. Wizards sudden disappearance where were we to turn as a society for the truth about our world. The answer came from the show called Look Around You. Look Around You is a British TV series that came out in 2005. They picked up where Mr. Wizard left off teaching people once again the truths of science and the magic behind it. They took one subjects like calcium, math, germs, ghosts, iron, sulfur, water, music, and the brain in only their first season on the air. They went on to produce a second season but were not allowed to do a third. Apparently the times have changed and wizards are no longer welcome in this world. At least we cans still watch the videos they did make. You will find below some of my favorites from the series. first you have Iron and the second video is sulfur. Last is Ghosts. I think they were actually trying to find Mr. Wizard however no one is willing to confirm that.

LOL so I hope you enjoyed getting your lern on. I know I did. Come back next week to see some interesting things. Halloween is coming and so I will be devoting next week blog to something special. Before I go I must post one more from this great series. This is about the brain. All I can say is take it easy on you EBEs. Stree Fece is out!

Hello peoples. Street Fece here again after last weeks LBCC. This week is going to be all about the up and coming CS5. If you are doing anything in the design field then you what CS5 is. Everyone else CS5 stands for Creative Suite 5 which is the latest version for the next major software update from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe whether you like them or not produce some amazing tools for artists and developers. These tools give you the ability to create almost anything you can think up.

Some quick facts about Adobe taken from their own website. Adobe Systems Incorporated offers business, creative, and mobile software solutions that revolutionize how the world engages with ideas and information. Adobe customers include enterprises, knowledge workers, creatives and designers, OEM partners, and developers worldwide. The company was founded in December 1982 by Charles Geschke and John Warnock on a mac. Yes even back then designers liked macs. They are named after Adobe Creek which ran behind Warnock’s home in Los Altos, California. The company has had great success and last year generated $3.58 billion. If you can’t get enough adobe history then check out this PDF for a lil more history.

OK so CS5 is what we all want to know about. Well I was getting kind of anxious about when this next version would be upon us so I did some searching and found CS5.org. When I first went there only a couple of things had been posted but I kept checking back now and then as newer posts came in. Now if you go to the site there are some really cool videos and developer info about the new stuff being implemented. Keep reading because below you will find my favorites so far from the blog.

Adobe Photoshop is getting some updated content aware scaling features and new brushes. Content aware scaling is something few new about in CS4 and it is very useful. The basic description if you don’t want to watch the video is that an image could be scaled and Photoshop would do its best to not distort certain objects like people. Once again this is better seen in action. The brush tools are getting a much needed update. Were talking actual bristle brushes with a 3d preview and the ability to mix paint and colors. You just have to see what I am talking about in the videos below.

Flash is dominating this blog with the most posts. Flash is getting so many cool and MAJOR updates. The two that really interest me the most are the direct to Iphone publishing and physics. The Iphone publishing is something that is going to be very nice. Many online games are done in flash and flash does not currently run on the IPhone. So to now have the ability to publish straight to the Iphone is really cool. Phyisics is not new to flash. Physics was only available to you if you were a coder. If you were a flash designer you were SOL. Not anymore now we designers can partake in these new Physics features. That lady’s voice in the beginning of this video is very annoying. Watch it to the end if you want to see the new physics features.

If you want to keep up on these updates then do what I do. Check the page once a week and there is sure to be something new to Nerd out on. Oh and just so you know the new version of CS5 will be out in April 2010.

Mr. Wolf helped out last week. I was worried about what would get posted as I didn’t know if we could have another rant twice in one week. Our heads could have exploded. Instead he went all Geek on it and posted a really cool blog. So thanks to you sir.

This week it is all about sleep. We here at Semantink do not seem to get this anymore. There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes that keep us going through the night and into the early morning hours. While staying up late for our generation is not unusual, I started to wonder how much sleep do we actually need?

The most common accepted hours of sleep one should get is 8 to 9 hours. I read somewhere that 7 would be the optimal but really I think it comes down to the individual. I personally would love to get 9 hours of sleep. Sleeping, while dearly missed, is more like an enemy trying to keep you from getting the things you need to get done. I say enemy because the US government treats it as such. They have done many studies on sleep. They would love to make it so soldiers could stay awake indefinitely without any side effects.  The Military has released many of their studies to the public. In some of these studies just good ole caffeine was used to keep troops awake. Apparently, while not officially endorsing energy supplements, there are many different kinds of energy products to be had on base. One military paper called “Facilitation of Task Performance and Removal of the Effects of Sleep Deprivation by an Ampakine (CX717) in Nonhuman Primates” found some interesting results. The results showed that monkeys kept awake and given Ampakine were faster and more alert than monkeys who were allowed to sleep.

This war with the enemy sleep is why there is such a big industry developing things to keep you awake. You have Coffee, tea, 5hour energy, Red Bull, Monster Energy, and Orexin A to name a very small few.  Your probably asking yourself what the hell is Orexin A. Well I’ll tell you. There is a professor of psychiatry at UCLA, named Jerome Siegel, that found an interesting way to keep us awake. If what he has figured out is released to the general population we will all be snorting a spray to stay awake (that should be the tagline : Spray Awake). Apparently we lose Orexin A during the day. The loss of this chemical makes us tired. Narcoleptics don’t seem to produce much of this stuff. Jerome Siegel made pure Orexin A into a spray that you should snort through your nose. This will wake you right up and without any side effects because your body would have produced the same stuff anyways.

However the best way to finally beat the sleep is to catch a fever. Yeah that’s right if you catch this specific kind of fever you might never sleep again. Don’t believe me well then I would like to introduce you to Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc. This guy has not slep in 33 years. My eyes bugged out when I read this. I was like BS he had to of taken a nap sometime. No he hasn’t because he tried and just couldn’t sleep. Thai Ngoc caught a fever in 1973 and since then has been unable to sleep. Not even drinking makes this guy pass out. He uses his new ability to work on his farm. Maybe Batman found this fever because how would he have time to sleep when fighting all night and then acting like nothing happened the next morning.

I’m going to just stick with my 5 min energy routine. You can watch it below. Oh man this helps me relieve my built up toxins of stress. Just make sure your home alone when your Three thumping in your Wayne Cook Posture. Until next weeks geek

Hello all.  Street Fece is developing a whopper of a story othat’s not quite ready yet, so he’s asked me to jump in and write a little something-something to keep his throng of followers occupied until his return.  Unfortunately for you all, that means you get to read me for a bit.  Equally unfortunate for you, I haven’t got a scientific bone in my body and my interest in all things natural ends when I flush a toilet.  So, today we’re going to “geek” out on something that has been a fear of mine since I first saw Sarah Conner in the eighties:  ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD!

We’ve all seen at least one of the Terminator movies, 9, The Matrix, and/or the Short Circuit films, so we know that in the end we’re all going to be stripped for parts by our creations in a technological throwback to Frankenstein.  But what many of you may not know, is that it is getting ready to happen now — as in right now.  All robots need to end us is will, mobility and weapons and we’re all f*cked!  So, without further adue, allow me to introduce the methods of our destruction.

WILL

Let’s start with this little gem from 2001 — yes, 8 f*cking years ago!  A group of deathbringers decided they would fuse tchnology with flesh and gave control of a robot to the brain of an eel!  “The robot is controlled by an immature lamprey eel brain that was removed, kept alive in a special solution and attached to the hockey-puck-sized robot by wires so it can receive signals from the device’s electronic eyes and send commands to move the machine’s wheels.”  This means that robots themselves may not need to have any will, but some pissed off sea creature with all the right connections could go all Al Gore on us all and bring about death and destruction from the comfort of their wet home.  Or worse yet, what if a redneck get’s connected?!  Think about it…

But don’t think for one second that they need us…  Robots are learning just fine on their own.  Yesterday, on the 17th of September, 2009, I ran across this fun little story.  According to the article, a bunch of geeks in California have created a beastly borg that actually learns!  It holds out a rock and says, “Hello, whats is this?”  You say, “WHy hello robot, that’s a rock.”  Then it beats you to death with it.  Well, maybe not yet, but what happens when the learning robot LEARNS that it doesn’t NEED us to survive?  What then?  Does nobody in robot research and development watch movies or read comic books!?  You’re killing us all!

So we’ve got the thinking machine, the one that can hack into our nervous systems, but what about on the spot problem solving?  Well, for that piece of fun, we get this:

A bunch of robots that can, like zords, form together to make whatever they need to kill us all.  Sweet.

MOBILITY

They can RUN, they can JUMP, and as of last year, they have four legs:

This scary bitch not only will chase after you with out needing a break, but if you do try to knock it over, it won’t go anywhere except sideways and then back up in your face to eat it!  And it doesn’t manner when or where you run to, because BIGDOG hunt in ALL SEASONS!

Or how about this little guy, designed to crawl through your body without you ever knowing!  We could all be infested with these guys as you read this and you would never know it.  Yeah.  Awesome.  One night you’ll be sleeping when all of the sudden, a thousand little fly-bots come swarming out of your own ass then connect to form an alternate version of you!  They’ll eat you, and go on pretending to be you — and nobody will know the difference…  Sleep well.

And you don’t need mobility as much when you hide well…  Take the following video for example.  A dutch (it’s always the Dutch…) gas station has a robot hiding in their station to fill up your car.  Sounds nice, huh?  WRONG!  Just wait until your child walks by and the mechanical arm extends to pop off little Timmy’s head thinking it’s a gas cap!  Tell me how nice it is then!

WEAPONS

I’ve always thought that the greatest weapons we’re then sneaky ones.  You know, like knives, daggers, rocks and women?  Don’t laugh!  See this pool-playing borg?  Imagine the stick is a katana blade.  Yeah — instant death.

“Well,” you say, “I’d never let the robot get close enough.”  Oh yeah?  They don’t always look like this:

Sometimes, they look like this:

You see, in Japan, they’ve created modeling robots that “are the average woman in Japan.”  Great.  Now the enemy has a way to get close to MANGA fans everywhere…  Actually, is that such a bad thing?

And finally, for you’re viewing pleasure, I give you the four most terrifying robot videos I’ve ever seen.

1.  The Death Hand.

2.  The Flesh Eaters

3. The Snow Pooper (Sorry, you gotta click to see that one)

4. The Death Dealer

Run and Hide.

Filling in for SF,

Mr. Wolff

Well hello again. Street Fece gunna giva you somtin nice todays. I hope you like bugs because this post it going to be all about them. I love it when we get freaked out at the movies about creatures that we have never seen before. I love it even more when these things end up getting trumped by real world creatures. The world is a dangerously glorious place of crazy shiii um I mean fece. Now I’m not talking about crazy made up creatures like the Montauk monster, The Russian Monster, or Bigfoot. (OK wait we all know Bigfoot is real) No I’m talking bout the real life crazy’s.

First for those of yous afraid of bees don’t look at this. These are the Giant Japanese Hornets, AKA yak-killer or in Japan they call it the freakin sparrow bee. These are the biggest bees in the world and if you piss them off they will probably kill you. They have a quarter inch long stinger to sting you with and some big ol jaws to bite you with. Victims of this sting say that it feels like someone is driving a hot nail into their skin. I thought Godzilla was bad. At last he will end it in one bite instead of leaving you to suffer the wrath of hot nails. Watch these things just destroy this honey bee nest so they can steel their larva to take back to their nest in order to feed the next generation of these beasts.

Next we move onto the Siafu Ant, AKA Driver ant or Devil ant. These bad boys are found in Africa. When food supplies are low they come out in force to find more food. When I say in force I mean it has been estimated to be about 50,000,000 hungry ants. If your house is in their path of destruction well I feel for you. There have been reports of these things killing humans. Usually these people are young, old, sick, or occasionally passed out drunk. These ants come in quick biting feverishly. However it is not their bites that kill you. Most of their human victims die of asphyxiation because these things were crawling into your mouth and lungs. If your not found quick you will be only bones picked clean.

Next we have good old Barry the worm. Now doesn’t that sound like a pleasant creature. You know the kind of worm that teaches your kids to stay off drugs and do good in school. Well not this Barry. He would be happier to eat your small children. This is a crazy looking worm. The story is even better. I will say that he was found in a fish tank because the fish were disappearing. When they finally caught Barry he was 4 feet long. He is now on display in his own enclosure.

Cat got your would be much better than if this thing got your tongue. This thing is the damn Cymothoa exigua or Tongue eating louse. Lovely right. Well luckily for us it only has a taste for fish tongue. This thing will usually grow to be about 3 to 4 cm in length. Lucky for the fish this thing doesn’t want to kill it. The parasite will enter the fish through its gills when it is still a wee lad. When it finds the tongue it holds on and digs its claws into it. The parasite feeds on the fishes blood. As the parasite grows the it takes so much blood that the tongue dies and the parasite replaces it completely by attaching itself to the stub that is left. Now the fish actually uses the parasite is its own tongue. Check the pics.

Last we have Zombie ants. I know your saying oh no now ants are cashing in on the whole zombie thing. Well yeah they are. The term zombie is given because their is no other way to describe what they are actually doing. The ant gets infected with a fungus that takes over the ant. The fungus makes the aunt go AWOL by unplugging it from the hive mind. The ant then sets off on its own to bit onto a branch and die. A fungi spire then bursts through the ants back releasing more of its deadly spores.

Now if your still reading to this point well i commend you. I just wanted to clear up some things about the Montauk monster and the Russian Monster. The Montauk monster has been identified as a Raccoon. The Raccoon would have drowned in water to later wash up on shore to be found. This is more of the same for the Russian Monster. It was said the the Russian Monster was a whale.