For those not in the know, an end to end burner is graf slang for when you paint a train from back to front.

It's been a while since I saw one of those and I hope they make a comeback one day, anyway the good old BBC has a cool little piece on graf art on their website and it's quite a read with videos included.

Go ahead, take a look HERE.

Heath Ledger died before completing a few things in his lifetime, one of them was the concept to a video for Modest Mouse's, "King Rat" single.

"Ledger was formulating a concept for the video to accompany Modest Mouse’s single, “King Rat”, after meeting lead singer Isaac Brock in Australia three years ago. It was to highlight the illegal whale hunting being carried out off the Australian coast with proceeds from sales of the video going to a conservation charity. After Ledger’s death, Daniel Auber took over the directing duties, and the result - a sketchy, jaunty Moby Dick’s revenge - is a fittingly dark and intriguing tribute."

Modest Mouse - King Rat

"A New York man used over 50 people to tell his love he wanted to be with her forever in a way that may be remembered forever.

I really don't know what to think of this. I'd love to hear what the women have to say though, so ladies...Respond by leaving comments, I really want to know what you think.

Read the full story below.

An Olympic hopeful from New Zealand has opened a brothel in a bid to raise cash for a tilt at taekwondo glory in 2012.

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"Michael Jackson fans are up in arms after a ghostly apparition was caught on camera at the late star's Neverland ranch.

The image was captured whilst a camera crew filmed inside Neverland for a special edition of the Larry King Live show.

A shadowy figure can be seen crossing one of the corridors and appears to have its head tilted forward causing some to draw comparisons with Jackson's posture.

The alleged supernatural sighting is the latest in a string of bizarre Jackson rumours to sweep the internet following his death nearly two weeks ago including speculation that Jackson faked his own death and that he will be buried without his brain.

Do you think this is really the ghost of Michael Jackson? Could there be another explanation or perhaps another spectre is haunting the corridors of Neverland."

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Is that he is infact white, married, middle aged and lives in Oldham near Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Real talk...Watch the expose video of it HERE.

Yup, that's right. It seems like Hollywood did not get that memo declaring the end to everything neon and 80's related that saturated, and in some cases choked us silly two years ago.

The big brains in Lala land have decided not only to make another Ghostbusters movie (With the original cast in zimmer frames, I suspect) but they are shamelessly grave robbing their own archives to find great movies of yesteryear to remake. Has creativity hit an all time low?

I swear to God, if they remake 16 Candles ,The Breakfast Club or Weird Science, I'm going to hurt somebody...I honestly will.

In the meantime read all about the film archive or rather, grave robbing shenanigans HERE.

-Sigh-

Cause this is either an April fool's or Spencer has let the fumes from the lighting on the set of The Hills get him high.

He's now a rapper (If I'm lying I'm frying).

He said he and wife, Heidi are the new Jay Z and Beyonce (I did'nt realise the old Jay Z and Beyonce were out of fashion already).

Read it all and hear Spencer's new track, "I'm a celebrity" HERE.

In the immortal words of Rick James, "Cocaine is a helluva drug".

I was meaning to post this a few days ago but I have been a bit un well and a tad lazy, but better late than never, eh?

It's an article from the BBC on political doodles and how the cartoonists have so far portrayed Obama. There's also an exhibition of Obama doodles going on at the political cartoon gallery in London which runs from the 3rd of April to the 13th of June.

Read the whole article on Obama cartoons HERE.

The Boston globe provides some pictures of the on going all out war in Mexico between the authorities and the drug cartels.

Amazing pictures capture the war shot by shot, some quite graphic so please beware. Also included in the photo set is the newly constructed US/Mexico border wall which can be lifted from the sand dunes after sandstorms bury it.

See all the pictures HERE and also read a detailed story about the war from the LA Times HERE.

The Egyptian government has sought to dispel rumours that a mobile phone text message "from unknown foreign quarters" is spreading around the country and killing those who receive it.

The extraordinary move by Egypt's health and interior ministries follows press reports that an SMS containing a special combination of numbers killed a man in the town of Mallawi south of Cairo.

"He died vomiting blood,followed by stroke, shortly after he received a message from an unknown phone number," the Egyptian Gazette reported on Wednesday.

"The number begins with the symbol (+) and ends with (111)," it said.

An "official security source" was quoted by the official MENA news agency as denying that those who receive the SMS "get splitting headaches followed by brain hemorrhage that leads to death."

A statement from the health ministry quoted health officials in several regions as saying that they had "received no cases with such symptoms"

"These rumours contradict all scientific facts," the statement said.

Egypt's interior ministry has detained three workers at an oil company for allegedly starting the rumours "and they are now being interrogated," MENA said.

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Wasn't there a film like this out last year sometime? Life imitating art?

Apparently, the ending of the new Terminator movie has been leaked. By whom? Nobody knows, this much I know, Bale will destroy whoever it is when he finds out. I pity the fool.

Read it all HERE unless you're one of those types that will not bother to see the movie once someone tells you about the plot or ending.

Those kind of people always seemed weird to me, I mean how can you not enjoy it cause you know the ending? I knew about the ending of The Usual Suspects (courtesy of Jay Z and a few people) waaaaaaay before I saw the film and still enjoyed it.

Weirdos.

You put her up for sale?

"A British man fed up with his wife's complaints advertised her for sale -- and got a number of offers.

"Nagging Wife. No Tax, No MOT. Very high maintenance -- some rust," wrote Gary Bates, 38, in a small ad in Trade-It, more usually used to buy and sell cars or household goods.

Bates, a self-employed builder from Gloucestershire, southwest England, snapped after his wife Donna on got on his nerves while she was watching television and decided to place the ad as a joke.

"She was nagging me for doing something small, while she was watching some rubbish on TV. So I just thought I'd put an ad in to get rid of her.

"I didn't think anyone would ring up but I've had at least nine or 10 people calling about her. It's gone mad. There was no one I knew -- just people asking, 'Is she still available?'"

The couple only married last year, and Bates said his 40-year-old wife -- whom he advertised in the magazine's Free to Collect section, along with some of his fishing tackle -- initially gave him "a bit of an ear-bashing."

But he said: "She's seen the funny side of it now though!"

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A whole league of grown up kids were crushed when Tony Hart died last month. Tony taught us all how to draw and was a kids TV fave from a lot of peoples early years.

Today a flashmob of plasticine figures were lined up outside the Tate modern in London to honour him. Some pictures of the event can be seen below, you can also read more and see a video of the event HERE.

It's a terrible thing when pop stars you grew up listening to have to result to drastic means just to survive.



Makes you wonder how involved they were at managing their monies earned from the hits they made. Sad sad sad indeed.

OctoMom is used to having multiple people inside of her at once -- and now one porn company is willing to shell out big bucks to harness that skill on film.

Major porn distributor Vivid Entertainment has just fired off a letter to Nadya Suleman, offering her 1 million bucks to star in a skin flick of her own. Vivid is willing to go one step further, by telling us they'll give her family full medical and dental insurance if she becomes a "contract girl"... meaning she'll have to do multiple videos.

No word if Octo will take them up on the offer -- but she definitely needs the scratch for a down payment on a house...

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T is for thanks, to Matt for bringing this to my attention. G is for grossed out and L is for lose my lunch, which I think I'm about to do now.

The NY Post is back in the spotlight again after apparently likening president Obama to a chimp. Read the full story below.

Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz was in front of a classroom full of black and Latino kids, drawing presidents. He sketched Bush, then Clinton. Next came his favorite, the man he voted for: Obama.

"Hey, those lips are big," Alcaraz heard a black girl say from the back of the room.

Alcaraz was disturbed. "I try to bend over backwards not to make him look like a cartoon stereotype," and certainly not a racial stereotype, he said.

Editorial cartoonists are bending over backwards a lot these days, as they try to satirize the nation's first black president. And when they don't, the result is the kind of outcry that erupted this week after a New York Post cartoon featured a bloody chimpanzee — intentionally or unintentionally evoking racist images of the past.

The problem is, cartoonists make their living by making fun of people — especially presidents — and exaggerating their features and foibles.

The best political cartoons are "like an X-ray machine," said Amelia Rauser, an art history professor at Franklin & Marshall College and author of "Caricature Unmasked," which examines the art form's historical role in political discourse.

"You have to deform someone facially in order to make a larger point about their character," Rauser said. "But that deformity reveals their inner truth and makes them look more like themselves."

Racial history

The late Herblock often saddled Richard Nixon with an enormous cartoon nose. Liberals drew George W. Bush like a simpleton, or worse. There have been minor kerfluffles from the left about drawing Hillary Clinton as insufficiently feminine, and from the right about depicting Condoleezza Rice as servile to President Bush.

Drawings of President Barack Obama, however, must contend with America's history of degrading racial imagery, from ape comparisons to enormous "Sambo" lips. (Caricatures of the president's admittedly large ears have so far escaped scrutiny.)

Michael Cavna, who blogs about comics for The Washington Post, wrote that "an unnerving number of North America's political cartoonists are bizarrely obsessed with President Obama's lips." He followed with a detailed analysis of several cartoons where Obama's lips were large, some shade of blue, or both.

On Wednesday, the New York Post published an editorial cartoon showing a chimp shot to death by police officers. "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill," the caption reads.

Amid widespread black condemnation, the Post initially defended the panel by its longtime cartoonist Sean Delonas, saying it referred to a chimp that recently attacked its owner's friend and was killed by police. The newspaper apologized "to those who were offended" after 200 protesters picketed the Post offices on Thursday.

During the presidential campaign, The New Yorker magazine was accused of racism for an infamous cartoon of Obama dressed as a Muslim, fist-bumping his wife, Michelle, who was toting a machine gun and sporting a black-power Afro. The magazine said it was satirizing right-wing smears of the Obamas.

Scott Stantis, editorial cartoonist for The Birmingham (Ala.) News, said he received several complaints this week that his Obama drawings look "simian." As a conservative in a city that's 77 percent black, Stantis has learned to consider the feelings of his audience.

"Being the typical American editorial cartoonist — doughy, white, middle-aged — I'm more than willing to accept that I don't know what may or may not be offensive," he said. "But editorial cartoons are supposed to be offensive, and provocative. We're entering new waters here. What can you use or not use?"

"All my characters look simian," he said. "I don't make Obama look nearly as simian as our former Gov. Fob James, who I DID draw as a monkey, on more than one occasion. And he's a white guy ... I'm sorry, but when it comes to African-Americans, you just don't draw monkeys."

Stepping gingerly

Ted Rall, president of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, said that Obama's race has affected how his colleagues do their jobs: "Without a doubt, people are stepping more gingerly. People are tiptoeing their way through this."

Rall, who is liberal, said it's harder to take shots at Obama because he's smart, charming and handsome, "so when you attack the personality, people suspect there's only one reason: It's gotta be his race. My conservative cartoonist friends find it very frustrating."

One of those conservative friends, Mike Lester of the Rome News Tribune in Georgia, said that when he was growing up, "if we didn't make fun of you, we didn't like you."

Perhaps race relations would improve, Lester said, if black people lightened up a bit: "They're not too good (at being) made fun of. We can all take a joke."

Lester said Rall told him before the election that an Obama presidency would be good for conservative cartoonists, but "it's been just the opposite. I find myself having to temper my comments. I'm tired of it. (Obama) wants my money, he wants me to pay for my neighbor's foreclosed house that he can't afford.

"Race has nothing to do with it."

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I can presume we all know who Damien Hirst is? Anyway, I saw this in the paper yesterday I knew it was going to be BIG.

It's a sculpture by a Spanish artist depicting Hirst committing suicide. Eugenio Merino's work was exhibited at the ARCO art fair in Madrid, Spain. Now, I'm not a Hirst hater but for some reason I really like this sculpture as it makes you think about the state modern art.

It's making an observation on modern artists and some of the gimmicks they sometimes use in hyping and selling their products at astoundingly high prices and those willing to fork out for it.

Also at the same time, Merino's work is contradicting itself because he's also using the same tactic the artists he's trying to lampoon to sell his own work. So many twists and turns, I love it!

This is modern art that I can really dig.




You can read the whole story from the Guardian website HERE.