Burning Man happens every year in the Black Rock Desert. Out there in the nothern part of Nevada, crazy people gather to act, well, crazy. Folks dress up (or down, as the case may be), and create wild art pieces. Or are those failed science projects? Who knows? Chances are, however, drugs and alcohol might just be involved. But that’s for you to judge.

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Burning Man is a party for big people.

Photo By: Stuart Updegrave

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Faces only a mother can love, and few men can kiss.

Photo By: Eric Spaceman

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Check out these guns!

Photo By: Stuart Updegrave

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 Who says there’s no such thing as unicorns?

Photo By: Stuart Updegrave

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 Here, horse-y horse-y!

Photo By: Stuart Updagrave

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There are dragons in the land!

Photo By: Ericspaceman

Eye art bikes, Burning Man 2005

 What, your bike didn’t come with a giant eye?

Photo By: mr. nightshade

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Uh, you name it

Photo By: Stuart Updagrave

 Art in any form

This is how they get cable out there.

Photo By: Hans Speijer

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This guy’s a little tied up at the moment

Photo By Stuart Updegrave

 If normal life is just a little to normal for you, your heart just may be burning for a little Burning Man

Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns played a major part in introducing mature themes to mainstream comic books. Trust me, comics needed that. Up to this point comics mostly focused on silly ideas such as needle-spitting cacti and Green Arrow’s sidekick becoming addicted to heroin. With this graphic novel however, comics finally became bold enough to explore the really challenging issues (which reminds me — stay tuned this week for a very poignant story about Sinestro’s love of yellow leading him to water sports).

Now that comic books have become a respectable format for dramatic storytelling, it’s only natural that we do the same to picture books. After all a picture book is sort of like a comic book for young readers. By using them to communicate important issues, we’ll be able to teach our children about the violence, crime, and weird fetishes they need to know about. After all, how can you truly love someone if you don’t eat their poop?

I figure it won’t be long until we’ll see mature re-imaginings of our favorite picture books. To that end, I’ve gone ahead and rewritten bits from three classic picture books to give you an idea of what to expect. Feel free to read this with your children, and be prepared to use props to explain concepts they may not understand like “pimp” and “Myspace angle”. (more…)

Do you ever see a photograph that just doesn’t seem quite right — one that makes you scratch your head and stare at it in disbelief? Has a strange photo ever incited a nightmare or just made you ask “what were they thinking?” If you’re fascinated by strange photos, odd images, or the macabre, you might enjoy this showcase of bizarre photos and photomanipulation.

Photo by bobster855

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