we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 43: "GET YOUR MATES SACKED" next issue » « previous issue This Week: - Get your mates sacked - Pavarotti LOVES Elephants - When come back bring pie ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | ___/ _ |/_ > A History of Photo Montage << If you've been reading B3ta for a while you'll know about our love of photoshopping and cut'n'paste culture. Technology has liberated us to be very silly. B3ta contributor Pabulum is a little more thoughtful than us and has been researching the history of mucking about with photos - taking it back to mid 1900s. Interesting stuff. http://www.cutandpaste.info/ >> Leaning Toast << Have you ever sat at breakfast and made your toast into funny shapes? B3ta reader Malevole has and has made a site dedicated to the obscure art of toast leaning. The site features debate on whether you should butter before or after the leanage. Controversial. http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/toast/ >> Consultants are useless twerps << Have you ever had to work with a consultant? Have you ever wondered why they earn so much money? B3ta boarder Santexo has, and has poured his frustration into this animation. It's funny because it's true. http://thegravy-train.20m.com/work.swf ------------------------------------------------- : B3TA BIRTHDAY BASH Friday, 5th of July 2002. Put it in your diaries. We're making cake. More announcements closer to the date. ------------------------------------------------- : WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK #2 Big Brother Song, Duct Tape Phone, Google Hack >> Big Brother Thicko Bootleg MP3<< B3ta boarder Thorpe is a musician and likes cutting up tunes for others enjoyment. This week he's taken the Jade from Big Brother's amusing and confused questions about geography and set it to music. It works well. http://makeashorterlink.com/ >> Duct Tape Phone << Is your mobile phone boring? Then customise it. B3ta reader Nathanial Hendler has made his own phone using sticky tape and scribble. It looks fantastic. Sort of. http://labs.retards.org/samsung/ >> Google Image Thingie << The Google image search engine is great. Without it B3ta boarders would have no pictures to play with in Photoshop. So it comes as no surprise that boarder Rawx has used this image database as the fuel for his latest project. It takes a sentence of your choice and finds individual pictures for each word. Be bored no more. http://flibzcom.site.securepod.com/googlethingy/ ------------------------------------------------- : CALIFORNIAN B3TA PARTY. Boarder Captain Kimbo writes - "I'm organising a Yank-fest on the 29th of this month at Disneyland! If you want to come, then please let me know." http://kimbo-be-coo.com/yank-fest.html ------------------------------------------------- : HOW TO SPEND YOUR MONEY THIS WEEK Buffy Season 2 DVD for less than half the price Did you know that you can buy DVDs from the U.S Amazon rather than the UK? Let's compare prices: U.S : £30 U.K : £76 We've been buying our DVDs from Amazon.com for a while and no problems. The savings are HUGE. BTW: You need a multi-region player to play U.S DVDs. http://makeashorterlink.com/ ------------------------------------------------- : SITES IN BRIEF Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates. >> Transsexual Book Art << Boarder Spunkybackpack writes - "Comic book covers modified for a transgender theme. The odd part is that there's so much of it." http://www.tgfa.org/modified/covers/covers.htm >> Foetus Dolls << Catherine Jacobs is a "pro-life artist" who sculpts and sells foetus dolls. We understand she's making a point, but that doesn't stop them looking icky. http://www.godslittleones.com/ >> George Cross Dog Coat << Do you want to look like a scary racist? Then buy this George Cross coat for your pit bull. http://makeashorterlink.com/ ------------------------------------------------- : BOOTLEG MP3 OF THE WEEK The Strokes vs. Christina Aguilera (err...) Each week we talk to the_dr at Boom Selection about his current favourite bootleg track. the_dr writes - "No - you've not heard this before. This is a semi-parody of the greatest bootleg of last year - 'A Stroke Of Genius' from The Freelance Hellraiser. "Go Home Productions take the same 'Genie in a Bottle' vocal and places it over a different Strokes song. "It works and it's very chilled. http://boom.phink.net/approved/genies.mp3 >> Bonus MP3 - Free - Gratis << "This 'Salt n Pepa vs. Lady Marmalade vs. Santana' is cool, in a fun mash-up sort of way. Old school. I like it." http://boom.phink.net/approved/push_it_como_va.mp3 (BTW: We like it too and we're dancing around B3ta HQ to this tune whilst making this newsletter.) ------------------------------------------------- : B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE Results from Jubilee Challenge Each week we run a competition to test your creative skills. We set a challenge and you open Photoshop and mess with our heads. Last week we wanted you to enter the Turner Prize. http://b3ta.com/challenge/turnerprize/ We asked B3ta boarder Pabulum to judge the entries - here are his 3 faves. Pabulum writes - #1 "Lamp and Light switch - would probably have won the real thing this year. (spacefish) http://b3ta.com/board/1/3/4/0/8/1/ #2 "Hey Duchamp - Marcel would have loved it. (sasquatch) http://b3ta.com/board/1/3/2/8/6/6/ #3 "Daddio - just because..." (staticgirl) http://b3ta.com/board/1/3/9/0/0/5/ BTW: Pabalum has just put together a site about his own photoshop entries, and a lovely thing it is too. http://www.pabulumpix.com/ ERRATUM: Last week we got the link wrong to Monkeon's winning entry. Sorry. http://b3ta.com/board/1/3/1/1/8/5/ >> This Weeks Challenge << This week, B3ta contributor Chthonic gave us the suggestion, "Forgotten old celebs. Where are they are now?" http://b3ta.com/challenge/wherearetheynow/ ------------------------------------------------- : STAR IN NEXT WEEKS ISSUE Make something cool and tell us about it. This newsletter now reaches over 28,000 people - if you are in it, then people will see your stuff. It's that simple. Stuff we'd really like to see includes * Stuff you've made. * Animals you've photographed. * Anything surprising. We live for new ideas. 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