Tilt Warning Customs Wants To Bring Back The Arcade With Custom Pinball Machines Designed By Some Very Talented Artists...

I am a huge fan of artists Alex Pardee and one of the things I love about him has to be his lengthy blog posts that allow him to ramble about various things he is doing (forget his art which is awesome, his blog is hilarious... check it out). One of the projects he has become involved is the Bring Back The Arcade kickstarter campaign by a company called Tilt Warning Customs. Tilt Warning Customs is already an active pinball customization company, but they work on an order by order basis. The Bring Back The Arcade project would allow them to give 10 artists blank canvases of a machine and have them create a crazy piece of playable art, and then put those 10 machines into one playable art exhibition. Now that is one art show I would love to go to. The thing I liked most about Pardee's post about the kickstarter was how he acknowledge why he felt he was never good at pinball. He said the reason why he never played pinball in the arcade was because he wanted to use his precious quarters on games he could last longer than 4 seconds on... and since he never played pinball, he never got any better. But as an artist Pardee is amazing, so even though he didn't like the game itself so much I still can't wait to see the creepy monsters & deformities that Pardee puts onto his personalized pinball machine. Check out the official kickstarter page by clicking here  to get more info on the project and which artists are currently involved & then check out the projects trailer after the jump...

CCD Links It Up Vol #6

It's that time again folks... time to make the rounds of what is popping around the Intrawebs. I think all of these stories are dope in their own right, and I know that I could not do it any better than the people who I am linking it towards. In this episode we got movie trailers, Lady Gaga in her thong, An explanation of why the fuck they killed ??? (spoilers ahead after the jump) off of Sons of Anarchy by showrunner Kurt Sutter, a kickstarter worth supporting, and how to make a magazine out of old magazine ads... Check out the links after the jump.



1)  The Best Geek Blog Ever is not where you would expect to get a great review of the 'Lincoln' movie trailer from Steven Spielberg, but they sure bring the funk. Boy does this movie look fantastic. Daniel Day Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Jackie Earle Haley... did anybody get a job acting in this movie with less than three names?

2) An excellent Kickstarter for the re-mastering of Pro Pinball for a new generation of devices like Apple , Android, Kindle and other provide. As an avid pinball lover growing up, this will definitely be getting some of my dedicated geek dollars allocated to it. Hurry though, the deadline is almost here.

3) The Superficial posted some booty shot pictures of Lady Gaga posing in a thong and bra to disprove rumors floating around that she is putting on weight. I don't dig her outfits or antics to much (some of her songs are OK), but this chick certainly has a fat enough ass for a tiny little white girl. But why does she look like she is high on heron and channeling her inner Amy Winehouse in all the photos that show her face???

4) Jim Rugg posted a step by step how to manual on how he developed a magazine made up completely of old comic book ads, and boy would I love a copy of this... So fucking cool.  

5) I for one was in complete shock when Opie was killed in the third episode of Season 5 of Sons of Anarchy. Here is a glimpse into the conference call that showrunner Kurt Sutter had with numerous reporters the next morning. Like Lucy, he had some 'splainin to do. I can understand what he thinks the death will motivate in Jax, but why did they have to take my favorite dude???