Surveyor by Pictures for Sad Children
Life lessons are easy to learn, it’s the little details that cock everything up.
Calvin and Hobbes IRL
The power of imagination is sometimes too great to confined by three perfect squares and when it comes to Calvin and Hobbes, even sweeping majestic landscapes are barely enough. Redditor nite4awk allowed Bill Watterson’s creations to finally explore the earthly realm in scenes nearly as gorgeous as the artists’ own masterpieces.
(via: nerdapproved / buzzfeed)
Tricycle by Additive Studios
The heavy, nostalgic weight tethered to our childhood toys stays with us after all those years, gaining mass as we remember them more fondly and with a tinge of sadness over the things we sacrificed for adulthood. Additive Studio’s Tricycle depicts the memories of our formative years taking on ginormous proportions and grinding to a halt in the real world due to their own obsolescence.
Toy Stories by Chris von Steiner
When I was but a wee lad, I would group all my toys and action figures together at night so they could stave off loneliness together, believing that at night they all came to life and got into wacky adventures. I wasn’t just being a dumb kid, The Toy Story movies are documented proof that this actually happens. Chris’ Toy Stories relieves your childhood friends of their innocence, however, documenting the real truth behind the secret lives of toys: they’re probably all having gangbangs and/or trying to kill each other. It’s alright though, they’re much happier this way.
Artist: Website (via: Who Killed Bambi?)
1986 by Matt Leunig
Prints available at scrapedknee. Matt’s portal into everybody’s collective childhood captures that moment late at night when you knew you should have been going to bed, perfectly aware that your face was gonna eat desk later that day in class due to no sleep, but you persevered anyways because you just had one more level to beat. Although, if you’re like me, there is no fundamental difference between adulthood and childhood, as I still do this with no regrets!
And look, Fernando Alfonso at dailydot GIFified it with magical movingness:
(via: it8bit)
Back to Childhood by Julien Mauve
When you give up toys, you give up a piece of your childhood. The good news is you can easily reclaim your lost innocence by reintroducing your favorite toy cars, telephones, card games, and animal companions back into your adult life.
Artist: behance / website (via: mymodernmet)
Turning Children’s Drawings to Toys by Child’s Own Studio
Remember all that crazy shit you drew as a kid? True story: when I was but a wee lad I was fond of drawing bones with wings on them. There was a whole family of them. Why? Who the hell knows, kids are weird! But how awesome would have been if a cool company like this existed: where they take children’s drawings and convert them to real world toys. Maybe one day my Flying Bones with faces can get the same treatment. Check out tons more at their flickr
Artists: website (via: todayilearned / io9)
One Is The Lonelist Number by Lou Pimentel
For the upcoming “Gag Me With A Toon” show at WWA Gallery, starting March 17th - April 14th in Culver City, California. Life is always better with ninja backup.
(via: dailydujour)
Pedal-Powered Forklift
Available for purchase at Hammacher Schlemmer for $319.95 USD. I worked in retail for 8 years, and four of those years were spent racing forklifts around a massive backroom every night. It’s the one thing I really miss about that job, besides the soul-crushingness of Retail Hell. I dont know if I’d be able to fit into this thing, but it might help in bringing back joy into my life.
Kids’ Drawings Made Badass by Garrett Miller
One thing I miss about being a kid is that feeling when you realized Santa wasnt real. OH I’m sorry, that’s the thing I hate most about childhood. But before my puerile dreams were shattered and the rest of my life subsequently ruined, I treasured spending way too much time drawing things that only made sense in some kind of alternate, non-Einsteinian universe. But the crudely-drawn pictures of giant walking bones with wings that threw bones at their enemies (something I really drew) never matched up to pretty pictures I saw in my admittedly eccentric, tiny head. But that’s alright! Because my new favorite blog is here to help: imaginawesome, a project by Garrett whereas he takes children’s sketches and turns them into the magnificent, fantastical creations they were always meant to be. Check it out for myriad more awesome transformations!
Artist: website / flickr / twitter
(via: mymodernmet)
Viewmaster Wedding Invitations
The idea simple and nostalgic at the same time: send in 7 high-res images with brief descriptions, and Brooklyn-based Melangerie will convert them into Viewmaster slides, then set the entire packaged set to 100 of your invitees. You can check out some more details at their etsy, but start selling those priceless childhood baubles now (hey, at least you’ll still have a Viewmaster) so you can afford the $3,450 pricetag.
(via: ohgizmo)
Transformers Underground Mission by 8-year old Bryan Lee O’Malley
O’Malley, the creator of Scott Pilgrim and owner of a camera, drew a Transformers-themed Choose-Your-Own Adventure book when he was 8 years old. This is what it looked like.
