Buck's Back

I am prepared to feel moderately entusiastic about this trailer for the forthcoming Buck Rogers web series.

(via Scans_Daily)

The Lighthouse Keeper

The Lighthouse Keeper by graduates of the Gobelins School of Visual Communication in France.

(via Drawn!)

Something for the Weekend: Rings Around the Earth

Yes!

(via Boing Boing)

Save our Arts

If you wouldn't mind, er, saving the Arts in Ireland, that would be great.

The upcoming budget is likely to do away with the perennially under-threat tax exemption for artists in Ireland. The exemption allows artists (including writers and presumably animators - hmm, maybe I should research this) not to pay tax on earnings from their artworks.

The fallacy seems to persist that artists are rolling around on their cash mattresses, yucking it up at the taxpayer's expense. Anybody who's ever tried to get money out of a film producer can attest that this is not the case.

The most recent research on working conditions in the theatre estimated the average working wage in the theatre to be about €22,000 per annum. And that was in the good times. (Yeah, I did do some research on this.) Hardly worth getting out of bed for dahling.

Artist types fear that they will effectively be 'put of business' by such a move. The National Campaign for the Arts aims to make policy-makers at least think twice about it. Why not sign their petition?

The interweb is great for this kind of thing.

(via Hilary, Long Stone Comics)

Photo courtesy of Jaqian on Flickr

Lord of the Rings: One Chart to Rule Them All

I have a soft spot for diagrams. This one is brilliant. The Star Wars one is pretty good too. From now on I want everything condensed into diagrams! More diagrams!

'Is it Gandalf?!'

(via Lady Rok)