The Best Website I've seen in a Minute.

Dangers of Fracking is a website that is totally not what Battlestar Galactica think it is. If you like yourself some HTML 5, check this out. You won't regret it. You might also learn something that you will never, ever need to know unless you find yourself in a very bizarre action movie.

Dangers of Fracking.

Awesome Lobster Johnson Cover by some dude.

Some guy who calls himself The Silent H has put together an awesome cover for the Dark Horse Comics' latest Lobster Johnson series.

CHECK IT OUT.

Are you a super-wealthy comic book fan looking for a good cause and some awesome art?

Perhaps imitating the villains that their heroes have repeatedly conquered for the better part of a century, Marvel Comics is attempting to completely destroy Gary Friedrich, the creator of Ghost Rider. They've already made millions from a character that Friedrich created, and are now trying to make him pay $17,000 in "damages" that he has brought about to the corporation.

Standing beside Friedrich are Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and The Goon creator Eric Powell. Like Friedrich, they have created characters that have gone on to be wildly successful, but unlike Friedrich, they created their characters in a time when comics publishers weren't all vile, money-grubbing emulations of their own super-villains. Dark Horse allowed their creations to remain their own and flourished because of it. 

Now Mignola and Powell are each auctioning a piece of original artwork tied to their most famous character in an attempt to raise money for Friedrich. Mignola's gorgeous Hellboy print is above, and Powell's The Goon is after the jump. 

Calvin and Hobbes Art

Calvin and Hobbes is the best comic strip ever made. That might seem like a bold statement, but it's really not. It's a pretty simple fact. Opinions come in varying degrees of ferocity, but there are few who would even bother to contest that opening statement as an opinion. No other comic --hell, no other work of any kind-- has managed to so perfectly capture the wonderment and innocence of childhood and blend it so masterfully with a scathing critique of American culture. Wildly imaginative and always pushing it's own boundaries, Calvin and Hobbes is an absolute treasure.

Speaking of treasure, the above watercolor illustration for a 1989-90 calendar by Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Waterson is going up for auction in New York, where it is expected to fetch over $50,000. If everyone who has one of those incredibly tasteful bootleg Calvin bumper stickers chipped in a nickel, there would be more than enough money to hang this in the Ultimate Salt offices.

Find out some more details on the work here.

Awesome advertising: Shame print ad

After appearing in the escort ads section of indie newspapers, Michael Fassbender is officially in everything.

Steve McQueen's Shame is probably the best movie about someone with a made up condition to ever get snubbed by the Academy Awards. Any film that can make sex addiction, which is, again, not actually a thing, seem like legitimate drama is surely worthy of some sort of plaudits. The above ad, which is appearing in UK newspapers, capitalizes on the film's riské subject matter by shadowing Michael Fassbender's face over the escort ads. Juxtaposing sexxxy singles with with classy scarves has never been accomplished with such taste. Artfully done and thematically relevant, this is some of the best movie advertising you're likely to see.

[via Copyranter]

Mondo's Planet of the Apes Posters (Now with judgment!)

For years, Mondo Tees have been producing and archiving some absolutely exquisite movie posters and tee shirts. The distinctive style of their prints has led to fame, and presumably, some form of fortune. Their latest endeavor is a series of posters for the Planet of the Apes films to celebrate their being screened at the Alamo Draft House. They teamed up with an All-Star lineup of movie websites (movies.com, Film School Rejects, io9 -technically a scifi blog but get off my back yo- Badass Digest and Collider) to debut the posters, which promptly went on sale and were devoured by the unquenchable maw of apparently wealthy Planet of the Apes fans.

I say apparently wealthy because the six poster set went for $230. The posters are undeniably awesome (with one pretty notable exception), but in all seriousness, what are you really going to do with six Planet of the Apes posters?

Ball out beyond belief is what. Can I trademark B.O.B.B. as a rap name?

Hit the jump for the collection.

Movie Posters Reimagined for Different Eras

As cool and amazing and revolutionary as The Matrix was, (suck it, people who are mad that it just repurposed decades-old sci fi themes and meshed them with fairly modern anime tropes) I think it is an undeniable fact that having Bruce Lee replaced Keanu Reeves in the lead role would have substantially improved the film. Not because Keanu Reeves was any more awful than usual, he actually worked quite well for what the role of Neo require, it's just that any movie would be better with Bruce Lee in the lead role.

Sadly, that casting possibility is not a reality... in this universe. Which leads us to designer  Sean Hartter's Alternate Universe movie posters. Hartter is essentially making movie posters for relatively recent films with design styles and techniques of yesteryear, but what sets him apart from the massive crop of designers retrofying movie posters is that Hartter actually completely reimagines the films themselves, matching stars and directors with their era's poster stylings.

As cool as these are from a design standpoint, the window they open up in your imagination is the real draw here. Shatner in Avatar? Connery in The Fifth Element? James Dean in Drive?

Yes-freaking-please. (Although none could top the combo of Pam Grier and Bruce Lee - just sayin')

(And technically, Gosling did do a pretty good Dean impressive throughout 90% of Drive.)

Hit the jump for some highlights.

What happened man? You used to be cool.

There is a problem with new cars.  

As car makers have tried to make their cars last longer and more reliable, I think they have lost something: frivolity.  Those things on a car that you’re not quite sure why they built it that way, but man it’s cool.  

Normally, I would never do this: Spider Man/Drive Mashup

As a rule when faced with anything that is completely bullshit, I'm vehemently opposed to franchise mashups (dude, what if, like, Harry Potter was wearing a Han Solo vest and it was like "Harry Solo?!!"), but switching the scorpion jacket for a spider jacket just works too perfectly.

Check out Yale Stewart's tumblr for more great stuff.

And you can't miss his hilarious take on the Justice League as lil' whippersnappers,
Little League.

Check it: Der Nurburgring Infographic

From: carbuzz.co.uk 

Carbuzz, which is some sort of British car-buying site, has put together an awesome infographic compiling a map of one of the world's most famous race courses with key statistics about it's history and topography. It's been featured on Top Gear multiple times, as well as in top-tier racing games like Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo. I imagine the 26 Euro fee for a public lap is well worth it, provided you don't end up as one of the 3-12 annual fatalities. (Doesn't that seem like a pretty wide spread to be considered an "average?")

Regardless, few things that kill three to twelve people a year are as cool as the Nurburgring.

[spotted on jalopnik]

His name says it all: David Dope's GIFs

If you thought GIFs were merely another medium for memes in the murky Internet underworld, David Dope's tumblr will make you think otherwise.

Or they'll give you some pretty nasty flashbacks if you've ever dropped acid and tried to play Asteroids.

Either way, it's easily the coolest non-boob related tumblr I've seen in a while.

[spotted on Design Envy}