We created some limited-edition Valentine-themed notebooks and buttons,
and put our own “Unique” spin on all the things we love…puking hearts,
severed limbs, cranky pencils and more ALL FOR THE LOVE OF EDUCATION!

Not totally bugged yet? Click here to see more!

You can wedge a stack of Post-It Notes in his rotten tooth-filled mouth.

Stuff an assortment of paperclips into his swollen eye socket.

Jam pens and pencils in some strategically placed bullet holes atop his head.

There’s even a nice slice in the back of his head to store unpaid bills and useless junk mail!

This just goes to show you that a decapitated zombie head CAN be put to good use.

If you’ve gotta have one of these OR if you want to see the other sick and twisted
supplies we’re bummed WE didn’t think of first, visit neatoshop.com. Click here.

Philip Sheldrake, marketing innovator and author of “The Business of Influence”, illustrates the evolution
of communication and the devices used from Caveman to Modern man. It’s interesting how much busier
and cluttered the lower portion of the illustration becomes as we near “the future”.

At Skullastic, we love innovators of technology, but will they kill the paper and pen…?

We hope not.

We think it’s tons of fun to scribble words and drawings on paper.

]]> http://www.skullastic.com/uncategorized/illustrated-history/feed/ http://www.skullastic.com/uncategorized/wikipedia-goes-dark/ http://www.skullastic.com/uncategorized/wikipedia-goes-dark/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:29:28 +0000 admin http://www.skullastic.com/?p=4577 Starting this evening for 24 hours, Wikipedia is going dark.

Anger and anguish are already travelling across the Twitterverse. Students are
having difficulty doing their homework…completing research…keeping informed.

But Wikipedia is doing this to make a point.
Here is the image you see when you log onto the site:

Show your support for a free and open internet.
Visit Wikipedia and contact your state’s representative.

Wikipedia’s not alone, taking a stance for a free internet…

Kiechle has crafted an anatomically correct human torso, with removable
internal organs, completely out of white cardstock and glue.

He created the project for the Science Lab of the International School Nadi in Fiji.

The geometric sculpture features removable heart, lungs and intestines.

In an interview with My Modern Met, Kiechle stated that the most difficult part of the design
was making sure the gap between the organs was large enough to slide them in and out.

He said it was challenging to create ledges the organs
could rest on when the torso is in a standing position.
The heart has a tendency to fall out if the torso is bumped.

The most surprising fact is that he didn’t have an anatomical model to reference while
creating his paper torso. He did everything from scratch, using internet searches to
find images of each internal organ. But once he found Google’s Zygote Body website
he was able to see the transparency levels and dive deep into the heart of the project.

To learn more about Horst Kiechle’s brilliant work, click here.

WE’RE BOOK GEEKS!

We still like to spend time combing the aisles of musty bookstores looking for rare out-of-print books.
We’ll bypass Wikipedia to flip through an outdated Encyclopedia Brittanica for outdated history facts.
Sorry Kindle. Our heart STILL belongs to the local public library.

Which is why our heart skipped SEVERAL beats when we discovered there are some prrrrretty
super awesome shrines to books (aka libraries) still not only existing but THRIVING on this planet.
Take that iPad!

Here are some of our favorites from Flavorwire’s list of the 25 Most Beautiful College Libraries in the World.
And trust us…these photos HAVE NOT BEEN RETOUCHED. These are for realz.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT

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Trinity College Library, a.k.a. “The Long Room”, Dublin, Ireland

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Harper Library Reading Room, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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George Peabody Library, John Hopkins Library, Baltimore, MD

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Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, Italy

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Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Wanna be awed some more? Yeah… we do to! Click here.

But have you heard of Stainboy?

Stainboy is an animated character Burton created for a 1997 illustrated book,
“The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories”. This book follows the misadventures
of a bizarre group of misfit boys and girls with names like Toxic Boy, Junk Girl, the Pin Cushion
Queen, and The Boy with Nails in his Eyes. Sounds like some new best friends to us!

In 2000, Burton was asked to create 26 animated episodes of the adventures
(and misadventures) of Stainboy for the internet. Only six were completed.

Twelve years later, these vids are still popular on YouTube. Here, within the
dark caverns of Skullastic, we love the quirky adventures of Stainboy and his misfit crew
so we thought we’d share some of them with you. Think nothing of it…