Here's an intro to an imaginary Buffy animated series

Having previously given the world a terrific look into what Doctor Who would be like as a Saturday morning cartoon, artist Stephen Bryne has moved on to Buffy The Vampire Slayer, carving out a niche as the guy who makes intros to imaginary cartoons the world deserves but never got. Bryne, clearly full to bursting with affection for the show, has packed his intro with nods to Buffy's history, from Willow's changing hair color to visits from ghostly versions of Tara and Anya to a glimpse of a world full of nothing but shrimp. As with the animator's previous work, the character designs are incredibly charming, and the wild adventures the Scooby gang never got to go on make us wistful for the actual animated Buffy series that was developed years ago but never happened.

With stuff like this under his belt, we'll be on the lookout for anything else Bryne does in the future—perhaps an animated version of Game Of Thrones, or he could go the other way and make live-action intros for Futurama or The Venture Brothers.




[via Nerdist]

Give in to paranoia with this clothing line based on Nineteen Eighty-Four

If you enjoy wearing clothes, but don't think they sufficiently protect you from the gnarled, grasping fingers of omnipotent government forces threatening to steal your secrets and charge you with thoughtcrimes, this may be for you. The Affair, a British fashion outfit that specializes in tee-shirts inspired by literature, is trying to get a clothing line inspired by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four off the ground. Naturally, they have taken to Kickstarter, rather than accepting investment capital from within a system that works only to sublimate the human will.

The clothing itself is fairly standard. It features things like shirts, pants, and jackets that have been cunningly renamed as Party Workshirts, Party Chinos, and Outer Party Jackets. The selling point is the presence of the UnPocket, a detachable pocket made from the latest in "stealth fabrics" that securely blocks all Cell, WiFi, GPS, and RFID signals. This will allow wearers to tweet or text about how their new garments free them from the prying eyes of Big Brother, or big pharma, or big dairy, or whoever, before they tuck the cell phone into the UnPocket, where it will never be touched again.


[via boingboing]